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early years Scott Clark, bmxmuseum.com: Chuck Robinson started Robinson in the mid to late 70's. He had worked for DG, Webco and LRV. Chuck decided to start his own brand of bike after marketing and building those other brands. I was his first PRO rider, later he added Bobby Woods. Chuck always had his bikes fabricated by third party sources. He was under funded and was never able to run full time ads in the magazines. He did what he could on the budget he had. Chuck was a big promoter of the sport of BMX and did an excellent job in taking things to another level. In the early days he made smaller frames for the younger kids and then went into production of larger bikes within a year or so. I have a couple of catalogs from the late 70's with the product listings. In the 1980 catalog he had two larger frames they were called the "Pro Series" One had an American BB and it was the "Bobby Woods" Signature model. The other "Pro Series" frame had a European BB and it was the "Scott Clark" Signature model. He also had a mid sized frame called the "Amateur Series" all with American BB's. There was also an "Amateur" "Small Size" frame. In addition to the
frames there were two model of forks "Full Size" and "Small Size", Two handle bar models "Pro Bars" and "Expert Bars". As for soft wear... he sold Stickers, Hats, T-Shirts, Racing Pants, Gloves, Jackets, Gear Bags, Jerseys and Pad Sets. In 1980 the "National Factory" team consisted of Pro's Scott Clark and Bobby Woods. The amateurs were Duane Ballenger 13expert Norwalk, CA , Gary Renteria 11expert Irvine, CA , Rory Ingano 18 Expert and from Honolulu HI , and finally Mark Wegener 18expert from Atlanta, GA The Support team was: Dave Hilton 16 Pro Portland, OR, Don Johle 15expert Dallas, TX, Scott Robbins 15expert Atlanta, GA and finally some rider by the name of Gary Ellis 14expert Tacoma, WA...(by the way ask Gary who taught him to iron his clothes on summer tour...not his mom...I did...lol) Chuck actually caught wind of the Murray deal and helped get me on the team. Due to his under funding he was having a hard time getting us to all the races. He was a terrific person and always looked out for his riders. Even if it meant letting them go for a better deal. Later after the Murray deal faded I had my own company "SCP" I sold pad sets, T-shirts and race pants. I rode Chuck's bikes and co sponsored the team with my racing pants. I traveled to England in the mid 80's and did a promo tour for a month promoting Robinson and SCP. After I retired from BMX to race Speedway Motorcycles Chuck began having his product line manufactured by GT ( who at the time was making many of the BMX bikes on the market ) Chuck ran into financial troubles and GT acquired Robinson at that time. Chuck went to work for GT and did promotion work for them as well as heading up the "South American" sales because he spoke Spanish as well as other languages. Chuck was not happy at GT, in particular with Rich Long. Chuck came to me looking for a job (I was running an aquarium manufacturing plant in L.A.) I didn't have anything for him. We kept in touch and I had him over my house for BBQ's, Shooting Pool etc... One such day we BBQ'd , shot some pool and planned to go to a baseball game later in the week. Chuck went home around 10:00 pm, I called two days later and learned he had passed away that night around 12:00. He was a terrific man, did a ton for the sport of BMX and is truly one of the "unsung" hero's of our sport.
1996 1996 Robinson catalog. 1996 robinson catalog
Robinson team
Scott Clark
Gary Ellis
Bobby Woods