Jacquie Phelan

Jacquie Phelan

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 [http://www.wombats.org/ 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.

External links

* [http://www.jacquiephelan.com/ Her blog at jacquiephelan.com] also [http://phelanfood.wordpress.com/ Her new blog about food]
* [http://www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/inductees.cfm?page=99&mID=21 Jacquie's Page on the MTB Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.wombats.org/ WOMBAT's Home Page]
* [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.31.03/talk-pix-0331.html 2003 Interview on Metro Active]
* [http://www.hardihood.com/bios_jacquiep.html Bio on Hardi Hood]
* [http://www.mountainbikeroots.com/people/jacquie_phelan.php Photos from the 80s] on [http://www.mountainbikeroots.com mountainbikeroots.com]
* [http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/Phelan/phelan.html Some of Jacqui's writing about biking] on [http://www.bikereader.com bikereader.com]
* [http://www.cunninghambikes.com/people/jacquie-phelan/jacquie-phelan.html "A brief autobiography"]


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