Donny Robinson

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Donald Robinson
Personal information
Full name Donald Robinson
Nickname "Scrawny" "dR"
Date of birth June 17, 1983 (1983-30-17) (age 24)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.65m (5' 5" Imperial)
Weight 68kg (150lbs. Imperial)
Team information
Current team Hyper Bicycles
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1989-1991
1992-1994
1994-1995
1995-2001		 USA Wheel Sports
CFC Racing
Hyper Bicycles
Powerlite Industries
Professional team(s)
1995-2001
2001-2002
2002-2004
2004
2004-2005
2006-2007
2008
2008-		 Powerlite Industries
Fly Racing/Staats Bicycles
Factory Phantom/Avent/Fly
Avent/Bombshell/Fly Racing
Hyper Bicycles
Formula Bicycle Company
Hewlett-Packard/AT&T
Hyper Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
June 6, 2008

Donald Robinson (b. June 17, 1983 in Napa, California U.S.) is an American professional "New/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1999 to the present. His moniker is "dR", his initials. The use of the lowercase "d" for his given name is perhaps due to his relatively diminutive physical size. A past nickname, "Scrawny", was definitely linked to his small stature even as a small child since he was the smallest child in his age class. It was given to him by Bruce Minton.[1]

Contents

[edit] Racing career

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Started Racing: Age five at the Napa Valley BMX track in the summer of 1989 when a friend took him to the track.[2]

First race bicycle: U.S.Boss.[3]

First race result: First place.[4]

Sanctioning Body: American Bicycle Association (ABA)

First win (local): See "First race result"

First sponsor: USA Wheel Sports 1989.[5]

First national win:

Turned Professional: December 2001 at age 18.

First Professional race result: First Place in a local race at the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) Abbotsford Indoor BMX track in Abbotsford, British Columbia Canada on December 8, 2001.[6]

First Professional win: See above.

First Junior Pro* race result: See above.

First Junior Pro win: See above

First Senior Pro** race result:

First Senior Pro win: In "AA" on August 31, 2003 at the American Bicycle Association's (ABA) Blackjack nationals in Reno, Nevada.

Retired: Still active.

Height & weight at height of her career: Ht:5'5" Wt:150lbs.

*In the NBL "B" Pro/Super Class/"A" Pro/Junior Elite Men depending on the era; in the ABA it is "A" Pro.

**In the NBL it is "AA" Pro/Elite Men; in the ABA it is "AA" Pro.

[edit] Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.

[edit] Amateur

  • USA Wheel Sports: 1989-1991
  • CFC Racing: 1992-December 1994
  • Hyper Bicycles: December 1994-Late 1995
  • Powerlite Industries: Late 1995-December 2001 Robinson turned pro with this sponsor.

[edit] Professional

  • Powerlite Industries: Late 1995-December 2001
  • Fly Racing/Staats Bicycles: December 2001-December 2002
  • Factory Phantom/Avent Cycles/Fly Racing: December 2002-2004
  • Avent/Bombshell/Fly Racing: 2004
  • Hyper Bicycles: 2004-December 2005
  • Formula Bicycle Company/HP: February 2006-December 2007.
  • Hewlett-Packard/AT&T: January 2008-March 23, 2008
  • Hyper Bicycles: March 24, 2008[7]-Present.

[edit] Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

[edit] Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 1996 13 Expert NAG No.1

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1993 California District 4 (CA-04) No.1
  • 1994 11 Boys Northern California State Champion
  • 1995 12 Expert World Cup Champion
  • 1996 13 Expert National Age Group (NAG) No.1
  • 1996 13 Expert Grandnational Champion
  • 1997 14 Expert NAG No.1
  • 1998 15 Expert Race of Champions (ROC) champion.
  • 1998 15 Expert NAG No.1
  • 1999 16 Expert NAG No.1
  • 1999 16 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
  • 2000 17 Expert NAG No.1
  • 2001 18 Expert World Cup Champion
  • 2001 18 Expert NAG No.1

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2001 Junior Men & Junior Cruiser World Champion

*See Professional section.
USA Cycling

  • None (USA Cycling's BMX program did not exist prior to 2007).

[edit] Professional

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 2005 National No.1 Pro Cruiser
  • 2006 National No.1 Pro

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 2003 Pro Cruiser Grandnational Champion
  • 2004 World Cup Pro Time-Trial Champion.
  • 2006 National No.1 Pro Cruiser

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct. FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence).

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2006 UCI/NBL North American Champion
  • 2006 Supercross World Cup Elite Men's Champion
  • 2006 Elite Men's Cruiser World Champion

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
USA Cycling

  • 2007 Elite Men National No.1 Pro†

†This is USA Cycling's inaugrual national title award as a sanctioning body in the discipline of Bicycle Motocross. Robinson won the Elite Men's title on June 9, 2007 in Waterford Oaks, Michigan. Krystal Hime won for Elite women.[8]This Championship was held under UCI rules and skill classifications as opposed to the UCI affiliated and USA Cycling owned NBL.[9]
Independent Pro Series Championships and Invitational Races

  • 2006 International BMX Championships “Summer Festival”† Champion.

†This race is in tribute to the memory of the Late Mario Soto held every year in his home town of Bogotá, Colombia called International BMX Championships “Summer Festival”. It is a professionals only invitational race in which top pros are invitated to participate. The first of this annual two day event was held in 2003.

[edit] BMX Product Lines

  • "dR" Signature Series FLY Racing "Powercurve" Handlebars (2002-2007)[10]
  • "dR" Signature Series Avent Complete bicycles (2004 & 2005)

[edit] Notable accolades

  • In 1996 he was named as one of "The 10 Hottest Amateurs" and future top Pro BMXers by BMX Plus![11]
  • He is a winner of the 2006 RideBMX Number One Rider Award (NORA)[12]
  • He won the 2006 BMXer Golden Crank Pro of the Year award.[13]

[edit] Significant injuries

  • Broke thumb at the 1997 ABA Fallnationals (Day 1) in late October 1997 He was laid up for approximately eight weeks.[14]
  • Crashed hard hard enough to bruise two ribs and split his helmet apart during his 15 Expert quarter finals at the 1999 ABA Spring Nationals in Santa Clara, California.[15]
  • Partualy separated ACL in his shoulder early in 2002.[16]
  • Dislocated his right wrist and broke his left thumb in April 2002 at the ABA U.S Nationals in Tulare, California. He needed surgery to fix the ligaments in his wrist.[17][18] He was laid up for six months. His first race back was the ABA Grandnational on November 30, 2002 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[19]

[edit] Peccadilloes

[edit] Post BMX career

[edit] BMX magazine covers

Note: (defunct) denotes that the magazine was out of business before the career of the racer started.

Bicycle Motocross News:

  • None (defunct)

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

  • None

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX:

  • None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

  • None (defunct)

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Twenty BMX:

Moto Mag:

  • None

BMX World:

NBA World & NBmxA World (The official NBA/NBmxA membership publication):

  • None (defunct)

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

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

USBA Racer (The official USBA membership publication):

  • None (defunct)

[edit] BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles

  • "1993 District Number Ones" American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51 One of many mini biographes of the ABA district champions of 1993.
  • "The Fabulous Five" Snap BMX Magazine May 2001 Vol.8 Iss.5 No.55 pg.63 One of five short articles with five racers including Bubba Harris, Ian Stoffel, Brandon Nicholls, and Clint Gower.
  • "Beijing Bound" The Napa Valley Register September 14, 2007
  • "Small man, big plan: American Donny Robinson has eyes on BMX gold" Associated Press, USA Today December 25, 2007.

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51
  2. ^ Sponsorhouse.com profile under "How I got started".
  3. ^ American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51
  4. ^ American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51
  5. ^ American BMXer October 1994 Vol.16 Iss.9 pg.51
  6. ^ bmxtreme article. Word search for "Abbotsford" (without quotation marks).
  7. ^ March 25, 2008 BMXNews.com press release
  8. ^ Article of Robinson's win of USA Cycling's first BMX national No.1 award
  9. ^ BMX News article on the subject.
  10. ^ Transworld BMX November 2002 Vol.9 Iss.11 No.73 pg.27
  11. ^ BMX Plus! December 1996 Vol.19 No.12 pg.77
  12. ^ Sponsorhouse image of Donny Robinson's acceptance speech of the NORA Cup.
  13. ^ bmxtra.com News article.
  14. ^ Snap January/February 1998 Vol.5 Iss.1 No.20 pg.37
  15. ^ Snap BMX Magazine September 1999 Vol.7 Iss.6 No.35 pg.66
  16. ^ Transworld BMX August 2002 Vol.9 Iss.8 No.70
  17. ^ Transworld BMX August 2002 Vol.9 Iss.8 No.70
  18. ^ EXPN.com bio profile.
  19. ^ Moto Mag January/February Vol.2 No.3 pg.18

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