Grove Street Bicycles Performs at Tribeca Film Festival
Written by Brett Middaugh
Sunday, 02 May 2010
The ever infamous Grove Street Bicycles had their freestyle crew over at Tribeca for the premiere of 'The Birth of Big Air, The Matt Hoffman Story", last Saturday. The guys were shredding up the area and repped the NJ scene hard on the island where the evil of Wall Street dwells. We got our hands on the web edit of the show and are tossing it up on here for posterity. Check part owner Mike Wilson busting the flat freshness and BMXNJ auteur Louis Orth spinning madly as well. NJ all day, every way, ok...?
After a long day of freezing outside with some of NJ, NY, and PA's best flatland riders out there in the chilly Asbury Park Casino, I headed back over the Asbury so that I could chill in the Wonder Bar with some of my BMX bros. Mookie was good enough to secure a bunch of prizes for a door prize raffle, it seemed almost everyone who payed the cover charge walked out with more than they paid to get in. The evening bands were Ducks and Drakes as well as Barry and The Penetrators. Both bands kicked some ass that evening and even Hippie Steve was down with 'em both. Attendance was a little lighter than we would have liked but we still had a few guys come out to enjoy the evenings entertainment and refreshments. Hippie Steve Wisbeski from Jump For Joy, Future BMXNJ Magazine photo contributor, ace photog, Mike Kuhn, Area 51 trail master, Brad Gethard and Old School....(Holy sheeot, he IS old school!) BMX rocker and ex Hell On Wheels rider, Bob Ryer with his lady as well as a few other various and sundry BMXers infiltrated the Wonder Bar that evening and had a good time. Since this was sort of a "make up" party for the fiasco that was our Christmas Flatland and BMX party day it was cool just to see it finally happen. Next time around things will be bigger and better and with the ASA BMX Big Air Triples coming to town this year...it may just get that way sooner than we think. Thanks to everyone who came out and had a good time, we'll see ya at the next event.
As I'm sure all of our adoring fans know...(annoyed...fans...the 4 or 5 people who come to this site...? ) BMXNJ is also on facebook and has a friend or two on there. I noticed that one of Ed's
Bike Shop' s main rippers Mike Paton was having an Easter Jam at Delmont Skatepark and since I hadn't seen any of those guys since the January Shields comp, I figured I'd head out and say hi, maybe ride a bit. I put myself down on the event list as maybe attending. So then I set out on google to find where "Delmont Skatepark" is... The hits were quite slim, some might say non-existent. I later found out that is for good reason, the locals call Mike's house with tons of ramps spread out in the yard, the Delmont Skatepark. Seems I had stuck my foot in my mouth by basically inviting myself to someone's house on Easter for a party with their bros. After apologizing to the Mike and then hoping that he remembered me from Shields, he was cool enough to say come on down and hang if you want. Stoked that I hadn't burned a bridge with a killer bunch of riders in the Southern NJ area, I made plans to head down and see the Ed's Crew on Easter Sunday.
I rolled up to what Google said was the Paton's Pad about 2:30 or so and promptly bolted down a dirt road next to his house, while the locals looked on in confusion as a woody PT cruiser with a Quadangle rolled down their neighbors driveway, I hit the reverse, backed out, turned around and took the next turn to the correct address.
BMX freestyle has to be one of the best things going. As long as you show respect to the locals when you show up, you can be pretty much assured that you've got brothers all over the planet. Once again this was shown to be true when I saw Mike shook hands and he offered, food, beverage and the ramps to be used as I pleased. I asked him where Ed was hiding and took off to BS with the one of the guys who has been around since the beginning of BMX in NJ.
BMX Flashback and The Ocean Ave Flatland Jam aka Winter Snowfest '09
Written by Brett Middaugh
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
A text to Mookie at Brielle Cyclery Friday afternoon after he hit me up with "Is there anything else you think we need for the jam and show?". Yea, I replied...snow shovels.
As luck would have it with me (for those of you who remember the "Shore Ride", it had massive rain the day before and showers the day of.) a UNPRECEDENTED snow storm shot up the east coast on Friday the 18th and proceeded to slam the entire shoreline of NJ almost all day Saturday with the most intense part of it smacking us right when the jam and party were to go down, 2 pm to 1 am. Frantic phone calls were made and even though a few guys had braved the weather to get to Asbury Park, we decided to postpone the whole shebang minus the After Party, till the following day when the weather would be slightly better.
I could go into a lot of things at this point about how bummed I was at how the weather basically kicked us all, OS guys, flatlanders, and BMX partiers alike, in the balls. I'm not gonna though because I'm writing this little blurb on Christmas Eve so this thing is staying upbeat! With that being typed out, I'll give a real quick rundown, as Louis Orth will be giving us a write up in BMXNJ Magazine issue 1 in late January. (now postponed because we need content so I'm waiting till AFTER Shields first 2010 comp to bring it out.)
OS Show? 1 word. Brian Biel. Brian was good enough to brave the storm with about 9 bikes all lined up there in Brielle Cyclery that wintery day. Since he was that badass, he took home both plaques. Thanks for coming out! (and thanks for the killer Fall Party!)
Flatland Jam? Budz, Keith from TR, Buddha, Don, me, and Louis O braved a bunched of jacked up roads to ride for a few hours in what will go down in history as the place where flatland BMX began to come back to the forefront in New Jersey. Had the weather not been jacked, that place would have been FILLED with flatlanders, instead driveways across the eastern USA where flatlanders lived saw them digging out, LOL!
Snow doesn't stop progression. After the jam that evening, I went back in and talked to a guy who at some point will go down in the NJ BMX history books as one of it's great promoters someday in the future. Small flat jams in Asbury Parks Briellle location will be going on this winter (reserve a spot now!), more events will take place in Asbury Park AND in the convention hall. The Flatland Jam that should have been huge this December will take place AGAIN at some
point in the future. The After Party has just been postponed till a later date. So all the BMXers in NJ can look forward to a party for BMXers down here over the winter.
Small setbacks don't stop us, they make us more resolute in our determination to do what we do, move forward. Keep your eyes on Asbury Park, Mookie and this site, remember, BMX's 35th anniversary is 2011 in New Jersey, and we are just getting started.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by, rode, watched and the EMT's who got to hang out with us all day. In the words of the governator...We'll be back.
(oh and there's a few more pics here on the site . Also look for the best ones in BMXNJ Magazine #1)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR....and
Merry BMXMAS!
Brett, (I ain't no JSteady, as you can tell by these pics!)
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