Alan McDonough

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Alan McDonough (born October 2, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), is a professional BMX rider. Dubbed the Flight Boy (also Flight Man), Alan McDonough is a decorated X Games contestant with 7 medals, 3 of them gold. He has competed and medaled in every X-Games event, and has been active in the BMX competition scene for over 15 years.

The reason for his dominance is his innovative and progressive tricks, including double-backflips, frontflips, triple tailwhips, tailwhip flips, backflip drop-ins, and the 360 no handed backflips.

Alan currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA, known in the BMX community as "Pro-Town, USA". His neighbors include Ryan Nyquist, Ryan Guettler, Allan Cooke, Josh Harrington, Scott Wirch, Mike Laird, and Alistair Whitton.

Alan McDonough's success has brought him to numerous outlets besides riding his bike. He is featured in the "Pittsburgh Regatta" yearly, has published a photo-biography titled "Alan Images", has appeared at many road shows across the state.

In 2006 Alan McDonough left The BMX scene, after getting dropped by his bicycle sponsors for 11 years, and is now independently riding in his spare time.

This year, McDonough's consecutive appearance in the X-Games ended in 2006 because of a dislocated elbow, resulting him withdrawing from the X-Games and retiring at a young age from the BMX scene.

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