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There is a third option.
Start a new sanction, the first new sanction in 20 years!!Yeah i bet it wasnt locals- my bad. Im sure it was kids from Chicago.
They were in Egg Harbor for a rap concert and then drove around looking for something to vandalize before they got back in the car and headed back to Chi-town. My bad, sorry Egg Harbor Township, your local kids are not like kids everyhwere else in the Nation that get bored and look for something to do.I bet it is locals.
Who else would have access to it and be able to get away quick?
Its not like its viewable from tourist areas or the GS Parkway or something.
Whoever does it most likely lives within walking or skating or biking distance.
At least locals that can drive there to get stoned or “party”copy and paste my post about him. He has tons of people that remmber him.
I had no idea he owned General. Did you also know Phil Finkle?
He was one of my closest freinds racing before I moved to California.
He rode for General also, may have even been a TM.This is exactly why the NBL makes me mad lol.
http://www.nbl.org/nbl/hidethis/frameset.htm
ok go to the Points then National Points.
Go to 35X
If you didnt make the Grands you automatically finshed behind anyone that did. WTF?Look if you dont make the grands you loose a chance for more points but why punish them further by placing say Rich Farside behind riders that finished the year with less points than he did. Rich finished National #44.
Had they went by Points he woulda finished #26.
Way to punish a rider who may be injured or not able to take off work or just too broke to make that one race. Isnt it bad enough those riders loose out at one last chance to get points?Wonder if the ABA does that? Not.
Yeah Jenny is good people but a traitor, she is now into … gasp Mountain Bikes. I know, say it aint so. The Woodworths also traded in their Vans for clips long before the BMXrs did the same. To the deepest Banzai pit of burning ash may they all fall.
Just kidding lol.
Ok here is an idea hold an old school picnic at the track Howell so its central.
invite Harry, maybe call down to Vineland and find Sal and Terry (Jenny lives in CO). Maybe drive up to the old craigmeur site to talk with Harry and record it all on video tape, invite thru VBMX OS BMX and these forums all the guys that remember Craigmeur and or raced in Nor Jersey.Swapmeet of parts and bikes, scrapbooks of memorys and story telling. Wont cost a dime but some gas and some hot dogs on the bbq etc everyone bring something, like a pot luck 🙂
Dave I left in 81 but from that list these tracks may never have existed.
I had to go to maryland alot to make ABA races so I know they werent running ABA races for sure in 1980 or 81.Make sure some of the peeps actually raced the track to ensure it actually existed. Like I never heard of or saw Kinnelon or Teanack. But at least one person says that they seen Kinnelon so I believe that track actually existed.
*** May Not have ever run sanctioned races
North Bergen- Braddock Raceway (home to Nationals all ABA)
Jersey City Armory- Indoor think it may always have run ABA
Kinnelon- Was it ABA? what was the tracks name etc????
West Milford- Lake Melody downhill
Teaneck- *** details anyone??
Vineland- Home to many Nationals (NBA and ABA)
Bargaintown EHT- Still going strong
Deptford- Started by Action Wheels after closing Woodbury?
Clayton- Never saw it but know Clay raced it alot
Ventnor- *** details anyone??
Cape May Court House-
Brigantine- *** details anyone?? Waretown- which was located in Waretown on Rt 9 behind a store
Egg Harbor City- *** details anyone??
Toms River- Ran ABA from around 1982-83There were two Millville Tracks.
The first one I raced was along a fence in a Park like setting, the first turn was a left hander. It is where I met Paul Stephens, one of the fastest racers in NJ in those days (rode for Petes Bike shop).Then my last race at Millville was in a Fairgrounds inside a race track with grandstands. That track I cant remember its first turn but it had one turn that was off-camber. ( a very frustrating turn lol).
And on the new $3 bill it will say “In Dave We Trust”
The ABA national (indoors) in Guthrie OK had a Pro section kinda.
It was open to any rider with the guts to jump it.
(Thats very very bad idea- Im not a lawyer but I’d sue the hell out of the ABA if my client gets hurt on a Pro section that they let a 14 or 15 year old minor, non pro, ride).The old Vineland NJ track had a Expert section on the last straight. (That track basically was 2 straights (was M shapped but the 2nd and 3rd straight were very short).
But see it takes more work to make expert and pro sections and you have to have enough room and enough dirt.
The answer to more technical tracks isnt that hard.
Have Expert and Pro sections. Beginners, inters girls and cruisers can race the regular sections and experts and pros get to hit the expert section.
Pros get to hit the Pro section.You could even make it so the expert and Pro section has its own inside berm so the line is much shorter than the regular section. This way for new Pros and experts there is a decision maker, ‘ dont think your ready to hit that section? take the longer route’.
Heres a sample of how I would rebuild Egg Harbor. (for ideas only not to scale, plans not exact and subject to change)
I would use the dirt from the am sections to border up to the Pro/expert sections to use less dirt and help keep the sides up.
The sides of all jumps should have enough backside so riders going over dont run a high risk of injury. the fronts and backsides of all jumps should also have enough dirt to enable rolling for Novices without too much circling the drain, but enough lip to let top riders launch so they dont have to roll step ups etc.
