With a title like Silverdome Colossus you might expect a little better coverage. But that was not the case, soft black and white photos, poor out of focus color photos, eh, left me wanting more.
This is way before my time in BMX racing. Does anyone remember this race? Did anyone actually make it to the race to watch of even compete? Would like some feed back on it.
One nice thing I did like about a few of these issues was their race coverage of racers other than experts and Pros. Good to see some of the local boys getting coverage back then.
That team picture of the Lighting Express Team brings to mind a sponsorship deal something along the lines of Chico's Bail Bonds from The Bad News Bears. Are there any teams these days that have sponsors that are not bike related? Just wondering.
One really good thing about this issue is the article where they pay a visit to the Huffy factory in Ohio. Really neat seeing how these lower end bikes were being put together, something like two million bikes a year. Wondered what year they decided to out source everything to China?
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2 comments:
Cool that you posted the issue.
I wrote the Silverdome story. No doubt that the production values for Super BMX in general were whack.
It was a really fun race, with the demolition derby on Friday Night and on-track action. This was the first race where Zeronine started to break out in a big way.
That is awesome Mike. Some of the later issue seemed to be much better. This one, not so much.
Zeronine was so big at one point. I remember almost everyone having those plates.
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