Jacquie Phelan

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Jacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan is a former U.S. national champion cyclist and member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame. She is married to another MTB Hall of Fame member, Charlie Cunningham. Jacquie was the founder of the Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS).

She was the first highly successful female mountain bike racer in the US, with multiple national and world championships from 1983 to 1995. She was a pioneer in mountain bike culture and equipment development, and helped promote the aluminum bicycles and components produced by Cunningham's company Wilderness Trail Bikes.

Expected to be in Scotland for 2007 Single Speed World Championship

[edit] External links

• Jacquie's Page on the MTB Hall of Fame
• WOMBAT's Home Page
• 2003 Interview on Metro Active
• Bio on Hardi Hood
• Photos from the 80s on mountainbikeroots.com
• Some of Jacqui's writing about biking on bikereader.com