Jacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan (born December 10, 1955, San Francisco, California) was the NORBA Champion three consecutive years - 1983, 1984, and 1985. Her nickname of Alice B. Toeclips is an homage to Alice B. Toklas. Jacquie is known through the US mountain bike racing community for being outspoken, riding drop bars off road and her polka dotted tights. She is also an accomplished road and cyclocross racer.
Jacquie is married to inventor Charlie Cunningham, the pioneering bicycle framebuilder whose aluminum bikes and patented brakes helped Phelan to race unbeaten for six years. Her bike build by Charlie, named Otto, was raced nine consecutive seasons, a testimony to the durability of the Charlie's heat treated aluminium frames. Frames made of heat-treated aluminium often drew criticism from traditional framebuilders who believed durable frames had to be made of steel.
She was a charter inductee into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1988 and 2000 was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame. Along with a dozen others, Phelan co-founded NORBA in 1982, and was a charter member of IMBA. Phelan founded the Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS) in 1987 to encourage women's and girls' participation, and produced the sport's earliest skills camps, dubbed Fat Tire Finishing School.
Phelan was one of the first US female mountain bikers to race abroad (Man v. Horse, Wales). As recently as 2004 she placed 8th overall in the Transportugal, a 1300 km offroad adventure race, where she was the only woman. Phelan is still invited to participate in offroad races both stateside and abroad. She competed successfully in the 42ride, a 4,200 mile supported crossing of the USA by road bike in summer 2009, helping to raise money for the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking.
Phelan appears in three documentary films: Full Cycle: A World Odyssey (1994), How To Cook Your Life (Doris Doerrie's film about Zen baker Edward Espe Brown, 2007), and Billy Savage's Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes, 2007.