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Si el MTB fuera una religión ella vendría a ser la Virgen Maria.
Jacquie "Alice B. Toeclips" Phelan (born December 10, 1955) was the NORBA Champion three consecutive years - 1983, 1984, and 1985. She is married to inventor Charlie Cunningham, the pioneering bicycle framebuilder whose aluminum bikes and patented brakes allowed Phelan to race unbeaten for six years. Her bike, "Otto" was raced nine consecutive seasons, a testimony to the durability of the heat treated framesets that drew criticism from traditional framebuilders who held that only "steel is real".
Charter inductee, with Cunningham, to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1988 and 2000 inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame. Along with a dozen others, Phelan co-founded NORBA in 1982, and was a charter member of IMBA. Phelan founded the Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS) in 1987 to encourage women and girl's participation, and produced the sport's earliest skills camps, dubbed Fat Tire Finishing School.
Phelan was the first American to race abroad (Man v. Horse, Wales). As recently as 2004 she placed 8th overall in the Transportugal, a 1300 km offroad adventure race, where she was the only woman. Phelan has been invited to participate in offroad races both stateside and abroad. She competed successfully in the 42ride, a 4,200 mile supported crossing of the USA by road bike in summer 2009, helping to raise money for the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking.
Phelan appears in two 2007 documentary films: How To Cook Your Life (Doris Doerrie's film about Zen baker Edward Espe Brown), and Billy Savage's Klunkerz: A Film About Mountain Bikes.