You know....thats twice that that tat word has been used on here today dammmmnnnnit

Oh Snap!!! Did anyone else just get this in their email!

Man, that Peterson really know's how to put on a show!

If BMX Freestyle was in the Olypics, the rating would be through the roof!

I WAS out eating pizza tonight, and they had the Olympics on the big screen... It's going to be sort of weird to see BMX up there.

Mikko - is there free beer?

According to Conley there is...

Paul Smith is running the show, he's working on a deal with Grain Belt.

It would be nice to think there would be free beers. I'll split a 40 w/ you in the parking lot.

KROP- Did you race in Kato? or was this the night they shut down for weekend work? Justin....???

No one posted on the KATO site about it

Sorry, as much as I would like to make a negitive, "but fun" comment I can't comment on this... I'm under strict guidlines with not bashing Faction/members.

On the positive side....HAVE A GREAT TIME Swilling Grain Belt and watching America's great sport of "Bicycle Motocross"! They are going to KICKA$$$$$$$

This is about as played out as it gets.

See you guys next Wed!

Wife in bed since your up this late?

No racing last night. It was a work night. We are racing Friday instead. They got the pro section fixed on tuesday, so I expect KOP to be rocking that tomorrow!

I also think freestyle bmx would be great for spectator/TV. Its crazy what those guys can do. Most of the modern world actually recognizes freestyle before BMX anyway. So this bmx will be new for allot of people. It'll be neat though, because the best of the best will be there and the track looks monumental. IMO, the US should be a gold forsure. The way I see it, if your #1 somewhere in this sport you'd be in the US competing and everyone would already know you.... right? We'll see. All 3 US guys are dead even as far as abilites. Mike Day has the individual times but doesn't do as well in a group from what I gather.

I think the US will be really tough in the men's group. Kyle Bennett would be my pick for gold. I can't wait to see them race on that track.

I agree with that Scott, I think men's will be our place to take the gold. I'd hope to see the women's do it as well, but it sounds like the UK has a very strong contender there.
-Bill

I'll go with Robinson. If you youtube them all, it all depends on start/gate position, etc and are all very close. I think Robinson is slightly better IMO. I really wish Herman or Stein could have done it.

My money is on Donny Robinson!

Agree.

Donny Atherton is now on Robinson? Whoa! Wonder how that affects Don Johle? Will Schwinn have enough firepower with just Driscoll?

I picked a bad time to let my subscription to BMXA lapse...

While you are renewing subsciptions....renew the "Memory Lapse" magazine with it

Donny Atherton, wow, remember the DC and Atherton battles? awesome racing!

Chicago, IL NBA National 1980 or '81? - 16 expert Main.

Dave finished second in this go-round (you can see the finish line on the left). Maybe he should have jammed Donny in the ribs...

Wasn't it stated somewhere in a Mag "Dave Christensen, always a bridesmaid to Donny Atherton" ???

My Memory Lapse magazine has not shown up this week yet, but think that was in print somewhere

Rodney King looks just like Karl Malone!

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Kevin Jackson will be holding down the fort over at the Schwinn camp along with Poulson. No problems there.
I'm just worried about team Robinson without Woods and Clark. Atherton is always chasing those women, like that chick from Torker (Kathy Hannah).. Gives him weak legs for the mains.
I think Robinson needs to pick up Ellis again. Just my 2cents.

John I let my subscription lapse too.. of course I only used it to start fires in my fire pit... :good2:

Schwinn Tour 1979.. I was there. The weekend Sandbooger made me pizz my pants..

No it wasn't weenie boy. The 79 Schwinn race was at Big Willow. I think SS had it right and it was 1980 for that photo above.

Atherton didn't join Schwinn until 80 anyway. When the guys did the 79 tour it was Jackson, Delgado, and two other guys...

The guy to the right of King looks like Sean "Ortez" Miland

Don't forget, Robinson still has Paul & Mark Wagonner, Gary Renteria and Duane Ballanger. Schwinn is hurting, especially since Mark & Scott Pippin, the Rupes and Richard Zaggers left for greener pastures.

On another topic...I've been meaning to ask for about, oh, three or four years: When you wrap someone's quote into a reply like I've done here, how do you also include their name/date/time?

Once I learn that, I'll perhaps relearn how to post pix...something I haven't done since the site was re-engineered a year ago.

John, if you hit "reply" in the bottom of the message window you want to quote, you should see this tag "[quote name='John Sandberg' date='Aug 15 2008, 01:26 AM' post='589870']" before the quoted message in your reply, weird that you're not seeing it when you click reply.

You must be clicking the reply at the bottom of the page and putting in your own [quote] tags?

For images, get an image hosting account and click the icon on top of the reply window to paste your image URL into the prompt, or you can just use the [img] tags if you know how to do that.

Jeff, you and I raced each other at the Chicago national - 14/15 expert I believe. I took you out in the second corner in the main, sorry

Good luck to everyone racing at Glencoe this weekend. I look forward to the State finals next weekend at St. Cloud, it is going to be a loooooong weekend up there!

Have fun this weekend. Remember to extinguish the flames on the marshmallow before you eat it.

“No disrespect to racing or the Olympics, but BMX freestyle’s aspirations have never directly been to be in the Olympics. It is a great platform to celebrate sport in a way that unites the world, but we created BMX freestyle to do our own thing, express our own definition of sport, and to have the freedom to express this how we pleased; not to have our opinions sanctioned by a higher power. As a sport we are very happy with where we are at and the freedom we have. We see the Olympics as an opportunity to share this with the world, not change.”
- Mat Hoffman, Hoffman Bikes



I love that BMX racing will be in the Olympics and I think it’s going to have a hugely positive affect on the freestyle side of the sport. I’m having a party at my house on race day and all my friends are coming over to watch. Go Mike Day, and Go Scott Erwood!
If you ask me, I think you guys should have sent someone over to China to cover the race. I also think you guys should cover BMX racing in the magazine again. BMX racing rules again. ”
- Jay Miron, MacNeil

Had a pretty good crash last night at Bikeball - but I think I'm still on for tomorrow at Glencoe. If anyone has a link to some pics of the track .... post a link.

This was when it was just built and not raced on yet

Fun times in So. Minnesota today!

Faribault and Glencoe. Light turnout, but was a relaxing day!

Got to hang and road trip with Thelma & Louise.....Rod "Grocery Cart" Burner, and Scott "You know thats illegal right?" Kraker...

Anyway we were graced with Mr. Sheely as well at Glencoe, and others that made it another GREAT DAY!

I'll let Cracker & Pod pop in and give the results and action part. Long day, and bedtime for this played out narrow minded 50-year old goat thinker.

Kraker Workin It!



Jason - This guy went down HARD and went home. Another great old schooler hanging out



The Burner looking all intense!



Dan Wenicsh (sp) this guy is AWESOME and fun to watch ride!



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Check this guy out....Pat. Transplanted Old School Chicago guy, that ends up in Minnesota, AND IS RACING HIS PATTERSON That he had as a kid! He's getting a cruiser and movin in with the big boys class! He fits in with the rest of the old schoolers. Nice guy, all excited about racing again and has stories. This year just keeps getting better...



Then we have Mr. Sheely! He just plain "Still Has it!"



O'! and ALE was there!



What a FUN day! KOP even showed up to hangout at Faribault!

Was great to see all you dedicated/sport lovin' BMXer's today!

Good Night,

-Tired Ol' Goat-

Moe was saying that Dan Wenisch kills on the 24", jumping like some 16yr old nut and style to boot. Sounds like he wasn't lie'n.

did wenisch race bitd, name sounds familiar.
maybe the ghp/penn cycle deal?

How was the cruiser action in Mankato today???

We ended up with 1 class of 6riders. It was some 16 year old named Mitch Johnson, Dan Wenicsh, Lance, My neighbor Chad (just started this year, racing my old Free Agent), the guy that races Kato with the mountian bike, now on a brand new Intense, and Me. I wish Chris Austin was there as he would have broke it up into two classes

We did a 3 moto transfer. Mitch qualified on the first one.

The second moto it was Dan Wenicsh followed by Lance. I was working my butt off trying to get past Lance and qualify.I got ahead of him out on the first straight. He passed me on the inside of the first turn, and I battled him down the second straight and passed him in the second, then I got squirley on the rythem section and had to shut it down.

Third moto I took first followed by Chad.

The main was pretty interesting. Dan got a horrible gate and bumped into Chad. Chad claims Dan started throwing elbows as those two were right next to each other all the way until Chad ran him off the track when Dan's elbows made him squirrly on the second straight. Dan got in Chads face by the finish line saying he ruined his chance, as he could have gotten second or third. They were so far back it was pointless.

So Mitch blew Lance and I away in the main. Going into turn one, Lance went high, I went low. Not trying to, I rubbed the inside of Lances rear tire for about 5 feet. Intense Micros make a lot of noise when rubbing together. I was thinking "Oh great, if I get ahead of him, he is going to return the favor in a not so nice way" I was never able to catch him and got third. At the finish line I said, "sorry for getting all up on your tire in turn one". His responce was "oh, that was you?" Nothing too exciting.

I got video of the main, but it is pretty low quality. I will try to post it. Did you see Lances Blog from this weekend? WOW

http://www.loopd.com/Members/lroc/Blog.aspx

I just watched the video, Dan and Chad weren't as far back from the rest of usas I thought. Dan was catching up fast and would have passed me before the finish line.

Pretty interesting stuff... I just hope nobody gets seriously hurt, kind of a buzz kill with all the smack talk. Maybe it is just me but I am out there to have fun, to each his own...

I had a fun weekend of racing. It started with a relaxing race Friday night in Mankato. Small turnout, but we had a visitor from Florida join us. Very cool guy. He travels with the MX circuit as a medic/trainer, and takes his bike with him so he can race when he has time.

Saturday's two race marathon started at 10 am and didn't finish till after 11 pm. Had the privilege of traveling with Rod on this one. Faribault had a low turnout but the group that showed up made for some fun racing. Once again, we had a new guy from the past show up, this time on his old Patterson. It was fun hearing his story and seeing his excitement for racing again.

With hardware in hand, Rod & I saddled up the Volvo for the journey to Glencoe. We had the "mad texter" Conley and the Moore's in tow. The fun part of two races in one day is hanging out with a good group of people. The not so fun part was the long drawn out race in Glencoe. We didn't start the mains till 9:30 pm.

Glencoe definitely has a cool location in town and a different layout than any other track. Racing in the dark was interesting. It was a free-for-all on the track before the mains and there was a lot of loose dirt all over. I don't know what Lance was saying when he said he never saw Dan Wenisch, because I was right behind Dan when he made the dive under Lance. He cut him a hugh break by getting on the brakes and not running him off the berm. Thinking they might get together, I adjusted my line and the front tire washed out.

Rod had a great battle going on with Bruce Arvold. After swapping spots in the first two motos of their total points race, they continued to swap positions all the way through the main with Bruce edging out Rod at the line. Shawn looked as smooth as ever and raced to the win on his 26" custom racer.

It was great talking to Shawn and Dan Wenisch. I didn’t realize Dan goes way back to the early 80’s. Rick, you might be right about GHP/Penn Cycle deal. He started when he was 10 and never really stopped. I’ll have to ask him next weekend.

Nice pics Mark of Glencoe Mark!

Great to hang out with you guys again, I had a blast - although I would have preferred we would have had a combined class to make things more interesting for everyone. I know, the rules - but they should just combine us old dudes when there's only three in a class. Never happen though.

Racing on Saturday night under the lights reminded me of Maple Plain BITD - and so did the track. Although the Glencoe track has some definite design flaws, it's a fun track - and easy to get to from the cities, a straight shot down 212, it's under an hour if you have the pedal down. I'll definitely be going back, I had a good time and left the race feeling a bit re-energized about racing.

The track reminds me of the old school tracks in that the berms are pretty much useless - you end up just using the very end of the berm. The fastest line was always to the inside. Too bad about the design, they simply have a small lot that forced them to pack too much into the build - the jumps are too close to the turn and the berms are in the wrong places as a result. Still, I like the track and the crew running it.

As for the racing, I was impressed with the competition in the under 40 cruiser - I'll stay out of the majority of the debate, but I will say that Dan W. was a gentleman in turn two. If he had been following Lance's latest position on things Lance may have gone over the berm. Dan hit the brakes instead and slid out (similar to Lance's brake slide on Kraker the previous week).

Dan Wenisch (sp) and his older brother raced in the early to mid-80's, they are cousins to the Foster's ? Their families were pretty involved in 1985 or so. Brian Foster I think (John?), he was the one that rode for Penn/GHP. Dan is a class act, always competitive, and as you can see - has some style. He's been racing on and off for years.

As of today, I'm planning on racing St. Cloud this weekend - see if I can throw a wrench in those final points races

Yeah, You knew I caught the action.. Faribault second corner at sat,, let's hear about this one..

Jason got in a high speed wobble and Kracker was a little to close when it happen

That's Jason Koski's crash in moto 2 Saturday morning. He said he wasn't trying to jump that double heading into turn 2, but had too much speed. His rear tire must have caught the lip on the second hump, and his hand came of the bars. He was just ahead of me and when he crashed his bike bounced right in my path. I had no time to brake, but did manage to unclip without thinking about it. Looks like I can dance after all.

Jason landed on his left hip and smacked the back of his helmet on the berm. We helped him over to the shade for some rest and to make sure he was ok.

Racing under the lights would be fun, minus the bugs

We should have a lots off race at Rehbein's (LMAO).

With the dry summer, there were no bugs. I don't remember seeing them around the lights either. Maybe it was the smell from all the racers.