Organized BMX racing began in 1976 in Millville, New Jersey. The East Coast Is The Right Coast is the story of one of the kids to come out of the first generation of BMX racers in New Jersey that eventually went on to be a AA Pro in the ABA and A Pro in the […]
Coming this fall to BMXNJ, “The East Coast Is The Right Coast”, The Dave Dechert Story. This past August the BMXNJ…(um, Brett and Dierdre) crew headed up to Budd Lake, New Jersey to get a little sit down chat with the first true AA Pro to come out of NJ, Dave Dechert. “Dollar” Dave as he would […]
Thanks to my Dad, John ‘Buddy’ McNiel,Jr, I have a great collection of photos to remember what was for me the ‘heyday’ of BMX. Travelling all over the country pursuing my passion – racing, allowed him to pursue his – taking pictures. He loved every minute of the races, and without his and my mom’s […]
I received word from old school NJ ladies racing legend Anne Gnecco this week that OS Pro racer Douglas Daniele had passed on. Doug was an early innovator in the “riders from NJ who decide to set out on their own and start a BMX company” set. In the early 80’s DDPro BMX frames were […]
You gotta check these out! This is direct history of BMX in NJ from one of the BIGGEST tracks of BMX’s heyday in the country, Braddock BMX in North Bergen, NJ. Braddock routinely got on a Friday night more riders at a local race than a state race in the nbl did today. Braddock was […]
Before BMXNJ Ma…WAY before BMXNJ Magazine there was 1 issue of another glossy magazine based out of NJ and that mag was named, BMX Madness. Only 1 issue of the magazine was made, in 1984 and didn’t really feature much BMX in NJ beyond a cover with NJ Legend Jarrett Justice and coverage of the […]
How far back do you go in BMX? The Hoffman era? Early 90’s? Bicycle World in the 80’s? If you can remember when there was only 1 track in the state of NJ and you had to hustle down to
At one point, like I and many others have told before, BMX just about died. In the early 90’s the bottom dropped out of the BMX freestyle market, America went to war and some of us were left wondering what would happen to the sport we grew up doing. A few of us didn’t wonder, […]
Dave sent these pics over to me a few weeks ago and since I’ve been busy upgrading all my stuff over here to Vista and 64 bit computing…(It’s a pain…) it took a while to get these to the point where I could post ’em. These shots are pretty small but interesting as all get […]
Brian Shute has been cool enough to send over more shots from the early and mid 80’s days of BMX racing in NJ, PA and the east coast. He also scanned in some memorabilia. One of which is a funny as hell note left by Franco Perrino when Brian was riding for Dic’s bike shop… […]
