Joey Bradford

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Joey Bradford
Personal information
Full name Joseph Bradford
Date of birth October 10, 1989 (1989-10-10) (age 18)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.75m (5'8" Imperial)
Weight 75kg (175lbs. Imperial)
Team information
Current team GT Bicycles
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1999
1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2002-2003
2003-2004
2005
2005		 Haynes BMX
No Fear Racing
Kovachi Wheels
Fox/Specialized/Mt. Dew
Staats Bicycles
Avent/Bomshell
Hyundai/Mongoose
GT Bicycles
Professional team(s)
2006-Present GT Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
July 23, 2007

Joseph Bradford (b. October 10, 1989 in Monterey, California USA) 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".

Contents

[edit] BMX racing career

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

Started Racing: July 13, 1997 at the age of seven.

Sanctioning Body:

First race bike: GT Mach One.[1]

First race result: Third Place in seven novice

First win (local): Early August 1997 in his third time racing in seven novice.

First sponsor:

First national win:

Turned Professional: December 2006 at age 17.

First Professional/Junior Men race result: Came in 5th in the semis and did not make "A" pro main of the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Silver Dollar Nationals in Reno, Nevada on January 6, 2007. He came in second place the next day.[2]

First Professional win: In Junior Men at the National Bicycle League (NBL) Lake Meed Nationals in Boulder City, Nevada on February 24, 2007 (Day1).[3]

First Junior Men/Pro* race result: See "First Professional race result".

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 her career (2006): Ht:5'8" Wt:175lbs. (1.75m 75kg).

*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

  • 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.

[edit] Professional

  • GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: December 20, 2005-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)

  • 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 Natioanl 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

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (Defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (Defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (Defunct)

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

*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)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (Defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (Defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (Defunct)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling 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

Pro Series Championships

[edit] BMX Product Lines

  • 2006 Fly Joey Bradford Signature Series Bars.

[edit] Notable accolades

[edit] Significant injuries

  • Dislocated shoulder in a crash during the main at the 2006 UCI World Championships in Holland.[4]
  • 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, Arizona on March 25, 2007.[5]

[edit] Peccadilloes

[edit] Video

[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 (defunct)

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None (defunct)

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX

  • None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

  • None (defunct)

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Twenty BMX:

BMX World:

Moto Mag:

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

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

[edit] BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles

  • "Background Check: Joey Bradford" Transworld BMX July 2004 Vol.11 Iss.7 No.93 pg.86

[edit] Miscellaneous & Trivia

[edit] 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 Tomac, Tinker Juarez started MTB racing after their BMX careers. Pete Loncarevich, Eric Carter, Bas de Bever, Corine Dorland and Dale Holmes started their MTB careers during the one or two twilight years of BMX racing. Among the exceptions is Wade Bootes 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.

[edit] Mountain Bike career

Started racing: 2003

Sub Discipline: 4 Cross Downhil

First race result:

Sanctioning body:

Retired:

[edit] Career MTB factory and major Non-factory sponsors

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

Mountain Bike Racing (MTB)
Personal information
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.75m (5'8" Imperial)
Weight 75kg (175lbs. Imperial)
Team information
Current team GT Bicycles
Discipline 4X Downhill
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Infobox last updated on:
July 17, 2007

[edit] 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.

[edit] Professional

[edit] Career Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) titles

Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.

[edit] Amateur

  • 2003,'04,'05,'06 Sea Otter Classic 4cross Champion

[edit] Professional

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)

National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)

USA Cycling

[edit] Notable MTB accolades

[edit] MTB Product Lines

[edit] Significant MTB injuries

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ sarahwalker96.com 2006 interview.
  2. ^ GT/Pacific cycle news of their sponsored riders.
  3. ^ NBL Lake Meed Nationals results.
  4. ^ sarahwalker96.com 2006 interview.
  5. ^ joeybradford.com News section.

[edit] External links