Ok, I hope this works. Here ya go:

Mike Salido (3) and Andy Patterson at Chandler Az. Winter Nats 1981 ?



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Bonzai in the background!!!! BONZAI!!!!

Bart MacDanials of JMC:

Danny Steplight and Jason at the tropicana worlds championship in Viva Las Vegas:

Bob Madrano, Mike " Hollywood " Miranda, Bart MacDaniels, and Brian Patterson at the Spring nationals in Morgan Hill California.



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Stu Thompson and Greg Hill at Lancaster Nationals.

Frank Post and Donny Atherton:

Bart MacDaniels, Bob Madrano, and Brian Patterson ( I don't know the other racers, but if you know them, post thier names for me. Thx. )



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Van Argerous (1) and Jason Martinez (14) at Lancaster nationals.

Bob Coover (6A), btw, Bob is still racing and doing well, Andy Garcia (121) and Anthony Marquez (55) at Sunol BMX.

Greg Liggins (71) and Shannon Kahahane ( yellow bell helmet ) dicing it out at the winternats. I just talked to Greg last weekend at the golf course and told him about this site.



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Ken Wadley, Rogelio Serafin (me), Rodney Cornist, Anthony Wadley, and Tony Harmon on the Schwinn national team ( originated by Newark Schwinn in Newark, California )

Vern Lathan and Rogelio Serafin (me) at a local club race in Sunol.

Greg Liggins ( a week before he got a full ride with Jag ) at Sunol BMX.



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Christine Pritchard (2) and Jaime Antonozio (22)



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Rogelio Serafin - me (35), Ken Wadley ( behind me ), Jeff Willis - Roy David's bro (24) and Steve Murphy (28) battling out in the mains ( Sunol BMX )

Rogelio Serafin - me (35) and Joe Rodriguez (81) racing in the open class. I just found out that Joe is still racing at Santa Clara, California Pal BMX.



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Christine Pritchard (2) and Kristin Eggers ( 42 ) at Merced BMX in Ca.

All these races were in the years 80-81 I believe. I have some races from the dia-comp nationals at Devenshire, The luberjack nationals at Portland Oregan with the famous Darrell Young "pass" in the air passing Mike Poulson, and alot of other races. Stay tuned........stay tuned...............

Monroeze: Hit me up when you see this. Have Bob visit this thread.

RAD!

Kristin Eggers

#26 in the Bassett stuff in 2 pictures is Dave Lee.

good stuff! i am not familiar with a lot of the names but i love seeing the old tracks. i look forward to the dy pics.

you know, it always is funny to me to see those huge old plates. not exactly what you would call aerodynamic

Wow...they are fantastic photo's...power wheelies! Thanks for sharing!!!

Big un aerodynamic number plates were the least of your worries when racing back then....

It was as much about looking Cool , as it was about gettin Fast & Furious on the race track , back then.

_Great_ photo's for the time period, someone's Dad had a 35mm SLR (that he could use properly) to take the kids sporting photo's.

JB

PS:
Bart MacDaniels , was a short but a very smooth , slick + fast racer at the time.

I don't think he understood fluent Australian or our humour when he visited us here , riding for JMC.He usually had a confused look on his face when I spoke to him here.


JB

Wish I didn't have to use a hosting site to post pics, I have a ton of mid-70's Merritt and McClaren pics. If anyone cares, I've got a thread on the "other" site called "My 70's show" that has a bunch of my photos.

Wow rogileo..where have you been hiding all those pics man?!?

You have a box somewhere I could dig through? Those are great!

Great pics!

Love it when you guys share the old school pics. Thanks,

Great photos. The one (7th photo) of two rows, three abreast with the inside guys dropping their leg is what racing is about. Thanks for posting them.

Chris: I might have afew of you also racing at Watson park, morgan hill, or Hellyer park. I just need to locate them. Im going to my parents home this weekend and pick-up the remaining photos. Anybody remember Danny Copeland when he used to race for Diamond Back ? My pops shot alot of photos at the lumberjack nationals and I remember Mike Salido and Danny were dicing it out at that race.

Thanks for the compliments gang. I'll be posting some more early next week.

I raced Tony one time in Marysville. I led to the last turn and he passed me at the line. Jon Anderson's (the Redline one) dad did a story on it in one of the bmx newspapers of the time.

Mike

Me, in red on a GHP, at the 84 or 85 Murray World Cup.

Me, in black on a Cycle Craft, in 85 or 86 at Waterford Oaks, MI. I am 85C, I beleive gate 2.

And my all time favorite pic of me. Pro practice at the 87 or 88 NBL Grands over the pro-section doubles, in gray on a Free Agent Limo.

Dude, you know I'm loving these pics.All of them are screensavers.The pic w/ Coover & Marquez, I swear I'm the knee behind Anthony.Please post all you have...it's like a time machine.Spike your pics are amazing also, those tracks were hardcore.Pics of Merrit were scary.

"Pics of Merrit were scary."..............cause it was...lol, besides at that time it's all we knew.

Its fun to see those old names, I remember swimming with Chrissy P. and Jill Alire at the Alire's house during the summers..

Chrissy was so fast!

Great times!!

I'm just gonna have to scan all my old school pics. I've posted a few here, but Iv'e got more. I've even got 2 books full of moto sheets..

Nor Cal!

That was eye candy.

Thanks

All right gang. Here's afew more. I just got back from my parents home and went through only 2 boxes of photos. One of my father's hobby was photography and he took massive amount of photos. I'm heading out back to my parents home tommorrow after work to go through afew boxes of photos. He also mentioned that he took some photos at the Cow Palace in SF for the indoor spring nationals I believe.

Photo: Brent Torres at the Redline Championships at Sunol BMX:

Monroezee: This ones for you. Who's that number 101 cat swooping on the deep inside lane ??? (hehehe)

Location: Atwater BMX



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A very young Jon Anderson racing at Atwater BMX ( first photo ) and just hanging out in staging at the wintder nats. Noticeables in the racing photo:

(26) R. Serafin, (10) David Lueck, (1) Jon Anderson, (3) Andy Garcia, and (5) Dave Ruby - behind Andy.

Staging photo: (10) Anthony Wadley

Harry Leary at the winter nats ( these photos were the same race )

Parade Lap at Sunol BMX triple pointer race:

Noticeables: ( Blue bell helment with graphite tuff ) Brian Torres, (5) Shannon Kahahane, the little guy with the red sport gurads behind Shannon - (76) Little Brent Torres, ( guy with the yellow visor sporting his sponsor - BOSS Racing ) Clark Kent, (487) Pat's Bike shop Nick Martinez, (10) Anthony Wadley with Ken Wadley behind him, (29) Jun Aviatia, (733) Samco's Mike Coleman, and the guy with the dorky smile (26) me.



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My very first race at Fremont BMX back in August 1979. I remember I was spinning a 44/18 gearing for a super long track. I finished 1st in this race, and 3rd place in the mains. YEAH BOIIIII !!!

Fun stuff: Newark Days Parade in Newark California. We participated for 2 years supporting out sponsor Newark Schwinn. We actually won the best show for doing tricks and bunnyhopping over bikes and people. This is Tony Harmon bunnyhopping over 4 people and 4 bikes. Thats me on the rightside with the big hair getting ready to do a Bruce Lee snap kick ( hehehe )



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Eric Rupe told me he saw Anthony Wadley racing just a few months ago.
Cool photos Serafin!

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( guy with the yellow visor sporting his sponsor - BOSS Racing ) Clark Kent

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superman used to race?!?!? man i bet he was fast.

your pops really took some great pics