# Interview Record

**Record identifier:** `fbc-004-greg-mathias-chasing-harry-hof`  
**Collection:** Fireside BMX Chat  
**Subseries:** Chasing Harry  
**Episode number:** 4  
**Published title:** Fireside BMX Chat Podcast: "Chasing Harry" Series - Episode 4 - BMX Team USA’s Greg Mathias Talks About His Friend, Harry Leary, while touring the National BMX Hall of Fame (HoF)  
**Dossier type:** Interview Dossier  
**Recording type:** on-location interview, oral history, museum walkthrough, collection encounter  
**Host:** Kyle A. Huffman  
**Guest(s):** Greg Mathias  
**Other participant(s):** Anne-Marie Huffman  
**Recording date:** Not supplied  
**Publication date:** Not supplied  
**Location:** National BMX Hall of Fame; city not supplied in the submitted materials  
**Duration:** 29:48  
**Primary source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUTzVetaoLc

## Summary

Kyle and Greg Mathias meet in person at the National BMX Hall of Fame and examine Harry Leary-related bicycles and display objects. Greg recounts his friendship with Harry, the provenance of a 24-inch Daylight bicycle, the damaged and replacement 20-inch Daylight bicycles, Harry’s final days, the theft and recovery of a loaner bicycle, and the preservation of Harry-related materials.

## Historical significance

The recording links first-person testimony directly to museum objects, including a 2022 ROC 1 Daylight bike and Harry Leary display materials. It documents both object provenance and the emotional relationship between Greg Mathias and Harry Leary.

## Major themes and subjects

- Greg Mathias
- Harry Leary
- National BMX Hall of Fame
- Daylight Cycle Co.
- 2022 ROC 1
- Eric Rupe
- Gork
- Black Mountain BMX
- CTE belief
- Rob Porter
- stolen bicycle recovery
- HLT miniature frame
- storage locker
- 1986 Porsche Design Fallnational plaque

## Source-material status

The submitted source package has been inventoried in [source-inventory.md](docs/source-inventory.md). Public-access transformations are explicitly labeled. Unaltered restricted originals are held in the separate private preservation supplement.

## Transcript status

A raw timestamped machine transcript and timestamp-normalized working copy are present. Speaker identification, punctuation, uncertain wording, and proper names require final verification against the recording.

## Preservation status

- Dossier initially compiled in repository standard v1.0.0; public visual access layer completed in v1.0.1.
- Original recording remains externally hosted at the supplied URL.
- Public and private source layers separated.
- Transcript verification pending.

## Curator classification

On-location interview and collection encounter conducted inside the National BMX Hall of Fame.

## Derivative publication record - completed 2026-07-22

A controlled Shorts register preserves 32 supplied visible records. Source numbering omits 10 and contains two distinct records numbered 12, preserved as GM-012A and GM-012B. The derivative layer records titles, working descriptions, platform URLs, dates, visibility/publication states, frame evidence, provisional parent-transcript windows, rights, qualifications, gaps, manifests, and fixity. Direct Short URLs/video IDs were not supplied.

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