Scot Breithaupt

Scot Breithaupt, born on July 14, 1957 and deceased in 2015, was an entrepreneur and an old school professional motorcycle motocross and bicycle motocross racer, whose prime competitive years ran from 1970 to 1984. He is often called the founding father of BMX: on November 14, 1970 he organized what was called Pedal-Cross on a vacant lot in Long Beach, California, and he went on to found the Bicycle United Motocross Society, arguably the first sanctioning body of any kind in the sport. He brought rulebooks, a points system, skill levels, a racing season and trophies to races, and he produced the first California State Championships in 1972.