Great pix Kevin, good to see you breaking out the secret stash. I have some more pix, just gotta scan'em.

Classic pics you guys -- thanks for posting them!

I get my teeth drilled in another half hour, so I'll tell you all a quick story about Danny.

One day a big bunch of us, about 15+ strong, were riding back from Pearl City under the airport viaduct. This was late 70s or maybe '80 at the most.. so anyways there is a big construction going on along the whole right side of the road for at least 2-4 miles. The construction crew put up these tall orange cone thingies to divert traffic and all of us were knocking them to the ground like typical 2-wheeled juveniles, whooping it up as we rode along merrily. Then this blue and white (something out of Hawaii 5-0) sirens up and pulls us all over. And he was alone on this occasion, as far as I remember. He proceeds to give us all a major lecture on "behaving as the old English do, gentlemanly". Mark is still riding his bicycle in circles and the cop says "son, I said stop riding your bike" and Mark replies sarcastically "I'm not riding, I'm cruising"... you had to be there, I thought it was hysterical.. but the cop didn't see it that way and pulls Mark off to the side. Starts getting in his face and Mark just sits there with this flowery look on his face LOL.

Then the officer of the law orders half of us to walk backwards and pick up all the cones while he checks each of our bicycle frames for the city and county License, in the form of a sticker, naturally. I was waiting in line to get my bike checked, conjuring up as idiotic an excuse as I could manage without getting arrested and Danny was ahead of me in line. The cop says "son, where is your license"?

Danny pulls out his "ripper wallet" and shows the cop his beautiful little sticker inside a picture holder in the wallet! Crack me up - I knew that was going to happen.. and the cop then says "what in the world is your license doing in your wallet - it belongs on your bike".

Cop: "Well, why is your bicycle license in your wallet?" <repeat of question one>

Danny: "Umm, I don't know..." **voice trails off into the distance**

Danny has this priceless look on his face -- another clustery grin of goodness that just saturates the world with love. Too bad the cop saw no such thing and begins to verablly pound Danny in a tirade of "irresponsible behavior" and other such scoldings. Poor Danny. LOL..

By this time, as I recall, the cop has had enough of us and generally gives us a warning and finally drives away.

I hope Danny doesn't carry his Marriage License in his ripper wallet, that would be "irresponsible". LOL, too much man!

On a lighter note, I'll honor Danny with this nice shot at Hickam:




Notice on the lower left of the pic, Tayne Toma treats us to a GQ-like covershot of himself without the aid of any proper wardrobe, studio lighting, lip gloss, eyeliner shading, skin glow, liquid foundation, porous or damaged hair, brittle cuticles, dandruff problems, overdone mousse spread or hairdryer burn. Danny does manage to capture our fancy with a wonderful view of his cowlick.


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Jeremy K.---So Eki was the one at Ala Moana!!! Kailua Bike Shop jogs somekind of memorie and sounds familar. I also remember some of the pics missing your head or only getting half the bike or something with those cameras. Funny! From what I can remember that jump the "redline" know a days called "Euro Tables" I remember it from the BMX Mags and Stu Thompson doing them in every picture when he rode for Redline. So I guess it was natually name like that. I don't think they had a name for it, so for us Island guys and the exposure only through the mags it was called the "redline" I don't think the guys on the mainland had a name for it as well. It was just a styled jump.

Islandrider-- I think when I was living in Waimanalo at the time it was called Kailua Lawnmower and Bike Shop. I have a small memorie of lawnmowers being displayed in the shop. Then when I moved to Waipahu it changed to Kailua Bike Shop. When I lived in Waimanalo I never ventured out to far on my bike. I could only stay no farther then Ola Mana and to Sea Life Park at that time. My dad knew I was crazy to go super far and was worried I'll be on the other side of the island or something, but during those times I used to go one the Bus everywhere. Expecially those trips with Grandma into town on the Bus to shop. If you went she would always buy you what ever you wanted, but you ended up carrying alot of bags home. When they were tearing up all of the old plantation homes we mad alot of jumps, also there would be a few jumps here and there and the dirt trails out back near the mountain. Bellows Field was also a hang out in the bunker fields. Played alot of Army and hid and seek, not to mention the beach for a good swim! I still have alot of family that rome those parts. If you guys from the Windward side know the Bonds sister Cheryl, Debbie, and Laura, Leong family and the Ledward's those are branch's of my family back there.

Perfectnut--- Yeah you missed the ones at the Bus stop, but I do remember the ones at the Tower. They went as popular with us but we hit those on occasion. I remember some tunnels and cement cannels we used to ride bikes there in that area. Thats amazing Ice Palace still there!! That was one of my hangouts during Freshman year. I did my 360's the same way 180 to roll, then I got as close to 270 with a roll. I had the sme camara with the flashing bulbs then came the one that was built in. Remeber looking threw the focus lens backwards? Was just like the 6 Million Dollar man figure, images was small but it looked like you were looking far away.

Thumperpilot--- I forgot about guys like Mickey Fernandez and Rory Ingano. Beside John being at the shop all the time I remember Rory being there as much too! Sorry about your cruizer! you would always keep a watch on you bike at any bike shop some to stand watch or ask if you can bring your bike inside. During your trips to Kauai did you run into some guy name Daryl--( forgot his last name ) but he was sponsered by Diamondback back and that was around 1982? I envy you having a job at The Bike Shop! That was our dream job growing up to work at the shop. Back then it was a hang out for us and those guys didn't mind us staying there for hours. They were great!! They treated us like if they were our older brothers.

It's to bad that the Hawaii scene is kind of dead, but it could be an underground thing and not know it. Here in Northern California Racing is still popular, but it is the dirt and park scene that has been booming! I know of some guys that do all 3. and some are getting into some flatland skills like Hang 5's are popular with the young generation.

This has been a great topic!! Thanks Jason Chang for starting it! Thanks guys for bringing back so much memories and it has been great sharing them with you all!! I miss that Hawaiian red dirt!!!!!! Time to go do some riding!!!

P,

Danny.........

Wasn't it a great time when you would have 15 to 25 guys riding from one place to another? You couldn't get from home to triangles without seeing other guys riding at one point. It is a bummer that the BMX front is dead in Hawaii. I see pockets of freestylers every now and then but you are talking about 2-3 guys. The good old days Rocked!!!!! Isn't that what brought us all back in the first place. That time in your life where nothing mattered but BMX. I ran into Roger Nitta (Waipahu Bicycles) last night during work. We started talking about bikes and stuff. Isn't it unreal how you don't see someone for years and you can just start talking about BMX. He still has the passion! And he has good-happy memories as we all do. He said he has alot of pics of the Campbell days and he will post them. I'll keep bugging him until he does. I also talked to Jim Tomitagawa (who owned Safari Cycles) last night on the phone. It was a nice talk of times past and we tossed around names that brought back good memories. I'm hoping to meet up with him soon.

All you old school guys where are you? Maybe if I post your names somehow an internet search will lead you to our new found home: Rockne Tang, Rolland Tang, Robert Tang, Buddy Ikeda, Bo Ikeda, Barry Ikeda, Brian Cayetano, Rory Ingano, Malvert Banigno, Alex Adams, Walter Watanabe, Scott Iha, Gabriel Moniz, Eric Phillipart, Chris Cole, Richard Perreria, Jesse Allen, Kevin Sano, Miki Fernandez, Moki Fernandez, John Llacuna, Llane Nishimiya, Ryan Cordeiro, Steven Nakasone, Toby Tsukamoto, Kevin Murnin, Lisa Irei, Darius Kono, James Katasako, Richard Okimoto, Blane Valoria, Bill Kono, Faye Saiki, Dennis Saiki, Dean Young, Stuart Saito, Kaui Aikau, Joseph Kerr, Amalito Lapitan, David Wakatake, Gabriel Cruz..........I am sure you guys have names to add.

I can't keep up with p on all the cool old school pics. I'll leave you with this pic of one of my last races at Campbell. I think this was after the Castle Park Track. On the Gate: Eric Phillipart, Gabriel Cruz, JK, Brian Cayetano.



Aloha,

JK

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Gary lives on, he sports very long locks these days. I meant to check out the Bike Shop's hall of fame wall upstairs, I failed to do so. I'll be by there again sometime when I'm ready to get my Merlin overhauled. Faye is a great icon in Hawaii cycling, of all kinds. Look forward to chatting with her next time I'm over there.

This Cy you mention has to be Cy Shinkawa. I believe he goes back to the days of Barry Masuda. Barry does road mostly and his son also rides, I see them on the road quite a bit. I'll ask about Cy, I'm sure he is around somewhere. Not sure if he remembers me but Cy certainly was one of the more intellectual riders back then, I'm sure he has those photos floating around in yester-space. Atomman Kim heads up the Tradewinds road team and he rode back in the 70s timeframe when Dick Evans was still around. I'll hit him up about Cy.

I have been turning my house upside down trying to find every BMX picture I have and the excavation is telling. While I have recovered a few more negatives, there is much more to gouge out from the eyes of the hillside.

Do you remember Scott Chaney? He is a wrench at The Bike Shop. Still cranking away today.

Have not gotten to the specialty camera shop yet, maybe next week. Fear not, I have a picture for all Hawaiians to enjoy, something I dug up last week in the pile of regular-sized negatives.

CHECK OUT REID:



If you remember back a few years ago 1999(?), the Xerox massacre in town (near Dillingham, I believe) well, Reid's father was one of those who lost their life. I think Reid has a son and resides on the east side of the island. I hope he finds this website someday. In honor of Reid and his father, I post up this pic of the Cooks Brothers Boy getting air off the Makiki jump in times past.

Hope you all like this one.



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One and the same!

I am sorry to hear about Reids father.

JK

Hey there BMX Joe-

I just wanted to comment about your memory, pretty keen there! We ride road alot on that side of the island and Olomana is the scene of a very grueling road race once a year.

Hard to forget that Hawaiian red dirt, good call -- the pineapple fields of Haleiwa shall never perish. Ditto on ChangStar.

I saw someplace else on this website some dude rolled a Hang5 for like miles! That was incredible. The link posted to a YouTube vid. Unreal.


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two more pics for ya. me and barry uyeno at keehi lagoon chilling. that's when barry was sponsored by jim at safari cycles. he's on a profile. evrything he had was profile, profile hubs, profile cranks, frame, fork, seat post, ect. imagine what that would be worth today! the other is an older one, me and jason chang, no mustache, back when he tried to freestyle. he's on a cooks bros.

Kevlau,

Cool shots! Thanks for posting them. I hope you will keep putting pics up so we can keep the Hawaiian thread going. I remember the Keehi lagoon track and those wooden jumps. Wasn't the greatest track but it was still fun.


Thumper,

I found some Hickam shots. I am not sure if you are in them. They are all slides. I need to see if a shop can make some prints from them and I will post them all. I have about 20 shots. I'll look into that today or tomorrow.


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You are definately right. Faye is an ICON. Think you can get some shots of her to post on the thread? I always ask if she is around when I stop by TBS. I haven't seen her in about 5yrs. I hope you hav luck with tracking down Cy. Just look the guy with the biggest thighs.

JK

Good day-

I do have pictures of Faye, just at the road races. No old school ones from BMX days.

Here's hoping your slides come out next time. I just found a photo place in Waikiki that said they can build prints from those narrow negatives I found in my picture stash. Will pick them up tonight, more than likely.

Will update everyone on Cy. I'm cranking at work and my jaw hurts like hell from yesterday..

In the meantime, here is a pic from the old Hickam jump:



Not bad air for a "manini-sized" takeoff. You've probably noticed a comb in my back pocket on most/all of my jump shots. There is a major story behind that, you will see that over time the comb changes color from black to white... hmmm

Here we are constructing the jump:



L to R:

Danny (holding slipper like there's no tommorrow), Tayne (digging with shovel, action shot), Mark, Me and 2 by-standers (who are both expecting Kevin Bacon's pet earthworm to emerge).

Awww Danny, that is NOT an animal slipper and therefore is applying no help to our constructive efforts here. Plush animal footwear such as a beaver, bear, dog or hippo might be able to contribute -- due to their strong paws and commerical inclinations, of course -- but in this case a rubber Aloha slipper is totally unsympathetic to our labor of love going on at the moment.

The two young kids casually observing are really secret agents from GETRAD - the Global Enterprise Transport Radical Air Division from Sector 5, YooLaw Universe. They tried to masquarade, but my "spidey sense" was tingling.

Thanks KevLau, great pics!

I've never even set tire on Keehi Lagoon, what a nice lookback to history I missed. This is a non-memory I can take a liking to, unlike the Pharoah, whose memories are probably not going to be his fondest.


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Sounds great JK, I'll be out of town until next Monday. I work for ABA BMX and I travel to most of our events. We're in So.Cal this weekend. Should be an awesojke evnt as the weather looks to be perfect. I look forwrad to seeing your pix when i return home. I still need to scane some more I have. Who knows, maybe you're in a few on my shots as well.

Also, it was cool working for Faye, she was always cool and we had some great X-Mas parties at her house. i didn't see her when i was in Hawaii last may, but i didm stop and see my old boss at the Aiea store. He's still there and going strong. He said he would tell Gary and Faye I said hello. I still se Gary's son Zac from time to time. he use to travel to races on the mainland with me. Keep posting them up boys, this is good stuff for sure!

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Here is the only pic I have handy showing Faye Saiki from The Bike Shop.

FAYE:


L to R:

Unidentified, Faye Saiki, Noel Fishman, unidentified

This quartet happened to be assisting road racers in the most terrible race of the year, the dreaded Olomana RR. Feedzone Gang.

KevLau knows about this one, he attacked and stayed away for 6 or 8 laps -- correct me if my foggy memory is wrong.
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Good day-

Here are two pictures of Jeffery Kang jumping at Cannons Club.

Pulled off the narrow negatives. I have no background on the photographer or the outcome of these landings.


First Jeffrey:



Second Jeffrey:




Hope you like them, sorry about the bad quality.


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Me again.

This is Steven (forgot the last name) at Cannons Club jump.



Remade from the old, crinkly, narrow negatives.


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OK

While I am busy monopolizing your time, I might as well add these of Michael Tyau.

Michael 1:



Michael 2:



Michael 3:




Yanked off some old and crusty negatives. What a pleasant surprise.


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One more time.

This is the Perfectnut at Cannons Club.

The pic turned out pretty clear, pulled from the old crusty negatives.

Perfectnut:





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Sick pics once again!! I am glad they were able to pull some pics off those "crusty" negs. Some real treasures there. Especially the last one - that is some old school BADNESS!!!!!!! Looks life a perfect screen saver! Way to represent the 808. Also, glad to see the pic of Faye! She has done so much for the sport of BMX in Hawaii. Steven showing us all how the Hawaiians would chance um with the rubber slippers!

I have some pics from the Hickam track. 20something shots. They were all on slides. My wife took them to KMart and they downloaded them to disc. I don't recognize anyone in the pics except for Jason Chang. I took them a long time after I stopped racing/riding but they are still 20 somewhat years old. I'll try to post them tomorrow night. Hopefully, someone will recognize the riders. Ever run into Michael Tyau? I'm sure he would be happy to see all those pics.

KevLau,

Post more pics! I have a hunch you have a lot of good stuff!

Later my bmx buds,

JK

Here's a couple of pics from the Hickam track 1988.







I'm not sure who the riders are except for the one of Jason Chang on the gate. I'll try to post more later.

JK

Howdy JK-

Very nice pics, they look professionally shot. Superb clarity.. beautiful -- thanks mate.

I have more negatives to develop. I've got piles of pictures and negatives, only I never bothered to separate them properly. So I have to look through each of them LOL

Kev and the others, any other pics from Hawaii back in the day??

While I search (not for Spock, he's been "found") for more pics to post, I leave you with this:

REID:



Taken at the old Makiki jump, its a bit faded -- yanked from the archives of negatives.

Enjoy Reid's contribution to early air travel.


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No man, I don't see any old BMX guys. However, I do take major notice of any freestyle guys I see riding around in town these days. You mentioned earlier and I agree, only in tiny clusters of 2-4 guys and the occasional soloist.

I'm pretty sure everyone would be pleasantly surprised to see these pictures of themselves. It's been so long that I'm even a tad shocked to see what risks I took in some of these pics. Certainly not about to risk anything close to that ever again!

Still digging... I look forward to seeing more of your wonderful Hickam shots.

I'll leave you with a little pictorial reminder of Mento Mike.

MIKE AKIOKA:



My close friend Michael Akioka from Palolo Valley. Shot in the back of Kaimuki High School near the corner of Date Street and the small canal, he is jumping with a red Schwinn with Motomags!

Oh, for the dork in me..

PERFECTNUT:




Dig my bell-bottomed "three hour tour" pants, just waiting to be rescued from myself. Just sit right back and you're hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... ** never mind **




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I used to trip on the risks you took back then! It's even crazier looking back at it now. I love all your shots. Reids shot is dope! Check the background too. Flashed me back to the place and time. Made me remember sunset there for some reason. Trying to get those last jumps in before you blitz it home in time for dinner........ Mike Akioka at the Kaimuki jump........Another member for the "Rubbah Slippah Files"........I was going to ask you about the Kaimuki Jump. Thought about it a few days ago. I spent alot of time there since I lived not too far on 1st ave. Great black and whites......i dig it!...... Unfortunately I have no pics to offer from that jump...... Remember Kalani that used to hang there? From the Ponderosa Pines commercial.......Call Now For Sure? We used to rag him about that all the time....would just drive him nuts....Kelley boy from the local band Kapena used to hang there too with his chrome CYC.......Odd the things one will remember.

I have more pics to post. I have to take the slides back to Kmart. Clowns scanned half the pics in reverse. Nice quality control

"Dig my bell-bottomed "three hour tour" pants, just waiting to be rescued from myself. Just sit right back and you're hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... ** never mind **"

I remember having quite a few hand md downs in that style. You forgot to mention the infamous cut shirt. Remember how we rode our sock on the outside of our right pants leg to keep it from getting caught in the cahin?

Gotta Jet,

JK

A few more Hickam shots from 88:

The other rider is Dennis Navin. Local boy. He use to go pig hunting on Molakai with a knife. He would jump out of trees to get them. LOL!!! He was a little older than me. I raced jason Chang, Jeff Kaloma, Danial Wantanabe and guys like that. The other older cruiser rider in the second set of shots with the elbow pads on is Kurt Weiss. He had two younger boys that raced also. He was like my dads age. Great guy. He was a doctor from Kaui. Great shots!

The other rider is Dennis Navin. Local boy. He use to go pig hunting on Molakai with a knife. He would jump out of trees to get them. LOL!!! He was a little older than me. I raced jason Chang, Jeff Kaloma, Danial Wantanabe and guys like that. The other older cruiser rider in the second set of shots with the elbow pads on is Kurt Weiss. He had two younger boys that raced also. He was like my dads age. Great guy. He was a doctor from Kaui. Great shots!

Greetings-

I didn't hang at that Kaimuki jump too often, but I do remember Kalani though. Wasn't his last name Dorian or something to that effect? You crack me up -- the Ponderosa Pines commerical LOL, I can still hear the voice over the TV waves.. too much!

Congratulations, you've caused my neurons to fire in a slightly different manner this morning. Another look?

PERFECTNUT and MIKE AKIOKA at Kaimuki jump:



I do not remember the guy from Kapena though.

You're right, back then my orders were to be home "by the time the sun went down" and being from a military family, that is a strangely subjective statement. Getting in those last few jumps before speeding home for din-din was fairly important, for me at least. If I got grounded, that would be devastating.


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Good day-


I wanted to reply back on this post because I just came back from riding all over on the road bike, took some shots of the old trashing spots including Triangle Park.

Look at these:

TRIANGLE PARK1:



TRIANGLE PARK2:



TRIANGLE PARK3:



Major different from your beautiful tabletop shot you shared with us.

This is the current look of Cannons Club:

CANNONS1:



CANNONS2:



Here is the left-most jump and you can still see the old "kick" at the top. Jump is still the same size too.

CANNONS3:



This is view one of the wall jump that went slightly uphill.

CANNONS4:



You can see the old shack and "twin peaks" trees where the jump actually made its way through.

PERFECTNUT for PERSPECTIVE:



The old shack still stands.

Here is the Hawaii Kai track, however from the parking lot I could not see anything except a new park.

THE HAWAII KAI TRACK:



Kevin Lau or someone else can be of much more help than me. Perhaps I came up the wrong way? I rode up K Hwy to the top of the Haunama Bay hill and turned left through the little metal gate. Down the small road lies a shooting range on the right side. A small left turn took me to the parking lot where I thought the BMX track was. What happened?

Oh well, so much for that.

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Alright, so I completely mangled my previous post by having repeat pictures, by accident, of course.

I have a scratch in my picture-posting record.

Here is an old pic I found of my old childhood friend, Kala. His real name is Bryson Nishimura and while I didn't ride with him very much at all, I do know that his family was a good friend of my family.

In a tragic turn of events, Kala commited suicide several years ago due to chronic drug use. Absolutely awful news to me.

In honor of Kala, I post this picture in his memory and to remind ourselves that a path of bad choices can have a terrible ending.

Stay clean and enjoy life folks.

KALA NISHIMURA:




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Alright, so I completely mangled my previous post by having repeat pictures, by accident, of course.

I have a scratch in my picture-posting record.

Here is an old pic I found of my old childhood friend, Kala. His real name is Bryson Nishimura and while I didn't ride with him very much at all, I do know that his family was a good friend of my family.

In a tragic turn of events, Kala commited suicide several years ago due to chronic drug use. Absolutely awful news to me.

In honor of Kala, I post this picture in his memory and to remind ourselves that a path of bad choices can have a terrible ending.

Stay clean and enjoy life folks.

KALA NISHIMURA:




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Alright, so I completely mangled my previous post by having repeat pictures, by accident, of course.

I have a scratch in my picture-posting record.

Here is an old pic I found of my old childhood friend, Kala. His real name is Bryson Nishimura and while I didn't ride with him very much at all, I do know that his family was a good friend of my family.

In a tragic turn of events, Kala commited suicide several years ago due to chronic drug use. Absolutely awful news to me.

In honor of Kala, I post this picture in his memory and to remind ourselves that a path of bad choices can have a terrible ending.

Stay clean and enjoy life folks.

KALA NISHIMURA:




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Thanks a million for taking the time to take those pics. Very cool project. Amazing what has changed at Triangles. Hard to believe it was the jumping mecca it once was. I can still picture the way it was and see everyone there in my minds eye. Cannons looks like it would still be doable with some effort. I have never been to the HK track. Like you mentioned hopefully Kevlau can narrow it down. I remember someone mentioning there was still jumps there. Its amazing on the quality of pics too isn't it. Todays riders are so lucky with the digital cameras and memory sticks. I went riding this weekend. Went to check out the jumps kevlau mentioned above Royal Summit. There was quite a few mountain bikers there. They have some nice trails with berms and jumps. They had a nice transfer jump that I don't have the balls to hit right now. I'm slowly trying to get the skills back. But, its weird - now I worry about getting hurt. I felt fearless as a kid. You keep posting these amazing shots! And they bring back many good memories........some that I haven't thought about in a while. Thanks for that. Hopefully, more old friends will surface on Vintage.

Thumper,

Thanks for the info on some of the riders. I'm sorry I might not have pics of you the slides say Oct 1988. I think you said you were down here in the islands in 89?

Later Hawaiians,
JK

No biggie JK, I moved to the islands in April of '89. Still good shots and I know lots of locals in the shots.

P,

Sorry about your friend Kala. Life is very fragile and short. Sometimes we don't realize that until it is too late.

JK

Kevin Lau or someone else can be of much more help than me. Perhaps I came up the wrong way? I rode up K Hwy to the top of the Haunama Bay hill and turned left through the little metal gate. Down the small road lies a shooting range on the right side. A small left turn took me to the parking lot where I thought the BMX track was. What happened?

Oh well, so much for that.

Enjoy the pics.


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the hawaii kai track is gone. there is a new jumping park on the top of the hill. it has a bunch of jumps, berms, and the mountain bikers pull a 100' hose to water it. kind of rough for a twenty, a cruiser or park bike works better. check em out. if anyone is in the royal summit area, there are some fun trails up there. a couple of 6' tall jumps too.

kl

By george, I think I will.. with my eyes open this time, of course.

Remember this?



Dug this out of my safe. Have some pictures and negatives too.. I'll post them after I get them developed and scanned.

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By george, I think I will.. with my eyes open this time, of course.

Remember this?



Dug this out of my safe. Have some pictures and negatives too.. I'll post them after I get them developed and scanned.

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Being been taught by drones at what we call "school", I had to learn my lesson by experience.

Look at my right pant leg and the slippers. What a dork I am.

ARK ARK:



My pant leg bear marks of a sprocket feeding frenzy. Real attractive to females too.

Bonus points for masking tapes on the rear axles.


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WOW

The Vintage BMX website has ressurected itself, big UPs to the Admins and Mods.

I have another pic to post from the old school.

ERIC MITSUNAGA:



Have not seen Eric since maybe 1979 or 1980. One of the faster guys on the team, he placed on a consistent basis in the younger categories.

This pic was shot at Pearl City flats and the stead he is launching happens to be a Robinson.

Please excuse the smudges, the negatives were gnarled.


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Another old school guy I ran into recently happens to be Clarence W for the class of 81. He was a classic Triangle Park dirt jumper and knows Rockne and Roland Tang. He probably remembers the Palolo Riders too.

I am hoping he does another web search and joins the site, he has alot of BMX knowledge from back in the old Hawaiian day. He mentioned Kewalo Basin track and it reminded me of Guy Yoshimura.

In today's rendition of a silent musical, "Where are they now?", I present Guy.

GUY YOSHIMURA:


That is Mark Endo on the left, Guy in the center and Perfectnut on the right. Shot in San Diego about 3-4 years ago, we attended a party hosted by Mark and his family one night and Guy happened to be visiting the states too.


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I'm on a roll here!

Might as well post up another pic of Mark jumping at the old Makiki Jump way back when. Enjoy his airborne Robinson as Mark tabletops on a rather dark and dreary day.

MARK MIYASHIRO:



I remember one day we were all riding along on the streets and kicking out at debris lining the side of the curbs. If you were lucky enough to find a 7-11 slurpee cup or empty soda can, a burn-out/kick-out would send it flying 10 feet in the air. Well, we saw a dead cat on the side on this occasion and rigor mortis had set in. We could stop to conduct an autopsy, so cause of death remains a mystery. The cat had its paws facing upright in the air, so Mark decided to belt out some Karaoke. In a random display of epic proportions, he rang out:

.. and you throw your paws high in the air

.. rockin to the beat, shake your derriere

** Sing along to the tune of Sugarhill Gang's rap "Rappers Delight" **

Let us take a moment to reflect back on these lyrics, having been stowed on layaway for many, many years.

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Great pics as always! Hope Clarence finds his way here! Lakeside! I had the album.....too funny.

I found this pic of the legendary John George on another site. This pic is from Campbell Industrial.....When Shimano was coined in Hawaii. REMEMBER THIS DAY?

Oh yeah, that is rad!

So this is the visual history of the SHIMANO.. thanks man.. I used to have a photo of David Clinton in Redline colors (I think) handing out stickers and stuff at Campbell Industrial Park track long ago. I am sure I have that pic some place, somewhere. I've got quite a few more pics including one of Guy Hanalei Toriki at Triangles.. just don't know where these plucky little photographs are hiding!

Speaking of Shimano styles, see these old time photos.

CURTIS KODAMA:



Shot at the famous Cannons Club jump around 1980 or 1981.

MARK MIYASHIRO:



This is Mark Miyashiro (going on a Fantastic Voyage) at Liliuokalani School near the summit of Waialae Ave. I am fairly certain we see Tod Kawakami lurking in the background. Shot mid-late 70s, I am just not sure. Long time ago.


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I remember that jump. I rode there only once though and got chased out. Never went back. Glad you have pics of it though. You are the great Hawaii jump historian! I am stoket that you are sharing all these epic shots with us. I look forward to them everyday....I my friend leave you with this pic to ponder. I know I have this tucked away somewhere along with some ACDC and Cars albums.

Later
JK

Hey JK-

Real class, that album cover.

Speaking of class, these guys are getting schooled:)

L to R:

DANNY LEE, TOD KAWAKAMI, RAYMOND MOTOSUE, ** unidentified rider going 'round turn **



Campbell Industrial Park racing track - shot by Kenneth "Cosmo" Gorman.

In our own discussion to ourselves, the problem can be (possibly) identified as cause-effect during the gathering of knowledge. The difficulty here is the quiet gestation of impending loss while being embraced deep within a warm blanket of doom. Sherlock Holmes would have no trouble diciphering the issue since awareness at the time occurs at real-time.

One could blame a slight fever or maybe even common sense deprivation, who knows?

Eventually, all we can be somewhat sure of is our own existence and the truth as revealed by observation in and of itself.

Good luck boys, a photograph is not proof, only a reminder that a snapshot leads to a program of something as starting from nothing. So tidy up your ambitions because its your own fault.


The eternal optimist..


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Cos shot some great stuff BITD! I was lucky enough to get this from him in the 70's. Wish I still had this goose. It's so long ago I can't even remember what I did with it!

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Great pic, thanks for posting that.. love the feel of the speed heading towards the Campbell tabletop jump after the first giant turn.. well, it appears to be that straight before the big jump.

I present to you.. the great and affable Cosmo..

KENNETH "COSMO" GORMAN:



Last I heard he moved to Papua, New Guinea.. this after the air controller strike back in the day. One of the most intelligent guys I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, I'm sure he'll turn up one time or another via a Google search of BMX or of himself, for that matter.

Thinking back and looking at the photos I have, I would go so far as to say most of them were probably shot by Cosmo, although my neighbor Bruce, my step-father Paul and some others were pretty good at handling 35mm back then. I gather some of the other blurry ones were done with those 110 types. Not sure of the author of those, the prints and negatives changed hands often and its been too many years.

I think there was a guy who ran a team whose vehicle was a large military-looking van.. I've seen them turn up at races and jump sites (hey, we RODE from home to all the jump sites). Anyone remember that group of racers/riders??


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I think the van you are referring to was owned by a guy called "Stan". I can't remember his last name. But I remember the van. Remember The Great Outdoors' mongoose van? Or Jim Tomitagawa's(Safari Cycles) maroon colored van? Yup, I too was one who had to bike it all over from place to place. I even remember a race at Campbell where my cousin and I had no way home. We were riding on the side of the freeway between Makakilo and Waipahu when Faye Saiki pulled over and gave us a ride home. Thanks Faye!

Thanks for posting the pic of Cosmo. He was a cool guy. He even bought me an excalibur seat post clamp from McCully bicycle once. The pic is from the first straight away hitting the tabletop jump. Good Eye. Hopefully Cosmo will surface here too. Be cool if all those who helped the sport in Hawaii show up here and we can say thanks.....people like......Faye Saiki, Dennis Saiki, Jim Tomitagawa, Jimmy Kawakami, Bill Kono, Jarrel Chun-Ming, ......etc. There are many who supported the sport of BMX in Hawaii that we as kids took for granted. Like the guy who used to start the gate at Campbell. I can't remember his name but he put so much time into every race. And we was so methodical and precise. I can still here his voice and the whistle right before that gate would come down. Be nice if we could thank those people for what they have done!

JK

Talked to an old friend tonight.....None other than Rockne Tang....Held the no.1 plate in Hawaii for two years in a row and was sponsored by The Bike Shop/Mongoose. He still has his mongoose intact with the No.1 plate on it. He said it's still got the dirt on it from his last race. How cool is that! I'll try and get some photo's of him and his bike and post it.

JK

I'm not Hawaiian but I've spent some incredible vacation time in Oahu and Maui like many people. Best place to be on earth in my opinion.

I have to say that the Hawaiin BMX history is obviously something very special. Being a kid, living in Hawaii and being at the very beginning of the BMX scene must have been the most incredible life! It sure seems to be where there was a major "outbreak" of the BMX pioneers in the late 60's early 70's... Hawaii always seemed so cool to us when we were kids because of the surfing and general Aloha vibe that we only read about or saw on TV. I'm now realizing the huge connection with the birth of BMX and Hawaii (obviously with Southern California among other key places). I think people like Skip Hess recognized this and that's one of the reasons BMX Products/ Mongoose was so involved with the early development of the racing in Hawaii. I really dig seeing the old Mongoose bikes in paradise...

All these incredible pictures and stories are just awesome! Thanks for posting them you guys!

BTW, also loving the classic Hawaiin pics all over the "Big Air" thread as well!

Cheers to the pioneers! DA KINE!!!

Hey JK-

Happy day sir, good to see your post. You are a world of information, Stan was his name.. I remember now. I can still picture the van at some giant bowl of dirt with jumps and berms, I forget where, but Stan and his BMX riders were having a ball, as was I.. that was fun.

It is strange that back in the day so many adults put in hours to our sport and as kids we didn't quite recognize the effort and time it took. I'm certainly thankful, especially now.

I'll say this: My personal BMX career (for lack of words) lasted not more than 5 or 6 years maximum and I probably raced less than most BMX guys. However, it doesn't take away from the riders who "made the sport" and the older folks who put the shin-digs (no pun intended) up for us.. THANKS folks!

Tires on the gate! Riders ready! .... BAM **gate down**

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JK, awesome!

Tell him that Clarence Waialeale (hopefully I spelled this properly) is looking to make contact too. Rock is a legend in Hawaii BMX, he could share some nice memories from BMX in Hawaii when the sport was seriously cookin with gas..

Would love to see some of his pics, if he still has some..



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