t was the best of BMX times; it was the worst of BMX times. Jump For Joy 18 invaded Shields Skatepark on December 9th and the east coast contingent came out in force. Hell even the machine, Dean Watson flew in to imbibe in JFJ’ness. A JFJ, of course being the best of times.
Where did BMX freestyle contests begin in this area? Bucks County PA. From 1986 till 1990 Bucks County was the home to the PA AFA and held regular contests all year long. Now of course that was 5 billion years ago and the days of the AFA and quarter pipes with wedge ramps, as contest […]
Go north young man. Though I wasn’t going to be able to make this jam but some last minute reschedulings opened up time to hustle to Lyndhurst and scope out what was going down. JPR Cycles opens up their lot adjacent to the shop every year for a comp to let the local dudes have […]
Dang. It’s hard to believe that it has been over 3 years since I first met Ed and his crew at a contest in Flemington, NJ. I had heard rumors of this place for months prior to meeting Ed and 5 minutes after talking to him I knew he was the real deal. 30 seconds […]
Black Diamond, what once was the old Vans Skatepark, in Moorestown Mall, closed its doors this week. Before it went dark though, Michael Duda of Bulldog Bikes pulled together a final contest to close out the parks days. We got the invite to come out a couple weeks ago and were able to get there […]
One thing that has been missing from the revamped BMXNJ site is the promised coverage of the eastern PA scene that we have up on the site. When I redid the whole thing in ’08, I realized that PA and NJ have always had a tight history of working together to help out the sport. Starting […]
JPR Am Jam 2.0. Justin Francisco put out word that they were having another jam-comp up in Lyndhurst middle of June and word spread pretty fast that this would be another good time. Last years shindig brought out some crazy riding and did a good job of filling the gap for local comps left by the […]
“Hippie” Steve Wisbeski has become the defacto go to guy for a good time with BMX in the Central NJ area. From the days of the early 90’s when he started Jump For Joy, through the travels to A.S.S Park in Toms River, up to Hackettstown and now back to his hometown of South Bound Brook, […]
For the past five years Shields has opened the BMX year up at their park by hosting a comp right at the beginning of the year with a pretty large amount of riders and even bigger amount of swag for the top 3 guys in each class. ’11 was no exception. The weather was frigid […]
My North Jersey informant Dave Pawson got word to me that a shop up in Lyndhurst was having a comp this September and since I had never heard of the place before, I knew I had to get up there to check it out. Lyndhurst is way up a little past Newark and actually not to […]
