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Offline southern andy

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A few from the 80's
« on: December 09, 2007, 03:22 PM »
Hi chaps, after finding this site, i thought i would have a dig around for some photos.

Below is my first race bike, 1984 i think. Its a Diamond Back Senior pro bought from Strongs cycles in Bournemouth.  The photos were taken at a meeting at Wimborne track.







The next few are from 1986, a meeting at Poole BMX track, very famous for a while for it's start straight doubles until they decided to revamp them and make them mush smaller.

My bike then was a GJS race bike, very rare at the time, it was also fitted with Redline flight cranks, cant remember if they were 400 or 401's ????. Perhaps someone could tell me. I also wore Jag pants for some reason.








The next photo is of Gary Llewellyn of Mongoose. I raced against his brother Wayne that day in my three moto's and he absolutely whipped my ass.
Here Gary is jumping the Poole doubles, hell of a distance they were. This is either the second or third moto cause he fell off on them in the first one. He and his brother were the only people i ever saw jump them.




I hope you like these.
It breaks my heart now that i sold all my gear in the 89/90 years to fund buying a house, BMXing by then had pretty much ceased really, but one things for sure, i always looked forward to Sundays and race day.
Cheers guys.


 

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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2007, 03:29 PM »
love the pics ,and welcome to the site   :)

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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2007, 03:32 PM »
cool pics, cheers  :daumenhoch:
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2007, 03:37 PM »


lovin the strongs shirt
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2007, 03:41 PM »
Cheers chaps, anyone know what crank was on my bike ?????

God only knows what happened to the Strongs shirt  :'( :'(
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2007, 03:48 PM »
400 flights
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2007, 04:01 PM »
welcome aboard ;),love the pics i used to race at both of those tracks bitd,poole was the best track on the south coast :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2007, 04:06 PM »


quality photos andy! :smitten:


loving the Llewellyn leap :daumenhoch:


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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2007, 04:09 PM »
Nice one Andy wish i has kept my photos from BITD.  :daumenhoch:
Should fit in really well here  ;)
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2007, 04:32 PM »
Quote from: sawzall on December 09, 2007, 04:01 PM
welcome aboard ;),love the pics i used to race at both of those tracks bitd,poole was the best track on the south coast :daumenhoch:


Thanks for all your kind words guys.


Did you ever race at Southampton ???? (solent spitfires). The track is now the West Quay shopping centre.
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2007, 05:01 PM »
hi andy,i rode there all the time as it was my local track and was a member there,heres a bit of history... i only kept them as i designed the logo ;)
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2007, 05:13 PM »
Nice, i remember that shirt so well. My mate's mum was the race secretary or something like that. My mate was Benny Metcalfe, cant remember his mums name, i know she still lives in Totton near me.

Still got scars on me from that track, loved the table top, it ended up being Tarmac aswell if i remember correctly. I learned to drive there at the education centre.

Lordshill track, god that was long, one of the longest i ever rode. :D
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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2007, 06:22 PM »
i remember ben andy last time i saw him he was at the canute rock club near ocean village and had massive hair,i think his mum was myra ??? and he had a sister who i think was called nicole but it was 24 years ago so the memory's not what it used to be,i have a few nice scars from the track too,the surface was really rough apart from the tarmac on the jumps, it liked to remove your skin if you fell off :shocked:
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« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2007, 06:44 PM »
Welcome to the site Andy.

I raced in the same region as you, but one age group up.  I live in Bristol and raced all over doing regionals and nationals.

Here are some pictures of me:

Me at Southampton (one of my 1st races) (1982)



Me again at Southampton, riding for JMC (1983)



Me with a good trophy haul at Wimborne. (1984)



Me again this time at Bournemouth, riding for GT (1985)

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« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2007, 06:46 PM »
GREAT PICS FROM BITD 8)
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« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2007, 06:50 PM »
They are all fantastic pics. Some great bikes there too.
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« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2007, 06:52 PM »
Winborne, happy sunny dusty days :)  Mmmmmmm Capri Sun
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Re: A few from the 80's
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2007, 09:52 PM »
cool pics, yeah poole was the best track, very fast  :daumenhoch:

i've recently found some photos of solent spitfires aswell, very recognisable with the containers in the background and all 180 turns  :)
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« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2007, 10:16 PM »
Great pics them mate :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2007, 10:20 PM »
Ahh great pics  :)
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« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2007, 10:25 PM »
Quality pics, welcome to the home of the Old school :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2007, 07:56 PM »
Quote from: Southern Andy on December 09, 2007, 03:22 PM




check those pure ASBO  gardens in the background!!
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Offline southern andy

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« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2007, 08:53 PM »
Ha Ha, Quality but for some reason whenever i raced at Poole i seemed to always wish i lived there. God knows why. Probably something to do with living right next to the track.
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« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2007, 09:53 PM »
Great pics mate, and that GJS is well trick.

Thanks for posting.
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« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2007, 11:14 AM »
Great pics Andy, where in the South are you? I am in Southsea, are you
thinking of riding again? What age are you now? Remember all those
tracks really well, when i finally move and find out which box all my pics
are in will post all the south central ones.
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