Tinker Juarez
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | David Juarez |
| Nickname | "Tinker", "Hollifield Flash" |
| Born |
March 4, 1961 Downey, California, United States |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 63.5 kg (140 lb; 10.00 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Cannondale Factory Racing Team |
| Discipline | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) Mountain bike racing (MTB) |
| Role | Racer |
| Rider type | BMX: Off Road MTB: Cross-country |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1974 | Two Wheeler's |
| 1974-1975 | Bicycle Motocros News |
| 1975-1976 | Kawasaki Motors |
| 1976 | National Bicycle Association |
| 1976-77 | Mongoose |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1977-1982 | Mongoose |
| 1982 | JMC Racing |
| 1983-1985 | Bandito Racing |
| 1985 | ODI |
| 1985 | Maximum |
| 1989-1989 | General Bicycles |
| 1990-1993 | Klein Bicycles |
| 1994-2002 | Volvo/Cannondale |
| 2003 | Siemens/Cannondale |
| 2004-2005 | Mona Vie |
| 2006-Present | Mona Vie/Cannondale |
| Major wins | |
| 1995 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist 2001,'02,'03,'04 24-hour endurance category National Champion |
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David Juarez (born March 4, 1961) is an American former professional BMX and cross-country mountain bike racer. His prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the 2005. Since late 2005, he has competed as an ultra-distance road bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions. Most recently, Juarez finished third in the 2006 Race Across America Enduro bicycle road race.
Born in Downey, California, Juarez is a highly talented cyclist who has made significant impacts in the cycling disciplines of BMX Racing, Freestyle BMX, and Mountain Biking and now long distance road racing for over thirty years. While he was also known as the "Hollified Flash" after one of his home BMX tracks he used to race at and dominate in the early-1970s, the moniker "Tinker" is a nickname that was coined by his family. According to his Mother Rose: "We used to say 'Stinker' when he was a baby, everybody thought we were saying 'Tinker" David Juarez is so well known by his nickname "Tinker" many people probably think that is his real first name.
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.
Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX and MTB press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.
Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.
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