Actual Journal Entry:
Slagharen, Holland. Superclass motos: 3-5-4 Main 4th Won $100 Eric Minozzi, Christophe Leveque, Bas de Bever, and Jamie Staff in my moto! Minozzi didn’t make it out and Christophe got 5th in my semi. I’m stoked that I made the main & got fourth. 1st was Wilco Groendal, 2nd- Jamie Staff, 3rd- Dale Holmes, and 5th was Bas de Bever. I sold the last bit of my stuff after the races. Us Americans handed out trophies after the races. Then we went to the Bante Wever & hung out with the English crew and got pretty drunk.
Looking Back Now:
Man, if you know anything about early 90′s Euro BMX, then you KNOW that was a stacked moto! And back in the day, they didn’t scramble Pro motos. So if it was hard, it was hard for all 3 motos. I guess I was riding pretty good that day to beat Minozzi out of the motos, Leveque in the semi, & Bas de Bever in the main! All that, and I earned a whopping $100. But it’s for the love, remember? And especially in the early 90′s. There was hardly any money in the sport back in those days.
The crew that was with me from the USA was Tony Szynaka, Eric Abaddessa, and Robbie Morales. Yeah, that’s right. Rob-O who now runs Fit Bikes. The Bante Wever was a hotel with a huge sauna/steamroom spa in it. And seeing as it’s in Holland, everyone goes in naked. I remember the year before seeing the Lumberjack’s wiener in there¦.
Photo:
They always held big jump contest Saturday night of the race. Thousands of people would cram into the arena and go absolutely mad while watching the contest. This was also the year that I learned flips. Pulling a huge flip back then would make the crowd go insane. Man, these were good times.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
That photo is absolutely sick! Looks like your jumping down from something.. How you get so high, and in a backflip.. I’d like to see that video.. what’s the deal with the guy laying down…?