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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: GT666 on January 23, 2009, 04:28 AM
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Any old school bmxers(1980-85) from South Shields on here?
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you've got a pm. :daumenhoch:
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aye....
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aye....
aka - 'the legend' :coolsmiley:
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Don't live in the toon anymore used to get loads of stuff from conways bmx over your neck of the woods,is it still there?
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Still in Salem St. Westoe rd one closed years ago when they moved to salem st.
still got some bmx bits in.
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Used to love going over there,do you remember Gary Prosser?Old Kuwi Rider?
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yeh, bumped into him years ago at some mtb demo in bents park.
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Decent lad..seen him a few times down there BITD on his Lazer Lite... ;)
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Although I live in South Yorkshire I spent loads of time up in Newcastle and South Shields as a kid. My Mam's from Newcastle and my Grandma used to live on Marsden Drive on the Marsden Estate just up from the Grotto. I still come up to work and see family and meet up with Dave Young for a beer or a wobble. I'll be up at some point in the next few weeks so I'll be hooking up with Mr Young and we'll probably do a bit of riding, either that or beer and curry ;)
Daz.
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So you quater geordie then Daz? ;D
Met Dave a few times as a kid at Kawasaki Bike Shop on Westgate Road think he had some sponsorship deal with them BITD.
...used to drool over his GT :)
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Not always from shields, but i now live just of john reid road/a194
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So you quater geordie then Daz?
It's mad mate, I've got a Scouse Dad to Scottish parents and a Geordie Mam to Irish parents. My mother-in-law is also from Roker so you can imagine when there's a big family get-to-gether there's usually some fighting ::)
My uncle Neily who is now sadly no longer with us had THE most Irish name ever....Cornilious Patrick Connor ;D
Daz. :daumenhoch:
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:LolLolLolLol: that's one hell of a mix match of regions :LolLolLolLol:
Sounds like a classic recipie for a good family kick off :D
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use to race the conways lads at the washington track.
the shop is big now but the bikes they sell r cr*p :'(
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It had some great stuff BITD,Every weekend we used to get the ferry over and spend ages over there..happy days.
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Not always from shields, but i now live just of john reid road/a194
If your just off the Jr road then your right next to the old South Shields track. Have you seen it lately?
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Lately? i have never seen it previously.....lol
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Lately? i have never seen it previously.....lol
Should get yourself over for a look, its still there albeit its just single track now. Went round on me mountain bike not long ago ;D
Its behind the new fire station if you didnt know.
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Theres a skatepark at the Temple Park Centre next door.
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Aye me and suts89 had a ride round the old track on our mtbs last year for old times sake..bit over grown and not as big.. Table tops goneZzz You got nowt better to do with ya time offshore like suts???? When ya back so we can get out?? God I wish conways was still like the old one we remember..Gary prossers a legend in early bmxing and not so much on the doors once he discovered roids... Haha.. Threw me out a few bars BITD..
We should all meet up in the summer..
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Still in Salem St. Westoe rd one closed years ago when they moved to salem st.
still got some bmx bits in.
Westoe road was hornsbys Raleigh dealer btw.. Got my Raleigh budgie and grifter from there late 70s
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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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got my first vans from conways, paul with the white hair served me
he was still in the new shop in the 90's. think june was the
last to go but she still had time to sell me some redline flights
for £40 before she left ;D
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got my first vans from conways, paul with the white hair served me
he was still in the new shop in the 90's. think june was the
last to go but she still had time to sell me some redline flights
for £40 before she left ;D
Wye Aye the memories are kicking in now ;D, Did Paul with the white hair wear a blue overall coat thing??
What about Conway stickers, you were nobody if you didnt have at least one of the little blue stickers on ya frame :laugh:
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we used to pedal down to conways from hebburn on a saturday . and i had my £3 pocket money so i bought fook alll "tramp"
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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.
they where called explorer tickets
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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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Wye Eye, :laugh: Deans a friend of mine.
Are you going to post those pictures of Prossa?
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What aboot Maxwell Street Motors, anyone remeber the the quarter pipe they had out the back?
Had some canny bikes as well, not up the same standard as Conways i dont think?
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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.
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
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean1-1.jpg)
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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.
they where called explorer tickets
That's them,cheers mate.......
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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.
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:
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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.
alright I am said dean ditchburn
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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.
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
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt207/jackiebrown1973/dean1-1.jpg)
nice one tiger , might change me mind and ride the goose this summer !!!!!!!!!
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will get the pics on soon as. my name is also gary my dad used to help
out with the washington club i rode a pro star and had a mongoose
shirt white body red sleves. never missed a race at the washington
track. some more names from washington- mark robson, sox, wilco,
andy ray or car cant remember, nick hardy, dave murry barry meyer
and steve james. ;) them redlines still going strong jay ;D
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hi dean did you remember mike chilvers came to washington (factory pro star)
he rode with all of us outside hendersons on sat and raced sunday sold his
bike to sox telling him it was a factory model 2'' longer than my pro star
a month or so later we got the tape out' same size :LolLolLolLol: still a
top rider and a cool scam. ;)
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Some pics of Kawasaki Newcastlewhen eddie Fiola and Dave Breed came over.......
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG_0001_edited-4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG_0002_edited-3.jpg)
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some lovely photos there matey... look at all the gear in the background!!!!... takes me back... theres a sound bloke who owns a mtb shop in south shields A-S cycles who served his time in kawasaki as a youngun... was talking bout when they brought eddie fiola over just the other day... some good memories!! sez it was unreal the amount of money they were taking BITD.. selling thousands of pounds worth of gear out the back of the van round race tracks on a weekend!!!
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some crackin pics there jay, dug this out
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss15/moanjam1/PICT0050.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss15/moanjam1/PICT0042.jpg)
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Wow,the things people hold onto still amaze me........nice
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Here ya go Gary..........your pics.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG_0003-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG_0002-2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG-14.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/q66/harogenone/IMG_0001-4.jpg)
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thanks jay :daumenhoch:
first three pics gary prosser on his new factory kz1 at the washington track.
next one me on the pro-star (with goose shirt on)
next could be conways rider?
me on the murry grass track.
its me again with john anderson and dad
trophy time with bloke from hendersons.
next john and barry with deans dad in the background ?
next dont no,
gary again,
peter dark of dark cycles No85.
and me at the end. ;D
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Class ;D
It would great to see any pics of Conways from BITD.
I remember on a weekend outside the shop was chocka block with kids on BMX ;D
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thanks jay :daumenhoch:
first three pics gary prosser on his new factory kz1 at the washington track.
next one me on the pro-star (with goose shirt on)
next could be conways rider?
me on the murry grass track.
its me again with john anderson and dad
trophy time with bloke from hendersons.
next john and barry with deans dad in the background ?
next dont no,
gary again,
peter dark of dark cycles No85.
and me at the end. ;D
nice pics matey :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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Hi everyone.
I know this is an old thread, but I’m hoping the people who have posted on it are still active - or perhaps with this post being bumped to the top it may get new views from people in the area.
A local charity called Tyneside Outdoors are doing a Lottery Heritage Funded project on the old BMX track at Temple Park South Shields.
As it has alot of overgrowth and trees that have grown over the past 20-30years.
I’ve been helping them myself doing the work which is basically just heavy gardening work.
I used to use the track around 1990-1995 as a young lad as I lived nearby.
The track is very narrow nowadays and more mud than the loose stone surface that I remember it having back then.
Not only are Tyneside Outdoors doing physical work on the track to try and restore it to it’s former glory as best as possible, they’re looking at the heritage history side of it too.
So if anyone has any photos/history information or perhaps even just good old memories it would be great to let them know.
For example I always remember me and my mates would enter the track from the right hand side and exit the left hand side going in an anti clockwise direction.
But maybe it was used in both directions?
I’ve uploaded some videos to Youtube of a cycle around it I done in December 2018, if you search youtube for Temple park bmx, they should come up.
Check out Tyneside Outdoors Facebook page and also the page they setup on Facebook for the project called Temple Park BMX Dirt Track.
Thankyou
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Richie greenhalgh does an old school bmx ride every may bank holiday weekend, great weekend out
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Oops, only 10 years too late to reply