Matt Hadan


Matthew Merle Hadan is an American professional "Old/Mid School" Bicycle Motocross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985 to 1995. Hadan was nicknamed early in his career as "The Master" and later "The Diesel".

Racing career milestones

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
Started racing: At 10 years old in 1981. He first noticed BMX in a BMX magazine in 1980 featuring racer Jason Jensen and his involvement in the sport and young Matt wanted to try it. His father took him to the Azusa, California, track and Matt thought it looked like fun.
Sanctioning body:
Sanctioning body home district: American Bicycle Association District California 13
First race result: First place in 10 beginner class. He would win two more consecutive beginner races and then a few months later turn expert.
First win :
First sponsor: Monrovia Schwinn 1981
First national win: See above.
Turned Professional: December 1989.
First Professional race result: Sixth place in Pro class at the National Bicycle League Christmas Classic on December 28, 1989. He won US$80
. He also came in third place in Pro Award winning US$60. Beginning with the 1990 season the NBL "B" pro became the Pro/Am "Superclass" and the Senior "A" Pro class became simply the Pro Class.
First Professional win: In Pro Open at the American Bicycle Association Silver Dollar Nationals in Reno, Nevada on January 14, 1990.
First Junior Pro* race result: See "First Professional race result". Any pro could race pro class, skipping the then new NBL Pro/Am superclass.
First Junior Pro win: In "A" pro at the ABA Winternationals in Chandler, Arizona on February 18, 1990.
First Senior Pro** race result: See "First Professional race result".
First Senior Pro win: In "A" pro at the NBL Easter Classic in Sarasota, Florida on day two of the national on April 15, 1990.
Retired: 2002
Height & weight at height of her career : Ht:5'11" Wt:180 lbs.
*In the NBL "B" Pro/Super Class/"A" Pro/Junior Elite Men depending on the era; in the ABA it is "A" Pro.
**In the NBL it is "AA" Pro/Elite Men; in the ABA it is "AA" Pro.

Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.

Amateur/Junior Men

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles.

Amateur/Junior Men

National Bicycle Association
National Bicycle League
*National Age Group
American Bicycle Association
*DAG District Age Group, NAG-National Age Group
In 1985 the ABA experimented with dividing the district points season from one year lasting from January 1 to December 31 to three four-month-long time periods at which a racer could earn a plate number for that time period and/or their age group and could race the rest of the year with it. The experiment lasted only for a year before the ABA reverted to a single year long points gathering season in 1986.
United States Bicycle Motocross Association
  • None
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme *
  • None
International Bicycle Motocross Federation *
Union Cycliste Internationale *
*See Professional section.
Other titles:
National Bicycle Association
National Bicycle League
American Bicycle Association
United States Bicycle Motocross Association
Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme *
International Bicycle Motocross Federation *
Union Cycliste Internationale *
*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
Pro Series Championships

BMX product lines

Notable accolades

Miscellaneous

Post BMX career

BMX and general press magazine interviews and articles

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career are listed unless specifically noted.
Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:
Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:
BMX Plus!:
Total BMX:
Bicycles and Dirt :
Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:
Twenty BMX:
BMX World:
NBA World & NBmxA :
Bicycles Today & BMX Today :
ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer :
USBA Racer :