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Bas de Bever is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

former professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX)

BMX

Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...

racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985-1993.

Racing career

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Started Racing: 1981

Sanctioning Body:

First race result:

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win:
First American Professional race result: First place in Pro/Super Open Wheels (formerly Pro Cruiser) at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus Ohio on 28 December 1992.

First American Professional win: See above

First American Junior Pro*/Superclass race result: Second place in Superclass at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

on 28 December 1989. He won USD$355.25.

First American Junior Pro*/Superclass win: In Superclass at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio on December 1990 (Day 1) He also came in second place in Pro Award. On Day 2 he came in last place in Superclass.

First American Senior Pro/Elite Men** race result: Fourth in All Pros at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus Ohio on 28 December 1992.

First American Senior Pro/Elite Men win: See "First American Professional race result"

Retired: 1995 to race Mountain Bikes (MTB). He actually didn't quit because he thought it was time to move on and try something els after winning all there was to win in BMX. Instead he quit because of the people's attitudes around him. As he stated in an interview concucted by former fellow BMX racer Dale Holmes
Dale Holmes
Dale John Holmes was a British professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1990-2004. He is now a respected champion mountain bike racer....

:

Holmes: "Why did you quit BMX and get into Mountainbikes?"
de Bever: At the time I was totally over the whole euro BMX scene, not the actual racing or riding the bike , cause I still loved that, but more the wining(sic) parents bossing their kids around. ---Daleholmes.com 2002

Height & weight at height of his career (1987–1992): Ht:" Wt:lbs.

Amateur

Vector Bars USA (European Division): 1982

GT (Gary Turner) Racing (European Division): 1983-1984

Mongoose/Sinisalo: February 1986-December 1986

AMEV Nederland b.v.: January 1987-1988 AMEV at the time de Bever was sponsored by them was a life insurance and banking firm. AMEV in Dutch stands for Algemeene Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Verzekeringsmaatschappijen which in English literally translates to General Society To Develop Insurance Companies.

Professional

Sunn: 1989
Priemer: 1989
MCS (Moto Cross Specialties) Bicycle Specialties (European Division): 1989-1991
WEBCO Bicycles: 1991-1995. This is not the famous American pioneering Webco Inc. of the early to late 1970s. This Webco is the West European Bicycle Company created in 1991 by Gerrit Does, the person who introduced BMX to Europe (Holland specifically) and co-founded the IBMXF.

Amateur

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU)

Nederlandse Fietscross Federatie (NFF)

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

None

National Bicycle League (NBL)

None

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

None

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

1983 14 Junior World Champion'
1985 17 & Over Boys Second Place World Champion
1987 18-24 Cruiser World Champion

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

None

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

Professional

Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU)

Nederlandse Fietscross Federatie (NFF)

National Bicycle Association
National Bicycle Association
The National Bicycle Association , later known as the National Bicycle Motocross Association was an United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Soledad, California that was created by Ernie Alexander in 1973 and ceased operations as an independent body in 1981...

(NBA)

None (defunct)

National Bicycle League
National Bicycle League
The National Bicycle League is a United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Deerfield Beach, Florida but after several moves it was based in Hilliard, Ohio...

(NBL)

None

American Bicycle Association
American Bicycle Association
The American Bicycle Association is a United States-based Bicycle Motocross sports governing body in Gilbert, Arizona created by Merl Mennenga and Gene Roden in 1977. It is the largest sanctioning body in the United States concerning BMX. It has tracks in Canada and Mexico as well as in the USA...

(ABA)

None

United States Bicycle Motocross Association
United States Bicycle Motocross Association
The United States Bicycle Association was a short lived Bicycle Motocross national sanctioning body based in Tempe, Arizona. It was founded in March 1984 by five former members of the American Bicycle Association : Rich Mann, Dave Cook, Geoff Sims, Steve Schaefer and Rod Keeling, who became the...

(USBA)

None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

1988 20" Superclass 4th International Indoor de Tours Champion
1989 24" Superclass European Challenge Cup VI
1989 Ponypark Competition of Masters Winner
1989 Second place Superclass and Super Cruiser World Champion
1990 20" Superclass 6th International Indoor de Tours Winner
1990 20" Superclass European Champion
1990 24" Superclass World Champion
1991 20" Pro/Am Supercross of BMX Champion
1991 20" Superclass Silver Medal World Chamion
1991 24" Superclass World Champion
1992 24" Superclass International Indoor Leeuwarden Winner
1992 20" Superclass Indoor de Dijon Winner
1992 24" Superclass 1st Indoor de Tours Winner
1992 24" Superclass European Champion
1992 24" Superclass World Champion
1994 24" European Champion

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
Independent Invitationals and Pro Series Championships

Notable accolades

On 8 January 1988 he was one of three racers awarded the "Sport Support Award" by the Dutch National Olympic Committee for their having the best finishes during 1987.

Racing habits and traits

While he raced a couple of times on the American circuit as a professional (including two ABA Grandnationals), he never attempted to race a complete season. He was content on what he was doing at the time.

BMX press magazine interviews and articles

"Special World Edition World Cup 1994: Holland" American BMXer September 1994 Vol.16 No.8 pg.49

BMX magazine covers

Bicycle Motocross News:

None (defunct)

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

None

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

None

BMX Plus!:

None

Total BMX:

Bicycles and Dirt:

None

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

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

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

Post BMX career

In 1994, during his last couple of years of BMX competition, he became a Downhill mountainbiker.
In November 2005 he was hired by Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie (KNWU) to be the National Team Coach and Trainer for the Dutch BMX and MTB (Four-cross and Downhill) racing teams and to train them for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Career Mountain Bike (MTB) Racing Record

Started racing: 1994 on local level in Netherlands and Belgium and Germany.

Sub Discipline: Downhill, 4X cross

First race result: In 8th place place in local Belgium race.

Sanctioning body:

Retired: 2004. Currently Coach of the Dutch BMX and MTB National teams teams.

Professional

VSB-Batavus Cycles: 1995-1997

Be One Bicycle Company: 1998-2004. Be-One Bikes is a susiduary of Batavus Cycles.

Professional

Union Cycliste Internationale

Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland....

(UCI)

1995 World Cup Champion
2003 World Cup Champion

National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)

USA Cycling

USA Cycling

USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States. It covers the disciplines of road, track, mountain bike, cyclo-cross, BMX and collegiate racing...

Independent Race Series and Invitationals

2003 Men's Jeep King of Mountain Series Individual Champion

Significant MTB injuries

Broke collarbone in a collison with a tree during a Downhill event in Japan in 2001. Out for six weeks.

External links

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