Dan Hammell was cool enough to donate these shots of racing from the early 80’s to the site over the weekend. He sent over an email about the Dave Dechert interview and asked if I’d like to see some of his stuff from back then. Of course I was like, H**l yea man! Lots of […]
One of the cool things about doing this website is that I occasionally get hit up by an old school dude who was around during the “heyday” of BMX racing in the 80’s. At that time you could race easily 8-9 times a week in NJ and have a class at most local races. Everywhere […]
One of the BMX pioneers we always talk about on here is the originator of BMX promotion in NJ, Charlie Litsky. Unfortunately Charlie passed away at the young age of 33 leaving a large void where his smile and constant enthusiasm of not only BMX but the cycling lifestyle in general was. He was the […]
Coming out of ABA NJ District 3, Brian Shute would dominate the southern NJ scene for several years in the mid 80’s. He went on to become pro and left the scene near the end of 1987. For more on Brian click here. He was good enough to let me copy a ton of old […]
Brian Shute. In the mid to late 80’s a new wave of racers were coming into play in NJ. Brian was one of them. Hailing from the south NJ area, he was a local to Clayton BMX and Deptford. Undisputably one of the fastest riders to come out of NJ in that time, he would […]
Like I keep saying the best part of running a site that is all about something you really believe in, is meeting other people who feel the same way. I got an email a couple weeks ago from Dan saying he dug the Dave Dechert vid and had a bunch of shots from NJ and […]
One of the great things that I personally have gotten out of running this site the past few years is meeting people who actually were around at the dawn of BMX in New Jersey all the way back to the earliest days. One of those guys is John Malone, he has a whole photo gallery of pictures from the […]
Well, here it is, the final installment in the Harry Myers interview. This is the part where I actually really got to meet the guy 1987-1989 and sorta be there towards the end, lol, the end of General and the end of the beginning of freestyle BMX. I scoured some of the old mags and found […]
Guess I’ll give a little preface here as well. Harry the originator of Craigmeur had the National NBA tour through the area in 1978 and was drawing in a huge amount of riders every race. People were impressed by the facility and he was getting notoriety in the industry. At the time a lot of […]
When I was growing up and just learning about BMX, one track was already a legend in New Jersey. Craigmeur BMX. It was located in the Vernon Valley area and already by 1979 had seen an NBA National, all the pros and was known as THE track to go to if you were serious about […]
