Кіріспе
Американдық велосипед мотокросы жарыскері
American bicycle motocross racer
Стюарт Л. Томсен (20 мамыр 1958 жылы Калифорния штатының Уиттиер қаласында туған) – американдық бұрынғы велосипед мотокросы (BMX) жарыскері. Стю Томсен 1974 жылдан бастап спорттың алғашқы кезеңдерінде танымал болған кәсіби BMX жарыскерлерінің "Ескі мектеп" өкілдерінің бірі болды. Оның ең табысты жарыс кезеңі 1976–1985 жылдарды қамтыды. 1970-ші жылдардың ортасынан 1980-ші жылдардың ортасына дейін BMX жарыстарындағы үлкен жетістіктері мен үстемдігі үшін оны кейде BMX-тың Бэйб Руты деп атайды. Томсеннің маңызды мансабы мен мұрасы қазіргі спорттағы жетістіктердің өлшемі болып табылады. Оның "Адам" және "Стоппин Стю" деген лақап аттарының себебі, оның 184 сантиметрдей (6 фут 1,5 дюйм) бойы мен 90 килограммдық (200 фунт) салмағы болды.
Stuart L. Thomsen (born May 20, 1958, in Whittier, California) is an American former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer. Stu Thomsen was one of the first of the "Old School" of professional BMX racers who gained fame in the early days of the sport beginning in 1974. His prime competitive years were 1976–1985. Sometimes called the Babe Ruth of BMX for his prolific success and domination of BMX racing during the sport's early days from the mid 1970s into the mid 1980s, Thomsen's considerable career accolades and legacy remain a benchmark for modern sports achievement. His nicknames, "The Man" and "Stompin Stu", were due in part to his size at 6 feet 1.5 inches and 200 lbs.
Жарыстардағы мансаптық кезеңдер
Ескерту: Кәсіби жарыстардың алғашқы күндері, 1976 жылға дейін, көптеген трассалар жарысқа қатысушылардың ересек жарыскерлеріне шағын сыйлық ақша ұсынды, тіпті ресми ұйымдар өздерінің ресми дивизиондарында сыйлық ақша ұсынғанға дейін. Сондықтан, 1975 жылы 16 жасында "кәсіпқой" болған Стю Томсен сияқты ерте кәсіпқойлар, тіпті NBA, BMX-тің алғашқы ұлттық санкциялайтын органы саналған, кәсіби дивизион ашқанша, трассалық жарыстарда аз ақшаға жарысқан. NBA 1977 жылы BMX-те алғашқы кәсіби дивизионды құрды. Тұрақтылық пен стандарттау үшін, кәсіби біріншіліктер ресми BMX санкциялайтын органдар ұсынған жүлде ақшасы үшін өткен алғашқы жарыстарға қатысты, тәуелсіз трассалық жарыстарға емес. Кәсіби біріншіліктер ұлттық деңгейде есептеледі, егер басқаша көрсетілмесе.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Жарысқа қатыса бастаған: 1973 жылдың соңында, 15 жасында. Ол Калифорния штатының Лонг-Бич қаласындағы Скотт Брайтаупттың B.U.M.S. трассасындағы жарыстар туралы хабарламаны көрді. Оның жүргізуші куәлігі болмағандықтан, ол бірнеше досымен бірге досының әкесімен трассаға барды, нағыз жарыста қатысуға ниеттенді. Трассада қандай да бір чемпионат жарысы өтіп жатты.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Санкция беру органы: Bicycle United Motocross Society (B.U.M.S.) – прото басқару органы.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Үйлік санкция беру органының аудандары: Ұлттық Велосипедтік Қауымдастық (NBA) "X" ауданы (Оранж/Лос-Анджелес округтері) 1977–1981; Американдық Велосипедтік Қауымдастық (ABA) Калифорния 1 (CA 1) (1985).
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы жарыс велосипеді:
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы жарыстың нәтижесі: Калифорния штатының Лонг-Бич қаласындағы Скотт Брайтаупттың Bicycle United Motocross Society (B.U.M.S.) трассасында бесінші орын.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы жеңіс (жергілікті):
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы демеуші: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы ұлттық жеңіс: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup, басқаша айтқанда, Калифорния штатының Веломотокросс Чемпионаты, 1974 жылдың 14 қыркүйегінде, сарапшы, 16 жаста*. Ол Yamaha Moto Bike жеңіп алды, үш іріктеудің бірін жеңіп, финалдық жарысты жеңгені үшін Yamaha мотоцикліне ие болды. Қолданысқа келтірілгендей, Yamaha Gold Cup ұлттық жарыс емес, бірақ Калифорниядағы әртүрлі трассаларда өткен төрт жарыстың (финалдық жарыс қоса) финалы болды. Бұл BMX-те көптеген жарыскерлерді қамтитын және Калифорниядағы бұқаралық ақпарат құралдарында кеңінен жарияланған алғашқы ұйымдастырылған жаппай шара болды. Калифорния штатынан емес жарыскерлер қатысқан және штаттан тыс жарыскерлерге ұлттық ұпайлар берілген алғашқы ұлттық жарыс – 1975 жылдың 29 наурызында Аризона штатының Финикс қаласында өткен NBA қысқы ұлттық жарысы.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Кәсіпқойға айналған**: 1975, 16 жаста.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы кәсіби жарыстың нәтижесі:**
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Алғашқы кәсіби жеңіс: Мүмкін, 1977 жылдың 3 сәуірінде Калифорния штатының Трабуко Каньонындағы Racing World трассасындағы Ұлттық Велосипедтік Қауымдастығының (NBA) Джимми Вайнерт Супернационалдарында "Вайнерт тауында" Trophy Dash жеңісі. Бұл 100% қайтару жарысы болды, онда жарыскер қатысу ақысын қайтарады. Бұл BMX-те өткізілген алғашқы ресми санкцияланған Pro BMX жарыстарының бірі. Стю 1977 жылы шамамен 1500 АҚШ долларын жеңіп алды, бұл 2008 жылы 5 349,01 АҚШ долларына тең (Тұрмыстық деңгей калькуляторы).
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Карьерасының шыңындағы бойы мен салмағы: 6' 1.5", 200 фунт.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Зейнеткерлік (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Өзінің велосипед дүкенінің ресурстарына қарамастан, Стю Томсеннің Family Cycle Center, қымбат ұлттық жарыс жолындағы бәсекелестік экономикалық тұрғыдан мағынасыз болды, егер ол фабрикалық демеушілік таба алмаса. Huffy-дің оны жіберу туралы шешімі, BMX-тің сол жылы нашар экономикалық жағдайынан туындаған демеуші іздеуі және оның жарысқа қабілетті табиғатының дұрыс емделуіне кедерес келтірген иық жарақаты, барлығы бірігіп, 1987 жылдың шілдесінде зейнеткерлікке шығуға әкелді. 29 жасында ол негізгі мақсаты отыз жасқа дейін жарысқа қатысу екенін анықтады. Алайда, ол Йорба Линда үйіне жақын және үлкен сыйлық қоры бар ірі жарыстарда жарысты. Мысалы, ол 1988 жылы Аризона штатының Чандлер қаласында өткен ABA Winter Nationals жарысында кем дегенде бір рет қатысты, сол күндері Pro Cruiser-де 4-ші және 7-ші орындар алды. Бұған қоса, ол үйіне жақын жердегі жергілікті жарыстарда да қатысты. Ол 1990 жылы ABA Fall Nationals жарысына қатысып, жексенбілік жарыста Pro Open Main-ге алтыншы орынға ие болды. Ол сондай-ақ 1991 жылы ABA Fall Nationals-те "зейнеткерлікке шыққан" Эрик Руп және Гарри Лиримен бірге жарысты, бірақ негізгі жарыстарға қатыспады. Ол бір жылдан кейін күзгі ұлттық жарыстарға қайта қатысып, "А" кәсіби (Гарри Лиримен бірге) 2-ші күні (24 қазан) Pro Cruiser-де үшінші орын алды. 1993 жылы ол Pro Cruiser және бірнеше жыл бойы жаңа ABA Veteran Pro класында жарыс жүргізуді қайта бастады. Бүгінде ол Redline демеушілігімен ABA 45 50 cruiser және 36 & Over Expert 20" сыныбында әуесқой ретінде кейде жарысады. Оның 20" дивизиондағы соңғы жеңісі 1986 жылдың 28 наурызында Флорида штатының Сарасота қаласындағы NBL ұлттық жарысында болды.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
*Классификация сол кезде салмақ пен бойға қарай анықталды, жасқа және қабілетке емес, сондықтан оның жасы осы жағдайда маңызсыз. Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup BMX-те өткен алғашқы "Ұлттық" жарыс болды.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
**Сол кезде кәсіпқойлардың саны аз болғандықтан, кәсіпқойлар үшін жеке кәсіби дивизион болған жоқ. Олар 16 жастағы сарапшылармен жарысты, бұл жарыс іс жүзінде Pro/Am класы болды. Осы себепті, кәсіби дивизионның алғашқы жылдарында санкциялық ұйымның бірінші нөмірі әуесқой немесе кәсіпқой болуы мүмкін. Бұл практика NBA-ның 1979 жылғы маусымына дейін жалғасты, онда кәсіпқойлар жеке кәсіби ұпайлар мен әуесқойлардан бөлек кәсіби табельді алды. NBL және ABA бір жылдан кейін, 1980 жылғы маусымда осы қадамды жасады. Бұл бастапқы кәсіби кластар сол кездегі Senior Pro/Elite Men кластарымен теңестірілді. Келесі маусымда, 1981 жылы, ABA және NBL кәсіби класты Junior және Senior деңгейлеріне бөлді. NBA 1981 жылы бір деңгейлі кәсіби класты сақтап қалды.
Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1976 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 early professionals like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old 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. The NBA started the first professional division in BMX in the 1977. 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. Milestone Event DetailsStarted racing: Late 1973, 15 years old. He noticed a flyer about races at Scot Breithaupt's B. U. M. S track in Long Beach, CA. Since he didn't have a driver's licence he had a friend's father drive him to the track with some friends, looking to race in real competition. The track was holding a championship race of some kind. Sanctioning body: The proto governing body Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.)Home sanctioning body district(s): National Bicycle Association (NBA) District "X" (Orange/Los Angeles Counties) 1977–1981; American Bicycle Association (ABA) California 1 (CA 1) (1985)First race bike: First race result: Fifth place at Scot Breithaupt's Bicycle United Motocross Society (B. U. M. S.) track in Long Beach, CaliforniaFirst win (local): First sponsor: Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc. First national win: Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup a. k. a. the Bicycle Motocross Championship of California State on September 14, 1974, as an Expert, age 16* He won a Yamaha Moto Bike winning one of the three qualifiers and for winning the final event a Yamaha motorcycle. Strictly speaking, the Yamaha Gold Cup, as it is colloquially known, wasn't a national but the final of a series of four races (including the Final) held at different tracks based in California, but it was the first highly organized mass event in BMX involving a large number of racers and heavily promoted in the mass media in California. The first true National in which racers not from the state of California participated in and national points awarded to those out of state was the NBA Winter Nationals held in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 29, 1975. Turned Professional**: 1975 Age 16First Professional race result:** First Professional win: Possibly at the National Bicycle Association (NBA) Jimmy Weinert Supernationals on "Weinert Mountain" at the Racing World course in Trabuco Canyon, California on April 3, 1977, when he won the Trophy Dash. It was a 100% payback race in which the racer gets back his entrance fee. This is one of the first officially sanctioned Pro BMX races held in BMX. Stu would go on to win about US$1,500 in 1977. the equivalent to US$5,349.01 in 2008 (Cost of Living Calculator). Height and weight at height of his career: Ht: 6' 1.5" Wt: 200 lbs. Retired from Senior pro (NBL "A"/ABA "AA"): Even with the resources of his bikeshop, Stu Thomsen's Family Cycle Center, competition in the expensive national circuit did not make economic sense unless he could find a factory sponsorship. Huffy's decision to let him go, his search for a sponsor frustrated by the depressed economic state of BMX that year, and a shoulder injury that his competitive nature prevented him from allowing to heal properly, all combined, led him to retire in July 1987. At age 29, he had largely made it his goal to race until he was thirty years old. However, he did race in large races that was both close to his Yorba Linda home and had large purses. For example, he did race at least once in 1988 at the ABA Winter Nationals at Chandler, Arizona, with a 4th and 7th in Pro Cruiser at the two races over that weekend. This is in addition to him racing locally close to his home. He raced in the 1990 ABA Fall Nationals and made the Pro Open Main in the Sunday race, coming in sixth. He also raced the 1991 ABA Fall Nationals as well along with fellow "retired" pros Eric Rupe and Harry Leary but did not make any of the Mains. He raced the Fall nationals again a year later reclassifying to "A" pro (along with Harry Leary) coming in third in Pro Cruiser on Day 2 (October 24). In 1993 he resumed racing on a serious level in Pro Cruiser and in the then new ABA Veteran Pro class for a few years. Today he still races occasionally as an amateur in the ABA 45 50 cruiser and 36 & Over Expert 20" class sponsored by Redline. His last Senior Pro win in the 20" division before retiring from serious Senior pro competition appeared to had been at the NBL National in Sarasota, Florida, on March 28, 1986. *Classifications at the time were determined by size and weight and not age and proficiency, so his age in this case is irrelevant. The Yamaha Bicycle Gold Cup was the first "National" to be held in BMX. **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. The NBL and ABA followed suit a year later for the 1980 season. These original Pro classes were the equivalent to Senior Pro/Elite Men at the time. In the following season, 1981, the pro class was divided into Junior and Senior levels in the ABA and NBL. The NBA remained with a single level pro class in 1981.
Карьералық фабрикалар мен ірі велосипед дүкендерінің демеушілері
Ескерту: Бұл тізім тек жарыскердің негізгі демеушілерін көрсетеді. Жарыскердің кез келген уақытта көптеген қосымша демеушілері болуы мүмкін. Негізгі демеушіліктерді BMX баспасөзінің жарияланымдары мен сол кездегі демеушілердің жарнамалары арқылы растауға болады. Мүмкіндігінше нақты мерзімдер келтірілген.
Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous cosponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.
Әуесқой
Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc.: ? – 1974 жылдың шілдесі
Dirtmaster Racing өнімдері: 1974 жылдың шілдесі – 1975 жылдың тамызы. Webco Inc.: 1975 жылдың тамызы – 1976 жылдың наурыз айының соңы. Webco 1976 жылдың наурыз айында командасын таратып жіберді. D. G. Performance Specialties (Бастапқы әріптері Дэн Хангслебен, Гэри Харлоу): 1976 жылдың сәуір айының соңы – 1976 жылдың қазаны. Сту нашар жарыс көрсеткеннен кейін, жаман сөздер айтқаны және DG велосипедін дұрыс пайдаланбағаны үшін DG командасынан қуылды. Чак Робинсон, команда менеджері, Томсеннің ашуын естіді. Джефф Боттеманың айтуынша, Томсеннің сол кездегі командаласы, 1977 жылғы маусымда шыққан "Bicycle Motocross Action" журналында, Томсеннің DG-ге қарсы бұрын да осындай әрекеттері болған және Робинсон мырза осы оқиғаға байланысты жазалау шарасын қолданды, кем дегенде екінші рет. 1978 жылғы маусымда "Bicycle Motocross Action" журналына берген сұхбатында Стю оқиға туралы былай деді: Мен олармен (DG) тағы бір жыл болдым, содан кейін біраз себепсіз командадан шығарылып қалдым. Мен оны түсінбеймін. Ол осы пікірін бес жылдан кейін, 1983 жылғы қыркүйекте шыққан "Bicycles And Dirt" журналындағы сұхбатында қайталап айтты: белгісіз себептермен мен командадан шығарылдым. Неге екенін білгенім жоқ. Flying Machine Factory (FMF): 1976 жылдың қазаны – 1977 жылдың ортасы. Ол D.G.-ден бір жарым аптадан кейін FMF-қа қосылды. Стью осы демеушінің арқасында кәсіпқой болады.
Newport Design & Manufacturing, Inc.: ? – July 1974
Dirtmaster Racing Products: July 1974 – August 1975. Webco Inc.: August 1975 – Late March 1976. Webco disbanded its team in March 1976. D. G. Performance Specialties (The initials stood for Dan Hangsleben, Gary Harlow): Late April 1976 – October 1976. Stu was kicked off the DG Team for bad mouthing and abusing his DG issue bicycle after a poor showing in a race. Chuck Robinson, DG team manager, heard Thomsen's outburst. According to Jeff Bottema, Thomsen's teammate at the time, noted in the June 1977 issue of Bicycle Motocross Action, it was not the first time Thomsen had slighted DG and Mr. Robinson acted punitively on this alleged occasion, at least the second In a June 1978 interview in Bicycle Motocross Action, Stu said about the incident: I stayed with them (DG) for another year and then got ejected from the team somehow I don't even understand that. He reiterated this point five years later in an interview that appeared in the September 1983 issue of Bicycles And Dirt magazine: for some unknown reason I was dropped from the team. I never really found out why. Flying Machine Factory (FMF): October 1976 – Mid 1977. He joined FMF after leaving D. G. a week and a half later. Stu would turn pro with this sponsor.
Dirtmaster Racing Products: July 1974 – August 1975. Webco Inc.: August 1975 – Late March 1976. Webco disbanded its team in March 1976. D. G. Performance Specialties (The initials stood for Dan Hangsleben, Gary Harlow): Late April 1976 – October 1976. Stu was kicked off the DG Team for bad mouthing and abusing his DG issue bicycle after a poor showing in a race. Chuck Robinson, DG team manager, heard Thomsen's outburst. According to Jeff Bottema, Thomsen's teammate at the time, noted in the June 1977 issue of Bicycle Motocross Action, it was not the first time Thomsen had slighted DG and Mr. Robinson acted punitively on this alleged occasion, at least the second In a June 1978 interview in Bicycle Motocross Action, Stu said about the incident: I stayed with them (DG) for another year and then got ejected from the team somehow I don't even understand that. He reiterated this point five years later in an interview that appeared in the September 1983 issue of Bicycles And Dirt magazine: for some unknown reason I was dropped from the team. I never really found out why. Flying Machine Factory (FMF): October 1976 – Mid 1977. He joined FMF after leaving D. G. a week and a half later. Stu would turn pro with this sponsor.
Әуесқой
Redline Велосипедтері: 1999–2014 жылдар. Ол өзін әуесқойға қайта жіктеді және жарысқа қатысқанда Redline велосипедтерін көрсетеді. SE Велосипедтері: 2015 жылдан бері. Стю SE-ге қайта қосылды және кейде Ұлттық жарыстарда өнер көрсетті.
Redline Bicycles: 1999–2014. He has reclassified himself as an amateur and represents Redline bicycles on the occasions he races. SE Bicycles: 2015–current. Stu rejoined SE and raced at Nationals on occasion.
Кәсіби велосипед мотокросы атақтары
Ескерту: *Ауданы, штаты, провинциясы, департаменті, аймақтық, ұлттық* және *халықаралық* атаулар курсивпен берілген. "Жойылған" дегеніміз – аталған санкциялайтын ұйым жарыскердің мансабының басында немесе оның мансабының сол кезеңінде болмағандығын білдіреді. Жеке жарыскерлердің жинаған ұпайларына қарай, Grand Nationals жеңімпаздары міндетті түрде *ұлттық* атаққа ие болмайды. Сериялық және бір реттік чемпионаттар да бөлек тізімделген.
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.
Елеулі жарақаттар
1974 жылдың қыркүйек айында «Ямаха Велосипед Алтын кубогы» жарысына қатысу алдында ауыр тобуылған білезік. Ол осы жарақатпен жарысып, өз санатты жеңіп алды. 1975 жылдың басында мектептегі дене шынықтыру сабағында футбол ойнау барысында мойын сүйегі сынған. Ол Калифорния штатының Оранж қаласындағы «Western Sport A Rama» трассасында жарысқа қайта оралды, бірақ сол жарыста, 1975 жылдың 13 маусымында, жарақатын қайта алды. 1976 жылдың қаңтарында жаттығу кезінде аяғы сынған. Аяқ жарақаттары шамамен 1976 жылдың мамыр айында болған. 1976 жылдың 27 маусымында «NBA Springnational» жарысына оралды. 1984 жылдың сәуірінде білезігіне жарақат алды. Теннесси штатының Мемфис қаласында өткен NBL жарысында жаттығу кезінде құлап, екі байланыс тінін жыртып алды. Шамамен алты апта бойы емделді. Томсен сол кезде екі ұлттық жарысты жеңіп, екі маусымдық үзілістен кейін қайтадан үстемдік таныстыра бастады. Бұл жарақат 1984 жылғы маусымына кері әсер етті. 1985 жылдың 10 қарашасы немесе сол шамадағы уақытта «Мотокростың Супер Боулы» мотоцикл жарысының үзілісінде Лос-Анджелес Колизейіндегі тау велосипеді жарысында жаттығу кезінде иығына жарақат алып, мойын сүйегі сынған. Ол шамамен алты апта бойы емделді. 1986 жылдың 6 сәуірінде Бейкерсфилд (Калифорния) қаласында өткен ABA ұлттық жарысында құлап, иығын қайта жарақаттады. 22 сәуірде операция жасалып, 1986 жылдың маусым айының соңына дейін тағы екі ай емделді.
Bad ankle sprain prior to competing in the Yamaha Bicycle Gold cup in September 1974. Competed on it and won his expert class. Broken Collarbone resulting from a football related Physical Education class at his high school in early 1975. He returned to competition at the Western Sport A Rama track in Orange, California, but promptly re injured himself at that race fittingly on Friday, June 13, 1975. Broke leg in January 1976 during a practice session. Leg injury approximately May 1976. Returned to racing on June 27, 1976 for the NBA Springnational. Ankle injury in April 1984. Tore two ligaments falling in practice at a Memphis, Tennessee, NBL race. Laid up for approximately six weeks. Thomsen had a two national winning streak at the time and was showing signs of being dominant again after two off (for him) seasons. This injury hurt his 1984 season. Shoulder injury and a broken collar bone during practice at a promotional mountain bike race in the Los Angeles Coliseum during half time at the Super Bowl of Motocross motorcycle race on or around November 10, 1985. He was laid up for about six weeks. He reinjured his shoulder in a fall at an ABA national in Bakersfield, California, on April 6. Had surgery on April 22 and laid up for a further two months until late June 1986.
Суреттер
2008 жылғы NBL Grand National жарысында Thomsenнің суреті.
Image of Thomsen racing at the 2008 NBL Grand National.
BMX-тен кейінгі мансап
1988 жылдан бастап Стю Томсен тау велосипедтері жарыстарында Ұлттық Off Road Велосипедтер Ассоциациясының (NORBA) трассасында, басқа BMX жарыскерлері сияқты, Tinker Juarez, Cheri Elliott, Pete Loncarevich және Toby Henderson сияқты жарысты. Ұйымдастырылған тау велосипед жарыстарындағы ең үлкен жетістігі – 1988 жылы Маммотта (Калифорния) өткен тау велосипедтері әлем чемпионатында таудан түсу бөлімінде үшінші орын алуы болды. Ол әйелі Танямен бірге сегіз жыл бойы өз велосипед дүкенін, Стю Томсеннің велосипед орталығын жүргізді. Бірақ ол велосипедтер сатылатын өте бәсекелестік аймақта болғандықтан, дүкенін жабуға шешім қабылдады – оның дүкенінен 10 миль радиуста алты немесе жеті велосипед дүкені болды. Жақсы велосипед механик болғанымен және басқа велосипед дүкендерінің иелеріне кеңес беруге дайын болғанымен, ол өзінің бастығы болуды ұнатпады және 1992 жылы дүкенін сатты. Ол түрлі сату жұмыстарын сынап көрді және отбасылық фитнес орталығында кеңесші болып жұмыс істеді, бірақ екеуі де сәтті болмады. Сондықтан ол велосипед дүкенінің менеджері және велосипед механикі болып қайта оралды (мүмкін, Калифорнияның Риверсайд қаласындағы Саутридж Циклдар, ол қысқа уақытқа Ветерандық про-класспен жарысқан кездегі соңғы демеушілерінің бірі). Ол дүкеннің BMX бөлімінде жұмыс істеді. Сол жергілікті дүкеннің механиктері Томсен болса, Риверсайд полициясының велосипедтік патрульдер бағдарламасына арналған кейбір велосипедтерді жөндеуге көмектеседі. Бұл оның құқық қорғау қызметіне деген қызығушылығының бастауы болуы мүмкін. Қазір ол Калифорния штатының Ориндж округіне Шериф орынбасары болып қызмет етеді, бұл оны сөзбе-сөз "Адам" (жазалау орнының жарғақ сөзі, бұл 1950 жылы түрме бастығы үшін жасалған кемсітуші термин болуы мүмкін. Бұл сөз 1960-шы жылдары қоғамды басқаратын билік иелеріне немесе олардың қызметкерлеріне, мысалы, құқық қорғау органдарына қатысты кеңінен қолданыла бастады). Риверсайдтағы (Калифорния) велосипед дүкенінің менеджері/механик болған кезінде ол жергілікті полиция бөлімшесіне велосипедтерді күтіп ұстауға көмектесетін. Кейін ол жаңа үйге көшіп кетеді. Оның жаңа көршісі Фуллертон полиция бөлімінің офицері болды, ол онымен дос болды. 1994 жылы тағы бір сатушы жұмыс істемеген соң, оның тағы бір досы Ориндж округінің шериф қызметіне емтихан тапсыруға барды, себебі сол кезде олар жаңа орынбасарлар жалдаған болатын. Томсен "оның" қасына қосылуға шешім қабылдады. Досы емтихан тапсырған кезде, олар кезек күтіп тұрғанда, Томсен өзі емтихан тапсыруға шешім қабылдады. Томсен емтиханды тапсырып өтті, ал оның досы сәтсіз аяқтады, сонымен оның Ориндж округінің шериф бөлімінде заң қорғау саласындағы мансабы басталды. Томсен жарысқа деген сүйіспеншілігін құқық қорғау органдарымен біріктіріп, Калифорния полиция Олимпиадасында (2000 жылы аты Калифорния полиция және өрт ойындарына өзгертілді, себебі Өрт сөндірушілер жарысқа шақырылды) бәсекеге түсті. 1995 жылдан 2000 жылға дейін тау велосипед жарыстарында жеңіліссіз жүріп, сол уақыт ішінде 15 алтын медаль жинады. Ол сондай-ақ 1997 жылғы Дүниежүзілік полиция және өрт сөндірушілердің ойындарына қатысып, Канадада төрт алтын медаль жеңіп алды. Жарыстардан басқа, ол Project 999 Memorial Ride жобасының бөлігі болып табылады – жыл сайын мамыр айының соңғы аптасында өткізілетін 630 мильдік ат саяхат, сонымен қатар, қаза тапқандар мен ауыр жарақат алғандардың отбасыларына ақша жиналатын "Проект 999" қорын қолдауға арналған. 2009 жылы Стю Томсен және оның 44 әріптесі $40,000 жинады. "Бұл ең төменгі бағаны төлегендерге құрмет көрсету үшін мен жасай аламын", - деді ол. Томсен велосипедтік патрульдік топта болумен қатар, Критикалық оқиғаларға жауап беру тобында (CIRT) және 2005 жылы K 9 құрамында болуға жаттықты және сол күннен бастап K 9 агитаторы болды, яғни иттер шабуыл жасауы және иттер мен олардың ұстап тұрушыларын оқытуда ұстап тұру үшін қашып бара жатқан, шабуылдайтын немесе тәртіпке бағынбайтын қылмыскердің рөлін ойнайды. Ол 15 жыл бойы Ориндж округінің депутаты болған кезде ешкімге қарсы тікелей күш қолданған жоқ, бірақ ол шабуылға ұшырап, Батылдық медаліне ие болды. Ол 2009 жылы Garage Magazine журналында жазған мақаласында: Томсен әлі де кейде қызық үшін жарысады. Мысалы, ол 2001 жылдың қараша айында Оклахома штатының Тулса қаласында өткен ABA Grand Nationals-те әуесқой 41-45 крейсермен жарысты және жеңіп алды. Ол сондай-ақ 36 & Over Expert 20" класында, сондай-ақ 45-50 Cruiser класында 2007 жылдың ақпан айында ABA Winternationals жарысында жарысты. Ол негізгі жарысқа қатысып, бірақ негізгі жарыстың бірін де алдыңғы үштікке кіргізбеді, бірақ оның бәсекеге қабілеттілігі нашарламады: Стю көбінесе жарысқа қатысып, жарысқа дайындық үшін жаттығулар жасады. "Мен жеңілуді әлі де жек көремін", - деді ол. "Мен солай бола беремін деп ойлаймын". Оның бұл сөздерінің дәлелі ретінде, ол 2008 жылғы NBL Grand National-де 50-54 Cruiser класындағы негізгі жарысты жеңіп алды, көрермендерді өзінің секіру қабілетімен таң қалдырды.
Beginning in 1988, Stu Thomsen competed in mountain bike racing on the National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) circuit as other BMX racers had done and would later do including Tinker Juarez, Cheri Elliott, Pete Loncarevich and Toby Henderson. His biggest accomplishment in organized sponsored mountain Bike racing was his third place finish in the downhill division at the 1988 World Mountain Bike Championships at Mammoth, California. He ran his bicycle shop, Stu Thomsen's Bicycle Center, with his wife Tanya for eight years. He decided to quit since it was in a highly competitive area with six or seven bike shops within a 10 mile radius of his. Despite being a good bike shop mechanic and was willing to dispense advice to other bike shop owners he didn't like being his own boss and sold his shop in 1992. He tried various sales jobs and was a counselor at a Family Fitness Center as a counselor but neither was successful and he went back to being a bicycle shop manager and bike mechanic (possibly Southridge Cycles in Riverside, California, one of his last sponsors at the time he briefly raced in Veteran pro class.) He naturally worked the BMX section of the store. That local shop with Thomsen as its mechanic would help maintain at least some of the bikes the Riverside Police Department had for their Bicycle Patrol program. That was the possible catalyst for his interest in law enforcement. He is now a Sheriff's Deputy in Orange County, California, making him literally "The Man" (a prison slang term that could be a pejorative that was created around 1950 for the prison warden. It came into mass usage in the 1960s referring to the powers that be that runs society or their servants such as those in law enforcement). When he was a bike shop manager/mechanic at a local shop in Riverside, California, he would help maintain bicycles for the local police department. Later he would move to a new house. His new next door neighbor happened to be a Fullerton Police Department officer with whom he became friends. Then in 1994, after another sales job didn't work out, another friend of his went to take the Orange County Sheriff's Department test since they were hiring new deputies at the time. Thomsen decided to "tag along". As they waited in line while his friend took the test, Thomsen himself decided to take it. Thomsen passed while his friend failed and his career in law enforcement started in the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Thomsen would manage to merge his love of racing with law enforcement, competing in the California Police Olympics (in the year 2000 the name was changed to the California Police and Fire Games after Firemen were invited to compete). From 1995 to 2000 he was undefeated in the Mountain Bike racing division, accumulating 15 gold medals during that time. He also participated in the 1997 World Police and Fire Games, in Canada winning four Gold Medals In addition to competitions he is part of the Project 999 Memorial Ride, the yearly 630 mile trek of around 45 Orange County Peace Officers who ride their road bicycles from the California Peace Officers' Memorial in Sacramento, California, to the Orange County Peace Officers' Memorial in Santa Ana, California, in tribute of the officers who fell in the line of duty serving the people of California in general and Orange County in particular. The ride, usually held in the last week of May each year, also in support of the Project 999 Fund which raises money for the families of the fallen and seriously injured. In 2009 Stu Thomsen and his 44 colleagues raised $40,000. "It is the least I can do to pay homage to those who paid the ultimate price," he said. Thomsen, in addition to being on the Bicycle Patrol Team, is on the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) and in 2005 was in training to be on the K 9 and as of that date was a K 9 agitator, i. e. play acts the role of a fleeing, attacking or non compliant felon for the dogs to attack and hold in training of dogs and their handlers. During his 15 year tenure as an Orange County Deputy he has never used physical force directly against anyone but he has been under fire and earned the Medal of Courage as he relates in a 2009 article in Garage Magazine:
Thomsen still races for fun occasionally. For example, he raced the amateur 41 45 cruiser at the November 2001 ABA Grand Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and won. He also raced in the 36 & Over Expert 20" class as well as the 45 50 Cruiser class at the ABA Winternationals in February 2007. He made the mains but didn't place in the top three of either class in the mains, but his competitive spirits remained undimmed:
Stu said he'll be training more and plans on racing again this year. 'I still hate losing,' he said. 'I guess I'll always be that way.' As proof of that, he won the 50 54 Cruiser main at the 2008 NBL Grand National, amazing onlookers with his jumping ability.
Thomsen still races for fun occasionally. For example, he raced the amateur 41 45 cruiser at the November 2001 ABA Grand Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and won. He also raced in the 36 & Over Expert 20" class as well as the 45 50 Cruiser class at the ABA Winternationals in February 2007. He made the mains but didn't place in the top three of either class in the mains, but his competitive spirits remained undimmed:
Stu said he'll be training more and plans on racing again this year. 'I still hate losing,' he said. 'I guess I'll always be that way.' As proof of that, he won the 50 54 Cruiser main at the 2008 NBL Grand National, amazing onlookers with his jumping ability.