Address: 1966 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax, CA 94930 - The Museum is open 11am - 5pm, Thursday through Sunday.

Jimmy Deaton

Jimmy Deaton

Jimmy began competing in the early 1980’s. Deaton raced in all six Whiskytown Races (81-86), in the Annual Rockhopper (82-90), all the Norba Nationals and the National Series Race World Championships in 1987, ’88, ’90 and ’91. Jimmy won many downhill races including Repacks in 1983 & 1984, Crested Butte 1984 and he was the World Downhill Champion in 1988.

Comments

Explore Other Inductees

Rebecca Rusch

Rebecca Rusch, recognized by Outside Magazine among the Top 40 Women Who’ve Made the Biggest Impact, and by Men’s Journal with the 25 Most Adventurous Women in the Past 25 Years, she’s one of the boldest, kindest, most determined champions ...

First Fat-tire Custom Built Bike Regularly Available

1979 Ritchey/MountainBikes. In 1979 Tom Ritchey of Redwood City, California (50 miles south of Marin) started building ... ...

Hill Abell

Hill Abell has been riding mountain bikes since 1984 and found so much joy doing it that in 1985 he bought Bicycle Sport Shop, a mountain bike specialty shop in Austin, TX so he could share his passion for mountain ...

Tom Mayer

Web Site: www.abundantadventures.com Tom Mayer began riding dirt trails in his 20 acre backyard in 1959. It wasn’t until 1963 that desire to explore made him seriously begin riding the back-country trails near Durango, Co. At the time, the widest ...

Robert Gregorio

“Bicycle Bob” Gregorio I first met Bob in 1979 at the Four Faces bike shop in Durango, Colorado. At that time I was a student at FLC and an aspiring roadie. Bob and a fellow named Forrest Yelverton, who would ...

Dave House

A thirty-year veteran of the bike industry, Dave first started Super BMX magazine in 1980. By 1986 Dave noticed a growing population of mountain bikers and felt a need to give them a publication of their own. Mountain Biking magazine ...