Foretelling Of A Prophecy

The U.S. currently has six BMX dual-hill Supertracks, with a seventh currently being built in Houston (which will host next year’s UCI Worlds). Almost all of them have been City-funded and have 8 meter Olympic start hills. Another thing they all have in common is they were designed by the same architect - a BMX dad, former Pro skater, ex-MMA fighter, and current racer and purveyor of Prophecy frames. Mike McIntyre, president of Architectual firm Action Sport Designs, is the Man who draws up the plans, and he has a pretty amazing story of how he got there.

MR.T HIGH SCHOOL

Mike McIntyre grew up in Palo Alto, California - and actually went to school with BMX Hall of Famer Terry Tenette.

McINTYRE: “I was a CA-15 racer. Hellyard Park downhill was short-lived, but I raced there. Raced Moffett Field a lot, and Hill Country BMX in Morgan Hill. In school, there was a kid in my class named Terry Tenette. He was the one who introduced me to BMX. In fact, his dad and my dad worked for the same company. The last National race for me was the 1984 Hutch Spring Nationals - at the Cow Palace. Then skateboarding kind of took over my life. Cars and girls came along, so BMX kind of faded out of my life. My first bike was a Redline squareback, but then I rode a Patterson from then on.”

SKATIN’ TO SCHOOLIN’

McINTYRE: “Right after high school, I was riding skateboards fulltime. Rode for Santa Cruz. There was no money, though, in professional skateboarding at the time - vert. So I ended up at CalPoly School of Architecture, undergrad, and thought - how cool would it be to turn my passion of BMX and skateboarding into designing recreation facilities.”

COMING FULL CIRCLE