CHUMBA Racing

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CHUMBA Racing, inc.
Type Private
Industry Bicycles
Founded1993;29 years ago (1993)
Headquarters Anaheim, California
ProductsBicycle and Related Components

CHUMBA Racing is a manufacturer of recreational and competition mountain bikes located in Anaheim, CA.

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History

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

Notable CHUMBA Racers

The CHUMBA Racing Team has fielded several notable mountain bikers including:

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  2. 1 2 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 ]
  3. ↑ "Arquivo.pt".
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2010-04-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ http://www.mtbr.com/cat/bikes/allmtn-full-suspension/chumba-racing/evo/PRD_412746_1547crx.aspx
  6. ↑ http://www.mtbr.com/mfr/chumba-racing/MPR_2822crx.aspx
  7. ↑ "Lars Tribus CHUMBA F5 Video Part 2 Video - Pinkbike".
  8. ↑ http://www.declinemagazine.com/Nucleus/index.php?itemid=3106%5B%5D
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  11. ↑ http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=258323
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