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***We were Rad*** Official Book submission/chat thread ***
brettypeeps:
--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on February 21, 2017, 09:35 AM ---Excellent Brett, thanks for posting. Is that RAD's very own Retrodan on that first black & white photo?
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It certainly is. It was at the hawarden town show in 1985. I was on the Glyn Lewis prototype on the black and white photos
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dancetothedrummersbeat:
--- Quote from: CustardLips on February 21, 2017, 04:07 PM ---Not sure if this is book material but...
Before our local track was built we made a makeshift track in the yard of an old derelict bus depot... concrete slab with a few dirt jumps and all that jazz. Anyway a kid who lived round the corner from me was riding his sisters Mini Burner and decided to hit a jump and do a bar cross-over but as he came in to land he hadn't manage to straighten up and hit the deck with his front wheel at 90° and went over the bars... like you do. Which we thought was fookin hilarious :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: He then got up and ran home screaming to which we thought "fookin mard arse". We later found out that as he landed he'd only gone and caught his ball bag on the exposed bar end and ripped the fooker right open as he flew over the bars. :shocked: Was fookin funny at the time but not so much afterwards. :-\ Then again he always was a bit of a numbskull. :bellend:
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In my view, this ^ is perfect. Real recollections that we can all relate too. I was taking a run up to perform what in my mind would have been a spectacular jump over a large dirt jump. Unfortunately the run up was very narrow and bumpy. I hit a bump, lost the front end and landed in a stinging nettle bed. I wasn't wearing anything on my top half. I was only 7. Never known pain like it in me life
brettypeeps:
--- Quote from: griff on February 21, 2017, 04:46 PM ---I might have got mixed up, but someone who was there will be able to confirm :daumenhoch:
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Yes he did on the Chester ride in 2013/14 I think. New jeans were the order of the day but he bravely drunk through it.
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brettypeeps:
--- Quote from: factory pilot on February 21, 2017, 10:01 AM ---That picture of you with Glynn Lewis amazing !!!
We're thinking of a "....with our heroes" section this would be perfect :4_17_5:
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I knew Glyn well as a kid and he used to lodge with my parents.
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Mikku:
Keeping the tennis court theme started by griff above, here’s one of the many stories that springs to mind from bitd.
In my hometown there’s a mini golf course next to some tennis courts and of the many places we used to hang out at, we’d occasionally ride across the golf course, jumping up and down the various drops between and sometimes on the fairways and greens. Needless to say the owners were less than impressed and the groundsman would usually come out and run after us, shouting. We therefore didn’t go there too often as the fun was so short-lived, but it was definitely a buzz choosing a line across the course before being chased off!
Then one day, the groundsman upped the ante! A group of us were riding across the course when we suddenly heard an engine fire up, and turned round to see the groundsman, who was quite a large guy, sat on a little moped, riding straight towards us. The first reaction was laughter, because he looked way too big for the bike, and the second was to leg it! The fastest, most direct way out from where we were was the tarmac path that ran between the golf course and tennis courts, so I immediately got to the path and started pedaling like crazy. Unfortunately we all had the same idea, and with the path hemmed in by the tennis court fence on one side and a stone wall on the other, there was no room to overtake each other! We therefore raced line astern along the path, with the sound of the moped engine getting louder and louder behind us, laughing half at the sight of the guy and half in that nervous, excited way!
At the end of the path was a public pavement and a road, so when we reached that it was like a champagne bottle being popped, with bmx riders spraying out in all directions, irrespective of pedestrians or traffic. Thankfully none of us hit anything or anyone, and we shot off in different directions, leaving the groundsman shouting behind us. Regrouping later, we had a good laugh about it, and to be fair to the groundsman, it did stop us from going there. For a while! :daumenhoch:
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