As we said , Billy tried the Boss frame and hated it, so we couldn't just go ahead with the original plan, so we sat down and figured out what we wanted in a frame. When we did this it was not just Billy Harrison, who was involved. We got input from Brian (Lopes), Kiyomi (Waller), John (Gonzalez), and Jon (Agnew), we also took input from some of our friends who hung out at the shop on a regular basis, Billy Griggs's input is probably the most notable.

Most everyone at the time was riding on a FreeAgent Limo. It was by far the most popular frame at the time. Everyone loved the way it allowed you to stretch out on the front and really move. The few things that people didn't like about them were minor. First the rear tri was a little too short, second the head angle was a little too quick, so what we did was base our frame design off of the Free Agent Limo taking into consideration the 2 small concerns that people had.

Now once the geometry was sketched out and finalized, we wanted to do something unique to the frame to make it stand out, but not be a purely cosmetic thing. So we were thinking what can we do? Well it took us a while but while we were having a gate session one day it occured to us that the rear of most frames were flexing up to a 1/4" as you would snap out of the gate. So we knew that what we had to do was to stiffen up the rear end of the frame to improve your sanp, and that is when the secondary seat stay design was born. It took about 15 sketches before we got what we wanted and when we did we drove the design righ over to Elf, for them to make us the proto-type.

Well, while we waited for Elf to build up the proto type, we needed a name. We were stumped , what could we call it? Well it was about 2:00 a.m. on a saturday night and Billy harrison called from a national, ( I can't remember which one) when we answered the phone, he just said, I've got it "SUPERCROSS", and with that it was done. We had our name. He said that after the races that night that a bunch of the Pro's were sitting around and the topic got turned to names of frames and what would be cool, and whay, and Billy said that he and Greg Hill had come up with saying that SUPERCROSS would be the best name for a bmx frame.

So know with our name and our frame design, we were just waiting for Elf, to get us our frame. after 6 months of waiting we were a little upset, as we didn't have our frame, the season was almost done and the interbike show was right around the corner. knowing all of this Brent Shoup came to our rescue. Brent was a fast A pro and son of Brad Shoup the main welder and owner of Free Agent at the time. He came over took a look at our drawings and made a deal that he would weld us up our first proto-type in exchange for a MTB frame and a set of SR sealed bearing pedals. We were stoked it was finally going to happen. Over a year after we started on this project it looked like we were going to finally get our frame.

Chapter 4