Toby Henderson
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Toby S. Henderson |
| Nickname | "Coca-Cola Cowboy" "Captain Elbows" "Hollywood Henderson" |
| Born |
October 10, 1961 Bedford, Indiana, United States |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) |
| Role | Racer |
| Rider type | Off Road |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1974-1976 | Bottema |
| 1976 | Cerritos Bike Shop |
| 1976-1977 | Ralph's Bicycles |
| 1977-1978 | Hiatus from racing |
| 1978 | DG |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1979 | DG |
| 1979-1981 | Raleigh |
| 1981-1984 | Hutch |
| 1984-1985 | SE Racing |
| 1986 | Father |
| 1986-1987 | BMX Action |
| 1988 | GT Racing |
Toby S. Henderson (born October 10, 1961 in La Mirada, California United States) was a professional American "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from (1979–1985) He was given the nickname "Coca Cola Cowboy" by Bob Osborn, publisher of BMX Action magazine but the reason for it was unknown even by Henderson. He himself regard it as "lame".
Started racing: In 1973 at 12 years old. at Hollyfield Park in Norwalk, California In a September 1982 BMX Action his first race was at Scot Briethaupt's B.U.M.S track.
First race bicycle: Schwinn Sting-Ray.
Sanctioning body: Independent.
First race result:
First win (local):
Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles County);
First sponsor:
First national win:
Turned Professional: December 1978
First Professional race result: In Third place in Pro Class at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Supernationals in Saddleback Park in Irvine, California on April 8, 1979.
First Professional win:
Retired: 1987 at 26 years old. His last national race as a serious competitor appears to have been the (USBA) Grandnational in Dallas, Texas on November 11, 1986. He came in seventh in "A" pro, the senior pro level. It was the last USBA sanctioned raced before it merged with the American Bicycle Association (ABA) in 1987. Henderson then pursued a Mountain Bike racing career. He would later race at least one BMX race in 1987 at the Vision World Cup in Irvine, California on June 21, 1987 He didn't make any mains.
Height & weight at height of her career (1981–1984): Ht:6'0" Wt:172 lbs.
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 press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.
Toby Henderson: "...I was getting a couple of good contracts coming up, and I turned them all down, because I kept calling Raleigh, and saying, "Well, are we going to do something next year?" "Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're really going to be full force next year." [Raleigh's alleged response-ed.] So I turned some good contracts down, and I let it all slide, until the middle of January, when I called them up and said, "Well, where's the contracts? Let's get some contracts going," and they said, Well, we decided we're going to go TV advertisement," and that's all they said, like "Click." [imitating a phone hang up-ed.] And we [Henderson and Bottema-ed.] said, "Huh?" Here we turned down like three or four good contracts in October, when all the other teams were setting their budgets up and looking for their riders for the next year." ---BMX Plus! October 1982
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