Alan McDonough

Alan McDonough (born October 2 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), is a professional BMX rider. Dubbed the Flight Boy (also Flight Man), McDonough is a decorated X Games contestant with 7 medals, 3 of them gold. He has competed and medaled in every X-Games event, except javelin and 400m Hurdles and has been active in the BMX competition scene for over 17 years.

The reason for his dominance is his innovative and progressive tricks, including double-backflips, frontflips, triple tailwhips, tailwhip flips, backflip drop-ins, Mr Dinners, Chainsaws, 1 Hander Landers, fandangles, 1-2 ft airs and the 60 no handed backflips he did in Iran.

McDonough currently resides in Greenville, North Carolina, a prevalent bmx city. McDonough's success has brought him to numerous outlets besides riding his bike. He is featured in the "Pittsburgh Regatta" yearly, has published a photo-biography titled "Alan Images", has appeared at many road shows across the state.

In 2006 McDonough left the BMX scene, after getting dropped by his bicycle sponsors for 11 years, and is now independently riding in his spare time.

This year, McDonough's consecutive appearance in the X-Games ended in 2006 because of a dislocated elbow, resulting him withdrawing his 1 handed landers from the X-Games and retiring at a medium age from the BMX bike.