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Dale Racing (1982 - 1985)

12.13.2009...Hey, Pete Dale from Dale Racing here.

http://files.me.com/peterwdale/ems6pi

Yes, we were at the Nationals at North Park in 1983.  Our best team finish was Tommy Hartman, who won the 12 Expert class.

There were 50 framesets made, a few in Black and the rest in Chrome.  CW Racing produced my production framesets, another company (I forget the name now) did my 2 prototypes.  (The one in the pic in the writeup from BMX Action was my second proto.)

I graduated from high school in 1985 and shut the company down to head off to college.

When I started the company in like 1982, the market was pretty wide open, but by the time I got into production, the market started getting pretty crowded, and it would have taken a lot of capital to get it going on a national level.  ($3000 per month for a full color ad in BMX Action, a lot of money at the age of 16!)

Sure was fun to have a company when I was a teenager, and I used the proceeds to help fund the travel costs for racing.  I really liked the handling of the production bike as well!

The only reason I found this post was because my 14-year-old daughter Googled Dale Racing, pretty cool of her to do.  She rides my original bike from the 80's, I still have it and it is in working order...