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THE BLACK 2 BMX DOCUMENTARY

A Documentary telling the history of the African American BMX Racer.

As a black kid growing up in the 70’s you saw most kids in our neighborhood playing the average sports. Football, basketball, and baseball.  I was a skinny kid back then, too skinny to play football, not good at dribbling a basketball and baseball was too slow for me. I use to watch evil Knievel on ABC wide world of sport on the weekend. I got infatuated with him jumping his motorcycle over buses. I would go outside pretend to be him. Set up ramps and jump them on my Royce union bike with the banana seat. So the seed was planted that riding my bike is all I wanted to do. Jumping my bike made me feel happy

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