Graeme Stevens is a national BMX treasure. He is an Australian BMX pioneer, a designer, manufacturer, innovator, manager, mentor, coach, race official, and administrator, and he is a World Champion!  No less than six of our incredible Australian BMX Hall of Fame Inductees have raced bikes lovingly designed and handcrafted by Mr Graeme Stevens.

Graeme’s love affair with BMX began way back in 1978 at the Springwood Track in Queensland when a brash young kid asked Graeme to sponsor him.  Graeme did more than that; he looked at the best version of a BMX frame he could find and said, ‘I can build something better than that’.  He came back a week later with a prototype made from aluminium, not knowing that he had just created the very first Super LA BMX bike. Graeme’s days as a full-time construction manager at Clarks Boats were numbered, as orders for his lighter, stronger, cheaper locally manufactured frames and forks came flooding in.

Graeme’s new company, Super LA, was synonymous with racing excellence, and he and his wife, Janet quickly formed a race team sponsoring riders across city and country Queensland, before adding team riders from the rest of Australia, New Zealand, and America. Just a few of the riders who have worn the mighty Super LA uniform include Kerrie and Anna Meares, Jaclyn Wilson, Dean Hartog, Madonna and Ryan Scott, Hanna Chrzanowski (kronowski), Vedette Fitzsimmons, Bridget Evans, Phillipa Gordon, Wayne Knipe, the Dolby sisters, Bill Dixon, Wayne McIntosh, and the evergreen Craig ‘Butch’ Broomfield.

Graeme was a rule maker, and a rule challenger.  He was instrumental in writing the rules that govern our sport.  He held positions at club, state, and national committee level with Logan City, the QBMXA, and the ABMXA.  He worked closely with members of the IBMXF drafting governance, writing rules, and developing policy that allowed riders from around the world to compete internationally. It was at the 1986 IBMXF World Titles in Slough (ou=mouth), England that Graeme and his Super LA Team had their greatest success, winning the Manufacture’s Team Championship. Graeme and his Super LA Team were champions of the world.

As an innovator and rule challenger, Graeme’s place in Australian BMX history is perhaps unsurpassed. When a rather small Lynette Dolby told him that her 26” cruiser was ‘way too big’ to ride against the older girls, Graeme found a solution.  He went back to the workshop that night and welded up the very first 24” BMX race bike in the world!  Within weeks Lynette was winning, the concept was being copied by a major US bike company, and cruiser class racing had changed forever. Graeme built Super LA’s, and he also built for Crisp, TAJG, Prosight, Vortex, Powerlite, Free Agent, Peddlepower and DME. The legacy of the Super LA Brand, and bikes he has built and the people he has supported make Graeme Stevens a thoroughly worthy inductee to the Australian BMX Hall of Fame.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Graeme Stevens is 81 years old, he’s a living legend, and he’s here tonight.  Please put your hands together for one of the greats of our sport, Mr SLA, Graeme Stevens.