Found this pic of Rockne from BMXACTION.

ONE MORE OF RORY INGANO AND DAVID WAKATAKE.

There will be sort of a Hawaiian reunion at Chandler BMX in AZ. tomorrow night. Greg Leasure and I both work at ABA and ride Chandler BMX. Well Ryan Donnelly, an old friend and fellow long time team mate from my Hawaii days lives in AZ. now and is back riding and racing with his son. We're going to hook up tomorrow night at Chandler BMX for a practice night and Hickam reunion.

It will be fun cutting them off out of the gate again like old times. hehehehehe.

O.K. Leasure, let's hear it. LOL!!!!

Testing your old school Hawaii knowledge............

Who was John DeSoto?
Who did he ride for?
He was
Hawaii's first star back in the mid 70's.
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The pic of Rockne Tange at the 80' NBA Grands.

Notice who's behind him?
Rod "Bronco" Beckering #99 (SE Racing)
Mike Poulson #664 D (Schwinn)
Eric Braganza from Vegas #5 (J.T. long sleeve t-shirt)

That's easy JJ, John DeSoto, Factory Kawasaki moto star from early 70's. I saw him race many times on the mainland.

Another old photo I found. No 85 Eric Phillipart, No 18 is me, No 4 Ryan Cordiero. I think this was in 1980.

Eric Phillipart lives in AZ. also. Last I heard he was a pretty successful realtor. He race PRO over here in the mainland for a while and even moved up the the AA Pro ranks. He then went into Mountain biking and was killing it at that also. I think he's a roadie now.

Thumperpilot,

Yeah, Eric is a cool dude. From what I remember his mom was a realtor in Hawaii BITD. I remember when I first met him at a Hawaii race he was wearing a Wes BMX jersey. He had just moved here from the mainland. He soon got sponsered by The Bike Shop here in Hawaii. He hung out alot with Buddy Ikeda another local standout. I saw him many years later where he was the bouncer at a club called Pink Cadillac. I followed his racing career for a while in the magazines. Glad to hear he is doing well he deserves it!

jeremy

Funny, it seems all the fast guys were sponsored by THE BIKE SHOP. I worked at the Aiea location and I was sponsored by them too. Like I said, all the fast guys were sponsored by them. LOL!!! I have a few HI-03 District #1's hangin' in the garage here in AZ.

Too funny. I worked at the King street one for a while then later at the Aiea one. I was never sponsored by them though.....Not fast enough I guess....hah!

a shout out to all you hawaiians out there. chang turned me on to the site. it's awesome. i used to race back in the 80's, freestyle, and put on the freestyle contests in hawaii.

aloha, kevin

www.rideblacklightning.com

kevlau,

Welcome to the site Hawaiian!

All of you with Hawaii ties drop by this web site.bmxhawaii

I am not sure who runs the site. I stop by daily hoping more members will sign up.

Ahh, Kevin Lau makes an apperance. Welcome to thge site. Last time I saw him was in MTB Action riding the lava fields on his moutain bike. LOL!!! I use to see him at the Bike Factory when I would go in there. Good to see him getting back to his BMX roots.

Thanks everyone! I just talked to chang, and he said there is a small snag in getting the sand island track finished. i'm still waiting. i just moved to pearl city, and it seems jason enright has been busy making all kinds of jumps at the top of royal summit. also, there are jumps at the old hawaii kai job corp track. check em out.

kevlau,

Where on Royal Summit?

Do you know what kind of hang up there is with the Sand Island Track? Is there anything we can do to help?

go to the end of the road and up the jeep trail. you will see jumps and berms off to the side of the trail as you go up. i am not sure about the sand island track. you gotta holler at chang on that one.

Thanks! I'll be there as soon as I get my bike done. I work in the area.

Jason Chang if you read this PM me. If I can help in any way with the track let me know.

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Johnny,

John DeSoto was "the Flyin' Hawaiian"

Doug Domokos is "The Wheelie King"

I was "the Pineapple Express" I still have my helmet visor that Jim's son, Dave Melton lettered for me in the summer of '77. I usually bring it with me to the shows.

Just in case yer wondering, I got Da Kine flowin' in my veins......

Adam

I found this photo while visting my mom today. I'm not sure who the Factory riders are but No. 910 is local rider Kaui Aikau.

I believe the Factory Mongoose rider is Stanley Robinson.

Kevin Lau! You still got the monoQ Haro? hehehe

Aloha Brah!

-Greg Leasure

leasure,

sadly to say, no sheetmetal haro anymore. some kid wanted it more than me. so what you been up to? i like the "king of keehi lagoon" picture!

Leasure works at ABA with me now. We talk about our days in Hawaii quite often.

If any of you guys with Hawaii ties know how I can get in touch with Rockne Tang let me know please.

Kevin Lau,

Brah, you'd better check yourself! That wasn't Keehi Lagoon, that was Magic Island!

Life's tough when youre buff!

-Leasure

this is a picture of moki fernandez at a freestyle contest in hawaii kai. anyone remember this one?

Kev,

I didn't know Moki entered freestyle contests BITD. Got any more pics?

Moki did it all. He even entered the bike race up tantalus (sp?) mountain.

this one is john llacuna at the same freestyle contest.

,...and another one from jump track in wahiawa. that's lance murata and keith horikawa jumping into the bowl.

Hey, thats "flats" in pearl city, top of the hill, yes?

Nice thread, found this old school BMX site. Kevin Lau, this is Paiea Paul, doing road racing now. No more BMX.

Is Jeremy -- the Jeremy Kam, of 80's drumming fame? I remember you, my dirt jumping idol!

Not much to contribute, I sucked at racing.. i have some old pictures tho


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I thought that was you on the biggest air thread! Could tell from the insane height from a small jump! Glad you found the site. Lots of cool people here. Post those old pics! Go check out bmxhawaii.com if you haven't already.

E' Hawaiian(or should I say Japanese! This is Broc... from Bikefactory! remember???? I had talked with Andy just last month and saw his pictures and video from his 40th birthday. well I have one picture for you!

broc,
what's up! that's actually a picture of andy's younger brother, randy at mililani shopping center. randy, andy's mom and father died while trying to escape the california wild fires in southern ca. it's a real bummer, as they found randy's remains in the middle of the street. apparently he tried got out of the car and tried to run and was burned to the ground. we actually sponsored andy and his birthday bash. woody itson and a bunch of old schoolers showed up to jam.
aloha, kevin

paiea,

me and walter watanabe was just talking about you when you were going off the cliff at tantalus and decided to tabletop it off the edge,... and pancakes over trash cans. remember those days? hickam track, andy shohara, some guy in the middle, and walter watanabe.

aloha, kevin

Kev and Brutha Waltah:)

Nice pic.. yah, those were the days.. good to hear from you mate!

I remember Andy Shohara, never met him though. Saw his picture in some article in Freestyle magazine.. evidently he entered a half-pipe jumping contest and he was photographed doing a no-footer.. which was advanced trickery at the time..

Here is a pic that Walter, jeff Kang and Pumpkin should remember. Shot at the Burger King near King street and Honolulu Academy of Arts in like 1980.

Click to view attachment

Hawaii racers from back in the day..

See this:



Shot at McKinley High School race track, which had these idiotic wooden jump thingies that caused crashes all day.

Jeremy Kam, Buddy Ikeda, Kevin Sano demonstrate the carnage.


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I also dug up this old newpaper clipping.



You'll see the Rock&Roll brothers, Rockne and Roland Tang.. along with Cayetano brothers and one name not mentioned recently: Malvert Benigno.

Not sure of the year.

My cousin is Lyle Kamaunu, younger brother of Kerry from the windward side.

Old time BMX friend of mine I still hang with sometimes, though "rare"... Guy Yoshimura from back in the days of Kewalo Basin track. Anyone remember him? I used to have a newspaper photo clip of him doing a tabletop off a Kewalo jump.


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I remember that race. I think everyone there hated it. Wasn't it called Sport week 80? I do enjoy the pic though. Nothing like seeing yourself and a bunch of friends tangled up in a crash. Thanks for posting that. Didn't they also have one at Iolani Palace parking lot one year too or was it at Blaisdell parking lot? With the same retarded bike crashing wooden thingies!

I rember Guy Yoshimura! How's about Guy "Hanalei" Toriki at Triangles. Now that was serious air BITD. Remember the Palolo Valley Riders...............I'll post more...........Wifey wants me to take the dog out while I'm living the BMX days!!!!!! ........... Post more pics please!

Greetings J..

I hated it myself, parts of the race course had sand on it.. thats right, SAND.. (do I recall properly??) Not sure about those "parking lot-sounding" race tracks.. but I didn't do any races there. I've always been sketchy about man-made ramps for races.

Look at this kid <ouch>:

http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/pe...inley-crash.jpg

Guy Yoshimura is quite a character.. I used to hang with Guy Hanalei Toriki too, we called him "G-Boy", you were connected, I'll say that. Gabriel Moniz was also part of the Palolo Riders, another good friend of mine is Richard **forget his name!**, he was number 2 on the island. Another Triangle Park jumper was Clarence Waialeale. He works downtown in the same building as I do. I must ask him if he still has some Triangle Park pictures. I remember he could tabletop before I could.

I'll leave you with one more Hawaiian memory for now:

http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh82/pe...k-miyashiro.jpg

This is Mark Miyashiro at Cannon Club's wall jump. More where these came from.


G'Day kind sir.

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Sorry man, the links messed up I think.

Here, let me try again and get used to this picture-posting-thingamajiggie..


The McKinley crash:





The Mark Miyashiro jump:






Moderators, sorry 'bout the dead link.


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I remember the SAND too at the Mckinley track. Check this pic out. Maile Beach race. Now that was some serious sand. The only part that had dirt was the starting area. The rest was sand over dirt. I had a hard time just getting thru the track the sand was so deep at some points.



Clarene Waialeale. Now thats a name from the past huh? Red FMF wasn't it? I remember Gabriel Moniz, Hows about Daniel Moniz and Mark Gentry. Wow, I am surprised how much memories some pics can trigger.

Here's another pic. Rockne Tang, Rolland Tang and me goofing off at the construction site where Longs is now on Waialae Ave. You can see St. Louis HS in the background.




The pic of Mark at Cannons is sick! Keep posting my brother!

JK

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I think the No2 rider you are thinking about is Richard Okimoto.

J

that's some pretty cool pics. i think you can still make the same jump at the cannons club. its pretty vacant up there.

kevin

You're absolutely right JK, he is a close family friend of ours.. one of the kindest chaps you'd meet. When we talk about the BMX days, he laughs.. "number 2, haha nobody would ever know!" he says.


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Thanks Kev, hey look at Jeffrey Kang, the "Kang-go kid", what a nut .. LOL






Cannons Club mountain side jump - turndown action

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Kevin,

You're probably right. I think I will go check it out one day when my bike is done. Would be cool to snap some pics of how it is now.

P,

Imagine if we thought of hitting that jump like a vert ramp BITD. Instead of all those brutal landings we used to make there. Pretty cool that we had a jump right up against Diamond Head Crater HUH?

Later,
J

HOLY CATS, Maile beach? I had no idea there were races out that side of the island.. what an epic picture, thanks for posting that one.

I think you're right about Clarence, red FMF. I can't say for sure. One guy that rode with us alot that started with an FMF was Reid Kawamae, recall that name? He rode FMF and later changed to a Cooks Brothers chrome bike, beautiful stead for sure. Gabriel was in the class of 81 like myself, but I don't remember Daniel.. Mark Gentry, yeah rings a bell, mos def.

How about Michael Woo? He lived right across the street from Triangle Park, adjacent to the Catholic church on the corner. Man, during summer time the wind would blow down from inside the valley and all the dirt/dust kicked up from us riders would send clouds of "locus-like dirt" invasions straight to those houses.. OMG the parents would go ballistic LOL.. eventually remember the city put up those stupid pipes and chains right in front of the jumps? We'd cut the chains, city would replace them, etc

That construction site pic is truely old school. I wasn't aware of the little dirt mounds in the back, but I now confess being enlightened by the pope of "dope pictures" and that would be you kind sir!

Another rider named Tayne Toma lived only 2 blocks from Triangles. Wonder where is??

To refresh your memory about Reid Kawamae, I dedicate this following picture.. taken at the McKinley sand and dirt track. Reid loved the track so much, he is about to kiss the holy ground from which his blessed name will always be cemented, in history that is LOL.





I wish against the psychological construct known as time that I had discovered this site long ago, at one time I had many BMX racing pictures and also dirt jumping pictures that I could have shared. Alas, I do not have too many left to share.. But I will not rest until I dig up everything I can possibly find to spread the love of BMX yesteryear, the real birth of passion, my first love, BMX riding and dirt jumping.

Fine evening, fellow dirt lovers. LOL



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JK,

it would be fun to jump it, only i am not sure if i could land anything without hurting myself! what kind of bike are you building, and weren't you sponsored by jim at safari cycles bitd? i was sponsored by him for profile freestyle bikes later on. i bet he has some awesome old school stuff.

kl

I ride my road bike up Monssarrat Ave each time I head out to the east side, next time I will stop by and check out the jumps, should they still exist, that is.

You had to possess big nuts to charge that huge wall jump back then. Getting speed might have been an issue as the road went uphill facing the jump itself. I rather loved that jump because just before summer the landing part had more grass than the raw asphalt-like ground in mid-summer, made those teeth jarring landings a tad less brutal. Instead of losing the filings in your teeth that mommy and daddy just paid $5,000 dollars for, you merely compressed shavings in your knees.

Since we're on the Hawaiian things thread, here is a picture that I love, my guys, my dirt buds.




L to R:

Steven Cabebe, me, Daniel Lee, Michael Tyau, Tayne Toma, Eric Koichi Mitsunaga and Mark Miyashiro.. on the bike. The car belongs to Cosmo, the gentleman I thank for many of the pictures I still have in my possession..

One more thing (LAME question of the century) -- what is BITD?

**crawls into berm hole**


Cheers y'all..


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