I just wanted to say thanks to Toby Henderson & Ben Joy for being true friends these guys are all right and don't beleve all that stuff you here about them (All kiding aside ) thank you guys your awsom!!! and to the rest of you who I haven't seen or heard from in years HOW YA DOING, all so like to say hey to Oz & family (RL & Windy) How you doing, Yea if ya all don't know I just went threw a bitter breakup but things are fine now and looking forword to a new start in life being single ya hoo.

Wecome to VBMX !!! Your a true Legend in BMX!!!

Welcome Jeff!

welcome Jeff

Hey hippie, how the h*ll are you ?

Hi there Jeff,
From the land down under, we think you are great !!!

I am trying to finish a clip of you and toby back in 1980 when you were here.

Jeff - welcome to Vintage. I enjoyed getting to know you in 1985 when you were the TM for Murray and I was the new kid on the block. Look forward to catching up with you.

Brad Birdwell

It was a wonderful surprise the evening Toby posted Jeff was hanging out again. Thank you for all the fun stories.

Rock on with that new begining! Enjoy!

Ben

Hey Jeff!

Cash Matthews here from your Webco days! You and Stu and Chuck Robinson were the coolest to us when we came to California for the 75 Randall Grands! Wow, Webco, that was WAY BACK! Welcome to the Vintage board. This place is the gate keeper for all that was good and is good!

thank YOU, mr bottema!

Welcome Jeff, your forks still rule!!!

yo.......big fan!!! from nor cal

Wow! Cool! Welcome to VBMX!!!!!

said this on the other thread but cant say it enough.
WELCOME ! its about time we got another old skool guy on here.

rick twomey
rick's bike shop

The 1st subscriber to Bob's vision

The coolest guy ever in JT gear

The namesake for the ****ing raddest fork ever

Jeff Bottema optimized California BMX in the 70's.

Welcome!

Jeff Bottema is the reason I grabbed anything JT that I could, back then, and now as well

Welcome to another legend of this sport!

From way down past Australia, as in New Zealand

Mike

Bitter dee-vorce. Well they suck. Went through one 10 years ago and all I will say here is that I am different and better off for it. Good for you for getting out.

Some pretty cool people on this site will surely cheer you up.

Jeff, Its great to hear you are doing good. This site will bring all those great memories of some great times.
I have to say Thank You, you were the guy that kinda dragged me around the 1st time I came out there to Ca in 1976. All great memories.
Hope to see you at some point again very soon.
Greg Esser

....and the vintage bmx family is on the way to be complete!

I still have my Bottema forks in daily use!

Cheers

Oliver

Wow - Jeff FREAKIN' Bottema has graced us.

Moderators - please adjust his status to "BMX Pioneer" ! ASAP

Would that be the same Greg Esser that crashed pretty hard (I think) at Fontana 2002 on the 250?

If so are you still racing?

HOLY CRAP!!! I can't believe you are here. WELCOME sir. What a pleasure.

Welcome Jeff!

Welcome to VBMX.com
=)

Hey bottom-ah, it has been a few years...you know where I live....come back up.

I vote that Jeff gets "Legend" status under his name!

Welcome to the site, best forks ever!!!!

Cheers,
Brian

Hey Jeff. Glad you made it on here.

well if it isn't Jeff FRICKING Bottema!!.......never had the pleasure to meet you in person Jeff but I raced at a lot of the races you were at . I'm a year or 2 younger than you. It would have been cool to race you man but I had a blast taking pics of you and watching you race. Anyway, I'm a San Diego dude. Here's a couple pics of you at Rancho in 1977 or 78. I already posted these in 1 or 2 other threads but just in case you didn't see them yet:

oops.....double post.......anyway, welcome to the site Jeff!

[ April 23, 2006, 07:30 AM: Message edited by: Mike Welsh ]

Great to see you made it here Jeff. I hope all is well.

Joe Baumert

Curt. I don't want to hi-jack the great Bottema thread. But, yeah, it is the same Esser. He basically ripped his foot off of his leg. And also dislocated his shoulder. Wet haybales and humans at 100mph don't mix. Seven months later.Two weeks after getting his cast off. He raced in Va. He retired in 2004 (?)

John, thanks for the update. I am pretty sure you are one of seven who smoked my last place finish in a semi at an NBL National in mid 80s LOL.

As for Mr. Bottema, yes you were one of the guys I looked up to when I was a raced in the late 70s. Thanks.

If memory serves I am thinking that you had a custom 531 Raleigh/Rampar made for you lets say 80-81? Still have it?

Did you ever make , design or plan a Bottema frame ??

or would doing that have made things _really_ difficult with negotiations when getting a factory ride back then ???

Jeff Bottema , a forkin BMX legend

JB

thats a RAD!!! pic on top......

How cool is it that we have a legend like Jeff Bottema here?

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How cool is it that we have a legend like Jeff Bottema here?

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Very cool, very cool indeed