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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: The Burner King on October 14, 2011, 08:36 PM
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Ok, this is a thread about good riders you knew of, but not famous as such.
People i can remember:-
From Northampton area Chris Crossley (spelling may be wrong on surname) Paul (Harorider on here) wasn't bad either.
Wales (Pontypridd area - nicknames only) Soliman and Gook ( AKA tilkey)
When i lived in Gretna Scotland for year Michael Skelton (also known as Boney)
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Some guy from Flint in North Wales called Brett Jones - dunno what happened to him?? ;)
The top guy in my Village was a guy called Carl Eccles, my Bro teaches his kids and at parents evening he asked Our Kid how I was and said he rode with me BITD, he nearly come in his pants when Our Kid showed him pics of my bikes. :daumenhoch:
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Matt baines could shut down any park ... The end
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David Haynes although he ended up being the test rider for BMX Action Bike after I introduced him to TLB and loaned Haynesy my helmet so TLB would take pics of him jumping after the National at Hayes in 82 so not sure if he counts, Boyd Walker was pretty good freestyling wise, Paul Cannon was dead fast on the track, David Landy, Lee Shurey and there was a guy in Yiewsley call Davidson (I think, can't remember his first name :-[) who was really good at freestyle.
A lot of the really good riders I rode with BITD ended up on factory rides (like Woody, Paul Roberts, Karl Fuller, Lee Alexander, Jon Povah to name a few).
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your not listening.........MATT BAINES....thats it....thats all you need to know.......shut down
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juice romford ,say no more
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in morley/leeds there waqsone rider who was way better than anyone else he was called jason jarvis he was proper rad .rode pk ripper loopy
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your not listening.........MATT BAINES....thats it....thats all you need to know.......shut down
Matt was also very good on a skateboard too :-\
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your not listening.........MATT BAINES....thats it....thats all you need to know.......shut down
Matt was also very good on a skateboard too :-\
he was like jason lunn he was great on bmx but skate more . last time i saw him was urban games and he was skating but did have a go on someone bmx and was getting higher than the bmx`s there
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How come Matt never got sponsored? I rated Rodney @ Harrow as well maybe not as high in the half pipe but so smooth
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Dave Cole was brilliant on a bike round here bitd ::)
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Melanie Vauvelle........ ???
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I met a guy in Norwich riding a halfpipe in my mate Tim's back garden in Norwich... fooked if I can remember his nick name but he'd smashed his teeth out and was a boxer as well apparently ... he was RAD :) think his nickname began with an S... sure he was in a mag once...
And 'Chilly' on his home territory of Wickstead Park :2gunsfiring_v1: :2gunsfiring_v1: :2gunsfiring_v1: :2gunsfiring_v1: :2gunsfiring_v1: Shut down and owned.
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+1 for Chilly & another Wicky's rider Tigg (rip) Jason Bates from Kings Lynn, still havin it :daumenhoch:
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your not listening.........MATT BAINES....thats it....thats all you need to know.......shut down
Matt was also very good on a skateboard too :-\
shit,i never knew matt rode a bike too!i knew him for vert skating,he always used to skate at stevenage,bow lyons when the metal half pipe was there.He was rad to watch,he could do backside airs 8ft out or not at all,no halfway bollocks!he used to show up at harrow on a sunday for the 'middle aged shred' sesh in the pool.
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:) My buddy Pete Dossett was a damn good rider before he turned pro for Deathbox skateboards. :daumenhoch:
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:) My buddy Pete Dossett was a damn good rider before he turned pro for Deathbox skateboards. :daumenhoch:
yep he was. it was Matt, Rodney and pete at harrow when I rode there
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i used to have a death box dossett deck,the one with the big nose and the teapot graphic!one of the best vert riders in uk.still rips
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round our way rob sanderson was a great rider - remember setting up jumps in the woods where we would pile up stuff to jump over
remember him having loads of 'frankenstein' bikes he would put together and destroy regularly ;D think he may have been in some mags too
he was pretty rad on a skateboard too - dunno what he's up to now but last time I saw him he was running Ideal skate shop on corporation street in brum (early/mid 90s)
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:) My buddy Pete Dossett was a damn good rider before he turned pro for Deathbox skateboards. :daumenhoch:
Whats he up to now ?
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Still skating but is now a jesus freak (from memory)
Jason Webb - best flatlander ever IMO
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Jason Bates from Kings Lynn, still havin it
Yep, Batsey was well rad and still is :daumenhoch: also remember Pat Mills from King's Lynn was a bit Rad too :daumenhoch:
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Jason Bates from Kings Lynn, still havin it
Yep, Batsey was well rad and still is :daumenhoch: also remember Pat Mills from King's Lynn was a bit Rad too :daumenhoch:
Yes He was! I used to ride with Pat as well until He gave up & got into sport bikes, used to work with Him as well :daumenhoch:
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Its a small world fugazi33, are you a lynn boy? can you remember Kevin Rye, Andrew Gathercole, Carl Reed, Calvin Mallett, Jon Curtis (me) ?
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Its a small world fugazi33, are you a lynn boy? can you remember Kevin Rye, Andrew Gathercole, Carl Reed, Calvin Mallett, Jon Curtis (me) ?
I recognise Your name! Whereabouts did/do You live? I know the rest & did a few demo's with Kev & Uug in the latter days of the trick team :LolLolLolLol: Yeah I used to live in KL, I'm Shane who rode with Jay, or Bill as We called Him then!
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Its a small world fugazi33, are you a lynn boy? can you remember Kevin Rye, Andrew Gathercole, Carl Reed, Calvin Mallett, Jon Curtis (me) ?
I recognise Your name! Whereabouts did/do You live? I know the rest & did a few demo's with Kev & Uug in the latter days of the trick team :LolLolLolLol: Yeah I used to live in KL, I'm Shane who rode with Jay, or Bill as We called Him then!
We were all from Clenchwarton, (me Kev, uug, Calvin and Carl) and we formed the original King's Lynn freestyle team in about 83 and did demos :LolLolLolLol: unfortunately it got to a stage when the audience were better than us :LolLolLolLol:, the team disbanded and Kev and ugg carried on around late 84 I think, Jay and Pat were about then and the Lynn track had been built at the back of the YMCA, I was the youngest member of the team and couldn't pull the big tricks :LolLolLolLol: so I bailed, I can't put a face to your name Shane :-[ but here's a flash back pic for you :LolLolLolLol:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx207/curtispro1/acfb6ecc.jpg)
From the left Uug, Calvin, me, Carl and Kev hahahahahahaha :daumenhoch:
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I know who You are now!!! We have met but a very long time ago now :LolLolLolLol: I can't believe how young everybody looks ha!
The team, in One form or another staggered on until the latter part of the 80's, with Pat, Jay & then Me taking over for Kev & Uug as They rode less & less :( Kev used to come ride flat with Us under Sainsbury's carpark now & then but I think Uug gave up when He broke His leg bad playing Rugby I think, They were both real good in Their time :daumenhoch:
You mentioned the track, can You remember the Quarter pipes & kickturn ramps behind the YMCA? I spilled a lot of blood there over the years between the ramps & the track!
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Yep I remember the ramps at the back of the YMCA and using sainsburys car park for a bit of flat land :LolLolLolLol: Kev was my next door neighbour and I've been trying to get in contact with him lately, have you moved away from the area now? Calvin works for me and I bumped in to Pat last year and Jay's still about, his lad is Rad too apparently :daumenhoch:
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I ended up with Kev's Rickman Freestyler frame when He retired as I'd broke My Haro :daumenhoch: I don't know the whereabouts of any of the KL crew apart from Jay & Pat as I moved about a lot in the 90's & moved from the area around 2001, Yeah Josh, Jay's Boy is really good :daumenhoch:
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BITD in Birkenhead, I remember Kavo who had a PK Ripper (instant fame) and was clearly the best rider for miles around. I think his name was Carl Kavanah (hence Kavo...if your name was bob they'd find a way to shorten it...probably to B!). he went to Birkenhead Institute High School and I seem to remember him being a nice guy. This would be around 1983/4?