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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: CD17 on January 19, 2014, 10:56 AM
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I grew up not far from here in Streatham, but back then it was a no go area if you wanted to leave with your bike so I never rode it apart from once very briefly at night :(
What puzzles me is why in some photos it appears to be a red colour, was it painted or stained at some point ?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b366/claire169/image_zpsc553d192.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/claire169/media/image_zpsc553d192.jpg.html)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b366/claire169/image_zpsf92080ea.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/claire169/media/image_zpsf92080ea.jpg.html)
I'm planning to ride it again this year :)
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Just found this
http://www.londonskateparks.co.uk/skateparks/stockwell/
So it was renovated a few years ago, but I don't remember it being red back in the 80s, but like I say I only rode it once & at night.
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Used go down there.. Ruff as fook. I grew up in balham till I was 10 or 11. Steve69 got his bike stolen off him as soon as he got there.. Never remember it being that red colour.. Strange one that.
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I grew up not far from here in Streatham, but back then it was a no go area if you wanted to leave with your bike so I never rode it apart from once very briefly at night :(
Funny you posting this Chris. I was only telling Woody yesterday the story of my trip to Stockwell and how I didn't leave with my bike :'(
:LolLolLolLol:
I think it was resurfaced at some point :-\
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I grew up not far from here in Streatham, but back then it was a no go area if you wanted to leave with your bike so I never rode it apart from once very briefly at night :(
Funny you posting this Chris. I was only telling Woody yesterday the story of my trip to Stockwell and how I didn't leave with my bike :'(
:LolLolLolLol:
I think it was resurfaced at some point :-\
That's a shame about you not leaving with your bike :(
I heard loads of stories of this kind of thing at Stockwell BITD, so we avoided it :(
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I grew up not far from here in Streatham, but back then it was a no go area if you wanted to leave with your bike so I never rode it apart from once very briefly at night :(
Funny you posting this Chris. I was only telling Woody yesterday the story of my trip to Stockwell and how I didn't leave with my bike :'(
:LolLolLolLol:
I think it was resurfaced at some point :-\
So it wasn't red in the 80s then ???
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Saw this place the other year when I went to see the mission at brixton accadamy. Looks a great park but the local dealer was sat up on the top so does look a no go zone
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It's been resurfaced twice & now redesigned & totally resurfaced with 5" of fresh concrete & it was resurfaced sometime I think in the late 90s with the red surface..
It's now quite different from the original design with banks & coping added.
I love 70s Skateparks :smitten:
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it was resurface in the 90`s and was a disaster as lost all the curves as made everything poor to air , then they started building ramps later on at the back of the park and then got a revamp a while back .
still not a great area but we are a lot older than we were back then and loads of place in london were bad back in 80`s as remember meanwhile was bad for taxing as nearly lost my haro there
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Stock well park estate slap bang next to it,
Lovely. :LolLolLolLol: