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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: dirtyvans on September 02, 2006, 12:50 PM
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I was speaking to a Harrow local at Southsea who was raving on about Harrow
Its another original 70's park, similar to ROM and Southsea
http://www.harrowskatepark.co.uk/mainpage.htm (http://www.harrowskatepark.co.uk/mainpage.htm)
check the map page for a pic, looks pretty cool, might be worth a sesh :)
anyone got any views on it?
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I was speaking to a Harrow local at Southsea who was raving on about Harrow
Its another original 70's park, similar to ROM and Southsea
http://www.harrowskatepark.co.uk/mainpage.htm (http://www.harrowskatepark.co.uk/mainpage.htm)
check the map page for a pic, looks pretty cool, might be worth a sesh :)
anyone got any views on it?
Used to be awesome to skate and ride but the council filled in peanut bowl and knocked down the four feet of vert on the performance bpwl and then filled that in too :'(
Still, it's a good park the classic pool is tight for bikes and so is the halfpipe but the runouts (known as the b0ll0x for obvious reasons) are good and the halpipe is excellent for jumping out of at the ends and so is the snake run. Definitely worth checking out their website....http://www.harrowskatepark.co.uk/mainpage.htm
I reckon a sesh there would be a good day out :daumenhoch:
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awesome skatepark I rode it in 85 when Matt Baines was killing it . :daumenhoch:
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ill be up for a harrow sesh
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im up for that
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maybe one day if I get the time. I only ever get as far south as Manchester Airport these days .
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rich
harrow be top place seemed to live there every weekend between 83 - 86, 40p return on the train, and as for matt baines he was the geezer and top banana an absolute flippin ripper, man i miss them days. a mates got a load of photos from harrow bitd will see if i can nick em
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Built by the same company that built Rom and Gillingham. James Hitchcocks local park and the scene of many good sessions. Worth a visit for sure :)
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I think all the bowls are dig out and ridable now
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I think all the bowls are dig out and ridable now
Last I heard the peanut was still filled and has a car or two buried in it, the council refused to let the performance bowl be dug out as it was way too scary bitd, but without the 4ft of vert it might not have been as scary :LolLolLolLol:
Still, its worth a trip over there as I reckon it will still be great fun :daumenhoch:
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the peanut is dug as as last time i went i fell in it
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the peanut is dug as as last time i went i fell in it
Excellent, bitd that bowl was way rad for jumping out of :daumenhoch:
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Anyone mention Harrow?! Hell yeah, it was my second home BITD! Matt Bains rocked...have a look at the first piccy for some Matt graffitti. That's me in the first pic and then the second two are a chap called Martin (I beleive).
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/dave_harrow_1_72dpi.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/harrow_unknown_2_72dpi.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/harrow_unknown_72dpi.jpg)
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yeah great pics
right we'll have to make this a little gathering one weekend soon
that last pic - is the rider jumping the hips on the snake run (as the guy i chatted to at southsea said it was great fun - bit like the moguls at rom)
ps what is the bike the guy in the diamond jumper (i had oner of those!) on - look well weird :idiot2:
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it looks like a racer converted into a bmx (maybe its bobacid!)
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Looks like a MooseGoose but I could be wrong :LolLolLolLol:
The guy is jumping the hip on the moguls, the snake run is behind where the kids are on there bikes, another good hip is the one on the runouts or b0lloxs.
We used to jump from the run outs into the park next to it, clearing the footpath in the process - great fun :LolLolLolLol:
I tried several times to clear the fence at the bottom of the run outs and nearly made a few times when the fence was still complete, then to make it easier "someone" pulled it down about 2 feet :LolLolLolLol: Then it came down completely like in the pics :LolLolLolLol:
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me and my mates ued to get up at 5am to get to harrow before it got busy... the four bowls are numbered 1 to 4 and poeple would shout what they were doing before they dropped in.. 2 to 3 through the gate, bowls working or bolox poppin out ;D ;D it seems ridiculous now but thats what eveyone did.... the half pipe is gnarly its got no flat bottom... i smashed my ankle there when i was about fifteen doin a 360 out of bowl 4, had to get a couple screws in it to fix me, ah those were the days ;D >:( ;D
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I have been to Harrow to ride with the kids recently......
....still looks all the same to me as it was BITD. GREAT !!!!!
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me and the southsea possed will be up for it rich,.. i didnt ride there back in the day :idiot2:
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When we going Rich? I'm up for that :daumenhoch:
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I'm up for that too! i drive past it every day from work......never actually been over and looked though :idiot2:
By the way in the last picture the other kid's on a Burner GS, i only know because that's what i has BITD :) good to know his mum and dad had fook all as well :LolLolLolLol:
Oh those freemans catalogues were great weren't they ;)
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harrow is a cool place, except for the occasional chavs which i suppose you get everywhere.
highly reccomended and ill be there if there is gona be a meet :Great_Britain:
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i used to ride there at times and yeah cool place and yes they did dig out one of the bowl`s and yeah they do shout out 1 or 2 ie to which bowl . last time i went i face planted on the mini ramp they had there
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Sorry, realise this is an ancient thread but wanted to comment on it as it brought back memories.
The Popping in/Popping out thing made me laugh that was so true. I also remember the fence being tried cleared once then ripped down although wasn't there when it was ripped down. When I used to go the Pool and Performance bowl were filled in although I remember one wet day we brought spades down and tried to dig it out oh the ignorance of youth. The story I was told was that the council filled them in as they were too dangerous and they had smashed up the concrete before filling them in.
Matt Bains did absolutely rip in the half pipe there but there was also a black guy called Rodney who I thought was just as good and super super smooth in the pipe. Pete Dossett also used be good in the pipe but to me the first two where the daddies.
Quadrophenia, Stodgy and Marty C I must of known/seen you at some point.
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Bain ripped.I used to ride/skate Harrow for years.Bain was pretty good.Do you remember TC? He used to clear the fence out of the snake run..Rodney Allen was also cool,mad flat tables when "working" the bowls.I grew up with Dossett,he was pretty good on a bike before he started skating.Do you remember Yogi on his GT expert?
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Bain ripped.I used to ride/skate Harrow for years.Bain was pretty good.Do you remember TC? He used to clear the fence out of the snake run..Rodney Allen was also cool,mad flat tables when "working" the bowls.I grew up with Dossett,he was pretty good on a bike before he started skating.Do you remember Yogi on his GT expert?
Yes Yogi was a mate of mine at the time. Rodney Allen that was it he sort of drifted away but I used to like his style. I used to come up from Bushey either on my own or later with some skaters and rollerskaters. I would sometimes skate (badly) as well as ride. I seem to remember at that time we were the only skaters there along with a punk guy grover with a pink mohawk. Then Dosset turned up skating after not being around for a while (or maybe it was me) and suddenly he was pretty good on a board. I gave up the skating and BMX'ing about then but still kept an eye on the mags then I remember reading Dossett had won an amateur vert comp he entered the person who wrote the piece was saying he was better than the pro's next comp I read about he was pro.
When everyone was riding I recall a few trips to Rom with loads of us on the train. Maybe also down Royal oak way. Things are muddy though.
All I know is I wish I never gave skating or BMX up.
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:) Hi Matey,
TC was quite a legend,Rodney had a real smooth style.The punk guy,Grova =Darren Costelllo,he`s in his 40s now and runs a snowboard camp in Chamonix.I started skating at Harrow around 1980,then got a BMX in 81,but carried on skating until `92 and stuck with the bikes.There`s a few more Harrow guys on here,MartyC and BigScotty.I know Bushey as I used to live in Canons Park.Dossett got real good,but his pro carrer sort of went downhillafter a bad knee injury..
James
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Ha, Grover and his pink mohican, that brings back memories!!! I'm still trying to find out what happened to Beaker and what he's up to these days. Some of the other skaters you might have known would be Buz, Hoppy, Rodga and Mick. Bains was rad on a bike but I think he started getting rad about the time I stopped riding, kind of like Grotbags (Paul Roberts).
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Great Pics Dave...loved a bit of argyle back in the day with matching burlington socks ;)
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TC ? YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBBBYYYYYYYYYYY
fooking w@nky photobucket is down at the minute, will get some of TC up later on his ta, harrow was the place to be when i was a kid, baines fooking ruler, he even showed eddie how its done at the GT world tour. the guy on the ta with a tuff in rear spoke up front was martin, smooth as fook had a spotless bike and a really nice chap, wonder whatever happened to him. little pete is in one of them photos at the far end of the pipe wearing a yellow top. i remember a geezer called rob, big chap, useless to come down on roller skates but could ride a bike too. and there was the guy on a skateboard who worked at a nut house and everytime he snapped the front of the board off he just moved the trucks back ;D
also there was a guy called fcukanucen who borrowed my full face that i got for my birthday that day and tried to jump the fence, put a bloody big scare in my helmet, think it may have saved his life tho
will try get the photos up again tonight. i am sure i have posted them before on a thread somewhere
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Who remembers casey a harrow legend from bitd
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There was a American guy that was riding between 83-84 that was doing masive click outs he would ride up the wall of the half pipe and jump out into the end of the half pipe it was a real bike recker if you mucked it up cant remeber the guys name, would go to harrow most weekends with Pete and the gang even used my luch box to bail out the bowls and the half pipe when they had water in them, I love Harrow what a top place really good memories, what ever happened to a guy called Martin who used to ride a Skyway TA he was really smooth, got a load of photos of harrow from back inthe day will get them put up.
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/peterad_72dpi.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/pandmharrow.jpg)
tc
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/tony2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/tony1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/tony5.jpg)
baines
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/baines.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/LastScan.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/hughbowls.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y166/gtperformer/martin.jpg)
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Petes posted the photo,s I have got, the above photo's are of Tony on Skyway Ta, Pete jumping out of the snake, Mat Baines jumping out of the snake, Hugh on his PK Ripper in the bowls, Martin on his Skyway TA in the bowls, the long haired hippy in the back ground watching Tony on the Skyway TA is Barry and the white bike he is on his dad made, check the forks out on the photo of Mat Bains jumping out of the sanke, remeber it all like yesterday happy days.
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i still aint rode it, i went there last summer but my thumb was broken >:(
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:) What forks are they on Bains bike-can`t see too clearly? From memory he used to run Bottemas???
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:) What forks are they on Bains bike-can`t see too clearly? From memory he used to run Bottemas???
o the fook ye baby
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Martin Thomas used to ride a ta there, hes been riding again for the last few years and learnt whips at 40!!
Rodney Allen still has a roll around from time to time, still got his 95 spoke wheels too!!
I rode Harrow from 1987ish to 2006 when i moved, still pop down for a pedal if im around!
rodney and john povah
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee309/biggeorgebike/jpandrods-1.jpg)
john povah
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee309/biggeorgebike/jp3to1-1.jpg)
me
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee309/biggeorgebike/smjum1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee309/biggeorgebike/cherrypicker-1.jpg)
1989ish
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee309/biggeorgebike/10-30-2007111719AM.jpg)
got some more pics, have to get them scanned!
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:) Off-topic I know,did any of you guys ever ride the quarter at Payless DIY in Colindale,very early 80s?
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me and my mates ued to get up at 5am to get to harrow before it got busy... the four bowls are numbered 1 to 4 and poeple would shout what they were doing before they dropped in.. 2 to 3 through the gate, bowls working or bolox poppin out ;D ;D it seems ridiculous now but thats what eveyone did.... the half pipe is gnarly its got no flat bottom... i smashed my ankle there when i was about fifteen doin a 360 out of bowl 4, had to get a couple screws in it to fix me, ah those were the days ;D >:( ;D
I was at Harrow a few days ago and a couple of little scallies were still shouting 3 to 4 4 to 1 !!!
Was so funny!