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Am I in the minority?
the_cyclops:
When I got my first BMX in '79 (at the tender age of 9) we didnt know any different BMX was BMX and jumps were jumps!
I basically rode whatever I could.......home made tracks, Golf course bunker jumps, bits of plywood on milk crates...... anything really
I evolved from my Monarch BMX to a Kuwahara Lazerlite for Christmas (probably '82 or '83) and again just rode everything in front of me with my best mate Bobby (He had an ET Kuwie)
I went racing a couple of times when they built Bruntwood BMX track but never did any good and preffered just jumping the Camels between Motos
Then one day I was riding home from school and there it was.........A quarterpipe! in someones drive (the someone actually turned out to be Tim Stamp who was riding at the time a PK Ripper and would later be sponsored by Hutch)
There was a few older guys riding it, tanking across the road and up Tims drive and up the QP.....I was really intimidated because they were a lot older than me and started to take the p*ss out of my bike (for some reason!?!) anyway that evening I got home and decided to make my own QP (out of dirt in the back garden!)
A while later I became friends with Tim Stamp and met guys like Andy Preston, Mike Pardon, Chris Chapwood and a rad guy called Winston
I sold my Kuwie and Bought a Haro Freestyler and never looked back.....I never stopped riding BMX bikes and had some of the most amazing times and met some of the best people all the way through to 1994 when I stopped riding!
So basically what im trying to say is I never considered myself a racer or a freestyler as far as I was concerned I was a BMXer and thats all that mattered!
gossa:
--- Quote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 09:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: gossa on October 01, 2007, 09:09 PM ---Well speaking as an old school racer it was all just BMX to me so here's my view. Before racing I just went out and wheelied and bunnyhopped my way to the woods or skateparks where I jumped. I guess that was pre 'proper' freestyle but for me and the guys I rode with it was all just riding. But then 'proper freestyle came along with different bikes and the racers couldn't keep up with this pace as the 'proper' freestylers developed the sport, began doing much harder tricks and thier bikes became even more specialized but as a racer I was still really into it and we still all rode together and I used to love going to the early freestyle comps to watch or ride in the very early ones. Then a bit of a rift developed, almost like the skaters verses bikers situation, there was a definite divide between the communities. Freestylers didn't wear racepants and jerseys at this time, they wore Anarchic Adjustment and M zone t-shirts!
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Clive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?
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I'm a londoner, rode around Croydon as a yoof but raced all over. Grotbags and I were arch rivals for ever, he used to phone my mum the night before a national and tell her how hard he'd been training that week to physch me out, he never knew that my mum never told me what he said.......I love Paul a lot, we were fierce riivals but now I can look back at all the good stuff he's done, but I appereciate his style and apparently he's hardly left Stephen Murrays side since the accident so i'm glad to know someone like that. He's a better dancer than me too!
MartyC:
--- Quote from: gossa on October 01, 2007, 10:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 09:33 PM ---
Clive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?
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I'm a londoner, rode around Croydon as a yoof but raced all over. Grotbags and I were arch rivals for ever, he used to phone my mum the night before a national and tell her how hard he'd been training that week to physch me out, he never knew that my mum never told me what he said.......I love Paul a lot, we were fierce riivals but now I can look back at all the good stuff he's done, but I appereciate his style and apparently he's hardly left Stephen Murrays side since the accident so i'm glad to know someone like that. He's a better dancer than me too!
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Cool, I knew Paul when he was a little scrote on his bitsa bike, an old Mongoose with a Rear Skyway and ACS Z Rim front, all different colours and parts from everyone :LolLolLolLol:. He used to hang around Haydon Hall and Harrow Skatepark with us bitd, he's done good since I knew him and has been a rock for the Murray family :daumenhoch:.
bmxmatt1974:
started off racing then got into freestyle. When i got back into riding in 1996 was more into freestyle side of it but am now more into racing :daumenhoch:
gossa:
--- Quote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 10:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: gossa on October 01, 2007, 10:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 09:33 PM ---
Clive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?
--- End quote ---
I'm a londoner, rode around Croydon as a yoof but raced all over. Grotbags and I were arch rivals for ever, he used to phone my mum the night before a national and tell her how hard he'd been training that week to physch me out, he never knew that my mum never told me what he said.......I love Paul a lot, we were fierce riivals but now I can look back at all the good stuff he's done, but I appereciate his style and apparently he's hardly left Stephen Murrays side since the accident so i'm glad to know someone like that. He's a better dancer than me too!
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Cool, I knew Paul when he was a little scrote on his bitsa bike, an old Mongoose with a Rear Skyway and ACS Z Rim front, all different colours and parts from everyone :LolLolLolLol:. He used to hang around Haydon Hall and Harrow Skatepark with us bitd, he's done good since I knew him and has been a rock for the Murray family :daumenhoch:.
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What do you mean WHEN he was a scrote with a bitsa bike!!! ;D just kidding, Paul's one of a kind and I have a lot of time for him......
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