Alright it seems about every state has started a thread looking for racers from back in the day, I guess it is time the Bluegrass state Had a thread,,

If you raced BITD in the state of Kentucky at Derby City BMX in Louisville,
Kerney Hills in Lexington or Masterson Station park,
The Madisonville track,
Owensboro when they had a track,
Vastwood,
Earlanger,
Beech Bend Park And the other track they had In Bowling Green,
Henderson
Hopkinsville, Hop Town,
Somerset
Burlington


I'm sure I'm leaving a track or 2 out here, post some pic's if you have any, tell a story or 2, give a list of riders you remember, whatever, lets here it

Also anybody who raced at the NBL Grand nationals Starting in 1984 til the late 80's who cares what state you are from post some pic's if you have em we would love to see em

Or if you were at the NBL war of the stars races in Louisville Ky 1983, or Henderson Ky 1980 and have some pics or Memories to share lets here em,,

we are planning a BMX Reunion/ BBQ at the Derby City Track in Louisville sometime this Spring or Summer Stay tuned for more Details, We would love to see Anyone And Everyone who Raced In the Bluegrass State Attend,,Go to Derby City BMX web site for futher Details

1st jump Derby City 1986 Joey Sears, (4) Eddie Lewis (60L) the rider in the red white and blue is Greg Dennison



Joey Sears 3rd Straight Step up jump Derby City BMX Louisville Ky



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Mike Frazier Lexington Ky's Newer Track in the park by the prison

Derby City Louisville L-R Bryan Ward, Joey Sears, Eddie Lewis




madisonville Ky, State championship !1984
73s Joey Sears,, rider behind ??????

Lexington Ky



lexington Ky

Lexington Ky,,,State Championship

Scott Heltsley, Joey Sears, George Frazier, Bryan Ward, Jay Becht,

Rick Pokorowski Here....
I am from Louisville......
rode Co- sponsor with the cycle craft guys...
Mike and George Frazier...
Jimmy Levan actually helped me learn how to jump and control my bike..
Raced every weekend out there.. nationals for 2 years..
besides Jimmy...
Ronnie Ellman was my riding buddy
Raced alot against
Sean Portman.. Stephen Vickers..Bean.. and a bunch more....

Was in Love with (15 year old love) Bonnie West....
Not Susy.... line every one else...

Raced state.. so whatever tracks i had to hit.. dont remember all the names..
First year state number 1
The frazies made me a cool crit plate with my state number on one side my national on the other....
some parents got mad.. cause i wasnt number 1 yet.... but i still rode it with my 12 up front....
next year got state #2
For awhile I had Bonnie West's Blue Zeronine Plate.. she gave to me at the state finals when she won Number 1...
I need to scan and post some pics!!!!!

My time was the real late 80s.... like maybe early 87.. to early 90.. when I moved to Florida..
I was on the KY team In OHIO twice.... well once... one year i didnt want to wear or pay for the outfit or whatever...
LOL

Rick

Thats funny you mention Bonnie's name, we hung out for awhile in the early ninties, she even stayed with us at our hotel during spring break at Panama City, maybe 93? It was the year of the largest snow storm in history of Alabama.

Bonnie looked like she might turn out to be cute, Did she ?, I feel like a perv saying that since the last time I seen bonnie she was about 12 maybe 13, ... Mike and George were alright guy's, I talked to Jimmy Levan and his sister and mom just yesterday, we are getting together a reunion at Derby City don't know the date yet but it is looking like last weekend in April or sometime around the Grands in Sept, Ponch I know you will be there,, rlowride you should try and make it out, also if you happen to know George or Mikes phone number or Email PM me so i can let them know,,

Joey, we let her and her friend stay in our room for free if that tells you something. Turned out pretty cute, haven't seen her in about 8 years.

About the old school reunion I would pick teh April date and not the Grands. Their is just so much stuff going on it would be hard to just sit around and relax. If it was in April or sometime besides Grands weekend we could have a couple of old school races, bunnyhop contest, etc.

Sorry I missed riding with you guys today, I just got home when you emailed me, next time it looks like it is going to be warm give me a day's notice,
Hmmmmmm wouldn't throw em out of the hotel, I remember her dad Joe kicking me out of the track for throwing a clip board at him, the had to get a park ranger to escort me to my car, it was like a state qualifer race or something I don't remember, but Mr. Frazier put a kid named Shane Cahoon or David Cloyd in our moto, Mr frazier's son George was in my age class, but David Or Shane were not but they raced on the same team as George all i remember is I was leading the race and got T-boned in the first turn real hard, I'm sure it was Shane and not David, but david was pretty fast so it could have been him, But anyway when i got up George was coming down the straight that goes by the first turn, and I picked my bike up and threw it at him, I went down to complain that David or Shane shouldn't have been in our moto there were enough riders for them to have teir own moto and that I thought that Mr. frazier put em in there to wreck me, I thought that Mr. West was going to listen to me but he told me he would have if I wouldn't have thrown my Bike at George, so i grabbed his clipboard and threw it at him hitting him in the neck,,,man I was such a young punk,,,

yeah i know.. no one.. i moved to florida in 90...
hadnt seen heard or talked to anyone from there since... well..

Todd Eldridge.. from Lexington is on here...

April wouldnt be any good for me.. as my wife and son are coming up the weekend of April 12th for thunder..
so 2 trips to ky in one month in one year would not work at all for me....



Rick

Rick would be cool if you can make it, I'm not so sure we are going to have this thing in April it might be later in the summer, check out the Derby city Bmx website for a date, Its funny you mentioned Todd Eldridge i have been trying to figure out who the rider on the left was since I found these pics, this pic was taken in lexington during practice at the last track they had in a park by the prision i think that Mike frazier even took the pic he had my camera, but i believe that to be Todd on the left the other Rider ????what is Eldridge's user name i will PM him

Kevin
wait aren't you older than me, lets do the math here, bonnie at the holtel during spring break maybe 93, WHEEEEEEEEEWWWW I just did the math in my head, no crime has been committed, you are free to go,

Those Zeronine unis in the photo with all the ???? under it, were so cool back then. A buddy of mine used to have a set of white ones like those. I wear em today if I could find a set big enough for me.

seems like everyone had a pair at our track, except me,

Your right,no crime was committed, nothing happened anyway.

Does anyone ever see Bonnie, What is she doing these days,,??

i'll be down with the reunion...

Really, nothing happeded that Spring break week, just a couple of real funny stories that I'll tell later, not about her but about her friend that rode down with her.

Seriously though, A friend of mine ran into her last year at the Juvenile diabetes walk, turns out one of her kids has Juvinile Diabetes.


Bonnie also had a brother that used to race, he had some jumps and trails that I went to a couple of times in his neighboorhood.

Kevin,,
yes Little Billy west yep I remember him, he was a 9 year old when i was 16,,

(liitlt note)
I was telling a story on here about me throwing my bike at George Frazier, because I thought that one of his teammates wrecked me, i said i thought it was either David Cloyd, or Shane Cahoon, I was looking through some old BMX crap I found in a box and it made me remember who it was ,,it was Mike Duvall, Tommy you would remember him you guys raced in the same class, fraziers dad claimed he put him in my moto because there wasn't enough guys at tom Sawyer to race in his class,,hell looking at this paper i'm looking at you guys had the most riders in your class,

Chad Estes, Mike Duvall, You Tommy, Scott Whobrey, Scott Chaney, lee Douglas, Kenneth Smith, Don Mahaffey, Norman Mims, tid Griffin, christopher Dillbeck, Chris Lovell, patrick Richardson, that was all thr rider in Mike Duvall's class in 1986, but yet Mr. frazier stuck mike in our 16 expert class and i got T-Boned in the first turn,

Looking to get in touch with these guy's from back in the Kentucky Bmx Days,

if anyone still talks to thes guy's give me some contact info,,need to get in touch with them for a reunion this spring or summer

Breckley Tipton,, Greg Beller,, Freddy Hooper,, David Debandi,, Darren greenwell ,, Brad Saylor,, Mike Thomas,,
George Frazier,, Chris Goff,, Mark Loney,, Trey Ahigrim,, John Gowan,, John Mains,, Richie Jones,,
John Tichenor,, Brian Fell,, Danny Lowery,, Marc maddox,, Sterling Alveraz,, Greg Dawson,, George Dawson,,
Troy McQuery,, Mike Wade,, Andy Conley,, Stanley Albey,, Matt Howard & little bro,,
Scott Heltsey,, Mark Jones,, Bryan Ward,, Paul Nichols,, Kevin Nichols,, Eddie Lewis,, Timmy Loney,,
Todd Moores,, Andy Vertrees,, David Soper,, Mike frazier,, Brian Taliaferro,, Chris lausman,, Mike Lausman,,
Chad stephens,, Chris Mcafee,, Stephen Howard,, Tommy Seifert,, Shane Cahoon,, David Cloyd,, Cody Weakley,,
John Snider,, Paul Johnson,, Scott Willett,, John Hayden,, Donnie Cissell,, William Sawyer,, Willaim Settle,,
Ashley Lutz,, Jeff Estes,, Matt Slyder,, Richard Handcock,, David Green,,

If anyone can think of anyone else let me know,,I'm sure i have left a ton of people out,,

Did you find a date in May yet?

Not yet I was thinking April 26th or 27th,,but finding a bunch of people I haven't seen nor talked to in over 20 years is a bit harder than I thought it would be, so maybe August might be better, give me more time to plan, I talked to a lady at the volocity magazine about doing a story on Old School BMX, if she goes for it that will be cool then maybe it might be easier to find some people, they see the story and the fact that we are planning a reunion then that would be cool but the problem is that she said it takes a few months to do a story then publish it,,Just keep putting the word out,,I really thought there would be more Ky BMXers on here but I guess I was wrong,, Looks like if we lived in Minn, NJ or elsewhere we wouldn't have a problem, so far we seem to be limited to VBMX members,

We might try the Courier Journal classified.

I am talking to HRP products about making some custom number plates for the bike show and race class to give out as trophies.

Mike and I still keep in touch regularly. we had some battles....bike tossing, take outs...all facilitated by the CC guys in my opinion...

I talk to Jason Herrick ever once in awhile...best friends throughout our childhood and he's responsible for me getting into BMX. Lives less than a mile from me and we see each other maybe once a year...that sucks.

I was pretty much motofill after 1986. Jason was the man to beat out there. Factory MCS hot shot. The rest of us wished we were that fast.

I feel as though I'm a late bloomer of the Louisville BMX racing scene.

2x4

Tell Mike to send me a PM, or just let him know what is going on witht the Reunion and see if he is still in touch with anyone, man don't sell your self short you were more than a motofiller back in the day, the points list i have from back in the day for the State championship has you 3rd in your class, motofillers aren't third out of 18 guy's motofillers are the guys at the bottom of the list,,

I was a motofiller.

No you were a glove thief,,where the hell are my wrap around leather gloves from the 1984 state championship in Henderson,,,I loved those things,,

That was 83'

83 84 what is the diff, you stole my gloves,,I'm pretty sure my big ole trophy said 84 on it what did your's say wait you were just a motofiller

I was goofing off on google earth so I looked to see where the track used to be in henderson, of course it wasnt there anymore and hasn't been in quite a while, but i painted the track from what i used to remember, they had that great first turn you could slingshot out of, I'm going to give it to the police as evidence for my stolen gloves sine that was the last place I seen them alive,,

I see one of the best tracks in this area is still around, Burdette Park Evansville indiana,,,

oh..Carl and Dave Soper are back racing too!!!

Carl is killing the 55 and over class! Dave had either shoulder surgery or knee...not sure...however, he still has a great gate!

they'll be there fer sho!

2x4

1. I gave you the gloves back
2. I have a trophy from that race
3. Those gloves probably weren't yours anyway
4. You owe me alot more than a pair of *$#& gloves

Evansville is one of my favorite tracks, I had my best finish there in the 35-40 novice class last year.

Another nice track is Nashville, you guys need to join us for some races this season and see what changed.

your right they wern't mine they were William Settles,

Trophy were there only 8 guy's in your age class?

Awwwwww the good old days,, I thought I paid you with the money under the floormat in my car,,

i need to get ahold of todd eldridge if you know how i can contact him?


if you know how i can contact todd eldridge i appreciate it?

Did someone say George Frazier?

This isn't George, I'm his wife. PLaying around on the net I found this site. I think George still has about a million BMX trophies stored in our loft. George has a son now. George Frazier III. I hope to keep him OFF a BMX bike...maybe a mountain bike, but not BMX.

I guess you all know Jimmy LeVan was seriously injured recently?


Anyway, I'll tell George about this site.


Cheers
Jennifer Frazier.

JENNIFER

YES tell George and Mike about this site, tell them to pm me, we are planning an old school reunion, I would love to see them suckers again Joey Sears

Tell george and mike -steve smith said hi also ,seemed like they dropped off the earth when they quit racin ...I remember playing pool at thier dads house in like 87-or 88 while i was down for the grands lol..

the fraziesrs rocked.. as i was a lowly novice.. i am sure they dont much remember me... but they kinda co sponsored me on the cycle craft team for a minute...

I remember riding around in Geroges Austin Healy... i think it was...
almost dragging my knuckles on the ground!! I think it may have been at a state race.. him and I went to the store or something...

good peoples!!!


Rick

lets see who knows late 80's Kentucky BMX trivia



name us left to right

this pic sucks and I am sure, its gonna make the rounds... but oh well.....

My head is overloading with memories here. I'm just going to fire some of them off.

Joey Sears I do remember you and your Louisville area based crew at the tracks with bikes and people loaded to the max in whatever you rolled to the races in. Seemed like gates,racing and good times were the intentions and were well gathered in.

Derby City BMX. The days of dirt berms. Loaded into the Soper's van or wagon heading westbound out of Lexington on I-64 to Louisville. Post grands 1987 freshly lipped jumps tossing me like an out of control bottle rocket. Not much shade other than our staked into the ground canopies. Some guy's rusted inside Hutch exploding into pieces after he cased a jump there. $100 doubles. "Shut er down Parnell" echoing on the PA system at the grands. Soaked dew grass making the Vans not stick to the pedals very well on grands almost frost temps or post rainy nights mornings. Rick Pokorowski, Ronnie Ellman, The Wests, John Molnar, The Lausmans, The Frankfort crew of Eddie Lewis/Chris Sutton, Tommy Board, Jason Herrick, Brad from IN, Darren Barnes, Jay Becht, Dan's Comp's first vending trailer, Nothing but grass fields surrounding the track area, getting schedules in the mail, driving over 3 hours from Paintsville just to race locals there etc.

The Frazier camp and all of their riders, efforts and BMX life times. Those folks they did a whole lot for BMX racing in Kentucky. I last saw George at a mountain bike race at Bike Butler in Carrollton,KY 1999. Funky memory about rolling to get some supplies for the track while in Henderson with George and us jamming La Bamba in 1987? The Cycle Craft blue and white fades. George Sr putting forth a lot of effort in Bowling Green while based in Louisville? That was stout. Matt Slyter, David Cloyd, Mike 8 foot Duvall. Krazy Glued headsets. Zeronine.

Jimmy, Susie and Karen LeVan's super fine friendships, hospitality and welcoming their deal/home to all riders style. Moto Moms brought us the good stuff to Kearney Hills in Lexington. I remember their van being packed and when they'd unload. People be buying it up and hanging out. Years of riding and staying with them in Louisville. Very good years with them.

I think the rider in the black Zeronine stuff may be Bryan Ward.

That's me in the blank white jersey/black sweats at Masterson Station Park in Lexington. Thanks for sharing that pic. The other rider who is in the yellow Zeronine stuff is Ronnie ? who lived around the block from the Soper family in Lexington. You may remember his last name Joey. Looking at my Free Agent in that pic it looks short with the bars high. Check the short stem length on Ronnie's bike!

Steve Smith ah yeah. Long live 185s with 48/14 gears, no weak Coasters trails in Middletown, wall rides or manuals for miles. Take it back to chrome and slamming gates down quadzilla style.

I think I got the answer to the last pic. Rick Pokorowski, Steven Vickers, Ronnie Ellman, Billy West, Bonnie West? Maybe?

More later.

Ok your next quiz is a good mutuall friend of ours has been mia for too long !If you ever hear from mavis kick him in the pants tell him me,adam ford ,kevin want to hear from him ...me and kevin were talking 2 weeks ago about raiding paintsville to find him to throw sand bags at the vfw....Maybe we should put black tape backwards on his steering wheel if we ever find him ..omg .This site is so funny i just found it 2 days ago and have allready chated with so many cool people i havent heard from in years check this out todd ....the glory years lmao!

Ok your next quiz is a good mutuall friend of ours has been mia for too long !If you ever hear from mavis kick him in the pants tell him me,adam ford ,kevin want to hear from him ...me and kevin were talking 2 weeks ago about raiding paintsville to find him to throw sand bags at the vfw....Maybe we should put black tape backwards on his steering wheel if we ever find him ..omg .This site is so funny i just found it 2 days ago and have allready chated with so many cool people i havent heard from in years check this out todd ....the glory years lmao!

I wish I would have stayed with it back in 83/84. Sounds like I missed alot fun racing action. My first race was at the old track, was that 82 or 83? does anyone have any pics of the first Tom Sawyer track? Anyway I raced about 4-6 times total then I went back to hanging out with all the riders at Okolona Schwinn and heading to the "Dip" or the jumps located behind Southern's Football field. Sometimes we just rode forever looking for jumps.

About 86 or 87 I got my License then quit riding all together. Around 89 or 90 I started riding alittle. Went out to the track with Paul Prestis, Adam Cox and another guy from Schwinn named Rusty? After a few times riding I found I could clear the pro section, well more like a triple step up. One time when I was out there I bent my forks and some girl racer was riding a White bear? She recommended the white bear forks, bent those after about two months.

Anyway now I'm back into racing and love it. Been going just about every weekend having a blast. As a matter of fact heading to Indy Saturday morning for a regional.

The pic that was posted above, the only person I recognize is Bonnie on the far right.

Looking forward to the reunion

Kevin



Here are a couple of current pics from last season. The second pic I'm in the middle.

Todd

Glad to see you surface it is great to here from ya, send me a PM and I will give you my email address so I can give you a date for the reunion when I find a date,

rolling to the races with a bike rack and a car full of people, yes those were the fun days, I remember I was always picking up the local punks in the neighborhood and taking em to races trying to keep everyone into BMX,

I remember that race in Lexington, the one with you in the pic, I took Doug Curry, Brian Brennanstel, and 3 or 4 more guys down there with me in a junky old toyota, Doug Curry Disappears for a few hours after his moto's and I can't find him anywhere, Finally after i was about to give up on him and leave him in Lexinton, Brian comes and gets me and informs me that the have him detained at the prison next to the track,

I'm thinking what the Hell,, come to find out his father was in the prison and doug brian and Steve howard were riding their bikes over there to pay a visit, and Doug got snatched up by security, but Brian and Steve Howard were quick enough to get away and come tell me, we loaded up the bikes and drove over ther to get him, but he did get to pay his father a visit


MAN WHAT GOOD TIMES !!!!!1

Kevin

I have been trying to locate sme pics frm the old Hounz ln track, thats when I started racing back when the track used t g up and around a tree then in 82 they changed it to the S track, then 83 moved it ver t where it is now, I have a friend that is trying t get in tuch with a guy named Andy Vertrees wh was pretty quick back then he might have some pic's


Good to see this KY thread is starting to get rolling..

Ronnie Ellman,,thats who that is, man I couldn't think of that name for nothing, and BIlly and Bonnie, Great pic, Semmes like I have seen Ronnie around in the past few years but never said anything to him, you know how you see people and go man I know that person But neve walk up and say anything,,was he from Louisville, I might have drove him to some races, Man send out some smoke signals get some more KY guy's on here