Just got word that the originator of Jump For Joy, the mellow maniac, the happy hippy, Steve Wisbeski is layed up. Steve is currently in Somerset County Hospital with a bout of diverticulitis. Like all BMXers Steveonaut tried to just push it off as gas pains but after a couple days of pain, he went […]
The main man who learned backflips at 32 after a 16 year hiatus from BMX. The guy who brought you the Barn Ramp back behind the illustrious Christine Todd Whitman’s house. The visionary who invented the Jump For Joy comp-jams, is at it again. BMXNJ was up near the other side of the Driscoll Bridge […]
One of the reasons I started all this stuff back 5 years ago was so that BMX in New Jersey could have one place to congregate free of any stigma of what part of the sport you were involved in, or how much you rode, or how old you were, etc. Which is why we […]
Just wanted to throw a thank you out to some guys who have been giving BMXNJ.com some good press over the past year. Helps what I’m trying to do in NJ here. get the overall word out about how we are all good as all get out. Check these places:
Youth of the Nation BMX Team founders, Bill and Brandon Jones throwing out the goodness this March. This family of BMXers are movers and shakers in the BMX scene up near Raritan. Look for them at the Jump For Joy on March 29th, then be on the lookout for Bill’s comps up at Somerville Skatepark […]
BMXNJ got word through the grapevine (George Hoernig) that TR and Area 51 local John Decaprio was having an art show and BMX demo at Brielle Cyclery’s new Asbury Park location Saturday night March 14th. John has just started up a new clothing company called The Rapture and is running his own website named therapturetherapture.com […]
Mention BMX contest announcer in the area over the Driscoll bridge and one name comes to mind. Aaron Graff. Normally you only see Aaron in the pages of BMX szine or the webfiles of BMXNJ.com holding onto a microphone calling out the latest tricks, calming riders down after judging disputes and generally working the crowd […]
The scene in the Somerset County area has really taken off over these last few years with a huge group of locals who are tearing it up out there and are “making it happen”, in an area that I once called home. With Ken Cornell’s Wheelpark in Somerville at the center of the mayhem one family of […]
(Thanks to Dave and his crew! BMXNJ gets to answer the question, What do retired racers do in their spare time? B.) By BMXNJ.com Contributing Writer Dave Dechert
The 2008 Jeremy Barcik jam went down on November 14th at Hackettstown Skatepark. Over 90 riders
