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fugazi:
Never a lot of riders but in my little old hometown we had some ramps round the back of the ymca, now houses/flats. Our handbuilt track/trails is now an old people's home. Our national track is now also houses/flats. We spent our evenings riding the streets but mostly riding flatland in the bottom of a multi storey car park, there was a few lights & it was mostly dry, in the summer we rode up top for a bit of class/light/heat!
Also used to go to wicksteed, stevanage & rom skatepark, which was cool when we started driving but a bit of a mission by train......

markstrong10:
Rom was the main place we rode, a place called the western in Dagenham east, we also built our own track on a bit of waste ground near lullington rd in Dagenham. Proper good times.  :daumenhoch:  :daumenhoch:  :daumenhoch:

markstrong10:

--- Quote from: markstrong10 on July 27, 2015, 06:24 PM ---Rom was the main place we rode, a place called the western in Dagenham east, we also built our own track on a bit of waste ground near lullington rd in Dagenham. Proper good times.  :daumenhoch:  :daumenhoch:  :daumenhoch:

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this was all around the early to mid eighties.

Bigbadsam:
We used to ride up Billinge hill in the woods and on the grass track at the side. The grass track was a small circuit wit a camel jump at the end, mostly grown over now. The woods are still popular with mountain bikers.
 And a place called blue hills out in the fields near Garswood,  a big double hill with various holes n ramps dug out by us in the 80's. My nephew still rides up there now and again.
Nothings as good as it used to be when your older, it's like looking back through rose tinted specs  :coolsmiley:

Jonny too talll:

--- Quote from: nosepickben on July 19, 2015, 05:48 PM ---I did a thread on this subject about 2yrs ago, "the first place you ever rode" i think was the title (someone with time on their hands will be along with a link shortly...)
My early bmx years were split between Crookes cemetery tip, less grim than it sounds, and the Bolehills.
The former is overgrown, the latter is still an amazing place to ride. I finally manned up and jumped the legendary back straight 8-pack last week, for the first time in about 10 years. I've been a regular there     
since 1983. Guess that makes me the oldest, saddest individual for many a mile.

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No I doesn't I used to ride crookes cemetery tip at the same time as I lived in crosspool and remember building the jump on the straight bit after the big berm and dead mans drop! We also managed to make the same dead mans drop into a sort of half pipe. I cant believe someone on here remembers it, I thought I was the only one.

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