Post BMX Career
- His immediate path after his retirement from completive racing after the 1983 racing season, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and took a position with Murray Ohio as the Murray Race Team coordinator and its in-house BMX specialist. His $35,000 a year position was responsible for both the Road and BMX racing teams. He was also the Race Coordinator of the then-annual Murray World Cup races. In 1985 he quit Murray and went to work for Lee World. He then joined Mor Distributing which manufactured the then-popular Scootster scooter. He also still had his famous fork manufacturing company.
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