Guy's,
I haven't been on the Vintage site for some time but when I got this e-mail I saw that voting is now open to all who want to vote. I'm not sure if this is good or bad but seeing as those are the new rules I want to ask you to please vote for Rick Twomey and JP (Johnny Palfreyman) to go into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame. These 2 guys are true BMX pioneers and they need and deserve to be in there.
Rick Twomey started the first team of BMX all-stars (Rick's Bike Shop). He didn't even really have a bike shop. I remember because I wanted to go there SO BAD and get one of his bikes. They first kicked butt at all of the NBA tracks up in the valley, and then they were the first to go down to Orange County and start kicking butt down there! Rick helped design some of the first straight tubed frames, helped out Skip with Motomags, and built some of the first sidehacks to be raced. If you raced BMX back in the early days you knew when the Rick's Bike Shop team was there.
Johnny Palfreyman was one of the first true BMX superstars. He had mad, aggressive style and was brutally fast! JP was always in the mix, especially on downhill tracks. JP won the Nor Cal Yamaha Gold Cup race coming from behind by more than 50 feet on a 2 lap race. He put everything into his races and was spent when he hit the finish line. You don't see that kind of effort very much anymore and JP rode hard. Ask anyone who is in the BMX Hall of Fame who were some of the fastest early riders and JP will be on that list every time! Johnny Palfreyman WAS Rick's Bike Shop!
JP also was a true pioneer in sidehack racing. Without JP (and his partner Doug Takahashi) there may not have been sidehack racing. JP's dad was a top motorcycle sidehack racer and helped Rick build JP's sidehack. I will GUARANTEE you will not see any gnarlier pictures of guys racing sidehacks than you will of JP and Dougie. That shot (you know the one I'm talking about) of JP & Dougie launching off that jump at Yarnell has to be one of the all time great shots of early BMX.
The BMX Hall of Fame really is for riders who had great careers and contributed to our sport. Both Rick and JP had realitively short BMX careers, but they made HUGE contributions to our sport. It would be fantastic to see these two BMX legends get inducted at the same time.
PLEASE VOTE FOR RICK TWOMEY AND JOHNNY PALFREYMAN FOR THE ABA BMX HALL OF FAME!!!!!
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Perry Kramer
I will extend my vote for Rick and John. More than deserving of such an honor. (where do we vote?)
Bumpy
Bumpy
I took a look at the list of nominees (all quite deserving of inclusion), and getting these two guys in this year is a no-brainer as far as i'm concerned.
Count on my vote.
Count on my vote.
quote:www.ababmx.com
(where do we vote?)
Thanks PK. Let me add that Rick Twomey has also been a good friend to many of us throghout the years and would do anything to help out.
And for those who might not know who JP is:
The actual site so you won't have to navigate the site is here
Let's get those two pioneers in the Hall of Fame and give Twomey a cool 60th birthday present
And for those who might not know who JP is:
The actual site so you won't have to navigate the site is here
Let's get those two pioneers in the Hall of Fame and give Twomey a cool 60th birthday present
Done.
Done 2 days ago!
ditto as g-flash, thats who i voted for 2 days ago also.
Voted as soon as I heard about it.
I have some opinions about this year’s voting and nominees; however I have a debilitating case of carpal tunnel in both of my hands and therefore cannot really type an expanded post here.
I fully support Perry’s opinions and observations about Rick Twomey and Johnny Palfreyman + add about ten more pages of stories about Rick’s bike shop team riders.
In my opinion both Rick Twomey and Johnny Palfreyman both have made both significant impact and contributions to the sport and therefore deserve to be inducted this year. With that said, I am offering to forfeit (resign, for whatever you want to call it) my Hall of fame induction! Yes, that’s right, I would gladly give up my spot in order to honor Rick or Johnny!
In the Beginning days of the BMX, both Rick’s bike shop team riders and Johnny had a tremendously powerful influence on my riding, if it wasn’t for them, I would have never trained my *** off and got sponsored –it just wouldn’t have happened!
Johnny is definitely one of the first five star riders that came out of the early nineteen seventies/1970. For me it’s very important to respect the true roots of BMX and those riders and industry members who together shaped and developed the beginning days of BMX. You had to be there to really understand and appreciate Ricks and Johnny’s place in the BMX history.
I would like to go on but my hands are killing me.
Thanks for reading.
Byron “Next†Friday
www.gotbmx.co
www.biketeacher.com
I fully support Perry’s opinions and observations about Rick Twomey and Johnny Palfreyman + add about ten more pages of stories about Rick’s bike shop team riders.
In my opinion both Rick Twomey and Johnny Palfreyman both have made both significant impact and contributions to the sport and therefore deserve to be inducted this year. With that said, I am offering to forfeit (resign, for whatever you want to call it) my Hall of fame induction! Yes, that’s right, I would gladly give up my spot in order to honor Rick or Johnny!
In the Beginning days of the BMX, both Rick’s bike shop team riders and Johnny had a tremendously powerful influence on my riding, if it wasn’t for them, I would have never trained my *** off and got sponsored –it just wouldn’t have happened!
Johnny is definitely one of the first five star riders that came out of the early nineteen seventies/1970. For me it’s very important to respect the true roots of BMX and those riders and industry members who together shaped and developed the beginning days of BMX. You had to be there to really understand and appreciate Ricks and Johnny’s place in the BMX history.
I would like to go on but my hands are killing me.
Thanks for reading.
Byron “Next†Friday
www.gotbmx.co
www.biketeacher.com
Way to go Byronous Maximus Fridousous!!
Now answer my e-mail...
[ September 12, 2006, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: Reilley1 ]
Now answer my e-mail...
[ September 12, 2006, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: Reilley1 ]
Done. although, it was hard not to vote for Brian Lewis...
hehehehehe. I did.
So let's see..add the last number plus 7 divided by 3. Yes, here it is. One vote for Brian so far....
[ September 12, 2006, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Reilley1 ]
So let's see..add the last number plus 7 divided by 3. Yes, here it is. One vote for Brian so far....
[ September 12, 2006, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: Reilley1 ]
You are so going down!
Well if you ask me this was NOT an easy decision if you were actually around during the 70's bmx scene. I struggled with a couple of my votes. I wanted to vote for Brian Lewis, Marvin Church, Cash Mathews, Dennis Dain, and Matt Raymer but I voted for John Palfreyman and NOT because I was influenced. I hate politics and I think that if you don't really know who you are voting for that maybe you shouldn't vote. Don't just go by the short paragraph that the ABA has on each person. Do a little research on your own if you're not sure. Heck we all have the world at our finger tips with the internet.
On the other portion I voted for Greg Grubbs although there were others in his category I wanted to vote for; R.L. Osborn & Mike Buff, Tim Judge.... It couldn't have been easy for Greg Grubbs, and other midwest kids, to pursue bmx with cold snowy winters and not nearly the number of riders that we had in California and other coastal areas. Greg Grubbs was a top notch rider and very fast and very competitive with ANY rider BITD.
Rick Twomey was pretty much a no-brainer for me although I also wanted to vote for Elaine Holt and Sandy Finkleman.
I personally think that some day most, if not all, of these people will eventually make it in and they deserve it. Just my opinion(s). Thanks for listening to my opinions. We cool?
On the other portion I voted for Greg Grubbs although there were others in his category I wanted to vote for; R.L. Osborn & Mike Buff, Tim Judge.... It couldn't have been easy for Greg Grubbs, and other midwest kids, to pursue bmx with cold snowy winters and not nearly the number of riders that we had in California and other coastal areas. Greg Grubbs was a top notch rider and very fast and very competitive with ANY rider BITD.
Rick Twomey was pretty much a no-brainer for me although I also wanted to vote for Elaine Holt and Sandy Finkleman.
I personally think that some day most, if not all, of these people will eventually make it in and they deserve it. Just my opinion(s). Thanks for listening to my opinions. We cool?
I thought the voting would be easy. Then I saw the ballot and was like you kidding me? They all arent in already?
Man it was hard. So I had so had the earliest impact, as later racers and industry peeps can always get added later and still have a good chance to see themselves inducted.
I voted for Cash Matthews Cause he helped bring BMX and the possibilites of a non Californian being a Factory rider (along with Matt Raymer).
I voted for Elaine Holt as from as far as I can see she started the whole BMX Media.
I voted for RL and Buff cause they were truely up on everyones bedroom wall back when I started racing.
They looked so dialed in those yellow and blue BMXA uniforms and they could jump with style for miles.
[ September 13, 2006, 03:28 AM: Message edited by: Racer ]
Man it was hard. So I had so had the earliest impact, as later racers and industry peeps can always get added later and still have a good chance to see themselves inducted.
I voted for Cash Matthews Cause he helped bring BMX and the possibilites of a non Californian being a Factory rider (along with Matt Raymer).
I voted for Elaine Holt as from as far as I can see she started the whole BMX Media.
I voted for RL and Buff cause they were truely up on everyones bedroom wall back when I started racing.
They looked so dialed in those yellow and blue BMXA uniforms and they could jump with style for miles.
[ September 13, 2006, 03:28 AM: Message edited by: Racer ]
Just voted.....Tim Judge is on there as well!
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