Entradero BMX: Ground Zero for the South Bay
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Entradero BMX: Ground Zero for the South Bay
This series made a promise: where the record is contested, we say so. Here's the harder version of that promise: where the printed record is nearly gone, we say that too. Entradero is one of the most remembered tracks of 1970s South Bay BMX — and almost nothing about it survives in print. But this one we can also tell firsthand, because our founder grew up riding it.
Ground Zero
Entradero was ground zero for the BMX Action crew and many, many BMXers. That's not a guess — that's Bill Ryan, Legend Bike Co's founder, who grew up riding the basin. BMX Action's Torrance home base and its famous test spot, "the Pit," were just up the road, and the riders who filled the magazine's pages rode this dirt. The whole South Bay scene — the same crowd racing Ascot and the Harbor-area tracks — ran through Entradero.
Bill's own story with the track is the story of a thousand SoCal kids: it wasn't the first track he raced, but it's where he learned to ride — because it was the shortest pedal from his apartment to any track, so he rode it constantly. Every neighborhood had a track like that. Entradero just happened to sit in the neighborhood that was about to put BMX on magazine covers. And when Entradero shut down, the scene didn't scatter — it moved a few miles over to Ascot, which took over as the South Bay's main track.
What the Record Shows
A BMX track ran in the basin at Entradero Park in the 1970s. The clearest surviving printed record is a rider's firsthand account, with a photo, of his first race ever — Entradero Park, February 1977, won aboard a blue-anodized Race Inc. Entradero doesn't appear in the first track listings of the sport's earliest magazine in 1973–74, and it's absent from the rider-compiled rosters of the ABA era — which brackets its life to somewhere in the middle 1970s, gone before the 80s. Who built it, who sanctioned it, who ran the gate on Saturday mornings: not yet in the record.
What We're Looking For
Race flyers. Trophies with the track name on the plate. Photos of the start hill. Moto sheets. Memories with dates attached. The people who raced Entradero are out there — an active Entradero memories group on Facebook keeps the track's story alive — and this page exists so the record has a permanent home.
Raced Entradero? Legend Bike Co wants to hear from you. Every photo, flyer, and firsthand memory makes this page more complete — and gets the South Bay's track back into BMX history where it belongs.
Sources: Bill Ryan, firsthand — Entradero as ground zero for the BMX Action crew, his own years learning to ride there, and the scene's move to Ascot after the track closed; rider firsthand account with photo (February 1977 race, socaltrailriders.org); City of Torrance parks records (Entradero Park, 5500 Towers St.); Bicycle Motocross News early track listings via 23mag.com (absence noted); bmxmuseum.com Southern California track-history forum (absence from ABA-era rosters noted); the Entradero memories group on Facebook (community archive). This page deliberately carries less than the others — a short true page beats a long guessed one.