A couple weeks ago I found my 8 year old son jumping in my front yard. He made a wooden jump from some scrap. I will post a pic when I get them back. I have never pushed him on bikes but he loves them.

I know Rod Beckering, Clint Miller and Stu Thomsens kids have all raced.

Lets hear about how your kids are getting RAD in any sport. It's tiime to brag and post some PICS.

Last spring my 5 year old, Henry, finally got off training wheels. The next weekend he saw me do my first BMX race. The following weekend he raced.

I have been taking him to skateparks for a couple of years. he dropped in on a five foot quarter pipe on his big wheel and did an 8 foot roll in. He carves bowls on his bike and scooter and can drop in on wedge ramps with his skateboard. He just turned 6 and we are going to Woodward this weekend. Growing up with a "rad dad" he thinks all that stuff is normal.

He has a 16" haro, a GHP mini for racing, a 16" tuffwheel clad motorcycle looking bike and is getting a '76 stingray junior next week via eBay. He skates a World Industries mini.

Henry's first ramp at 4, first race at 5.

""AWESOME""
My Kid Skates Too.

Love the front end lift.

Yo Gary,

You need to come out to Black Mountain BMX in Phoenix, AZ. on March 31-April 1st-2nd for the ABA Winter Nationals. Bring the kids to check it out!

shannon@ababmx.com

We went last year. He meet Heary Leary and Eric Rupe. We are going this year. I am going to do a post to see who will be there.

Check out my little angel with her sweet VDC (that's Vacuum "Dirtdevil" Cleaner)


Tom

My little dude is 2 and a half and is the youngest 9th Street local ever.
He thinks that all of this bicycle riding and jumping is what you're supposed to do. He rides his bike through our house since it's got wood floors and is fairly open. He can ride circles around stuff and drop off of a little step we have in the living room.
He likes to do kind of fast turns where he goes up on just the front wheel and one training wheel.
This activity has just broken one of his training wheels. Go figure. His first broken bike part at age 2 1/2. That's a huge head start on me. I don't think he's ready to take off the training wheels yet and I don't want him to get discouraged riding his bike. I guess I need to find some more somewhere.

Anyway, here he is at 9th Street:

Hey Wheelie- I can't belive you put Vector Bob Haro Bars on your kid's bike! I have an MCS Mantis F&F if he wants it. PM me.

Hey Greg! Great pic! PM me sometime,bro.I'm thinking of going to Austin in a couple of weeks.Take care!-Danny

lol that pic KIW

seem to be mostly little ones here but my son is still my baby so here are a couple of him that i think i haven't posted yet. poor quality because they are screen caps from a dvd.

BMXMOM "ROCKS". thanks for the pics.

I hope your son has been well. I know you said he has done some work on fishing boats in Alaska.

Gary

This one is South Park from this summers national



This one is at Oldsmar



His next love is dirtbikes.






He does pretty good for a recently turned 6 year old.

Are we seeing the next McGrath. This kids dad is Bad. (The good "Bad")

Like father, like son.

Me winning the Central California Championship. Bakersfield June '79.

My son winning the roller hockey championship December '05.

Different sports, the same big smile!




[ March 09, 2006, 06:02 PM: Message edited by: Liam Haselhorst ]

My 6yr old races and can't wait for the new season to begin - here he is messing around with his beater bike during a warm streak in January...

Thanks for the kind words Gary , he loves his SX guys and we will be watching the Daytona race tomorrow.


Cool pics guys. Kids rock!

this has been up before, my Little Guy doing an infinity roll (one handed no less)

Brian P, way to cool. Is that a 12" or 16". That is one sweet ride. Dad has to be proud.

Here is my little thrasher. She is turning 8 and wants to start racing this summer!

Just a little ShoutOut To my bro Liam. He is a GREAT!!!!!!! dad.

Great picture of Shea.

[ March 10, 2006, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: Gary Haselhorst ]

Now for my kid.
My son Justin Gary. Aka J-Boy, Boots, Big Red.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e288/ghaselh/J-BoyJump.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e288/gha...dAlldaylong.jpg
I can still do this all day long.

This is my 10yr old footjamming in alocal park we have been plowing all winter!!!
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This is my 10yr old footjamming in alocal park we have been plowing all winter!!! Sorry for double posting I'm still trying to figure out how to post pics

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures...l?id=2108438720

Here is my 10 year old son, Shane, getting ready to go up for his moto @ Bellflower. He is 10ex and has been improving a bunch the past 6 months. He started racing when he was 3.





He LOVES BMX!

Kevin

Harlow!.

It's cool to see you on this site. I am glad your Kid is into riding.

For those of you who don't know him well. Harlow has been there and done-it when it comes to bikes. Last time I saw him race he was killing them on a road bike.

Thanks Gary,

Good to see you here also. Thanks for the props! I still ride as time permits. Hope all is well for you & your family.

Kevin

It was this site and the people that hang here that pushed me to go riding with my 4yo boy, here's the two of us:

I will have to post some pics of when I was riding Australia. If anybody see Jamie Hales Or Dave Cooper please tell them I said Hi.

hi Gary, please get your Aus pics on the computer and post 'em up, plenty of us would love to see them.

Jamie Hales is still riding, have a look here for a recent event he competed in - third pic from the left.

[ March 12, 2006, 03:29 PM: Message edited by: velocidad ]

These were posted about a year ago, when he was nine. One he is gapping, he busted out a 10+ footer two weeks ago that I got on video in front of the house. The other was a no footer he was pulling at the age of 9 in one of our many local skate parks.

Navada produces some great jumpers!!

If anyone knows Tracer tell him I said Hi.

This is pics of my sons first cycle race, took place a year ago when he was three. My wife had to walk with him because of his age.

Before the race:


During the race:


On the way home:

How cool, Stylin a one hander for DAD.

Also nice to see him in a seat belt.

Alex age 7

This is Dylan at Inline One skatepark, he would live there if he could, he is seven in the pics

Hey Nelson - If your boy is doing wacky turns like that he's got to have some sense of balance points already, and has already developed a level of confidence on the bike. If he broke a training wheel already, take them things off and let him progress!
I don't even remember having training wheels, I was so young when my dad took them off my bike. He tells me it just looked to him like I did'nt need them, so he took them off. I climbed on the bike, he helped me balance for a second and gave me a little push and off I went. I was 3 1/2 or so.
2 1/2 might be a little young yet I guess, but your boy is showing some talent early. His tiny T1 is cool!!

Who else among us can honestly claim "I broke my first bike part before I was 3 years old" That is classic!!

Here's my little man....age 7. His very first race was a NBL State Series race. He took 2nd in the semis and 3rd in the main.

yeh , my boys try to get rad every day!
this is 10 yr old lachlan on our back yard track,

and his 7 yr old bro trying to do the same,

and their 6 yr old brother harry who got too rad for his own good! he fell in the first berm and the others following ran over his arm!

Went to Woodward two weeks ago. Henry was finally jumping with the same foot forward each time. He even drew pictures of himself jumping in kindergarten. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

I have never been to Woodward.
Lucky kid.

I've got to post pics of my kids new bike soon.
It's a 16" and it matches daddy's bike.
Still have to rock the training wheels for a while though.

I took his old 12" and removed the cranks and chain and lowered the seat so he can push around on it and learn a little bit about leaning and balancing. (He's 2 1/2, by the way) I see the kids in Germany with little bikes like that and just about everyone in Germany rides bikes so they must be onto something.
Anybody tried this?

A Friend of mine just got one of those for his 2 1/2 year old son. He said it was about $250.00. He said it is working well, but heck I think you have the right idea with what you did with his old bike. Much cheaper too!

http://www.wooden-bike.co.uk/index.php?gcl...CFUEaGgodYgP1fA

Yep. Those are the ones.
Hopefully it'll work out.

All you guys have some cool kids. Hopefully they all hang on to the love of biking throughout their lives, it's a positive thing.

Hey Gary...
How are you doing?.....I have seen you win many am sure you are proud of your kid.My son and I won a local Fathers Day race at the Nellis track here in Vegas a few years back.It was pretty darn cool to have the plaque with a picture.Definately better than anything I had ever done.Hope you are well.
Tracer Finn

My 24 month old is still working on the height aspect of it all... perhaps I bought a bit too early...




I guess this is more his size for the next couple of years...



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I hope your son has been well. I know you said he has done some work on fishing boats in Alaska

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thanks. he is still in alaska fishing. it will be two years next month. i sure miss him...