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Paul Heyfron world record holder for "bunny hops"

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egg:
just found an old pic of Paul from the early 90's when he got back into riding for a while.not seen or heard of him since.

80sBMXer:
Cheers egg
Where? and when was that?

Gary72:
Had a look, He has 1984 and 1986, No mention of BMX in either.

Gary72:
Did a google search and this guy popped up, Run a shop that sponsored Paul
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-fletcher/18/83b/8b3

80sBMXer:
Yeah
Had a 2 hour conversation with Steve Fletcher the other day

Haven't seen him since '86 so ..................27yrs shit

Great bloke , and really interested in helping with the TRM story

He told me some interesting history , in fact it was him who remembered this Paul Heyfron story

I'll let you have an excerpt of what i'm working on

 a customer of Stechford Cycles (John) came in to the shop one day and asked  "can you get me a Torker"
"yes"  said Steve "No problem" and orders one in (remember this is 10 yrs before the internet)
  when the lad comes to collect the bike he lets on that his mum works at the BBC.
 Not wanting to miss the opportunity for some advertising, they get
 Paul Heyfron kitted out in full Stechford cycles racing gear and headed off to the studios to meet Roy Castle on the record breakers

"Oh sorry....this is the BBC, we can't allow any advertising, he'll have to get changed.

The only thing available was a TRM race shirt,"what's TRM then?"the BBC asked

"Oh thats just BMX talk like .....Rad", haven't you heard of it ?

"Oh ....Ok , thats fine then.

Paul was allowed three attempts the first two being pretty poor, but stormed ahead on his third and final attempt to reach a staggering 146 bunny hops.


Maybe not so staggering,after reading a few comments on here, guess the record was broken soon afterwards :daumenhoch:

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