Victor Vincente of America
Years Of Experience
Cycling Races
Wins
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RACES
Victor Vincente of America has published various bibliographies on his self and has had many published about him. He also has a variety of skills that include coin printing and designing, graphic design, and font creation.
1964 TOKYO OLYMPICS INDIVIDUAL ROAD RACE
1959 LAKE SHERWOOD, CA RACE
1959 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IGRANDE PRIX
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TIMELINE
TIMELINE
Born March 7, 1941.
Started racing at age 16.
First ever trophy.
1957
Southern California junior road champion.
1958
All-California road champion.
Hiltner in the lead, followed by Tom Sparks at Lake Sherwood.
Southern California Grand Prix Champ.
U.S. Pan American Games team, Chicago.
Victory at the Tour du St. Laurent, Canada.
Eloi extra in "The Time Machine".
Posing with Yvette Mimieux.
Olympic year early-season racing.
Under the strong influence of Lars Zebroski.
1960
Victory with Lars Zebroski at Olympic Trials, 100 km. TT. Central Park, New York.
Victory at the Tour of Somerville, NJ.
Victory at Flemington, NJ.
U.S. Olympic team. 11th place 100 km. TTT. Rome, Italy.
G.S. Lastrense-Gizac amateur team.
Florence, Italy.
Victory in 4 road races. Tuscany, Italy.
Designed SMCC jersies. Paragon bicycle built by Lars Zebroski
Victory at Santa Monica Grand Prix.
Making the Pan Am Games team.
U.S. Pan Am Games team. São Paulo, Brazil.
Brazilian silver.
2nd place, team standings. Hiltner on the podium. São Paulo, Brazil.
U.S. Olympic team. Tokyo, Japan.
Helping young rider.
Note: roof-top bike rack created by Hiltner
California state champion.
National road championship. Encino, CA.
Single-minded on the starting line.
Wearing down the field.
National champion gold medal.
Victory at North American Hillclimb Championship. Mt. Evans, Colorado.
U.S. team, world championship. San Sebastian, Spain.
Various races in Belgium.
3rd place at Münster city track championship, Germany.
2 road victories in Tuscany, Italy.
U.S. team, world championship. Nürburgring, Germany.
Lived and competed in Brazil.
Conception of human-powered vehicle.
Human-powered vehicle design.
Michael Hiltner, artist and designer.
Original garment designs.
Designed and produced garments.
Modified commercial patterns.
Modified commercials pattern.
Established double-transcontinental record. Santa Monica, CA - Atlantic City, NJ - Santa Monica. 36 days, 8 hours.
Double-transcontinental record wearing original garment designs.
Bonked, waiting for crew.
Double-transcontinental record, wearing original garment designs.
Established double-transcontinental record, inspired Race Across America (RAAM).
Took on the title Victor Vincente of America.
The VVA logo.
Tachy Taxi posing with her designer, constructor, pilot.
Graphic art designs. Shown here: Downhill Crazy.
Independently discovered dirt road bicycling. Produce the mudduster 'Topanga!'.
First six 'Topanga!' frames.
'Topanga!' posing with her creator.
Design and produce electronic jewelry. Shown here: early prototype.
Circuit board for Tri Hundred, electronic jewelry.
The HEX, electronic jewelry series.
Example of Tri Hundred series.
Circuit board for the HEX.
Self-publish "1991", a slender volume of poetry and art.
Publish "Topanga Riders' Bulletin".
See TRB page for more.
The Dirt Guru, publisher of TRB.
"Topanga Riders' Bulletin." More on TRB page.
Promote mountain bike races, including "Reseda to the Sea".
Double-decker busload of Marin County gang. Gary Fisher wins first Reseda to the Sea.
Mountain bike race and tour promoter.
Puerco Canyon hillclimb and downhill race lineup.
Catalina Island tour.
Puerco! downhill.
VictaBeast race promoter.
Reseda to the Sea and Back.
Mt. Wilson Toll Road downhill crazies.
Open letter of intent.
Tachy Taxi Two schematic.
Tachy Taxi Two on Mojave Northern Railway.
Tachy Taxi Two hand crank assembly drawing.
Santa Monica Cycling Club kit, original VVA design.
VVA on his own VVA-26 Semi-Custom Dirt Road Bicycle.
VVA collaboration with Brian Skinner and Kent Shelborne for mountain bike shock absorber.
Victory at Mt. Wilson hillclimb championship riding Colt 20/20.
VVA custom design Colt 20/20.
Colt 20/20 #2 on display at Marin Museum of Bicycling. Fairfax, CA.
Bulletin announcing VVA victory.
Promotion of 2- and 3-day supported mountain bike tours.
Haute Route supported tour, Fawnskin to Glendora, CA.
Retrospective of the origins of mountain biking.
Induction into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Crested Butte, CO.
Design and production of coin art. Shown here: 1991 VVA 50th year commemorative, bronze.
VVA coins in copper, pewter, bronze, silver.
VVA Skrabinj coin obverse, silver.
VVA Skrabinj, reverse.
VVA silver medallion.
Publication of "1991: Selected Verses (and Art) of Victor Vincente of America".
VVA coin commemorating the first inclusion of mountain biking in the Olympics.
Publication of "A Dirt Road Rider's Trek Epic".
Voted "Most Significant Person" in mountain biking, by Mountain Bike Magazine.
Bob Roll announcing VVA as the "Most Significant Person" in mountain biking since 1985.
Induction into the U.S. Cycling Hall of Fame, presented by Jackie Simes III.
U.S. Cycling Hall of Fame inductees. Note: VVA wearing original garments and electronic jewelry.
Beat Mt. Diablo Challenge (to the top in under an hour) at age 60, 61, 62. Shown here: VVA logo, variant.
4th of July tour around Clear Lake (65 miles) gussied up in Stars and Stripes champion jersey.
Design and construction of 3-mile VVA Trail. Benmore Valley Ranch, CA.
Design and construction of bridge along VVA Trail.
Conceptualization of the International Snowflake Museum, Antarctica.
One of several quintillion almost-the-same snowflakes.
Theoretical 10th place equivalency at masters' nationals, 70 to 74 age group. Bend, OR.
Publication of autobiography "Water Before Tea". Shown here: hardcover with dust jacket.
"Water Before Tea" hardcover.
"Water Before Tea" softcover.
Publication of "The First Thing To Go", a memoir.
Publication of the second edition of "Beyond 1991: A Dirt Road Rider's Trek Epic, And Other Dreams".
On his 80th birthday VVA completes Reseda to the Sea and Back.
Publication of "Book of Mysteries", a novel.
About
Victor Vincente of America, then known as Michael Beckwith Hiltner started racing at the age of 16. Won his first race, 1957. Was Southern California Junior Road Champion, 1957. All-California Road Champion, 1958 and 1965. Pan American Games, 1959. Placed 2nd in the team standings, Pan American Games Road race, 1963. Winner of the Tour du Saint Laurent, 1959. Winner of the Tour of Somerville, NJ, 1960. Olympic teams, 1960 and 1964. U.S. World Championship teams, Bern, 1961, San Sebastian, 1965 and Nürburgring, 1966. ABL of A National Road Champion, 1965. Winner of six local races in Italy, 1961 and 1966.
Hiltner independently conceived of human-powered vehicles, 1970. Established the double transcontinental record: Santa Monica – Atlantic City – Santa Monica (36 days, 8 hours, 1974) whereupon he adopted the title Victor Vincente of America. Designed, constructed, and piloted HPV Tachy Taxi, 1976, and Tachy Taxi Two, 1980.
VVA designed and mass produced the ‘Topanga!’ mountain bike, 1979, and produced VVA-26 Semi-Custom Dirt Road Bicycles, 1983 to 1995. Promoted mountain bike races, 1980 to 1995. Promoted two- and three-day supported mountain bike tours, 1984 to 1995. Inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, 1989, and the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, 2001. Designed a medallion commemorating the inclusion of mountain biking in the Atlanta Olympics, 1996.
Lives in the County of Lake, California.
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