Team- Reno Racing

Not a spectator this time around. 57 is the new 15. In 2000-2001 we brought our kids out to try BMX. It lasted a couple of years. 20 years later we brought our grandkids out to the same track, and I said I’m not just watching from the sidelines. Started racing at 55 and love it.

I started racing the summer of 1976 in Utah before any sanctioning body was in the state. The Sandy City Police Department ran those races at the time. I raced a few years after the ABA came to Utah but finances and parental priorities changed and I stopped. In 1996 a co-worked told me about a track that was near my house at the time (Rad Canyon BMX) so I went to watch some races and discovered that old guys could race. So, I bought myself a Kastan Cruiser and then a Kastan 20" in 1997 and I started racing again. I broke my collar bone racing, moved to Texas the first time and started having kids, was working hard building my career as a Chemical Engineer so BMX racing got put on hold. My 3 boys got interested in BMX in August of 2013, so I came back to the sport. It was short lived because my company requested that we move to Japan for a couple of years the summer of 2014. We raced during the summer when we came back to visit the United States, but we were limited in our racing. We returned the summer of 2016 and we got back to racing BMX regularly again. My boys and I designed our own jerseys which were influenced by our time in Japan and formed our own family "team", Flying Dragon Racing. We also upgraded our bikes and maximized our time at the track. Now all my boys have grown-up and are involved in school and building their own careers so I am the last member of our Flying Dragon Racing team that is still actively racing. My goal is to keep racing at least until I am in my 80s.

My love affair with speed started at eight on a customized Schwinn Stingray. Inspired by motocross bikes on "Wild World of Sports," I (with Dad's help) transformed it into a mini-monster, igniting a passion that's never faded. The 70’s and 80s were a blur of wooded single tracks, halfpipes and racetracks, the wind whipping past as I pushed my limits. The 2000s brought new challenges. A wrist injury forced a pause, but it couldn't stop me. I kept tinkering, riding, the love for two wheels is unyielding. My love affair with speed started at eight on a customized Schwinn Stingray. Inspired by motocross bikes on "Wild World of Sports," I (with Dad's help) transformed it into a mini-monster, igniting a passion that's never faded. The 80s were a blur of racetracks, the wind whipping past as I pushed my limits. The 90s brought new challenges - conquering mountains on both BMX and mountain bikes. A wrist injury forced a pause, but it couldn't stop me. I kept tinkering, riding, the love for two wheels is unyielding. .