CHUMBA Racing, inc.
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| Industry | Bicycles |
| Founded 📆 | 1993 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Anaheim, California |
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| Products 📟 | Bicycle and Related Components |
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CHUMBA Racing is a manufacturer of recreational and competition mountain bikes located in Anaheim, CA.
History[edit]
The company was founded in 1993 by Ted Tanouye, who went to USC and graduated with an accounting degree. His father, Bill Tanouye, is an aerospace engineer. Ted started designing and prototyping in his parents' garage in Santa Barbara, Ca., and later owned a bike shop named the Bike Beat. At his bike shop, he sold mountain bikes and mountain biking gear. He then began manufacturing frames in his shop. Ted sold his bike shop location and moved into another location in Anaheim, Ca. Ted still had a small mountain biking gear shop in the front of the business and a manufacturing facility in the back. Ted and CHUMBA first achieved fame with the production of the CHUMBA Zulu, an award-winning downhill bike.[1][2]
CHUMBA later went on to produce trail bikes, applying techniques and design philosophies borrowed from Ted's downhill designs, such as "slack geometry" (the angles between tubes in the frame are slack as opposed to steep), lateral stiffness in the frame, and a fully active suspension. This resulted in the company's first trail bike, the "XCL", which was praised by Mountain Bike Action[3] saying it "could turn circles around any bikes out there" with "razor-sharp handling".[4] CHUMBA soon thereafter introduced the celebrated EVO which, widely derided for poor aesthetics, nevertheless went on to receive one of the highest user ratings on MTBR.com, including the "MTBR Best Of" Award.[5][6]
CHUMBA Models[edit]
- CHUMBA Zulu
- XCL
- EVO
- EVO G2
- F4
- F5
- VF2
- HX1
- HX2
Notable CHUMBA Racers[edit]
The CHUMBA Racing Team has fielded several notable mountain bikers including:
- Lars Tribus - 2008 Masters World Championship Silver Medalist, 2003 Masters World Champion[7]
- Lisa Sher 2002 NORBA National DH Champion[2]
- Duncan Riffle - 2004 NORBA National DH Champion[8]
- "Pistol Pete" Loncarevich - 1999 Worlds Master DH Champion, 1998 World Cup Dual 1st Place, most wins out of any BMX racer in history[9]
- Shaums March - 2003 Redbull Rampage 4th place, 2004 Redbull Bike Battle 3rd place[10]
- Jake Payne - 2008 NORBA Junior X 3rd Overall[11][12]
- Taylor Borucki[13]
- Dakota Dulmage[14]
References[edit]
- ↑ "ThrowbackThursday: Rob Bauer's 2001 Chumba Wumba Zulu". vitalmtb.com. November 15, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.downhillnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=355:chumba-wumba-celebrating-16-years-of-racing&catid=1:industry-news&Itemid=27[dead link]
- ↑ "Arquivo.pt".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2010-04-09. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) - ↑ http://www.mtbr.com/cat/bikes/allmtn-full-suspension/chumba-racing/evo/PRD_412746_1547crx.aspx
- ↑ http://www.mtbr.com/mfr/chumba-racing/MPR_2822crx.aspx
- ↑ "Lars Tribus CHUMBA F5 Video Part 2 Video - Pinkbike".
- ↑ http://www.declinemagazine.com/Nucleus/index.php?itemid=3106[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2010-04-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-04-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) - ↑ http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=258323
- ↑ "Chumba Racing interview Jake Payne".
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7MgFkp_-D8
- ↑ "Chumba Racing F5 Video - Pinkbike".
External links[edit]
- CHUMBA Racing Homepage Archived 2018-12-26 at the Wayback Machine
- CHUMBA Racing Blog
- Customer Reviews of CHUMBA Bikes
- CHUMBA Video
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