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Am I in the minority?
Flatcap:
As the title suggest but I will explain......
It seams that many of you who turned to freestyle used to race and or raced too as well as doing freestyle. I can honestly say racing never interested me one bit but I was hooked on freestyle from day one, at the very early stages too. When I first met Dave Slade at school, circa 1980/81 and he introduced me to freestyle I just couldn't think of anything else (except footy and totty obviously). I'd graduated from a red Grifter which I used to do jumps on and then got a very early Halfrauds own BMX, the chrome one with the red decals on, it was either that or a Burner but I've just never seen eye to eye with the old Burners. I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me if Raleigh probably made the bike I got from Halfrauds as I know they had a very close relationship at the time.
I know racing is the heart and soul of BMX and sorry to be such a heathen but racing just seemed too much like hard work and just didn't do anything for me. It was all about expression for me, being creative and different, doing your own thing. I admit I was never great when it came to competitions as I fooked about too much but when I got serious I could hold my own.
So how many of you raced first or just did Freestyle right from day one?
I think this question is mainly for the real old schoolers because I'm sure many mid/new school riders would have just started Freestyle first purely because of the coverage it got, I could be wrong though.
Thanks in advance.
Daz. :daumenhoch:
billstup:
Racing first, which I was shite at, then freestyle :daumenhoch:
oberonspacefruit:
never really that interested in racing.
but then again in my area, there was no racetrack that i knew of.
bmx was about people rockwalking around on the flags in front of the co-op.
SaMAlex:
I raced for the first few years but that was mainly cos there was no 'freestlye' in its own right. Most racers did a bit of freestyle during the week, as we all did cos there were werent many BMX tracks. When freestyle started getting bigger, and there were more freestyle bikes I left racing behind. Infact, my 3rd bike was a Sport, which at first, was sold as a race / freestyle bike, which it why I got it. I dont think I ever raced it tho.
se bikes:
Racing from day 1 for this chick, cos i was Rad at it :coolsmiley: :4_17_5:, discovered Rom this year tho so watch this space :LolLolLolLol:
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