Like I keep saying the best part of running a site that is all about something you really believe in, is meeting other people who feel the same way. I got an email a couple weeks ago from Dan saying he dug the Dave Dechert vid and had a bunch of shots from NJ and […]
One of the great things that I personally have gotten out of running this site the past few years is meeting people who actually were around at the dawn of BMX in New Jersey all the way back to the earliest days. One of those guys is John Malone, he has a whole photo gallery of pictures from the […]
Well, here it is, the final installment in the Harry Myers interview. This is the part where I actually really got to meet the guy 1987-1989 and sorta be there towards the end, lol, the end of General and the end of the beginning of freestyle BMX. I scoured some of the old mags and found […]
Guess I’ll give a little preface here as well. Harry the originator of Craigmeur had the National NBA tour through the area in 1978 and was drawing in a huge amount of riders every race. People were impressed by the facility and he was getting notoriety in the industry. At the time a lot of […]
When I was growing up and just learning about BMX, one track was already a legend in New Jersey. Craigmeur BMX. It was located in the Vernon Valley area and already by 1979 had seen an NBA National, all the pros and was known as THE track to go to if you were serious about […]
These are race clips given to BMXNJ.com by Tom Nieradka from the 85 Open at Deptford. There are plenty of different classes. Here we go with video 2. Takes ya back dudn’t it? (Come on, how cool is BMX?!)
I was off playing, “I wanna be a freestyle guy” but racing was still going full bore in NJ. My friend from those days, Tom Nieradka, gave me a bunch of videos from those years back when I was looking for my HVTT videos. I’ll be adding 15-25 minutes of these videos over the next […]
Guess you have all seen the pictures of Pete’s Bike Shop version of BMX in Flemington from the 70’s that I put up. Here’s the Total BMX magazine (an east coast BMX magazine from the 70’s and 80’s) write up of the opening and reincarnation of Flemington BMX as Hunterdon County BMX in 1981. I […]
Just leaked on BMX Action Online.com. New Jersey’s own Kathy Schachel is to be inducted into the NBL BMX Hall of Fame alongside Stu Thomsen and Greg Esser at this year’s NBL Grand Nationals.
Geepers…what was BMX racing like back before the days of paved turns and clips? Who were the stars? What kind of drama happened on the track?
