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The future of BMX was seen today at CJ.
When your state commissioner keeps saying,
I don’t see why we can’t do that.
Things are looking pretty good.Get ready folks we have big plans and are getting green lights.
Yeah… its shows with all his NBL and state bashing that he does
And what point is that, it seems that this is just another desperate attempt of his to bash the NBL
Define this “bashing” thing that many people like to speak of.
Pointing out deficiencies, problems, inconsistencies and the like is not bashing.
Asking questions is not bashing.
The inability to have a discussion and argue and defend a point usually leads one to fall back on saying they are being “bashed”.
I have been “bashed”, I have been told I was stupid and an idiot to my face at a nbl board meeting for the simple fact that I was bringing forth a grant to the state. Which I would like to add has been given. I have been told what we are attempting to do here, which is give the masses a place to voice their opinion and let their thoughts be known is the worst thing to happen to BMX in NJ.
The facts are plain and simple. The nbl has dropped the ball, Bill is going to go in a different direction with his track and this time there is a place where people can go and get an unbiased opinion on what is going on. If someone thinks something sucks at Bill’s track when he gets done, well guess what, he will take it into consideration, not stick his head in the sand and say everything is fine. I have a feeling Bill’s…no I’m sorry, it is actually his wife Diane ALSO an ex-BMXer who will be running the track, track will be built and ran for the AVERAGE rider not as a practice track for the “nationals”.
Bill asked a lot of questions, was vocal with his opinions and now he and his wife 2 REAL BMXers have gone and done what we should all be doing, opening a place for the riders to ride.
Bill was flown across the country to build tracks for the aba, LOCAL tracks.
We, the riders know that nbl, aba, does not matter, it is the people running the tracks that matter. We will go and promote the tracks that welcome the riders, and WE will show people how this is done.
BMX was started by rebellious, creative teenagers and it will be RUN by those same teenagers who are now adults.
In closing I tire of this word “bashing”. Although I am sure that England would have loved to have used it against Thomas Paine.
ya’all be cool.The track is the schizznitt.
Let’s be real, its rained a bit in the past few days, we’re gonna be a little soft.
The boys will be there early to make it happen.
Roll out and push up your kickstands and get to the track, if for nothing else than to give me some shit. —you do a raindance to MAKE rain. jeesh
Good idea, now take it down and shelve it, so it doesnt get out.
I also have an ad campaign. But I need someone who is willing to step up.That’s my point, we have to first say to any parent who ever rolls up to a track, that this is about having a good time on a BMX track, on dirt jumps, not about anything else.
I want kids riding BMX bikes and I also want them to be recognized as doing something legitimate. I think that is something that strikes all of us pretty hard, BMX is looked at as a “childish” thing to do.
Honest, we all know that.
We somehow need to step up the game so it is something that is seen as legit so a kid can say, yea I ride BMX and know he has the support of people around him who honestly believe in what that kid is doing and want to see it grow to it’s full potential.
I sorta wish I had a clue what that full potential thing means tho.Paved berms have a tendency to be slippery and dangerous.
Hey we raced in the mud BITD…probably a liability nowadays.…..Foot faeries?… 😆
Ant..crack this open muh man…
Ya know, and this will sound funny but….
“well you can get an aba or nbl license, but that doesnt mean anything cause you need to have a uci license. You can race junior men in nbl but a pro in aba, but the big leagues are aa pro in aba or elite in nbl.”
I mean that is just the beginning of the confusion. It’s a bummer and all created by 30 years of sanctioning lunacy.Man, sometimes when I look at this and really think about it…..
Let’s look at this.
Kid sees BMX on TV cause of the Olympics.
Parent says, yea we can try that.
Kid and parent comes to local track.
I wanna see if my kid has what it takes to be an Olympic BMX champion.Where do we go from there?
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Look buddy, you win a lot of races, so leave the backpedalling to me, 😆 .
ah ok, typo.
That is what I understand, but my thoughts are, who has a vast enough knowledge of BMX to eek out any history or interesting commentary on BMX racing. I mean I could go off on a tangent here, but that might get my ass kicked.
Kenan is a good commentator for freestyle but he’s gonna have to brush up on racing, plus, he’s only 1 guy out there.
BMX racing, where are the people who know BMX.
For over 30 years this has been promoted by both sanctions as a kids sport, now it will be on international TV, it has to be show as a sport, but all nbl and aba propoganda states the contrary.
This is gonna sound funny but let me say it,
we almost need to strategically place ourselves in bars all over the place to have them turn on BMX when it’s going down and start to pump it up.
This is why I feel BMX is gonna be really weird to see in the Olympics, it’s almost like it sorta doesn’t fit.
I dunno maybe I still have too much teen rebellion crap in my head.CBS
I thought NBC had the Olympics?
Seriously, as long as the consensus of the riders who are gonna hit this thing say, Hell yea, lets do it, it should be all good.
I would actually be thinking more about how they intend to present this sport to the whole world.
In the summer of 2008 the general public will get their first taste of BMX racing. We have to be ready for any positive or negative spin to come out of it.
Freestyle BMX is done, it’s on it’s own, it’s growing, kids want to ride BMX bikes, the thing is, can we make it so they want to RACE BMX bikes again?I only know 1 generation who can figure out how to do this and they are not the baby boomers.