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The first place you ever rode bmx

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MartyC:
Harrow Skatepark, Cav Strutt's Mongoose sometime in 1979/80 iirc

hunterdubber:
Great thread


Isn't funny how you can remember every twist, turn and bump even though it's not there anymore ( well ,, it's overgrown )  :daumenhoch:

Taking you back nearly 30 years  :smitten:

A few of the local places , makeshift tracks , bombholes and jumps we had mostly have housing estates there now  :'(

the recreational spare land is all getting swallowed up in recent years  :-\

Don't get me wrong  nowadays kids have far better facilties for riding than we could ever imagine with the parks and tracks available .

But there was something special about your own made ,local  riding places  :smitten:

Cool that Ben ,,, get your spade out  :daumenhoch:

nosepickben:

--- Quote from: Londonhellboy on January 01, 2013, 03:03 PM ---Great stuff. Looks a cool little place to grow up that  :4_17_5:

We used to catch the train to Barnham from Bognor and ride over to Slindon pits where the Moto X guys to go. It was friggin' awesome with plenty of major drops and jumps. Real muddy and dirty too  ;D  Perfect for 34 BMX lads to get down on.

Went back over there around 4 years back with my bro and a couple of mates and most of it has been landscaped now  :(

Here it is  >>  https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=50.859602,-0.612813&ll=50.857909,-0.604291&spn=0.010701,0.033023&num=1&t=h&gl=uk&z=16

You can see where they have started to plant all new trees and dirt trails still there. The big patch in the middle has been all but flattened now too  :yahoo_silent:

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Nice one, I clicked on your link and I had NO IDEA where in the country it was, I zoomed out until the coast and bognor appeared then it made sense. Getting the train out there to ride eh..? that's commitment   :daumenhoch: I guess the weird thing for me is that where I started riding has not been changed, just left to go to ruin, kinda makes it all the sadder that you can still (more or less) make it all out
And dubber, you're dead right, facilities are much better these days, and the kids that live riding-distance from somewhere impressive are real lucky gits - I make sure to tell them to make the most of whats been laid on for themwhen i go to maltby or chesterfield or any of the other decent spots round my area, most of them look at me funny but i'm used to that. but do the kids have more fun nowadays..?? No Way..!!!

Darren KAP:

    :4_17_5:   just goes to prove time waits for no man and live ever day to the full  :daumenhoch:

Jaan:
My patch was called Bluebell Woods which we used to ride daily in the late 70's - its a Tesco's Express now  :'(

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