I just watched the videos of the old school race. It looked like a good time.

Now please explain to me, how you were able to convince Tommy M. to get one of the precious JMC's dirty? I had to watch it twice... still can't believe it.

Any plans for a 2009 version?

Steve, thanks for the update, I herd your crash was much worse. About the ABA State series, I never really put much into it. Your son will win much bigger things. Our Cruiser class was won by a fist year rider, Roger Compton, from here in Toledo. He was so excited. Makes me feel good about racing when that happens. Its all good.

Steve, I can only get out once in a while, I got home responsibilities. I can only get family members to help out once in a while. My wife takes our daughter to Regattas, and if a race falls on that weekend, I'm stuck at home. Reason I wasn't at the Cup or the State Finals. Kids stuff comes first in my family. I just wish they were into BMX. I have 3 and they all are into other sports. Not that I'm complaining, I love watching them do their own thing. I'll be seeing you around, its just a matter of timing. I really hope that Ryan heals and comes back. He has always said that if he got hurt he would stop riding. We need fast riders to push the race along.

RAYS? Need info.

http://www.raysmtb.com

Everything you need to know is in that link. In a nut shell its a hugh indoor mountain bike course that has BMX nights.

In the past, the way I understood it, is that you can get in any time on a bike with bigger than 20" wheels, so a cruiser gets you in anytime. I had no issues on a Sunday on my cruiser - then again, I am not drawing any attention to myself due to the way I jump (well, at least not in a positive, getting too rad kinda way. LOL)

My hope this year is to do Saturdays and be there when they open, ride a few hours, and be home to have Saturday afternoon/evening with the family.

Hey guys, I am new to this forum and I caught this ohio thread. I came here looking to build a bike that was stolen from me when I was 11 or 12 back in 1983. I just recently realized that one of the dads of my son's football team here in Mansfield is Billy Au. I was talking to Nicole his wife when I mentioned that I wanted to build a redline 600a for my 10 year old son. She freaks out and tells me her husband was a professional rider and was sponsored by DK. Billy Au. Well I dont know Billy that well yet but he is going to help me in my quest for my vintage redline. It also turns out that the coach of my sons team, who is also one of my best friends is Mike Osgar who raced for GT and finally Titan! He never brought up that he was a racer either. SOOOOO do you guys have any dirt on Billy or Mike that I can embarrass them with? Nothin too bad I hope.

Hey guys, I am new to this forum and I caught this ohio thread. I came here looking to build a bike that was stolen from me when I was 11 or 12 back in 1983. I just recently realized that one of the dads of my son's football team here in Mansfield is Billy Au. I was talking to Nicole his wife when I mentioned that I wanted to build a redline 600a for my 10 year old son. She freaks out and tells me her husband was a professional rider and was sponsored by DK. Billy Au. Well I dont know Billy that well yet but he is going to help me in my quest for my vintage redline. It also turns out that the coach of my sons team, who is also one of my best friends is Mike Osgar who raced for GT and finally Titan! He never brought up that he was a racer either. SOOOOO do you guys have any dirt on Billy or Mike that I can embarrass them with? Nothin too bad I hope.

Just tell Billy that Doni Hier was better than him. They were sworn rivals

Hey guys, I am new to this forum and I caught this ohio thread. I came here looking to build a bike that was stolen from me when I was 11 or 12 back in 1983. I just recently realized that one of the dads of my son's football team here in Mansfield is Billy Au. I was talking to Nicole his wife when I mentioned that I wanted to build a redline 600a for my 10 year old son. She freaks out and tells me her husband was a professional rider and was sponsored by DK. Billy Au. Well I dont know Billy that well yet but he is going to help me in my quest for my vintage redline. It also turns out that the coach of my sons team, who is also one of my best friends is Mike Osgar who raced for GT and finally Titan! He never brought up that he was a racer either. SOOOOO do you guys have any dirt on Billy or Mike that I can embarrass them with? Nothin too bad I hope.

is this matt harris from p.a.

is this matt harris from p.a.

Check out this picture of BA #66 on the new DK website:

http://www.dkbicycles.com/contact.html?contact/main.html

Who's going to be the first to ID the other riders?

I think hillard replaced the springfield track in 81?Scott morgan was telling me about it too i started in 81 but never raced there but did race in hillard from 82-90 what was your brothers name im sure ill remember him if he was on the expert or national team?
I posted up a 84 whitmans team photo at dayton indoor a few weeks ago here it is again thanks to todd lyons....



Heres a pic of me at the old kettering track id say in 84 or 85?look at the checkerboard grips lol...

hate is a strong werd there goof ball.................not sure why you would say that, but whatever. how's life treating ya kev dog?

Hey Sean and Jared,

How you guys doin ?

Well Jared its good to see you and Nikki are still together. I ended up in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin because of a girl. Id been with her for about 4yrs. She was deaf and didnt know many people here and had gone thru some depression. She split one day and left for wisconsin. Later we worked things out and i agreed to move up here so she could be around her family and friends. A yr later we had a baby. 6 weeks after the baby was born... she split again for a cop who lives in Maryland. She had been chatting with the dude on the internet for some time. So now im stuck up here... tied to a lease atm. in a month or so i plan to move closer to Madison WI where i work. I drive an hr each way every day and its breaking me.

Meanwhile since I am up here. im goin to use the remainder of my stay here to focus on my art. toss some stuff into some galleries in madison, chicago, and milwaukee. I need the time to myself to rediscover myself.

I'll be honest quitting BMX a long time ago was a big mistake, when i was doin that i had a purpose. I was driven ya know each day to get up and go out with a shovel to build a jump and just ride. I'm sure u all remember the adrenaline that we thrived on to go faster... jump higher... to pull off something obscure we saw in a magazine... even if some of us never attained iwhat we envisioned for ourselves, just doin it every day and not giving up or letting someone take that from you gave life meaning.

Ever since i stopped i havent found anything quite like it to replace that drive. I've ended up working a poor paying job paying bills and not having anything at the end to show for it. such is life and getting old.

Now I've been given a chance to rekindle that kinda fire into a new direction. Art, although less dangerous seems to be where i can rebuild my self.

As for that crash in Indy... lol yea i got knocked silly. I walked up to Todd Lyons and forgot he knew me... lol he was the only person i recognised after the crash. He helped me over to the medic tent. I left a 4" deep face print on the track and remember the track had been steamrolled! I tore half the flesh off my face on my left side. I was like "Hey your Todd Lyons!!, (all dazed and stuff" lol he said " you alright kevin?" and i was like "you know who i am?" he said yea man and laughed at me. i was like "oh" Then later 2 hrs later i still couldnt remember who i rode to the track with... I remembered the Dean's so Chris Moeller let me borrow the BMX Plus Test Redline 500c bike. I raced with one eye sealed shut and finished 3rd in my main. Reason i raced instead of goin to the hospital was they were giving away an MCS frame ( which we found out later were defective framesets.) all weekend that weekend i believed i was in Akron Ohio instead of Indy. I've never ben knocked like that since... well there was the time i had my ear cut off at the NBL grands.

McDonalds trails.... Too bad i never got to finish the place... just as well tho the city bull dozed it. Too me a long time to dig that stuff. 1 ft under the surface was a lime bed. I had to use picks and never figured out a way to drain the berms after a rain... Broke my collar bone there with michelle dean. (gofer dig a tunnel in the backside of that one large jump in the back) Ive got some goofy picks of greg beam myself and sean at McDonalds.) ill try and get them scanned in.

Yea man i miss it all.

Oh yea... and yes that was my art on WOXY.com

I was by the old track not too long ago and it's still there. A little overgrown and worn down but still there. I thought I saw an ad a while back in the For Sale section where it was for sale. $179,000 rings a bell for price but don't quote me. I loved that track. Especially Friday night racing!

Woody

So I was wondering where all the Ohio BMXers went. Most of you guys left me here all by myself. LOL

Good to see some of you are back on it & on this thread.

Pic of me is from 1983 when I was 11yrs old. At these jumps in Upper Arlington called Ciao's. If any of you ever came to my house back in the day, we probably rode to these jumps. You had to sprint across the parking lot & launch the jumps to the flat ground. Fun stuff back then.

I remember riding the Coasters by the Kiniyalocts house. And I still remember how to spell their name after all these years.

I got a few names for ya that have just popped into my head:

Marty Brown (and his dad who ran the gates at Madison)

Aaron & Andrea Cargle. They were black & rode for GT around 1981. I beleive that they were ranked nationally. Aaron was #1 in Ohio until I & some others came onto the scene. I think we retired him by 1983. LOL...

Scott Wallace. He was my age & I think from Norwalk.

Vince Cowie. Me & him were buddies. He was my age as well.

Michelle & Mike Dean. Michelle went out with Chris Moeller in the late 80's.

Matt Henry. He was in my age group. I think he was def.

Aaron Hido e-mailed me a bit ago. He sent pics of his brother Todd with an '07 Floval Flyer. Cool.

Nobody has mentioned my brother, Brad. He was at the races back in the day. The he started riding "freestyle" with the Mid-Ohio Trick Team & the Chesrown Trick Team. My uncle Jim ran the team & shows with Dave DeMattis, Russell Tschimpke, David Fenstermaker, & my bro.

Brad Leach. He was a couple years younger than me. He rode for DK.

I think Lisa Vonderhae was one of the first girls who I ever kissed back in the mid 80's. And no, it's not in my journal. I didn't start my daily journal until 1988. LOL...

Anyone remember Craig Billingsly? He got back into BMX quite a few years ago & opened up "The Flow" skatepark in Columbus. It's one of the most famouse skateparks in the USA.

That's all I got for now. I'll have to dig through my photo albums when I get back home to jog the memory.

Hi Todd its mike dean!

this is too funny, buy my wife and iI live in upper arlington!

what are you up to these days?

I work at netjets here in columbus. shoot me an email and ill get you some pictures of michelle and I.


talk to you soon

mike

Is 2 of them gary craft and rich bartlett?

Good to hear from you mike ,it was cool to see your sister at the race but i didnt get to chat with her very much .The rain spoiled it for me .A handfull of us went to applebees and ate dinner and that gave me a chance to catch up more with them but more then 1/2 of the oldsters jetted with the rain.Hopefully we can all get together again soon ?

The Christmas classic (which I live 10 miles away from now)

Hope your living 10mins from Lexington, VA this christmas, because thats where the Classic is going to be this yr..!!! Ugggggh.. The closest national for me, is gone again, at least its only couple states away, instead of FL.. want to get out of Ohio in February for Florida

I seen ashley at the evansville race 2 days ago .Im not sure but i think he got 2nd place both days [he just came back to bmx a couple months ago and our sons have raced each other ]

hello everyone, mike dean how in the hell r u? my name is tim dunlap raced late'84 through '87 just found this site sun. looks like i missed a good time back in aug. ill b at the next 1.mike you might b thinking who is this,bout 21 years ago u an i would race rc cars between moto and the mains at hillard in the winter. i ran around with little nard, jarred pine and about 1000 other racers. wow the memories that steve smith started here thank you. all the names, old pix this is great but after 38 pages no body said anything bout staying at the knights inn , 4 all the state and double point races. anyway don't have alot of time 2 nite but i be back on later , i do have lots of pix, if anyone remembers me ,my dad is a photographer and took me 2 all the races im just saying we have several. ill post 1 of my favorite girl racer, ya mike its your sis. this is back in '86 '87.just dont tell my wife. lolClick to view attachment

Hi I'am helping get the hamilton track back together and was looking for some pictures of it back in the 70's or 80's if you can help me that would be great also we are having a night race there november 1 please come out and see the track and share some stories we also have a web site it is www.hamiltonbmx.com if you have pics of the track or some history lessons i'm willing to listen or read them so i can put them on the history section of the web site thanks. steve s.