Redline Bicycles

The phone rings. It's BMX ACTION magazine. They inform Redline that they've swept the NORA Cup Awards winning Best Rider (Stu Thomsen) and Best Team of the year.

Redline signs-up Greg Grubbs; the fastest BMXer to ever come from Nebraska.

 Missouri: Joining in on the current cruiser craze, Jeff Kosmala shows up on the first prototype PL-24, and proceeds to kick some bootie. The BMX World drools heavily.

Redline picks up the Ragin' Cajun; some unknown, softspoken dude from Louisiana named D.D. Leone.

Stu makes it 2 in a row for NBL; the first pro to ever do so.

 A Jumping Contest at a BMX national? It was, but not as we know it today. In the "How-far-can-you-launch into-a-sand-pit off-a-2-foot-wooden-ramp?" contest, Redline's Jeff Kosmala wins with a distance of 31 feet, 11 inches.

 By the year's end, Grubbs has won two Pro mains and three Pro Trophies (Opens). However, Redline still drops him for being "a bit too punk rock" for Redline's pristine image.