In the early 90’s in Spring Lake Heights, NJ, a man named Mr. Crossman had two sons, Josh and Luke who were killer flatland riders. He set up some of the best contests of that time called “The King Of The Court”. They were flat and street and held on a nice smooth tennis court. […]
1981 the HARO team invades Bicycle World courtesy of the Gleasons. Here are a few shots from their archives of that historic event. Bicycle World was an incredible supporter of BMX in New Jersey in all its forms in its earliest days. Here’s a couple teasers.
Yea, 1985 was another crazy year for freestyle teams in NJ. This was also the last real year of Wilton doing a Wiltonthe BMX Action Trick being in a true organized form. Ron Wilton had come over from the HARO team to replace Mike Buff who was now on CW. (and promptly wrecked his knee) […]
Yea… 1984 was a busy year for freestyle teams and also for this particular shop. The GT Team this The King Eddie Fiolayear consisted of 4 riders and they were all here in August of that year. This was my first time ever seeing guys like Eddie Fiola and Ron Wilkerson ride in person and […]
yea…1984 was a heavy year for freestyle BMX teams invading New Jersey. It seemed like every week a new tour was hitting a shop in New Jersey. But one team had their work cut Martin early cherrypickerout for them. The Vans Freestyle Team. JV Bicycles brought them in (at the time JV was killing it […]
The year again was 1984. Freestyle was exploding in the USA and the summers were filled with touring teams. Besides BMX Action, the other big one at that time was the Haro Freestyle Team. Originally this tour was to be Ron Wilton and Bob Haro but Bob had reinjured his knee that spring and decided […]
I figured since I had so many old school shots of freestyle stuff like the touring teams that would 16.jpghit NJ in the summer, that it may be time to throw them out so people can see what it was like BITD. I wouldn’t say it was better or worse, but it was definitely different.
The year. 1996. The place. The Hippie Steve Compound. This is the original. Look for lots of now well known pros in their earliest days. Good time, temporary layoffs, Jump For Joy…
Adam Alouise is up front there on the thumbnail to the second half of JFJ 1. Later in the summer we’ll have JFJ 3 on the web as well… For now though enjoy the Alpha of Hippie Steve’s Jump For Joy comps in the halcyon days of 1996…
Roosevelt Taylor sent this link over to me of major NJ flatland historical significance. Back in the halcyon days of 1988 when freestyle BMX was new and shiny and we had the massive AFA indoor Wayne contests, Jay Jones was there and killed it in his class. At that time he was riding for Kuwahara. […]
