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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: Andy68 on September 02, 2011, 03:22 PM
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Just sat in the sun reading a few old 80's mags on me last day off. Wot exactly did the letters stand for stuck on the plates of the race bikes, some form of classification I guess? For example a red letter 'U' can be seen in an action shot of the Yanky pro's giving it some stick. ???
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For some internatioanl races U was for USA, E was for England etc.
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On regional plates you had the region code i.e. SC = South Central, NW = North West etc.
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Everyday's a school day!! Ta :daumenhoch:
Think I've seen 'x' on some.......?? ???
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'X' added after a number is used to distinguish 2 people in a class with the same number, eg when a number 1 from 30-34 cruiser moves into 35-39 cruiser, where there already is a number 1.
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in the early days a "T" meant a temporary number just for the day :daumenhoch:
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you can see the "T" on the piece of paper stuck to my plate at buckmore "T"10 :daumenhoch:
(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/11344e611fb63044e.jpg)
(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/11344e611fb65f5fe.jpg)
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Guess where i raced ????
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/scan0005.jpg)
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Guess where i raced ????
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/scan0005.jpg)
SC........... hmm........................... so-cal?
:LolLolLolLol:
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Awwwww, can't beat the old pics. Some nice styles going on there. Cheers for the info. Guess I'm gonna have to add one now I can explain wot it means!! :daumenhoch:
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h10/fish116/chorley1.jpg)
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Also the obvious, W = World Ranking and when i raced Euros if you got top 8 your number was E101, E102 etc :daumenhoch:
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So if I'm gonna pretend the GT was raced BITD at the YMCA Grimsby/Cleethorpes am I right in thinking that was part of the Humberside Heroes club?? What regional letter/s did they use? I love being the fik one of the class!!! :crazy2: My Dad used to take me to the local tracks most weekends (Grimsby, Grasby & Kirmington) to watch my heroes.
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what year is the GT?
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you can see the "T" on the piece of paper stuck to my plate at buckmore "T"10 :daumenhoch:
(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/11344e611fb63044e.jpg)
(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/11344e611fb65f5fe.jpg)
ha ha followed by wat :2funny:
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what year is the GT?
'83
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what year is the GT?
'83
you dont need a letter on the plate then as they came in later than that :daumenhoch:
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what year is the GT?
'83
you dont need a letter on the plate then as they came in later than that :daumenhoch:
If I'd have told you the year at the beginning I could have saved you lot replying to my stupid Q's!! ;D Still, nice to learn a few things & always good looking at old pics. :daumenhoch:
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SC = South Central?
NBMXA went to numberplate background colours for each region.
gold = national
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/qq153/prime8motorsport/Others/Unknown.jpg)
orange=West Midlands
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/qq153/prime8motorsport/Others/BradBatesy.jpg)
Grey = East Midlands
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/qq153/prime8motorsport/Old%20School%20Cruisers/3-15Cruisers86NBMXABritishChamps.jpg)
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Great photos above ^^^^^^ and if the colours are the case then
South Central ran baby blue plates as mine has South central on it.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/asequadangle001.jpg)
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Sorry to hijack this thread but is that guy on the falcon pro actually riding a falcon frame and also the guy in the second pic on the 'AS racing' frame, were they a manufacturer or are they rebranded brum wheels or rickman frames as they look similar?
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h10/fish116/chorley1.jpg)
loving the power wheelie going into a turn... thems were the days.... Eddie King had a lot to answer for....
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h10/fish116/chorley1.jpg)
loving the power wheelie going into a turn... thems were the days.... Eddie King had a lot to answer for....
Thats my favourite race picture from my collection of old school pictures , good friends and good times :)
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Sorry to hijack this thread but is that guy on the falcon pro actually riding a falcon frame and also the guy in the second pic on the 'AS racing' frame, were they a manufacturer or are they rebranded brum wheels or rickman frames as they look similar?
The AS racing is an MRD frame, the forks could be JMC. They don't look like MRD. AS Racing.... Alan sopp racing ????
The Falcon looks like an Aero Pro Burner frame or a Kuwi laserlite, certainly Tange made. The forks are Tioga.
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ASR is deffo Alan Sopp Racing, don't think they used any frame in particular though, just repainted and re-badged different models for the team.
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Humberside Heroes was Grasby's club, YMCA was Grimsby and Cleethorpes B.M.X Club we were in UKBMX Eastern region (E), got loads of old Telegraph cuttings from back then if you Pm your name I'll see if your on any of them and drop copies of them in to Dave at Mainline for you, there's quite a few of us building up our old bikes round here, your black GT looks good who did your powder coating as I've built up my old GT cruiser, but at some point in the 90's when I was thinking of rebuilding it I had it power coated battle ship grey (twat) now it's either gonna be redone GT yellow or gloss black. Now the track at New Waltham's finished might have to get me cruiser down there, luckily I get BUPA with my job!!!!!!!!!!!
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I used to have a small number 9 for UKBMX region 9.
Them were the days...
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PM sent 'Bulldogbob' :daumenhoch:
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Humberside Heroes was Grasby's club, YMCA was Grimsby and Cleethorpes B.M.X Club we were in UKBMX Eastern region (E), got loads of old Telegraph cuttings from back then if you Pm your name I'll see if your on any of them and drop copies of them in to Dave at Mainline for you, there's quite a few of us building up our old bikes round here, your black GT looks good who did your powder coating as I've built up my old GT cruiser, but at some point in the 90's when I was thinking of rebuilding it I had it power coated battle ship grey (twat) now it's either gonna be redone GT yellow or gloss black. Now the track at New Waltham's finished might have to get me cruiser down there, luckily I get BUPA with my job!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember going to a race at Grimsby, it was so wet they put straw down but you couldn't pedal through it so had to get off and run with your bike!
(well at least I think this was Grimsby? getting old sucks :LolLolLolLol: )
Dingo