Eddy Kingis the elder sibling of the back-in-the-day brothers combo of Mike & Eddy King, known to an entire generations of snotty-nosed groms (now grown up to be snotty-nosed adults, just like us) as “King Edward,” The “Silver Bullet,” “Eddy the King” and of course, part of ”The Dynamic Duo,” a title he shared with fellow Diamondback legend Harry Leary.
Nowadays Eddy’s a successful San Diego real estate broker, flipping $2 million homes like the rest of us turned burgers at Jack-In-The-Box throughout high school. Heck, some of us still do. But Eddy is racing BMX again and—even better—doing it in Exustar shoes.
It’s great to have another escuela vieja BMX champ (along with Tinker, of course) running our gear.
As old farts like Commodore Bill will recall, Eddy was particularly dominant as an amateur, winning most of his racing titles at that stage of his career. He went on to be a respected professional for the remaining six years of his 14 year career…all 14 of them with the Diamondback brand.
But that, as they say, was Then. And now he’s with us. We think that’s pretty darned cool.
Q Cycle is proud to welcome the Adageo Energy Pro Cycling Team to the family of Exustar-sponsored athletes. The team will ride on Exustar shoes, pedals, and helmets, plus what Commodore Bill describes as “assorted goodies”– cages, bags, etc. Other notable equipment sponsors include Leopard carbon framests, Pactimo apparel, American Classic wheelsets, and eyewear from Smith Optics.
The 2010 Adageo Energy roster features a mix of American and international talent that includes Australian Cody Stevenson (winner of Stage 1 of the 2009 Tour of Wellington), American Tommy Nelson (stage winner at the Southern Nevada Stage Race), Swiss national (U23) team member Tobias Eggli and accomplished American track talents Bennet van der Genugten and Danny Finneran.
Take a close look at recent pictures of offroad superstar, nice guy, and all-around paragon of testicular fortitude Tinker Juarez, and you’ll notice he’s using Exustar gloves, hydration pack, and bottle cages.
Just goes to show Tinker knows a good thing when he sees it, and he gets to see these things long before they’re introduced to the rest of us.
The T-man recently premiered Exustar products while en route to victory in what we pinche gabachoscabrones know as the Peru Stage Race and Peruvians like to call El Reto de los Misioneros, which means…well, you figure it out. Basically it’s like a 140k, 3-day version of La Ruta de Los Conquistadores, but, you know, in Peru…where the air is even thinner and the climbs are, if anything, even steeper.
Or, as he modestly puts it in his highly recommended Tinker’s Cycling And News Blog, “Peru is amazing. The people are wonderful, the place is beautiful, and the whole experience of being there and contributing and giving back to the sport is fulfilling. What an awesome experience it is to go to a country that steps you back in time where the people have the biggest hearts and care about you being there. Gosh – the entire town came out to the events!! We were rock stars for a few days and did our best to return the sentiment!...It was a long trip to the track but it was a great experience. Oh – and I won.”
Whatever, Dude.
I guess when you’re Tinker, winning a 3-day death march through snake-infested Andean jungles that other riders, according to MountainBike.com describe as “way harder than Leadville,” by twelve freakin’ minutes is, well, just another day at the office. But for the rest of us—who might brag about being first up anything higher than a praire dog mound (and you know who you are)—well, the word epic hardly does it—or Tinker—justice.
Let’s face it, the man just plain rocks. And we’re proud to have him on Exustar equipment.
BTW1:This amazing photography is courtesy of a talented Chilean shooter we know only a Danny (or Dani, en español). He’s got almost 200 more ’09 Reto images (!) on his site, http://rideordie.cl. Nice work, ya think?
BTW2: If you want to know more about the awesome sauce that is El Reto de los Misioneros, peep dese below. They’re from the 2008 edition, so there’s not as much Tinker to be found (he took either 6th or 7th, I forget) , but still pretty interesting. And not just because Peruvian podium girls make Le Tour’s look like a mid-60′s Soviet Bloc women’s shotput team.
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Eddy King is the elder sibling of the back-in-the-day brothers combo of Mike & Eddy King, known to an entire generations of snotty-nosed groms (now grown up to be snotty-nosed adults, just like us) as “King Edward,” The “Silver Bullet,” “Eddy the King” and of course, part of ”The Dynamic Duo,” a title he shared with fellow Diamondback legend Harry Leary.
It’s great to have another escuela vieja BMX champ (along with Tinker, of course) running our gear.
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