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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: dubber on September 22, 2011, 05:48 PM
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as above...who on here cant do any tricks...got to be honest...ill start...
1..me.. :LolLolLolLol:...just been somewhere quiet on my haro 04 to try and do the simplest of tricks...managed a few poor endos..and not much else, although to be honest,i was shite BITD...so maybe now being about 15st and 40yrs old certainly doesn't help, i do enjoy trying but its getting frustrating ffs.. :daumenhoch:
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been collecting bmx for over 12 years now and never ever tried .lol was plop then and even plopper now.
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Hopefully gonna win that set of bollox on the Bay and get on some ramps again.
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im bazzing on a bike, in my head i'm like Jamie Bestwick and on a bike im.........Stan Laurel :D
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At least we're trying ! :)
Can't wait to finish the TA so I can have a blast and stop pretending my mountain bikes a BMX lol .. Although must admit when I borrowed my mates 20" boy was I wobbly ! :crazy2:
Just practise practise practise I guess ....
Keep the faith and have fun 8)
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bitd i was really good on the flat land,framestands,cherry pickers etc but this time around im yet to have a bike with a front brake so cant attempt fook all!!i did an endo at mk(first one in 26 years) on sweetbeats performer but totally fooked it up as the 'my weight to bike weight' ratio was slightly differant to when i last did one in 86!!i was dying to go into a front hop too :-\
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Shyte bitd and Shyte now but enjoy it all the same :daumenhoch:
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Can't do some of the stuff I used to anymore due to My back, but still try to get it on when I can, the other times I'm just stoked to be able to have a roll around :daumenhoch:
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I raced bitd but never did any cool tricks, Still race a little now so have some of those skills. I did perform a 180degree bunny hop for my niece the other day thinking she'll love it but she just said "old men trying to look cool is sooooo un cool". :wtf: does she know she's 10 ffs.. :knuppel2:
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I like to think that I am a legend on a BMX but in reality I am sh!te, I try and do the old tricks but my balls just don't seem a big as they used to :LolLolLolLol: wheelies, frame stands, small bunny hops is about the limit, but one day I am gonna turn up at one of the rad lockin's and I am gonna go for it :LolLolLolLol:
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I'm actually better now than i was bitd, difference between then and now is I dont think Im awesome, I actually listen to people that offer advice about riding which helps
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I'm crap but having loads of fun all the same
so far my raddest moves since the 80s have been a couple of framestands, some rather weak endoes since I got pads that work on tuffs and some equally feeble bunny hops. am slowly getting braver on the ramps but still find some of them to be pretty scary - thankfully no-one on our little lock-ins gives a toss if you're crap and even if you are there's still usually plenty to do. the boardroom's especially good for starters as it's not so 'extreme'
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I am better than I was int 80's but it has come at a price :-\
Wouldnt change a thing though 8)
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I'm crap but having loads of fun all the same
so far my raddest moves since the 80s have been a couple of framestands, some rather weak endoes since I got pads that work on tuffs and some equally feeble bunny hops. am slowly getting braver on the ramps but still find some of them to be pretty scary - thankfully no-one on our little lock-ins gives a toss if you're crap and even if you are there's still usually plenty to do. the boardroom's especially good for starters as it's not so 'extreme'
I've seen the video clip of you looking all "extreme" in the foam pit mate :daumenhoch:
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i only rode for about year oir so in the 80s and then started again 6 years ago was okay then and pretty crap now.can try loads tricks but pull very few for sure.
but love riding anyways which is whats its all about
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I've seen the video clip of you looking all "extreme" in the foam pit mate :daumenhoch:
ash I was bricking it at the top of that 9ft roll-in, but once I'd got it done once wasn't so bad & the foam landing is hilarious
while boardroom is not so extreme some of the T1 ramps are pretty big - that jump box there gave me the fear :shocked: if it wasn't for spen & ged I'm not sure if I would have got over it last weekend
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I've seen the video clip of you looking all "extreme" in the foam pit mate :daumenhoch:
ash I was bricking it at the top of that 9ft roll-in, but once I'd got it done once wasn't so bad & the foam landing is hilarious
while boardroom is not so extreme some of the T1 ramps are pretty big - that jump box there gave me the fear :shocked: if it wasn't for spen & ged I'm not sure if I would have got over it last weekend
mate you could tell you were really giving yourself a talking to up there, did well in the end pal. Now I really need to get myself some kind of freestyler and hit the boardroom, its only 30mins away ffs :LolLolLolLol:
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i was fearless as a kid would try anything and didnt care if the ramp was made of an old door and milk crates
now im scared to let go of the handlebars :LolLolLolLol:
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yep i'm crap ... been top a few ramp nights but still crap :LolLolLolLol:, its still a good laff mind you , but hoping to get better :)
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ash you don't need a freestyle bike for the boardroom - just don't use dirt tyres and you'll be fine
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Do any of you guys try to carry out these tricks on "old school" bike, as my fear is breaking them :LolLolLolLol: and I find them new school bikes a bit .................weird ???
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I've seen the video clip of you looking all "extreme" in the foam pit mate :daumenhoch:
ash I was bricking it at the top of that 9ft roll-in, but once I'd got it done once wasn't so bad & the foam landing is hilarious
while boardroom is not so extreme some of the T1 ramps are pretty big - that jump box there gave me the fear :shocked: if it wasn't for spen & ged I'm not sure if I would have got over it last weekend
Griff, hats off mate. I looked at that roll in ramp for the foam pit and thought 'fook that'. The jump box was a little bigger than that one at the BR too eh?
Used to be ok at flatland bitd and general 'jumping stuff'. Once did a quarter mile framestand but not got round to trying that one again yet :LolLolLolLol:
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Also when you think back we were on our bikes every day trying to perfect new tricks, now at the ripe young age of 40, ride time is few and far between as all the adult things get in the way :( if only we had the time and energy to ride and practice every day and had the facilities to perfect the radnes, things would be different.
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i was good bitd, raced and loved the freestyle, loads of peeps say dan would still be good today, so
my idea was to not ride again, still gets the pats on the back saying how good i was and pats on the back
saying if you rode today you'd still have it :) makes sence in my mind, live off the past and live off what your
mates say that you'd still be good :LolLolLolLol: best of both worlds with out getting hurt and still looking the
b@llocks ;D best advice from SBD
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Do any of you guys try to carry out these tricks on "old school" bike, as my fear is breaking them :LolLolLolLol: and I find them new school bikes a bit .................weird ???
All about the old school!
Just got back into it after 26 years, went t1 last week, shat myself but wicked!
Griff had balls man!
Doesn't matter what you ride just have a go :daumenhoch:
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i was good bitd, raced and loved the freestyle, loads of peeps say dan would still be good today, so
my idea was to not ride again, still gets the pats on the back saying how good i was and pats on the back
saying if you rode today you'd still have it :) makes sence in my mind, live off the past and live off what your
mates say that you'd still be good :LolLolLolLol: best of both worlds with out getting hurt and still looking the
b@llocks ;D best advice from SBD
:LolLolLolLol: like it Dan :daumenhoch:, yeh that way you're still legend to yourself and others :) , nice one dan , good answer that
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The more I read this thread the more I want to come along and have a go :LolLolLolLol: at least after the lockin session the aches and pains that I get all the time will actually mean something :)
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i was good bitd, raced and loved the freestyle, loads of peeps say dan would still be good today, so
my idea was to not ride again, still gets the pats on the back saying how good i was and pats on the back
saying if you rode today you'd still have it :) makes sence in my mind, live off the past and live off what your
mates say that you'd still be good :LolLolLolLol: best of both worlds with out getting hurt and still looking the
b@llocks ;D best advice from SBD
Some of us were at ROM for your come back gig, Dan.
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i was good bitd, raced and loved the freestyle, loads of peeps say dan would still be good today, so
my idea was to not ride again, still gets the pats on the back saying how good i was and pats on the back
saying if you rode today you'd still have it :) makes sence in my mind, live off the past and live off what your
mates say that you'd still be good :LolLolLolLol: best of both worlds with out getting hurt and still looking the
b@llocks ;D best advice from SBD
Some of us were at ROM for your come back gig, Dan.
lol it kinda never happened, peaked after one day ;D
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The more I read this thread the more I want to come along and have a go :LolLolLolLol: at least after the lockin session the aches and pains that I get all the time will actually mean something :)
Do it mate, I was pretty nervous about it having never set foot inside a ramp park before but its all a laugh and nobody takes the piss if you're not pulling off aerials :daumenhoch:
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OK lads, this thread has caught my eye and I think we need to be relative here.
We've all got jobs and kids and bills to pay, so we're never gonna be 10' out a quarter now unless you could do it BITD, and let's face it, we weren't that good :LolLolLolLol:
So, in order of the comments made so far:
Shyte bitd and Shyte now but enjoy it all the same :daumenhoch:
Yep, you're shite Rob :2funny:
I'm crap but having loads of fun all the same
so far my raddest moves since the 80s have been a couple of framestands, some rather weak endoes since I got pads that work on tuffs and some equally feeble bunny hops. am slowly getting braver on the ramps but still find some of them to be pretty scary - thankfully no-one on our little lock-ins gives a toss if you're crap and even if you are there's still usually plenty to do. the boardroom's especially good for starters as it's not so 'extreme'
The difference is Griff, you listen to advice and you are actually insane. We've held a poll, and we all agree, 'nuff said :yahoo_silent: :yahoo_silent: :laugh:
I really need to get myself some kind of freestyler and hit the boardroom, its only 30mins away ffs
Ash, I'll lend you one. That is the shitest excuse ever, especially as you're so close :LolLolLolLol:
Do any of you guys try to carry out these tricks on "old school" bike, as my fear is breaking them :LolLolLolLol: and I find them new school bikes a bit .................weird ???
At least half of us, although there is a migration towards midschool and newschool amongst the ranks but I'd say there are more oldschool bikes than newschool by a longshot :daumenhoch: I only use oldschool on ramps but with a couple of mods to get my chainwheel down to a 36T for a bit of coping clearance on the ramps :daumenhoch:
In summary, get yourself along to a Boardroom or Terminal One session and we will look after you. Honestly, ask the lads like Griff, Sid1972, Clean and theWinsta as our 4 most recent recruits - 2 of them have already dropped into the bowl and all of them have given the Boardroom jumpbox some beans and got themselves off the ground in just one visit, so you'd be suprised what you can achieve with a bit of a chat :daumenhoch:
Hmoon27, you're next mate so get over to the Boardroom and we'll take you under the wings mate :shocked: :2funny:
Spen (not that good, but not too bad either - I'm having a go at least!)
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Well if you put it like that spen............... I'm in, right I'm off shopping for some protective clothing, padding and a nice shiny helmet, I can be the new apprentice :daumenhoch:
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Well if you put it like that spen............... I'm in, right I'm off shopping for some protective clothing, padding and a nice shiny helmet, I can be the new apprentice :daumenhoch:
You're on bud - come to the Boardroom first though as it's more likely to encourage you as the ramps are less scary :daumenhoch:
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i can do a 150 degree bunny-hop (can't seem to get my floval all the way round), and manual the length of a manhole cover.
i rule the streets round here.
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The Boardroom is the nuts , i came off great style :4_17_5: the lads wanted to play Doctors n Nurses with me :shocked: ,,,,,, fook did it hurt :LolLolLolLol:
but got some more protection now so gonna give it the beans again ::)
Blackpool is great too plenty of room to go fall off without being seen :LolLolLolLol:
Crasher Kappy :LolLolLolLol:
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I can still do all the flatland tricks I used to do in my 6 years of riding in the 80's.
And I learned some new ones in my 15 years of riding since 96.
I used to be braver on ramps though, a few years ago.
At some of the Bones sessions I could get air on quarterpipes, grind stuff, and jump over spine ramps.
I miss the Bones sessions, they were the best.
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im totally mint at tricks and skids all me little lads mates come round and point at me when im in the radzone :2funny:
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Pants through and through.
Simples.
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i wasn't too bad bitd, used to be able to get some big air out of the pipe at Romford (you may have seen the pics i put up recently) was ok at racing as well.
now days i just race and when i tried to jump the table top at Hersden i cleared it ok, it went a bit wrong when i tried to get it flat over it though when i realised i didn't have enough air and nearly piled in :LolLolLolLol:
also went and took some pics of the pipe at Rom with thoughts of recreating the pics and thought to myself "bu**er that.
wouldn't mind having a go some where thats got a foam pit but theres nowhere like that near enough :(
some one hit the nail on the head when they said "we used to ride and practice everyday" only riding now and then makes it a lot harder
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been riding 30 years this xmas, i'm sure i lose a trick everytime i ride instead of learning one. here's me takin some slams from the 90s-2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM)
this one is a couple of years old with me pulling some tricks
http://vimeo.com/1696480 (http://vimeo.com/1696480)
still ride 2 or 3 times a week weather permitting and just bought a new school flatland bike to try and learn some ground tricks.
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been riding 30 years this xmas, i'm sure i lose a trick everytime i ride instead of learning one. here's me takin some slams from the 90s-2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM)
this one is a couple of years old with me pulling some tricks
http://vimeo.com/1696480 (http://vimeo.com/1696480)
still ride 2 or 3 times a week weather permitting and just bought a new school flatland bike to try and learn some ground tricks.
My stomach is hurting watching that first vid, you are one rad dude, I would have given up :LolLolLolLol:
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been riding 30 years this xmas, i'm sure i lose a trick everytime i ride instead of learning one. here's me takin some slams from the 90s-2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oge_Uno6XBM)
this one is a couple of years old with me pulling some tricks
http://vimeo.com/1696480 (http://vimeo.com/1696480)
still ride 2 or 3 times a week weather permitting and just bought a new school flatland bike to try and learn some ground tricks.
John, you're Gnarly! Great vids dude :daumenhoch: