For those of you who weren't paying attention, Old School Zen Master, Brian Pleva held his 6th annual OS gathering a few weekends ago at his place up in North NJ. The party that is now known as Summerslam 6 was another blast with plenty of cool stuff from BMX past and chill peeps hanging loose. I was not able to make it this year, but perusing other well known websites I was able to find this killah footie put out there by Jeff S. Check the video and wish you were there.
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.
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) BMXNJ is also on facebook and has a friend or two on there. I noticed that one of 