Here's a few more Old School Hawaii pics kindly provided by JT of Safari Cycles.

1. Team Safari's first outer island trip. In this case, Maui circa
1978-1979. Riders (L-R) Ryan Cordeiro, Rick Takeshita, Dean Young, Daryl
Saiki, Dale Farias, Toby Tsukamoto, and Stuart Saito.






2. Team Safari to Kauai. Riders (L-R) Dean Young, Rick Takeshita, Mark
Kawakami, Team Manager JT, Stuart Saito, Toby Tsukamoto, and Barry Ikeda.

3. Jesse Allen.

Jesse was my longtime training/riding partner and good friend. We spent alot of time together riding. I hope he finds the website!

jk

Changstar,

Thanks for posting that link on the track. Please keep us updated. I hope it all works out.

jk

Changstar,

Great list of names. Here's some more you might recognize:

Jessse Allen, James Cambe, Chris Cole, Daniel Wong, Richard Okimoto, Blaine Valoria, Wendell Tanaka, Cy Shinkawa, Jarrel Chun-Ming, Ken Sugai, Jeff Wandell, Issac Kilelehua, Dean Young, Amalito Lapinad, Michael Tiyau, Darius Kono, Llane Nishimiya, Roger Nitta, June Yoneda

jk

Somewhere I have a Hawaii BMX membership list from Faye from 1979 or so, I imagine there are many names to jar our memmories. When I find it I will post it. At that time we had over 800 members. Would love to see that happen again. Maybe with the old schoolers around to help we can do it again.

Changstar

Wow you remember that melon cover? I think I was the only one with it... Believe it or not I just tossed it this past july! the Kbay track was opened to the public I think about 5 times. it was short lived track most of the people that worked on it were restationed back in the states which then lost any one to care for it. there was about 20 to 30 riders on the kailua side that rode on base without getting caught. Hey I hope you can get everything you need to get Sand Island going. Is Wally helping you out? I saw his website... not much there nice site thou. it seems the 80ies are being relived and so of the old riders are putting the walkers aside and hopping on two wheels again. that's way cool! I'm rebuilding a Torker Pro 83 with some bulls on it. Well keep up this thread going and I'll keep adding to it or at www.bmxhawaii.com Wish I was back home!!! as usual I'll catch your dust later again!

Here's what I found so far.

Jason "Bulldog" Chang /Keehi Lagoon.I think that might be Sano in second.


Is this you Lau?Wasn't sure.


"Big Lance" in second.

That's me "Small Lance" in third.I believe that's Bo Ikeda in second and I'm not sure if that's Ken VanOrman in first.

IIRC someone was asking when Castle Park was running.I found pictures that has 1981 written on the back.---How about Kaneohe Marine Corp Air Station track.Anybody got pictures from there?

That pic is not Lau leading but Lau is the one in 4th comming down the backside of the jump. Not sure who the GT rider is, nut you can see stu domingo in 2nd wearing blue helmet fighting with someone. The rider leading big Lance is Jesse Allen. Here's a qusetion

"who was the top dog in your class that you were gunnin for?"

For me in novice it was Clifton Chung, when I first turned X it was Darren Cayetano "RIP"

Changstar

Wow Chang,you got a good memory.I can barely remember the names of guys that I've met recently much less names from 25 years ago.Could be all those concusions suffered from "eating it" riding around Mililani .

Sugi,

Cool pics! Thanks for posting those. Keep um coming. Got any Castle Park shots?

JK

I found a few pictures of Castle Park but nothing that's worth posting.I know my parents house has more though.I just got to go look through all of them.

Here's two great shots from JT of Safari Cycles. I just love these pics. Remember that table top jump on the straightaway? Good times! This ones of Daryl Saiki in 1978.

This ones of Bradley "Kaui" Akau leading in 1978. Cool stuff huh?

the campbell track was a true pedaling track. flat turns, long straights, and a flat starting gate. i remember the cayetano bros were good there. you had to be in good shape. anyone remember the national where they used to jump the starting gate mound backwards. that was my first memory of miki fernandez doing a one hander flying 20'.

LOOK WHO FINALLY PULLED HIS BIKE OUT OF STORAGE!

NICE! You still have it. Lucky you.

WOW, still with the number 0ne plate on it, too cool. I remember when they were jumping the sterting gate backwards I was in awe of those guys. Is that the time the race was at night? The track would go over the starting hill side ways towards the end. Kinda like a table top, I also remember the factory Goose guys trying to clear the whole starting hill. Danny Oakley was on a prototype that later was the Moosegoose.

Changstar

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LOOK WHO FINALLY PULLED HIS BIKE OUT OF STORAGE!

that bike is sick! the painting is even better. awesome picture. i had a type two plate but the plastic fell apart

and jeff kosmala was there, as well as atherton on a schwinn sting.

Mililanians, remember high school jump?

That's what I loved about the old track. You could actually pass people on the straight's. There is no way I could hang on that track anymore. You are definately right.....You needed to be in good shape.

Changstar.....cool pic....more!

JK

Wasn't that called "Stadium Jump"?Remember Davey breaking the headtube clean off his frame and eating a face full of dirt there?----Ah,the good ol' days.
How about pictures of "Dip Jump"?

Always a threat to win, Jeremy Kam.

Kevin Lau leading Derek Cayetano and Keith Horikawa.


Bo Ikeda leading SUGI

Left to right ??? Sano, Kam, Philapart, Lee.


Classic Moki style.


Sano & Kam


SUGI with a biiiig lead.

Adrian Lee, Barry Ikeda, Kevin Lau

Da GUCH, Darren Higuchi with that cali style. leading Keith Horikawa.

Changstar,

Thanks for posting those! I'm stoked to go ride now. I think I'll slap my build together tonight and ride tomorrow. Funny, my memory is a complete failure......I don't even remember running steel cranks. And I don't remember the track being so ungroomed. Its a far cry from todays tracks isn't it?

JK

Changstar on the left and Kevin Lau on the right, one of my favorite shots because we both won that day and this is the trophy dash. Mililani making a statement.


SUGI off the gate.

L-R Changstar, Jody Char, darren Cayetano. Yep those are graphite Tuffs.

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L-R Changstar, Jody Char, darren Cayetano. Yep those are graphite Tuffs.

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I dig all these "old school" shots that are surfacing! Thanks Changstar! Is that the Safari Cycles van in the background?

JK

Looks like it could be Jims van, remember Stan the guy with the box truck? We should get Jim Tomitagawa to put all his old video on to disc, after all he owns a video production company. I would pay $25 to have one, anyone else interested?

Changstar

I remember Stans van, JT's van, TGO's mongoose van and TBS's truck - I think Walter Watanabe later bought it from Faye.

jk

ahhh, the graphite tuffs with campy hubs,...do you still have them? let me put them on my skyway ta. it would complete it. thanks, i'll pick them up tomorrow.

nice table chang. i forgot you did tables backwards with your pedals flipped. wasn't garrett akasaki the one who busted his teeth out when his torker frame broke in half?

More old school pics from Rockne Tang.

No. 327 ??? followed by no 314 Rolland Tang and Eric Kono.

The Bike Shop team:

No 904 Jeff Wandell
No 723 Eric Phillipart
No 905 David Wakatake
Cy Shinkawa
No 770 Buddy Ikeda
No 8 Rockne Tang
No 904 Ken Sugai

Buddy Ikeda

Moki Fernandez



Bo Ikeda beating that Factory Shimano Kid.

Changstar and Navin Hickam Track Oct 1988.





Iolani Palace Race.

YAH, that is nice and styled indeed. I do not recall where that dirt jump is physically located, must have been assembled after 1981? Appears to be some kind of athletic field for baseball or soccer.

As for tabletops, what mean by "flipped pedals"?

I could guess and say if you took off in the air with left pedal forward and right pedal in back, combined with a pancake x-up to the right (like in Chang's pic), that is "pedals flipped"?

It certainly made it easier to tuck the legs in rather than spread-eagle style to make room for the bars. Or are we over-analyzing this thing?

Maybe it was a conditioned reflex by then?

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Changstar-

Great pictures, thanks for posting those!

Makes up for my serious deficit in BMX racing pictures, as I have so very few. The fact is, either we didn't know about the other tracks (we meaning, the guys I went to races with) or the other tracks emerged after 1981/1982. I had no idea Iolani Palace had a place to race BMX, on asphalt no less.

I am still digging for more pictures in my house, I know I have more to share. Problem is, not very many are racing type. Hope you hardcore racing types (who can jump too, of course) don't mind too much. It is all I really can offer.

Keep those fast-twitch leg muscles firing!


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Good day JK-

I tend to wonder.. what would Walter do with 3 vans and a truck?

You have posted wonderful pictures from a variety of sources, I can see that. At this point, Lance Nishida, Russell Hirata and Clarence have not yet appeared on the Vintage BMX site yet. At least not in any way that I can detect or discern. Anyone have a white noise reader handy?

Not sure if I mentioned this or not, I saw Russell in the FHC building here downtown where I work and told him about this site. We chatted a bit as he is familiar with names like the Fernandez brothers, Ikeda and Tangs plus a host of other names that currently elude me at the moment.

Anyways, he said he didn't know any of my BMX friends from the "somewhat" same era, mainly because he "only rode around with the fast guys". Like a parody of Groundhog Day all over again, I began to hear the sound of lovely violins playing in the background. Not so strangely, seems to happen everytime I invade this guy's airspace.

To start with, he had the audacity or should we use the word temerity, to giggle like a five year old at my impressively stylish argyle sweater vest layered over my freshly pressed white long-sleeve shirt. All the while he stands there looking like a wedding cake having been left in the rain.. I am completely speechless at times with respect to the rather presumptuous attitude being thrown at me by him, which is fine.. but know this.. his empty self-praise is better displayed by chest thumping and simultaneous grunts, at least then I could be entertained, having been an eye-witness to the living legend aptly named Sasquatch.

The zeal of fools offends by words, and if you read this Russell, at least my remarks are not exactly venomous in nature, unlike yours.. they offend the divine concept of humility. Hoooorah, buddy.

I dedicate this next picture to you since you possess the loudest voice in the room. While a picture is worth a thousand words, I will sprinkle you with deadly silence since that is all we get when subjected to a group of sensations stuffed into walking body bag operating as a cute little materialist.

TO RUSSELL:




Snapped at Campbell Industrial Park BMX raceway, in the late 70s, likely. On the far outside is Joe, with the orange-ish Mongoose and long flowing locks, to his left is Timothy Lee, then Dean Young (I believe) and 2 more guys sharing the same general vicinity of dirtland. Tagging on the back is yours truely, the master of misery. At least I don't have "me" and "I" fawning all over "myself".

To close, it is very much permissible to engage in a romantic relationship with that miscalibrated ego of yours, here in America we call it "high self esteem". How convenient.



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Thanks for the pic of me and Navin. Some inside info...... Dennis navin and I were friends but I never knew how serious he took his racing till I was cruising at his house. In one of the bedrooms he had his weights where he trained. On the roof above his bench was a picture of me. he said he would stare at the picture to motivate him to push harder so he could beat me. I trained to be faster but never focused on any one guy like that. He was realy determined or realy strange. Funny story.

Changstar

Hey Klaus, I don't have my graphites anymore, but I heard Jesse Ramiscal still had his. I borrowed them once when we still had Hickam. They looked cool but felt sluggish, made a 43front gear feel like a 44.

Changstar

Lau,I knew somebody else broke their frame in half at Stadium Jump but couldn't remember who it was.Davey broke his headtube off his frame as well.I think it was his brand new Hutch and his pops was pissed.

Chang,you're killing me with those photos!!I feel like I could jump on my cruiser right now and race again.How's Guch with the Quadangle and Landing Gear combo?I bet that would bring a pretty penny on eBay today.---I remember those graphite Tuffs in the freezer at your house.How about your Z-rims?---Keith Horikawa?He took my plane ticket when I was supposed to go with you guys to the Grands at Vegas but screwed up in school.Those pictures are bringing back some good memories.

I just talked to Jesse Ramiscal recently.He said he can't ride due to bad knees.Call him at Installtech or call me and I'll give you his number.

Keep the pics coming!!

Here's a pic for you old schoolers.....Two old dudes that used to ride and race together got back in the saddle today.

Wow did those old tire and tubes hold air? I hope all of you stay in touch. I hope to someday put together a reunion. I still have contacts with Sano and Moki and Rory. Maybe when the new track opens we could all get together to tell stories and show off old bikes like Rockne and Jeremy's. And for the brave maybe even do a few laps. Might be my only chance to say i beat some legends, well if I can. It would be an honor just to ride with some of you as I have never been on the gate with many of the past greats. By the way, Rory is still fast, and I mean today.

Changstar

Changstar,

We were talking about the very same thing as we were riding. It would be great to get everyone together for a reunion BBQ or something. I plan to stay in the sport for a long time. I wish I never quit. I'm hoping the sport makes a comeback. I am sure it will if the track gets the nod. I need to change a few things on my bike....The brakes suck. DiaCompe 890's with Kool Stop Continentals and a Shimano lever were cool BITD. But I need stopping power now. Reflexes not as fast. I can't handle the seat anymore. Are there any good seats out there that matches an old school bike. The sweep on the Redline Vbars seem odd to me now. Any advice Jason?

By the way Rory will always be fast! And rockne took the mongoose tires off Rollands bike which actually held air!

JK