Field Notes explores Honolulu’s vibrant and varied scenes and subcultures. This month: the Sandbox BMX races.
WHAT IT IS
A gathering of bicycle motocross riders and their supporters (moms, dads, aunties, uncles, etc.) at an off-roading area on Sand Island known as the Sandbox. They use a winding, wavy dirt track, which they painstakingly built and diligently maintain, under an agreement with the state, which owns the land. Practice days are Mondays and Wednesdays, and races are held Saturdays, throughout the year.
THE TRACK
Volunteers donated or scrounged virtually everything that went into making the track, from the … More
Travis Pastrana is afraid of one thing.
It’s not jumping out of an airplane without a parachute — heck, he has done that, and the stunt has been viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube.
And it’s not screaming down a ramp on a motorcycle and soaring high into the air and doing a double backflip. Yes, he did that, too.
And it’s not BASE jumping. Or racing a motorcycle or a truck or a rally car.
And he’s not afraid of … More
The penultimate day of the PWA Catalunya World Cup turned out to be a largely frustrating affair as winds of 5-13 knots teased the competitors for the duration of the afternoon – so despite several sailors checking the conditions – the wind never quite materialized enough to resume the racing. The sailors were eventually released shortly after 7pm, and now all attention is firmly focused on tomorrow’s forecast in order to complete elimination four, to try and gain a discard.
Although there was no competition today, there was still an amazing atmosphere surrounding the event area as the crowds arrived for the weekend and a Volkswagen Festival took place at 5pm with an impressive 564 VW Campervans turning up to mark the tenth anniversary of the festival. With plenty of downtime today we caught up with … More
Papendal, Netherlands (June 15, 2013) — At the third stop of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup, Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) won his second consecutive world cup superfinal time trial on Saturday after posting the fastest time around the supercross track in Papendal, Netherlands. In the elite women’s race Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline Bicycles) finished second to 2012 Olympic supercross gold medalist Mariana Pajon of Colombia.
Fields, who qualified in second after his first run, posted a time of 38.064 in the superfinal to secure the victory, just under two tenths of a second ahead of runner-up Jelle van Gorkom (NED).
“Things came … More