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1973 DOB : 17 octobre 1973
Place of birth : LIVERPOOL GBR
early years Simon Tabron : I started riding when I was eight. My first bike was a Raleigh Burner, september 1982, it sucked but I loved it. I raced for a few years, and I started freestyle about a year after I started racing. My first comp was when I was about eleven.
1986 Simon Tabron : I entered my first regional [freestyle] series, that was as a novice.
1987 Simon Tabron : I turned expert and went to all the regionals and started going to the nationals, and I ended up getting second in the national series at the end of the year so I qualified for the Worlds.

3rd place 13 years old vert @ 1987 world championships in UK.
1988
1989 Simon Tabron : Mon premier sponsor fut Converse, la marque de chaussures.
1990 Simon Tabron : In january 1990, I got sponsored by Bully, then that was the time I started to get any coverage in the magazine, and I turned pro that month and I won my first pro competition.

Contests :
A group 3rd place @ UKKOV 1990 round 1 (cf photo)		 one foot
1991
1992 Simon Tabron forward flip over the bars at Slades Farm skatepark on the cover of Invert august 1992. Photos by Mark Noble. invert
1993
1994 Backyard Jam : flip no foot.

Cover and interview in Ride UK #13 october 1994.		 flip no foot

ride uk
1995 Ride UK june 1995 : GT rider Simon Tabron has moved from his hometown of Liverpool to reside in Jason Davies' house in Bristol. Simon is also now working in Caratti's warehouse.

Pipa et Simon se marient.
1996
1997 Simon Tabron, Ride UK december 1997 : I've just signed a three year contract with Animal. Which means I'll be riding full time now.
1998 2nd place pro ramp @ World Championships Portugal.

3rd place pro vert @ X-Games 1998.

Cover : Ride US issue 36		 ride us
1999 May 1999, Simon is riding for Trek.
Simon, Ride UK august 1999 : I was looking to make it out to the States for the BS Series and I was having a hard time with my sponsors, and Trek came along and made me a really good offer, and since then they've been taking supergood care of me and I've been bringing in the results they want.

3rd place pro vert @ X-Games 1999.

2nd place pro ramp @ World Championships

Invert on the cover of BMX Plus! december 1999.		 bmx plus 12 1999 tabron invert
2000 5th place pro vert @ X-Games 1999.

2nd place pro ramp @ World Championships

December, Simon left Trek to ride for Mongoose.
2001 Two small interviews in Ride UK #52 april 2001

First BS win @ BS vert finals, Bristol CT, june 2001
Mongoose's English connection, Simon Tabron has 900's wired to the point where he can throw them down in his first run. And to end it, he even did an alley oop 900 with a lot of backwards travel on it.

2001 Gravity Games Bronze Medalist 		simon 2001
2002 3rd place vert @ X-Games

1st place pro vert @ Euro X-games, Gravity Games, FISE.

Pro vert World Champion.

Cover and interview in BMXair #2 decembre 2002		 bmxair
2003 Bike 2003.
Simon, www.snafubmx.com : The Bike 2003 event was good. There were bikes. It was good. Really, it was a very cool event. I managed to win the vert comp on what was the best contest vert ramp of all time ( Vertical Kingsize II - US organisers TAKE NOTE). I did all my usual 540 stuff and some airs and flairs and probably the smoothest 900 that I have ever done thanks to the incredible geometry on my prototype 04 Mongoose RAF. My new bike is so good that it WILL improve your riding and it will make you land smoother. That is a promise.

Mongoose/SNAFU team pro and British freestyle superstar Simon Tabron braved the trek to Portugal the last weekend of June to claim his second consecutive World Championship title on vert.

3rd place pro vert @ Gravity Games
Simon Tabron is now brakeless. Simon said that earlier in the week, Zack Shaw had broken his arm when his brake lever got caught in his pocket during a lookdown, and that prompted Simon to remove his brakes altogether. Even without the brakes, Simon still delivered his vert arsenal, including all of his spinning tricks, including a perfect 900 to end his last run.
Everything feels better without the restriction of a brake. I wish I had done it years ago.

My ramp had to come down in november because it was affecting the quality of my neighbors' lives.