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I’m gonn’ to the dirtbike race in wildwood this weekend, but I’ll make the double header the week after.

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I’m gonn’ to the dirtbike race in wildwood this weekend, but I’ll make the double header the week after.

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thanks all you guys who hooked up the eht track. I tried to help out one day back in march. I took of work, but you guys had some kind of schedule change. Sorry I been slackin, I was goin’ to school and workin’ full time. Can’t wait to catch up with you guys I think the track is great and there always seems to be a bunch of local kids out there bustin’ jumps. I still haven’t done that middle double yet.

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thanks all you guys who hooked up the eht track. I tried to help out one day back in march. I took of work, but you guys had some kind of schedule change. Sorry I been slackin, I was goin’ to school and workin’ full time. Can’t wait to catch up with you guys I think the track is great and there always seems to be a bunch of local kids out there bustin’ jumps. I still haven’t done that middle double yet.

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great topic! 😮

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Did that band get sued for that?

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thanks mr.craig.

I mean BigAntDog

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Total ripoff. The guy even looked like Bill Allen

Good One. That was good for a laugh. Bmx is Bmx though. Those Punk Rocker’s were really into rad, huh. I like the Hockey helmet and red “team Rad” Jersey. thanks mr.craig.

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dude, good idea.
you can practice any time at eht. those jumps would work good for mountain bikes too, specially the ones with shocks. Mountain bike, and road bike guys have all of the money, not us hippie bmxers.

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I retract any statement I made about clips. do what ever you want. Call me Mel. Sorry.

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I plan on being there.

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it was pretty rockin’. The bike ride drew out many many people. Then they had the jam, with ramps dirt jumps and stuff. Most people turned right around after the ride to go back to the bmx track where there cars were, but the jam hosted a few hundred people. It was more for the younger crowd once it really got going, but that’s who it was for anyway.
Guy did an awesome job with the event and I’m sure it meant a lot to Ricci’s family. The rain was off and on from about 5:30 on (heavy at times) but it didn’t scare too many people away. they had some cool gear for sale and food and stuff too. It was pretty fun.

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Dude, I’ll be there.
I suggest anyone who is for the cause, or wants to put up a good face in honor of bmx ought to be there too. This is a chance to score for eht bmx. Instead of people talking about how “the town wants to tear the track down and make it a baseball field”, I’d rather hear someone make up some rumors like “the town is gonna help the track grow” and then get motivated to make it come true. Just Pray!
If I hear someone say that “baseball field” comment again I’m gonna let the air out of their tires when their not looking. 😀 Just kiddin’, but really that’s gettin’ old. Lets make a turn around. We need positive attitudes, motivation, and less people complaining. Gettin’ rid of clips wouldn’t hurt either.

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Clips take all of the motocross-like-action out of the race. It sucks for spectators. guys are staying all low to the ground and doing all these “weak clipped in moves”, trying to save what, one or two seconds. sure you might have won the race, but in the larger scope of BMX racing, it sucks. The scale at which people are speeding up to the point that determines which they are catching air, or not catching air, is so close in physical measure to the rider trying to win the race, but to the spectator it makes all of the difference in excitement level. Sure someone who is a fellow hardcore racer might be like, “hey did you see how well that clipped in guy rolled that jump, that was awesome”, but someone’s “beer drinking-football-fan-uncle from Pittsburg” who came to watch a race wouldn’t see anyone jumping and would probably lose interest after watching a couple motos and walk away thinking bmx is pretty lame. (or wouldn’t notice one way or another because he lost interest so fast.)
I’m just being real opinionated, and kind of sarcastic, but in some ways this is how I feel. Sure clips are cool in there own way, and I think we shouldn’t do away with them (just have a seperate class for them Bart). I say leave the clipped in footwear for the downhill skiers. Or at least seperate us into different groups in the bmx world. Make clipped in racing like the cruiser class: optional.

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The fact is, is that those movies got the idea of BMX out to the mainstream as an actual sport. Of course There is gonna be some corny stuff that is not reality to a true bmxer, but ya gotta make the movie so all different people can relate to it. People who make movies still want to make as much money as possible. If they wanted to stick to exact roots of bmx, they would make a documentary. Both those movies rule, and I think that they are great classic memories for the bmx racing community. It’s the corny, unbelievable parts that makes us be able to look back and laugh at them even more today. I live for making fun of that stuff, mostly because I love kicking back to the times that surrounded when I would watch those movies. (five, six, seven years old).
I guess it could give me a different feeling because I got to watch it so young. Maybe, for sure, you guys who were teenagers when it came out might be coming from a different point of view (like, maybe, you thought they were really corny or something), but I’m giving you my perspective from my age range, and what role those two movies played in my life.
I know that my grandfather taped the bmx bandits for me when I was five, 1987, the year I started racing. (I watched it on a kodak tape, I think I still have it). He died when I was seven from lung cancer, and I know for sure that I did not get to see him for the last year of his life. Because I was so young I have a vague rememberence of those time, but they were special to me, and they are part of me. Rad rocks, and so does bmx bandits. deep down inside those two movies played a role in many of the old school bmxers lives in one way or another. They give us something to kick back to. (I know that I saw supercross the movie, in 2005, and that is not nearly as influential as RAD was. http://www.billallenrad.com/RAD.html

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