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South Shields Old School BMX riders..
tigerbrown:
--- Quote from: PK6061 on February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM ---yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
greavsie.
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heres some photos of dean i got off facebook i know he wont mind.. al phone him in a moment.... wish i had some pics off BITD
the one of dean and prosser isnt great but can you see the difference in size!!!! gary was a bigun haha
JAY:
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--- Quote from: yosser on February 07, 2009, 12:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: JAY on February 05, 2009, 08:46 PM ---Always remember the journey's to shields amongst others,I live in Consett and bitd myself and a few mates would have a road trip with our Northern bus express Day pass,We would take the bikes to bits ,chuck them in bin bags so we could get them on the bus and head off down to Newcastle,usually hit Westgate rd first and spend ages in Kaw/Newcastle and riding around the city centre and then head further up to another bike shop just past the general hospital,can't remember the name now.Later wrap the bikes up again,jump the metro barrier and head down to Shields,remember Conways pretty well,but don't remember riding shields very much,but those little road trips when we were youngins were the best.
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they where called explorer tickets
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That's them,cheers mate.......
JAY:
--- Quote from: PK6061 on February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM ---yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
greavsie.
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Gary,i'll have to scan those photo's for ya one day.I remember seeing those redline cranks in Conways,should have known you would get there first :LolLolLolLol:
moanjam:
--- Quote from: PK6061 on February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM ---yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
greavsie.
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alright I am said dean ditchburn
moanjam:
--- Quote from: jackiebrown on February 09, 2009, 11:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: PK6061 on February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM ---yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
greavsie.
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heres some photos of dean i got off facebook i know he wont mind.. al phone him in a moment.... wish i had some pics off BITD
the one of dean and prosser isnt great but can you see the difference in size!!!! gary was a bigun haha
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nice one tiger , might change me mind and ride the goose this summer !!!!!!!!!
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