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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: Rombloke on February 21, 2010, 03:21 PM
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for those members that miss neils refurb threads, and for those that missed this the first time around, heres one i did before, i think neil was even a member here
A RESTORATION PROJECT
HARO GEN 1 FREESTYLER…Serial No TSS 1235F
Legend has it that this resto project started its life on eBay approx 5yrs ago.
I was outbid on the auction by Dan Harris, who won the bike and left it as a survivor ride, and consequently got 3rd place in the survivor class at mk06.
Life over the woods wasn’t so bad for the haro in the 80’s being jumped through the bomb holes, and abused, as all good freestylers should be.
Here in some of these pics being thrashed by Dave Curry.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/tri3a.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/tri2a.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/tri1a.jpg)
Heres the original reciept from faze 7...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/haroreciept.jpg)
£179:95.…yeah…I wish
So after Dans initial clean up of the bike it was just left in its survivor state. Like this…
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/bmx15e-3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/bmx12e.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/colour059-1.jpg)
I personally kept looking at this bike thinking, that one day I will do it the honour of cloaking it in some new bling and restoring its parts.
Soon the bike changed hands once again, not long after the ruler put it through its flatland paces at mk07, the bike was sold on in another auction on rad to raise money for 80’s freestyle legend, stuart ‘pepi’ winder’s funeral.
Rhys ‘lazy chubs’ Maskell was the new owner. But after hearing the pressures of fellow old schoolers not to restore it he sold it on…..
Heres where my part in the story began.
Straight away, as soon as the bike was in the workshop, she was stripped, all the parts were boxed, awaiting a clean/resto
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0021-1.jpg)
Then work on the frame was started….at some point in its life the poor ol’ thing had been bubblegum welded, badly…I had to put this right…
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0020.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/bubblegum.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/bubblegumII.jpg)
So, the files, dremmel, grinder and varios hacking tools came out, I ground most of the birds crap welds away, then made a template from cardboard, using one of my other gen 1’s as a guide of the head tube gusset.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0024-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/harogusset.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/gus1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/gus2.jpg)
The frame now got sent away to have the fabrication/welding work done on it… I left the frame in mark fuzzy nods hands, he would be taking it to oxford to a funny car/drag race car manufacturer called Andy Robinson Race Cars….these guys are mustard…the work took a while, but I gave mark the work at their busiest time….but the work is quality…
I initially only wanted the head tube gusset replaced, but andy suggested I had the seat tube gusset replaced also, as a hairline crack was present, a common fault in haros.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/e022.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/e020.jpg)
A week or so later and the frame was back at HQ…so I went to work with the polishing, preparing for the chrome plate.
So after 4 hrs and a hand from Steve vinoah, it had had the life polished out of it, getting into all the awkward areas.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/fnfpolished.jpg)
Now the bit I had been waiting for since first seeing the bike on eBay…I took the frame up to Lee pkradmans house, and he took it to his chrome guy for me…well, after 12hrs at the platers shop we got the call….it was done…wtf….
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/018.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/0031.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/004.jpg)
In between all the comings and goings of tss1235f I had plenty of work on my hands just in general cleaning, replacing, and restoring the parts removed from the bike.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/tech3s.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/restoredpro-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/pado.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/mx1000s.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/hitforsale009.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0002-11.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0011-5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0009-6.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0008-3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/deco.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/clampflex.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/bluerounds.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/DSCF0005-6.jpg)
Now to today….11/3/08, picked up freshly chromed frame and fork set , and banged all the decals and parts on it….
Not brilliant pictures, I will eventually get some good ones in the sunshine, but these will do for now.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/newsideon.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/x13.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v255/rombloke/x12.jpg)
Sorry if this has upset any survivor bike lovers, but hey, if you wanted it to stay as a survivor, you should have bought it, I couldn’t see it staying as it was, and hopefully ive done this old gen 1 justice.
Thanks for reading.
Dave
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Man, that was such a top restoration project; I remember seeing it in the flesh in full survivor state at MK06 :daumenhoch:.
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top skills dave :daumenhoch:
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At the time i was wishing it had stayed as it was due to the life it had led :)
But after all the work that went into it i was happy with the end result :4_17_5:
I remember watching that item on ebay too thinking what a pile o shite :-[ :uglystupid2:
I thought Rhys would have kept it too ::) you must have offered him 1 - Big money or 2 - Very little money when the guy was skint :D ;D
Very nice that though Dave :smitten:
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it was option 2.
lol
Dave
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i did enoy owning her ,and did love the knackered way it looked.
i also love the way you had the gutts to take on its restro and done a top job.
it also brings a smile to my face nowing that the money i sold it for went to help with pete winders funeral .R.I.P. young fella
so its all bloody good to me :daumenhoch:
picking it up on the way to mk 06 was great as i met the oriinal owner,i swung of the m25 10 minuite chat and off i popped to the meet.
lent it up against the van and entered it for a laugh in the suriivor class and got 3rd lol magic
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loved it when dan rolled up with it at MK, then dave fooked it, the drag guy has done some nice stuff when it comes to refurbing bmx bits
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ever the charmer pete...cheers mate....it still beats any gt youve owned tho mate
Dave
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great resto and great thread :daumenhoch:
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Class 8)
:smitten:
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Cool restoration Dave 8)
Seen this on ebay the other day and it reminded me straight away of yours......check it out, even in the state its in , it looks well cool, if it was a GT, it would be just scrap. >:D
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180470205549&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1182 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180470205549&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1182)
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tis a thing of beauty...
still for sale?
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you know the deal jonathan
Dave
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dave what can i say you win hands down on resto work mate
where are the 3 muskystogies :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :police:
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who?
lol
and thanks mate, i only posted tis up cosfolk said they were missing your resto's
Dave
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wheres fuzzys condor.
that was an epic resto to if i remember right.
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fooking right it was....more to the point, where is the oldest man in bmx that is the fuzzster.
Dave
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fooking right it was....more to the point, where is the oldest man in bmx that is the fuzzster.
Dave
I would hazard a guess that oldest radster is out on his bike :daumenhoch:
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bump for the new guys
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Stunning 8) great thread :daumenhoch:
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Thats a blast from the past :4_17_5:
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2008 ? How time flies :)
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Who remembers the Hutch stem? ;D
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Hairy brain was better
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i still liked it as a survivor 8).
was deffo a cracking restore story though.
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Fuzzys condor was pukka, didn't YGT end up with it ?
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Aye a blast from the past :4_17_5:
I remember missing out on this when Dan was letting it go for a donation I think , auction in the for sale section
and I got back late that evening when it had finished and was gutted . :'(
Nobody really wanted it ( but I did ) and Rhys Lazychubs got it for about £330 I think and he only kept himself about a month .
I loved it survivor myself ,, but I reckon I would've done a full resto just as you did Mr G :)
Good thread ressurection 8) 8) 8)
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First time I've seen this. Awesome!!! :4_17_5:
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Hi guys, this is all a bit overcoming ;) but that was my Haro. :)
Someone sent me a link to another topic below:
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,23111.msg238648.html?PHPSESSID=036b7bd9a69a0c5a9ade3f8ae40f7cdb#msg238648
And after some searching it led me to this topic (apologies for the slight thread ressurection but I thought I would add what I can).
Firstly I was a member on this forum some years back but cannot find the old user name (felix something?) or email etc, if the mods can advise please let me know, maybe it was deleted as I did not return here until now.
I started BMXing circa '79 IIRC on my converted Grifter riding in the Epping Forest area, that's when I first met Dave Curry (and Jason Dawes) aged 11/12 in the 'Triangle' in the Buckhurst Hill/Woodford Green area - we all rode together pretty much solidly for the next five years or so, mainly in the local areas (Epping Forest, hollow ponds etc) but Sundays were always spent at ROM - on the District Line to Elm park by tube, riding with the old names that many will know - Marco, Billy Stupple etc.
The pics above were taken by another guy we rode with (Pete) at the Triangle, me balancing on the bars or doing 'parachutes' as we always called them, sometimes landed some of those jumps - as many will remember BITD we always seemed to jump and then land on the flat - no wonder the old knees are fooked.
Dave seemed very cool and 'American' when I first met him - every summer he went to the States - he had so much of the latest stuff and used to get the odd part for us, even my first Vans.
Anyway, the Haro was a replacment for my PK Ripper which was nicked from it's first visit to ROM about 2 weeks into ownership. As can be seen it came from Faze 7 and the first batch in I think. I always built bikes with odd mix of parts in various colours!
The Elina Lightening Bolt saddle was actually the original one I had on my Grifter conversion...
The seat clamp was hacked from an old Sugino stem, I can remember getting the rear Tuff as a warranty replacement after the original cracked on some stupidly high late Sunday afternoon ROM 'parachutes' out the of the Performance bowl. I remember doing a coaster brake conversion on it too. And I can still remember buying the Bottema forks at Action Bikes in London and coming home in Dave's dad's Grenada estate...
I stopped riding BMX around '84 maybe earlier, the bike stayed with me totally untouched* until 2006 when I finally had to make the big decision to move it on or it would just stay rotting away further in the garden.
*edit: except for the welding - this happened around 1989 when a 'garage mate' of a friend (Richard - from the Bike Shed in Woodford - otherwise known as Tattoo Man to us kids BITD) was lined up to weld the gussett - yep, I was pretty shocked when it came back looking like that...
That's it really - onto eBay it went and the rest is history. I still have the number plate though and my Bob Haro signed JT Racing hat from the 1982 Bike Show at Earls Court. Very happy days. :)
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Love the photo's 8)
Nice story too :daumenhoch:
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Cool
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Cool resto thread this :daumenhoch:
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That is. 1st class restoration.
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Top resto skills :4_17_5: .... though i have to admit i prefer it how it was. Super cool survivor :smitten:
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I love this bike in both its carnations :daumenhoch: Survivors r really grownig on me 2 b honest :D
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A top thread already of a top bike ( for me)
Just got better with you reply Max Felix :daumenhoch:
Thanks for posting the history
Any pics ,out of interest ?
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Cheers guys. ;)
Many of the pics are on the front of this topic or in the other ones linked but I'll put them all together from my originals and a bit larger too.
Here are some pics of the bike when I first sold it on eBay:
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx2.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx3.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx4.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx5.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx6.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx9.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx10.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx11.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx12.jpg)
(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmx15.jpg)
This is me abusing it at the 'Triangle' as above (some of Dave too)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta6.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/ta8.jpg)
Apart from the memories not much left except the plate I still have together with the hat signed by Bob Haro at Bike '82, I'm not sure who the other signature was but I remember Stu Thomson and Andy R. being there...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmxplate.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmxhat.jpg)
And what must be quite a rare Tee, these were made to commerate the closing of Corona Raceway in the US:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmxt1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii124/mpoilu/bmx/bmxt2.jpg)
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Very cool pics, would love a survivor like that, over-restored ones are 2 a penny :-X
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Very cool pics, would love a survivor like that, over-restored ones are 2 a penny :-X
X2 - Love the way the gusset's been rewelded with the nearby decals still on n'all. Proper good.
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it was the ultimate survivor that bike was.
loved it the first time i seen it at MK years back.
shame it got restored as it was the coolest bike i ever saw 8)
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Cracking thread that. 8)
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Do you regret selling it Max Felix :-\
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Do you regret selling it Max Felix :-\
Hi, well not really TBH, at the time I had to really, just not practical to keep it. I'm pleased it has had an interesting history since I sold it on after 25 years ownership.
For me, BMX, in those early '80 years like many here was my whole life and were incredibly happy times but you have to move on. :)
Obviously once I sold it I quite rightly have no say in what happens to it and as for being restored and it therfore leaving behind all it's history and life in that way......well......of course I have an opinion but I could not possibly comment... ;)
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wasnt me haha i left it as was,when pepe died we needed to raise some money to pay for the headstone
so fittingly i felt what a good way of doing it so auctioned the bike off...it did get a prize for best survivor the day after i picked it up..3rd i think.
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Guys, please forgive the resurrection but getting more nostalgic as I get older and dug up this old topic again to see the pics gone. Here they are again, I'm starting to regret selling more as the years march on.
But the way current BMX prices are if I stripped and sold the parts now I'd be a lot better off than the ?200 odd it fetched 15 years ago. :)
(https://i.ibb.co/Dzh6VJ8/bmx5.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/C2sCWv6/bmx10.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/YdmGF8x/bmx12.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/MGkzWv9/bmx14.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/1ZztF6w/bmx1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/c8hhZgN/bmx2.jpg)
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More...
(https://i.ibb.co/55gbZpr/bmx3.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/qpby8bc/bmx4.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/9pftZR7/bmx6.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/r7JfRR2/bmx7.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/h2d5cYN/bmx8.jpg)
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And...
(https://i.ibb.co/jg1hXrg/bmx9.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/MNWtqsW/bmx11.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/mtWg8zN/bmx13.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/jGwtT5R/bmx15.jpg)
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Makes you wonder.. "where are they now" ?
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Great to read back through this thread and see some old names. Ahh, back in the day, like one big happy family. ❤️❤️
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Forgot these too - the bits I have left - my old plate, JT hat signed by Mr Bob at Bike '82 Earls Court (and someone else signed it - remember Stu T, Harry L and Mr Ruffell being there too??). And a pretty rare Tee I guess - made to commemorate the end of Corona Raceway. Design by Bob H too.
(https://i.ibb.co/qp4GpFZ/bmxplate33.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/TmhKqyY/bmxhat.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/Q6ZjdWY/bmxt1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/HGStscW/bmxt2.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/0fCRqqm/faze.jpg)
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Great to read back through this thread and see some old names. Ahh, back in the day, like one big happy family. ❤️❤️
Indeed mate, indeed.
Also.... very sad that so many pics have gone over the years so thanks for re-posting Max :daumenhoch:
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And the action pics, myself and Dave Curry at the 'Triangle', Epping Forest we spent the best part of every day we could here for five years. This was my last year of BMX sadly, Dave went on to bigger things of course.
36 years back, man where did those years go, still remember them like yesterday.
(https://i.ibb.co/VSkvsc4/ta1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/MP5qkyW/ta2.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/9rLpdhM/ta3.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/RHGzGv3/ta4.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/nfPBQgQ/ta6.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/n6JFc1Q/ta7.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/mGcjbqm/ta8.jpg)
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And the action pics, myself and Dave Curry at the 'Triangle', Epping Forest we spent the best part of every day we could here for five years. This was my last year of BMX sadly, Dave went on to bigger things of course.
36 years back, man where did those years go, still remember them like yesterday.
(https://i.ibb.co/VSkvsc4/ta1.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/MP5qkyW/ta2.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/9rLpdhM/ta3.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/RHGzGv3/ta4.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/nfPBQgQ/ta6.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/n6JFc1Q/ta7.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/mGcjbqm/ta8.jpg)
Great pictures, your right it does seem like yesterday .
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One more of Dave back then.
(https://i.ibb.co/MZ1f16S/dav1.jpg)
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Awesome pics fistblump 8) explosion