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Bob Haro is a former freestyle BMX rider turned artist and business executive. He was born in Pasadena, California on June 29 1958.

He began biking in his high school sophomore year when he ran out of money riding dirt bikes. His father bought him a Honda 100 and he stripped the bike down to compete in motorcycle races. He won over 50 dirt biking trophies by 1975.

Around 1976, he got into BMX biking by racing his brother’s bike out behind a bike shop in San Diego. After moving to Stockton, California as a result of his parents divorce, Bob really got started racing and riding for a sponsor for Malona’s Bike Shop. He was the first in that town to perform many of the common tricks.

In 1978, Haro teamed up with R.L. Osborn to form the very first freestyle BMX team, which made its debut at ABA’s Winternationals in Chandler, AZ.

In 1981 Bob Haro and Bob Morales traveled on tour together performing shows all over the Midwest, Eastern United States, and parts of Canada to enthusiastic crowds. Also, in 1981, Haro was involved in the Steven Spielberg production of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as a stunt rider.

He stopped riding in 1985 after four knee surgeries and, in 1987, he was inducted in to the American Bicycle Association Hall Of Fame. He founded his own company, Haro Designs Inc., to design and market BMX bike components but he quit this company around 1991.

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