Products: July 1974 – August 1975. Webco Inc.: August 1975 – Late March 1976. Webco disbanded its team in March 1976. D.G. Performance Specialties (The initials stood for Dan Hangsleben, Gary Harlow): Late April 1976 – October 1976. Stu was kicked off the DG Team for bad-mouthing and abusing his DG issue bicycle after a poor showing in a race. Chuck Robinson, DG team manager, heard Thomsen's outburst. According to Jeff Bottema, Thomsen's teammate at the time, noted in the June 1977 issue of Bicycle Motocross Action, it was not the first time Thomsen had slighted DG and Mr. Robinson acted punitively on this alleged occasion, at least the second In a June 1978 interview in Bicycle Motocross Action, Stu said about the incident:... I stayed with them (DG) for another year and then got ejected from the team somehow ... I don't even understand that.He reiterated this point five years later in an interview that appeared in the September 1983 issue of Bicycles And Dirt magazine:... for some unknown reason I was dropped from the team. I never really found out why. Flying Machine Factory (FMF): October 1976 – Mid 1977. He joined FMF after leaving D.G. a week and a half later. Stu would turn pro with this sponsor. Professional Flying Machine Factory (FMF): October 1976 – Mid 1977. FMF was created in part by Scot Breithaupt, a pioneer of the sport. He will later split from FMF and start Scot Enterprises Racing (SER). Stu Thomsen would leave FMF with Breithaupt. SE (Scot Enterprises) Racing: Mid 1977 – December 31, 1979. Redline Engineering: January 1, 1980 – December 31, 1983. After sometime on SE Racing he would move on to Redline. Financial reasons was the prime motivation as he explained in Bicycles And Dirt Magazine:BAD: Why Redline when you had been with S.E. for so long?Stu: At the time, pro racing had been going on for a few years, but the prize money wasn't all that big yet. Redline was a much bigger company than S.E. Racing. The dollar signs were what attracted me more than just wanting to change. I needed to get more out of racing if I was to stay in it any longer. The opportunity to earn money by riding someone's product, other than just going out and winning it, was a big push. I decided racing was what I wanted and I had