Joey Bradford
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Joseph Bradford is an American professional "New/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
racer whose prime competitive years are from 1999 to the present. His nickname is simply "Joey".
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
USA Cycling BMX
(NBL)
American Bicycle Association
(ABA)
Union Cycliste Internationale
(UCI)*
USA Cycling
BMX South Africa (BMXSA)
Pro Series Championships
To aid racers who have fallen on financially hard times Bradford along with veterans of the sport founded the fund. As described at the fatbmx.com website:
BMX Plus!:
Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:
Twenty BMX:
Moto Mag:
BMX World (2005–Present):
Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL publication under two names):
ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA publication under three names):
Sub Discipline: 4 Cross Downhil
First race result:
Sanctioning body:
Retired:
(UCI)
National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)
USA Cycling
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 are from 1999 to the present. His nickname is simply "Joey".
BMX racing career milestones
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| Started racing: | July 13, 1997 at the age of seven. | |
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| First race bike: | GT Mach One. |
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| First race result: | Third Place in seven novice | |
| First win (local): | Early August 1997 in his third time racing in seven novice. |
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| First sponsor: | ||
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| Turned Professional: | December 2006 at age 17. | |
| First Professional race result: | Came in 5th in the semis and did not make "A" pro main of the 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) Silver Dollar Nationals in Reno, Nevada Reno, Nevada Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area... on January 6, 2007. He came in second place the next day. |
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| First Professional win: | In Junior Men at the 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) Lake Meed Nationals in Boulder City, Nevada Boulder City, Nevada Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is approximately from the City of Las Vegas. As of the 2010 census the population of Boulder City was 15,023.Boulder City is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibit gambling.... on February 24, 2007 (Day1). |
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| First Junior Men/Pro* race result: | See "First Professional race result". |
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| First Junior Men/Pro win: | See "First Professional win". | |
| First Senior Pro** race result: | ||
| First Senior Pro win: | ||
| Retired: | Still active. | |
| Height & weight at height of his career (2006): | Ht:5'8" Wt:175 lbs. (1.75m 75 kg). | |
Amateur/Junior Men
- Haynes BMX: 1999
- No Fear Racing: -April 1999
- Kovachi Wheels:April 1999-2000
- Fox/Specialized/Mountain Dew: 2000-2001
- Staats Bicycles: 2002-December 2003
- Avent/Bomshell: December 2003-December 2004
- Hyundai/Mongoose: January 2005-Mid December 2005
- GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: December 20, 2005–Present. Joey would turn pro with this sponsor.
Amateur/Junior Men
National Bicycle League (NBL)- 1998 8 Expert National No.1
- 1999 9 Expert & 9-10 Cruiser National No.1
- 1998,'99,'00 California State Champion
- 1998,'99,'00 Western-Regional Champion
- 1998 8 Expert President's Cup Champion
- 2002 12 Expert and 12 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
- 2002 12 Expert and 12 Cruiser National No.1
- 2003 13 Expert and 13 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
- 2003 13 Expert & 13-14 Cruiser National No.1
- 2004 14 Expert Grandnational Champion.
- 2004 14 Expert National No.1
- 2005 15 Expert National No.1
- 2006 16 Expert National No.1
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
- 1998 8 Expert Gold Cup West Champion
- 1998,'99,'00,'01,'02,'03 California State Champion
- 1998 10 Expert Redline Gold Cup Champion
- 1999 10 Expert & 10 Cruiser Race of Champions Champion
- 2000 12 Expert & 12 Cruiser Redline Gold Cup Champion
- 2001 11 Expert World Champion
- 2001 12 Expert & 12 Cruiser Race of Champions champion
- 2002 12 Expert & 12 Cruiser World Champion
- 2002 13 Expert & 13 Cruiser Race of Champions champion
- 2003 14 Expert & 14 Cruiser Race of Champions (ROC) champion
- 2004 14 Expert & 14 Cruiser World Champion
- 2004 15 Expert & 15 Cruiser Redline Gold Cup Champion
- 2005 15 Expert & 15 Cruiser World Champion
- 2005 16 Expert & 16 Cruiser Redline Gold Cup Champion
- 2005 16 Expert National Age Group (NAG) No.1
- 2006 17 Expert Redline Gold Cup Cruiser Champion
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
- 2000 11 Boys World Champion
- 2002 12 Boys World Champion
- 2003 13 Boys & 13-14 Cruiser World Champion
- 2005 15 Boys & 15-16 Cruiser World Champion
- 2003 14-16 Pacific Oceanic Champion
- 2005 14–16 Boys Pan Pacific Champion
- 2006 14–16 boys Pan Pacific Champion
- 2006 North American Junior Men Champion
- 2007 Junior Mens Silver Medal World Champion
USA Cycling BMX
- 2007 Junior Cruiser National Champion
Professional/Elite Men
National Bicycle LeagueNational 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)
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)
Union Cycliste Internationale
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)*
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...
BMX South Africa (BMXSA)
- 2007 Elite Men South African National Champion
Pro Series Championships
BMX product lines
- 2006 Fly Joey Bradford Signature Series Bars.
- Product evaluation:
Significant injuries
- Dislocated shoulder in a crash during the main at the 2006 UCI World Championships in Holland.
- Suffered a bad muscle bruise injury in his left lower back falling coming out of the first turn in the first moto at the ABA Winternationals in Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
on March 25, 2007.
Miscellaneous
- In early 2007 when Bradford was still just 17 years old he started the "Joey Bradford Disability Fund" to aid financially seriously injured and/or financially troubled BMX racers. BMX despite being an Olympic sport and gaining world respect, is still not truly a professional sport in which a racer could become financially independent. Sponsors provide professional racers their salaries as well as providing them with free travel, expenses, entrance fees for racers, and free bicycle parts as well as payment for appearing in advertisements. If he or she is let go by a sponsor, that racer would often be in financial straits. With no salary, free travel or other expenses paid. He would solely rely on race winnings to support his racing, which would be of course, partly offset by the entrance fees he would have to pay for out of pocket including travel cost. The financial pressures are even greater if the racer is married with children with a mortgage and car payments. As a result a racer could find him/herself in dire straits if he is injured, particularly if it is a career ending one. There is no pensions for BMXers as there are in major long established sports like baseball football basketball etc.
To aid racers who have fallen on financially hard times Bradford along with veterans of the sport founded the fund. As described at the fatbmx.com website:
BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles
- "Background Check: Joey Bradford" Transworld BMX July 2004 Vol.11 Iss.7 No.93 pg.86
BMX magazine covers
----BMX Plus!:
Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:
- None
Twenty BMX:
Moto Mag:
- None
BMX World (2005–Present):
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
- Still active. However, in 2003 he started a simultaneous Mountain Bike Racing career, one of the few BMXers to do so at his stage in his career which was only six years into his BMX amateur career. Most BMXers who cross over to MTB racing do so after his BMX career or in its last few years. John TomacJohn TomacJohn Tomac is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991...
, Tinker JuarezTinker JuarezDavid Juarez is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross 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...
started MTB racing after their BMX careers. Pete LoncarevichPete LoncarevichPeter Loncarevich is a former Bicycle Motocross racer. Loncarevich was an "Old School" professional BMX racer whose prime competitive years were from 1980 to 1994....
, Eric CarterEric CarterEric Robert Carter is a former American professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1983 to 1998...
, Bas de BeverBas de BeverBas de Bever is a Dutch former professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985-1993.-Racing career:----Started Racing: 1981Sanctioning Body:...
, Corine DorlandCorine DorlandCorine Stam-Dorland was a Dutch amateur "Old School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1996. From 1996 to 2006 she was also an accomplished Mountain Bike Cyclo-cross and Road Bike racer...
and Dale HolmesDale HolmesDale 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....
started their MTB careers during the one or two twilight years of BMX racing. Among the exceptions is Wade BootesWade BootesWade Bootes is an Australian professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross and Mountain Bike racer whose prime competitive years are from 1995 to 2003 in BMX and 1999 to 2004 in MTB. Usually goes by the moniker "Bootsie" or "Bootsey", an obviously diminutive of his surname...
that started MTB racing essentially during the middle of his BMX career. It is difficult for a racer to train effectively at the championship level for either of the two disciplines although skills for one easily translate to the other, still the training regimen for one is different enough to adversely affect the other. As a result most start the crossover just about at the end of their usually long BMX racing careers.
Mountain Bike career
Started racing: 2003Sub Discipline: 4 Cross Downhil
First race result:
Sanctioning body:
Retired:
Amateur
- Staats Bicycles: 2002-2003
- Avent/Bomshell: 2003-2004
- Hyundai/Mongoose: January 2005-Mid December 2005
- GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: December 20, 2005–Present. Joey would turn pro with this sponsor.
Professional
Union Cycliste InternationaleUnion 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)
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...