Track Construction is Underway:


Dream Big, John Mittlestadt ... and relish in your glory, you are standing on your new track's starting hill with your son (cool enough) and former national champ and ABA track building rock star, Steve Spencer.




Monday - June 12: Steve Spencer fired up the bulldozer and started pushing dirt early this a.m. John and Dana Mittlestadt are also on site and directing the fleet of dump trucks that have been bringing the infill and track dirt. Talk about things moving quickly. By 10:30 the starting hill was in place and Steve is just cranking away, according to John.

We're getting a bunch of guys together at Bennos tonight at 7 ... Bennos is Marty Weigel's (Weigel is one of those who have been supporting John's idea for Milwaukee BMX since day one ... and was the first to suggest Crystal Ridge as a potential place to locate the track) corner bar in West Allis ... located a few doors west of the intersection of 71st and Greenfield Avenue, on the South Side of the street. Come on out and join us if you can.

Wow ... a BMX track in Milwaukee ... what a concept, er ... reality ... yeah, that sounds reeeaaalllll nice.

These "small" progress photos are all clickable for a larger image:

Here's the view from on top of the start hill looking down into what promises to be a very fast first turn. Track orientation is exactly what we didn't think we'd want when we first walked the site ... and, yet, the start hill nearer the chalet will accomodate easier access to power to run the sure start and computer scoring system (will we have a computerized scoring system? Did I just make up something great?) A recent count had a tally of more than 30 dump trucks dropping off loads. That's about 15% of what we'll have total, according to Steve.

The day started with scraping the site flat and roughing in the first turn.


Steve is working corner #2 by early afternoon.

Is this the building inspector? Or, is it really local 36-40 cruiser ace, Jason Leikam, incognito.

Kevin O'