ridertype updated majorwins birth_date proyears image_size name amateuryears caption fullname amateurteam proteam birth_place height discipline nickname role weight article_title currentteam
bmx : off road mtb : cross-country october 21 , 2008 1995 02 , ' 03 , '04 24-hour endurance category national pan champion am games gold medalist 2001 , ' 4 march 1961 1977-1982 2004-2005 2006-present 1982 1983-1985 1985 1985 1989-1989 1990-1993 1994-2002 2003 300 tinker juarez 1974 1974-1975 1975-1976 1976 1976-77 tinker juarez on mongoose team c. 1976 david juarez two bicycle association mongoose wheeler 's bicycle motocros news kawasaki motors national mongoose klein bicycles volvo/cannondale siemens/cannondale mona vie mona vie/cannondale jmc racing bandito racing odi maximum general bicycles downey , california , united states 1.73 m ftin on bicycle mtb -rrb- motocross -lrb- bmx -rrb- mountain bike racing -lrb- `` tinker '' , `` hollifield flash '' racer 63.5 kg lb st on tinker juarez
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tinker juarez

david juarez -lrb- born march 4 , 1961 in downey , california u.s. -rrb- is a former professional `` old school '' bicycle motocross -lrb- bmx -rrb- racer and current top mountain bike racer whose prime competitive years in bmx were from 1978 to 1984 and in mountain bike racing 1986 to the present .
since 1986 , he has been a mountain bike racer and since late 2005 , competing as an ultra-distance road bike racer .
in all three disciplines , he has won numerous national and international competitions .
most recently , `` tinker '' finished third in the 2006 race across america enduro bicycle road race .
`` tinker '' juarez is a highly talented cyclist who has made significant impacts in the cycling disciplines of bmx racing , freestyle bmx , and mountain biking and now long distance road racing for over thirty years .
while he was also known as the `` hollified flash '' after one of his home bmx tracks he used to race at and dominate in the early-1970s , the moniker `` tinker '' is a nickname that was coined by his family .
according to his mother rose : '' `` we used to say ` stinker ' when he was a baby , everybody thought we were saying ` tinker '' '' david juarez is so well known by his nickname `` tinker '' many people probably think that is his real first name .
