Tag Archives: BMX

Save Lake Perris BMX Track update

The kids and parents all hit McDonalds by the track and had signs up and we made the paper again:) (unfortunately they keep dismissing the fact that this debt was caused by the previous track owners and not the new current track owner) Here are some pictures from tonight, and the link to the LAKE [...]

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Save Lake Perris BMX Track

I don’t have all the info but here is what I can tell you. Late Friday I received an email from our site. Michelle left a  comment that said: PLEASE HELP SAVE THE LAKE PERRIS BMX TRACK!! Here is the link to the Facebook page and here is what was said on it yesterday we [...]

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“Why did you allow the commissioner to destroy our skate park?”

Here is a video of me asking NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe a question about the Benjamin Soto skate park on August 9th, 2011 at the Museum of New York City.  More about the meeting here. I guess he didn’t see this video. Councilman Oddo Threatens To Cut Funds To Parks Department from Group Home [...]

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Bikers’ Dream: A Bronx Velodrome and Indoor Skate Park.

Bikers’ Dream: A Bronx Velodrome Above left, Fred Sass/The New York Times; Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Above left, the Kingsbridge Armory briefly revived six-day bicycle racing in New York in 1948. Jack Simes, far left, and Mike Green want to restore the long-vacant and much-fought-over armory, right, for cycling events. By J. DAVID GOODMAN [...]

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Future indoor skate park in the Bronx NYC

The Bronx‘s long-vacant, hotly disputed Kingsbridge Armory could become a massive cycling palace, housing a velodrome and a BMX course. A proposal submitted this spring to the borough president’s task force calls for the rundown, fortresslike building to host international racing events and free programs for kids. The armory’s large 600-by-300-foot drill floor makes it [...]

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Benjamin Soto skate park users at Civic Meeting.

Benjamin Soto skate park users at the South Beach Civic Association Meeting March 23, 2011. The Meeting went well. NYC Parks Department told the South Beach Civic that they will open the park by spring. And they plan to work with the South Beach Civic to remodel the Benjamin Soto skate park in the fall. Steve Quigley [...]

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How to build A bunny hop Bar.

Build your own Bunnyhop Bar from PlusSizeBMX on Vimeo. Thanks to Chris from http://www.plussizebmx.com/

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Public Skateparks At Risk! by Susan Linerode

Manager of a public skatepark, Susan Linerode, wrote a great article on this topic that should shed some light on the continued unconcern of skateparks that are important to the local youth by the community and how you can help!

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South Beach Civic Association Meeting In Staten Island.

There were even more people from the Ben Soto Skate Park at the South Beach Civic Association meeting tonight than the last meeting. Congressmen elect Michael Grimm read the group a touching letter about a US Marine who died, and how his Brother (also a US Marine) accompanied his body to his final resting place [...]

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