David "Tinker" Juarez (born March 4, 1961) is an American former professional BMX and cross-country mountain bike racer. His prime competitive years in BMX were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to 2005. Since late 2005, he has competed as a Marathon mountain bike racer. In all three disciplines, he has won numerous national and international competitions. Most recently, Juarez finished third in the 2006 Race Across America Endurance bicycle race.

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Tinker Juarez

Personal information
Full name	David Juarez
Nickname	"Tinker", "Hollifield Flash"
Born	(1961-03-04) March 4, 1961 (age 63) Downey, California, United States
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	63.5 kg (140 lb; 10.00 st)
Team information
Current team	-
Discipline	Bicycle Motocross (BMX) Mountain bike racing (MTB)
Role	Racer
Rider type	BMX: Off Road MTB: Cross-country
Amateur teams
1974	Two Wheeler's
1974-1975	Bicycle Motocros News
1975-1976	Kawasaki Motors
1976	National Bicycle Association
1976-77	Mongoose
Professional teams
1977-1982	Mongoose
1982	JMC Racing
1983-1985	Bandito Racing
1985	ODI
1985	Maximum
1989-1989	General Bicycles
1990-1993	Klein Bicycles
1994-2002	Volvo/Cannondale
2003	Siemens/Cannondale
2004-2005	Mona Vie
2006-2021	Mona Vie/Cannondale
Major wins
1995 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist 2001,'02,'03,'04 24-hour endurance category National Champion
Medal record Representing  United States Men's mountain bike racing World Championships 1994 Vail Cross-country

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Born in Downey, California, Juarez is a highly talented cyclist who has made significant impacts in the cycling disciplines of BMX Racing, Freestyle BMX, Cross-country Mountain Bike racing, and now Marathon Mountain Bike racing for over thirty years. While he was also known as the "Hollified Flash" after one of his home BMX tracks he used to race at and dominate in the early-1970s,^[1] the moniker "Tinker" is a nickname that was coined by his family. According to his Mother Rose: "We used to say 'Stinker' when he was a baby, everybody thought we were saying 'Tinker"^[2] David Juarez is so well known by his nickname "Tinker" many people probably think that is his real first name.

Note: In the early days of professional racing, 1977 and prior, many tracks offered small purse prize money to the older racers of an event, even before the official sanctioning bodies offered prize money in formal divisions themselves. Hence some early "professionals" like Stu Thomsen turning "pro" in 1975 at 16 years old where racing for small amounts of money at track events^[3] when offered even before the NBA, regarded as the first true national BMX sanctioning body, had a professional division. For the sake of consistency and standardization noted professional first are for the first pro races for prize money offered by official BMX sanctioning bodies and not independent track events. Professional first are also on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

• "Almost a Legend in his own Time. Tinker Juarez: The Hollified Flash" Bicycle Motocross Action December 1976/January 1977 Vol.1 No.1 pg.27
• "The King of the Skateparks Tinker Juarez" Bicycle Motocross Action April 1980 Vol.5 No.4 pg.25. Pictorial of Tinker performing Vertical Freestyle at Lakewood Skatepark in Lakewood, California.
• "Interview: Tinker Juarez" BMX Action January 1983 Vol.8 No.1 pg.26

Bicycle Motocross News:

• May 1976 Vol.3 No.5 with Perry Kramer and an unidentified racer.

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

• December 1978 Vol.5 No.12 (M/BMXA)

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

• April 1980 Vol.5 No.4
• May 1982 Vol.7 No.5 in last place behind Scott Clark, Harry Leary, Clint Miller Denny Davidow and Gregg Grubbs.

BMX Plus!:

• None

BMX Weekly & BMX B-Weekly: (British publication)

• January 14, 1983 Vol.3 Iss.2

Total BMX:

Bicycles and Dirt (ABA Publication):

• October 1983 Vol.2 No.1 ahead of Ronnie Anderson and Rob Medrano.

NBA World & NBmxA World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication under two names):

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL membership publication under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA membership publication under three names):

• October 1983 Vol.6 No.10 (54) in third place on the outside behind Robert Fehd (472) and behind second place Shawn Texas (114) on the inside. Brian Patterson is in fourth directly behind Fehd.

USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):

In 1986, Tinker made the switch from BMX to mountain biking. Since that time, Tinker has become a 3-time National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) cross-country (XC) champion and 4-time national champion in the 24-hour solo category. In 1996, he became one of the first to see the introduction of mountain biking as an Olympic sport and represent the United States. Tinker again represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Started Racing: 1986 at 25 years of age.

Sub discipline: Cross Country (XC), Endurance

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Turned Professional: 1989

Retired:

Mountain Bike Action:

In 2005, Tinker began training for long-distance road racing events. He won the Heart of the South, which is a 500-mile (800 km) race, and finished second place at the 2005 edition of the Furnace Creek 508, a grueling 508-mile (818 km) course that covers 35,000 feet (11,000 m) of cumulative elevation gain and passes through Death Valley. His podium finishes qualified Tinker for the 2006 Race Across America (RAAM), the annual transcontinental bicycle race from the west coast to the east coast of the United States. He came in third in the Men's Solo Enduro division of the RAAM endurance road race on June 22, 2006, completing the three thousand mile race which started in 2006 from Oceanside, California and finishing in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His finishing time was 10 days, 22 hours and 21 minutes.^[12] Started Racing: 2005 at 44 years of age.

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Retired: Still Active.