Everyone has something that means more to them that all the others. In 1983 I made the top 50 in Canada in the CABA(Canadian-American Bicycle Association) even though I was forced to quit racing in the last week of July. I started to cough up blood at a race and my life changed that day. They took out my left lung 3 weeks later (I had a huge tumor that bleeding and filling my left lung up with blood) and ended my bmx racing days. Still, I never sewed the patch on anything and kept as a reminder of how good that summer was in terms of racing. I ended up the year with plate number 14 in the province. Who nows maybe I could have cracked the top ten.....


Feel free to show us what your prized possession is from BITD-maybe a trophy-maybe a bike!

Al.

The father-son weekend project I did with my dad in 1981. The backing board is a piece of 125+ year old barnwood that came directly off an old schoolhouse in Almont, Michigan.

I had a Mongoose at the time, but I longed for a Hutch. My dad helped me cut the letters and stars....I thought it was SO COOL when he found it a couple of years ago. I thought it was long gone. It is hanging proudly in my home now.

My prized possesion is my hack from over 30 years ago and the opportunity to ride it with Dennis Dain