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1981, same ABA East Coast Nationals.
This was the first moto. I got the holeshot, the rider behind me with the red helmet is (I think Joey Layton). He took me out coming out of the turn and put me over the berm 🙁
the next two motos I would also be in first and crash all by myself lol.
NEVER race a bike for the first time at a National. And dont buy a bike cause you like the teams uniforms. Buy it cause you like how it rides.
And tires are the only thing that connects your bike to the track. DONT buy tires cause they are blue or cause they have a cool name like Monster Bite or Thunder Tires and have marketing hype. Since that race I have never used anything but Comp 3s/4s.
My camera battery is dead after just taking like 20 pictures wtf. Its the battery that came with the camera. Cmon Sony thats just wrong.
Patty hasnt forgotten her roots!
1976 Millville. NBA or NBL?
Was that track different from the one in Millville in 1979 when I started racing there? The ’79 track was in a grass feild, I think it may have had a fence along the first straight but not even sure about that. It had a few trees between the track and the cars.
I know in 80 or 81 it moved to inside the fairgrounds race track. That was the track that had the off camber turn.Yeah that old DG would be nice to have now.
What other tracks ran in 76 and 77. Was Millville, New Jerseys first track?
I went to Mr. Veales house once. I remember he was a Ham radio operator. I believe AER was run out of his garage. They had red white and blue uniforms and a cool logo.
exactly what factory pros showed and how they do?
exactly how did the Caveman do??????
I wrote to Del Worsham got this reply from his team manager:
I talked to Del about Roger Worsham, but he doesn’t remember the name.
Del rode a Free Agent bike in his day, still has his baby blue Free
Agent at the shop and can still ride a wheelie down the street….Thanks for the note! And thanks for reading the blog.
Bob Wilber
Team ManagerThat old Wooden Wheels jersey looks new to me lol. That was after I had already moved to Cal. The old old ones were Blue and Yellow. Greg Ferguson is still around and I bet he has shots of him in the old uniforms.
DJs was just getting big if I remember around the time i left. Didnt they have the red,yellow, blue uniforms?
Beacon forgot about them. They had the Yellow/Black/Red/White uniforms from what I remember.thought Id throw in this old school Kuwahara shot speaking of kool uniforms
It was taken at Ascot in Southern California, not far from BMXA.Marty Wolfgang – ran Lawrenceville and Martys Bike Shop
Lee Veale- ran Millville, (AER) Action Enterprises Racing and founded the NJ BMX Association in 1979? His son raced Pro.Nice Ant Dog.
I started BMX around 1976. I can still remember me and my neighbors racing trails on our Schwinn Stingrays and looking up to the older kids as if they were men. I remember it like it was yesterday. They helped me work on my bike taught me how to jump and bunnyhop and drooled over how nice their Stingrays where. Paul had the best one and I would buy it from him to make my first race in 78.What I’m trying to say is, these kids will remember you- forever. No doubt in my mind.
1978 Vineland, NJ
NBA Scwhinn Tour
I wasn’t a NBA member so the person in the sign up booth told me I had to race Expert. I had no clue what that was, since I never raced before.
Had Jeff Utterback in my moto, I remembered his name from the one issue of Bicycle Motocross Action I owned.
Crashed over this set of jumps, they had three of them in a row. (Later found out they were called triples). Well trying to keep up with 15 experts on my 4 1/2 cranks on my Schwinn Stingray was impossible – but I didnt know that.
I didnt even know what my gears where or what that meant. Freewheel? What didnt everyone use Bendix coaster brakes?
The crash knocked the joffa off the track helmet I was borrowing and I got 3 stitches in my chin, but at least that got us to know the Zeuners.That was the old track with the low starting hill.
I watched with awe as Porky Mayes just pedaled thru them over the next year or two. I vowed to do that and by the time Langleys picked me up I could pedal thru those puppies also.In 89 or so one of the Deptford guys I used to race had one (Rick Smith).
I rode it around the parking lot and it was unballanced. Since balance is big in BMX im thinking thats one of the reasons it never caught on.
But man they looked sooooo kool. I wouldnt be suprised if Haro was behind the graphics of the bike they were just so clean.LOL.
Man I cant wait to get a real site for BMXL.
Just think if we can contact the group putting on the MacGrath event about putting on a BMX series 🙂 How tight would that be!track that will be designed by Jeremy McGrath and track builder Randy Mennenga.
whoa wonder if that is ABA founder Merle Mennenga’s son?????
Early days 1978-79ish
Cheap Trick, Boston, BTO, Bad CompanyThen New Wave started with that college station in Trenton
The Police
Oingo Boingo
XTC
The Photos
Buzzcocks
Split Enz
The Clash
Surf PunksThen Later, the best era of music
Howard Jones
Depeche Mode
The Cure
New Order
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Misfits
Thompson Twins
Love and Rockets
The Human League[/b]
Wow I just noticed this old thread.
I just watched the first video
http://www.bmxvideo.net/cgi-bin/ImageFolio4/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Videos/Vintage_Videos/83%20ESPN%20BMX%20Pro%20Spectacular&image=83%20ESPN%20BMX%20disc1%20(00).wmv&img=&tt=mpgIt gave me goosebumps. BMX was so on its way.
I cant wait to see the rest of the race!Whats LEAP stand for?
Great idea!
LOL Salzman that was a good one.
Oz would say something like “Circling the drain, like a womens wedding band after she caught her husband cheating”