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MartyC:
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--- Quote from: Trev on August 31, 2007, 11:41 AM ---
Hmmmm... TLB...... the man who doesn't acknowledge taking BMX photo's in the 80's anymore....
I got on alright with TLB bitd, but the way he goes on about how he was a skating photographer in the 80's and has thousands upon thousands of pics and doesn't mention BMX at all did get me wound up a tad....
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Thats not the TLB I know, when was this Trev - what context? I think he was winding you up....
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I believe I saw it on his website a short while back. I'll see if I can find it again.
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I haven't seen Tim in over 20 years but I understand he very much remembers how influential his role in BMX was both from a photography and retail perspective. I think you need to understand how deeply rooted skating is in TLB's life, I first met him back in the late 70's when he was manager of Alpine Sports and when he wasn't working at the shop he was taking photo's of skaters in places like Meanwhile Gardens 1&2, Rolling Thunder, Windsor (anyone remember the Windsor skatepark????), Spandrel at Uxbridge and so on.
SaMAlex:
I never knew TLB was the manager of Alpine Sports. Thats way cool
the_cyclops:
TLB is cool!
I spoke to him a couple of weeks back (sorted me out with some HUGE R.A.D. stickers too)
I must admit though that toward the end of ABMX and the beginning of R.A.D. was the best times..........It may have helped kill off the competition scene in the UK but in my opinion it came at the right time.....I was 16 when ABMX started to move towards R.A.D. and all the Anarchy stuff was pretty fresh and pretty much pre-empted the whole mid school ethos!
Thats just my thoughts on the matter!
:daumenhoch:
SaMAlex:
that might be right, but they still dropped BMX altogether (like most people I guess).
They went out of their way to put hoffmans backflip180 from mansfeild in RAD but they were still so crap. They compaired it to a 900 ... which hoffman also did at the same demo! The pics spoke for themselves, there was no need to translate a BMX trick into "skate" tricks for their readers
MartyC:
--- Quote from: S&MAlex on September 01, 2007, 07:05 PM ---I never knew TLB was the manager of Alpine Sports. Thats way cool
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Bought my first BMX from Tim at Alpine Sports when it was at Notting Hill Gate :daumenhoch:
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