{"id":3717,"date":"2015-01-23T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middaugh.org\/mwp\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2015-02-06T00:21:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:21:10","slug":"1-nj-district-4-cruiser-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/1-nj-district-4-cruiser-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 NJ District 4 Cruiser 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

My goal in BMX racing when I was a young duder was to earn a #1 plate in my ABA (now USABMX) district.<\/p>\n

Back then with 2 sanctions you either raced NBL or ABA, the 2 big guns on the block. With the ABA every single race counted and you earned points for every main event you made. After realizing I was ok at cruiser racing, I set about racking up points in the 1984 season and by the end of the year had achieved what seemed to be an impossible goal when I was first starting out at BMX in 1979…a #1 plate. I then promptly graduated High School went to work and became a freestyle BMX rider with no more need for points or plates…to an extent. I also realized the insanity of chasing number plates, every year you had to start over and do the same thing again! The very definition of looniness! I look back and think how funny it was that I went from hardcore racer to freestyle go almost overnight. Good times though and lots of lessons learned…many of which are recounted in the book I wrote: The Average BMXer, A Tale of the BMX Generation<\/a><\/p>\n

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