Bobby Encinas
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Bobby Encinas |
| Born | 1961 Canoga Park, California, United States |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Bicycle Motocross (BMX) |
| Role | Racer/Promoter/Teaching Professional |
| Rider type | Off Road |
| Amateur teams | |
| 1973-1974 | Pedaler's West Bike Shop |
| 1974-1975 | Kawasaki Motors |
| 1975 | Rick's Bike Shop |
| 1975-1977 | Shimano Sales Corporation |
| Professional teams | |
| 1977-1981 | Shimano Sales Corporation |
| 1982-1983 | Scorpion BMX |
| 1983- | Larry Wilcox Actionline |
Bobby Encinas (born 1961 in Canoga Park, California) is a former professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1973 to 1980. He was one of the first superstars in BMX and one of its most savvy promoters. Raised in the barrio of Canoga Park, he had a juvenile criminal record for theft and was on probation for consuming alcohol and drugs before he was 12 years old. He credits BMX for saving him from a life of crime. As a result he devoted much of his BMX career and after to promoting the sport at the grass-roots level, training kids in his BMX clinics, of which he was a pioneer, and launching future BMX careers and winning the respect and love of the BMX world.