David Clinton
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | David Clinton |
| Nickname | "Dynamite" |
| Born |
January 2, 1960 Sun Valley, California, United States of America |
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) (1975) |
| Weight | 61.2–93 kg (135–205 lb) (1975–79) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) |
| Role | Racer |
| Rider type | Off Road |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1972–1973 | Pedalers West |
| 1973–1974 | Rick's Bike Shop |
| 1974 | Kawasaki Motors |
| 1974 | Dirtmaster |
| 1974–1976 | Kawasaki Motors |
| 1976–1977 | Jimmy Weinart |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1977 | Jimmy Weinart |
| 1977 | D.G. Performance Specialist |
| 1978 | Shimano/Diamondback |
| 1979 | Redline Engineering |
| 1979 | D.G. Performance Specialist |
| 1979 | Shimano Sales Corporation |
| 1979–1982 | Diamondback |
David Clinton (born January 2, 1960 in Sun Valley, California) is an "Old School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1973 to 1979. Nicknamed "Dynamite" early in his career David Clinton could be truthfully said to be the sport's first true superstar. He was the first racer to win an official National No.1 plate of any kind when the first BMX sanctioning body, the National Bicycle Association (NBA), introduced the title in 1975. During the previous year he won the junior class division of a series of what could be called proto Nationals, a part of the first major BMX series, when he took first place in the Junior class at the Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup which decided the California State Champion. Clinton along with Scot Breithaupt and John "Snaggletooth" Palfryman participated in the first true National sanctioned by the NBA in Phoenix, Arizona in 1975 and became the first official pro in BMX in 1977 (although Thom Lund could be considered the first BMXer to race for money. He raced for a share of the US$200 purse and won the Scot Breithaupt sponsored Saddleback Park race in Irvine, California in 1975).
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1977 and prior, many tracks offered small purse prize money to the older racers of an event, even before the official sanctioning bodies offered prize money in formal divisions themselves. Hence some early "professionals" like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old where racing for small amounts of money at track events when offered even before the NBA, regarded as the first true national BMX sanctioning body, had a professional division. For the sake of consistency and standardization noted professional first are for the first pro races for prize money offered by official BMX sanctioning bodies and not independent track events. Professional first are also on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
Started Racing: 1971 at age 11. He was doing halftime show BMX races between the minicycle races at the Indian Dunes track in Valencia, California.
Sanctioning Body: None.
First race result: Unknown.
First win (local): Some time in 1971 at the Indian Dunes Motorcycle Motocross track in Valencia, California At the time some BMX tracks were made out of active MX tracks.
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