David Juarez (born March 4 , 1961 in Downey, California U.S.) is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer and current top mountain bike racer whose prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the present. Since 1986, he has been a mountain bike racer and since late 2005, competing as a ultra-distance road bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions. Most recently, "Tinker" finished third in the 2006 Race Across America Enduro bicycle road race.
"Tinker" 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.
BMX racing career milestones
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.
* At the time there was no separate pro class for pros due to the relatively small number of pros. They raced with the 16 Experts, making it a Pro/Am class essentially. This is why during the early years of the pro division the national number one racer of a sanctioning body could be either an amateur or professional. This practice continued until the NBA's 1979 season in which the pros earned separate pro points and a separate pro plate from the amateurs.Career factory and major bicycle shop sponsors
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.
Amateur
- Two Wheeler's BMX: 1974
- Bicycle Motocross News Team (Test Rider/Racer): Late 1974-November 1975
- Kawasaki Motors: November 1975-Early 1976
- National Bicycle Association: Early 1976-Mid 1976
- Mongoose (BMX Products): Mid 1976-February 14, 1982. Tinker would turn professional with this sponsor.
Professional
- Mongoose: 1976-February 14, 1982. He was sponsorless for approximately three months after his separation from Mongoose.
- JMC (Jim Melton Cyclery) Racing Equipment: Mid May 1982-December 1982.
- Bandito Racing: January 1983-Early February 1985
- ODI (Ornate Design, Inc.): April 13, 1985-April 14, 1985. Seemed to have been a one weekend sponsorship since "ODI" does not appear next to Juarez's name in the BMX Plus! race results after this weekend. This company first started out making Christmas ornaments but switched to making bicycle grips and later grips for power tools as well as BMX and skateboarding accessories.
- Maximum: Early July 1985-
Career bicycle motocross titles
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.
Amateur
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
- 1975 14 & Over Novice Western States Champion
- 1975 14 & Over Intermediate Grandnational Champion #2 (Jeff Bottema was the winner of the first Main). This was the first ever BMX Grandnational Championship.
- 1976 15 Expert Winternational Champion
- 1976 14-15 Expert Western States Champion
- 1976 15 Expert California State Champion
National Bicycle League (NBL)
- None
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
- None
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
- None
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
Professional
National Bicycle Association (NBA)
- None
National Bicycle League (NBL)
- None
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
- 1982 Pro Cruiser 2nd Place Jag World Champion (ABA sanctioned)
United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)
- None
International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)
- None
Independent Events and Series
- 1983 "A" Pro Second Place and Pro Cruiser Third Place Jag BMX World Superbowl Championship Champion
Freestyle BMX
In April 1980, Tinker was named the first King of the Skateparks by Bicycle Motocross Action magazine. He even graced the April 1980 cover of the magazine, making it one of the first pure freestyle magazine covers by a BMX magazine. Although no contest was ever held, it was a general declaration for his highly advanced maneuvers that no one were matching at the time.
Career BMX accolades
- He was Bicycle Motocross Action's very first star interview in their first issue (December 1976/January 1977).
- He was one of the founding members of the Professional Racing Organization (PRO), the first attempt at a BMX racer's guild in 1977.
- He is a 1993 inductee into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame.
Significant BMX related injuries
Tinker, despite eventually becoming a top pro BMXer in racing and gaining "high airs" in both dirt jumping and vertical freestyle, went ten years without breaking a bone. It is very common for BMXers, especially in the pro ranks to become occasionally seriously injured because they are pushing themselves to as far as their talents can take them and beyond at high speeds, or in the case of vertical freestyle and dirt jumping to high altitudes and distances.
Miscellaneous and Trivia
Tinker also participated in what was call Formula One (F-1) bicycle racing. F-1 racing was a short lived fad from 1987–1989 that involved bicycles with 20" wheels that looked like a cross between BMX, Road Race Touring and Mountain bicycles. Other famous BMX stars both retired and active at the time participated, including Harry Leary, Pete Loncarevich, David Clinton, Stu Thomsen, Eddy and Mike King. The two major BMX sanctioning bodies ABA and NBL, sanctioned the events. Tinker won the first ABA sponsored F-1 series race in Phoenix, Arizona in early 1988. In the following NBL sanctioned Grand Prix series he got a sixth in Memphis, Tennessee (the very first NBL F-1 race) and a second in Orlando, Florida.
BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles
- "Almost a Legend in his own Time. Tinker Juarez: The Hollified Flash" Bicycle Motocross Action December 1976/January 1977 Vol.1 No.1 pg.27
- "The King of the Skateparks Tinker Juarez" Bicycle Motocross Action April 1980 Vol.5 No.4 pg.25. Pictorial of Tinker performing Vertical Freestyle at Lakewood Skatepark in Lakewood, California.
- "Interview: Tinker Juarez" BMX Action January 1983 Vol.8 No.1 pg.26
BMX magazine covers
Bicycle Motocross News:
- May 1976 Vol.3 No.5 with Perry Kramer and an unidentified racer.
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
- December 1978 Vol.5 No.12 (M/BMXA)
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
- April 1980 Vol.5 No.4
- May 1982 Vol.7 No.5 in last place behind Scott Clark, Harry Leary, Clint Miller Denny Davidow and Gregg Grubbs.
BMX Plus!:
- None
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