Scott Beaumont (born 2 June 1978), nicknamed Boom Boom, is an English pro mountain bike racer, specialising in the disciplines of downhill and fourcross. He lives in the UK. Beaumont was born in

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in 1978. He started racing

BMX BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation. History BMX began during the ea ...

aged four, and went on to win several national titles, and was World BMX Champion in 1995 and 1996. It was in 1996 that Beaumont first began to ride mountain bikes. The new discipline of

dual slalom Dual slalom is a mountain bike racing discipline similar to Four-cross, 4X racing. It consists of two racers racing two almost identical tracks next to each other down a slope. The courses are usually short, one run lasting about 30 seconds. I ...

had been created, and mountain bike teams were looking for experienced BMX riders to transition into the new discipline. When dual slalom was replaced by

four-cross Four-cross (4X), also called mountain-cross, not to be confused with fourcross, is a relatively new style of mountain bike racing where four bikers race downhill on a prepared, BMX-like track, simply trying to get down first. These bikes are ge ...

, Beaumont made the transition. He remains a high-profile figure in the British mountain biking scene, and is one of the leading elite riders in the British national 4X series, winning the 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021 British national 4X championship.

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