Local Legends - Episode 9 with Leeann Folse
Honored to interview Leeann. She has a rich history, experience and knowledge of bikes and racing. Leeann raced as a professional downhill racer in the mid 1990s at national and world level representing USA in 1994. She also was a team manager to many race teams including Yeti, 3D, Barracuda, and Stratos overseeing racers such as Juli Furtado, John Tomac, and Johnny O'Mara. She continues to ride her bike competitively, is a NICA Level 3 coach and lives with her teenage daughter and husband, Dee, in Vista, CA.
In this interview, we discuss
- her history of riding and how she got started into racing
- about her first bike in the late 80s
- what it entails to be a team manager to Professional racers and having led the best amateur team.
- the changes she experienced with bikes and gear including wearing men's clothing (because there was no women's bike wear), helmets, suspension, and more.
- racing and training as a mom
In this interview, there were lots of names mentioned. If you are curious who they were here is a cheat sheet of some of those athletes.
- Juli Furtado - Yeti, 1990 world champion - road and mountain
- Missy Giove - Yeti, junior 1990 DH Champ
- Joey Erwin - Yeti , 1990 junior DH Champ
- John Tomac - Yeti
- Jim Deaton - Yeti
- Shawn March - Stratos Team (1st black american to win world cup)
- Waylen Smith - Stratus Team
- Eric Carter - Barracuda Team - Vail Lake (trail work, NICA)
- Nikki Peterson (NICA coach)
- Carrie Hammond (NICA coach)
- Jill Cedarholm-Mairs - KUHL
- John Parker, Yeti owner
- Steve Boehmke, Shimano
- Chris Herting - head R&D at Yeti (first husband)
- Johnny O’Mara - Barracuda
- Dermot Carroll - 3D
- Brian Miller - road cyclist transferred to mtb on 3D team
- Dorothy Pacheco - in charge in NORBA
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