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 woman to take mountain bike racing seriously, and first American to race abroad, and won many national and world championships between 1983 and 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 which he founded with framebuilder Steve Potts and Mark Slate. In 2001 Potts and Cunningham left the company.
[edit] External links
- Her blog at jacquiephelan.com also Her new blog about food
- 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
- "A brief autobiography"
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