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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: Lazarou on April 03, 2007, 02:00 AM
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Steve Grace was a super rad rider who never got the praise he deserved, anyone have any more?.......
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you might not have heard of some of these as they where mostly late 90s but great riders
martyn tambling
mason smith great mini ramp rider super smooth
paul bromfield always hurting himself
tommy bowers tried anything going
mike o'connell
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Not heard of Mason Smith??? surely not!
I was told he still rides alot.....does Corby every Thursday evening.
He used to ride at my local skate park in Stevenage, super smooth!! he'd turn up on his Gen1 and everyone would just stop and watch him with mouths open at how smooth he was.......well mostly just at his bike as we ALL had Burners :LolLolLolLol:
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Northern Jon
Andy Quest
Tim Ruck
ALex Leech
Tommy Bowers
Andy Keast
Mike Jory
Rob Ridge
Mark Cornick
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Im still trying to get round to scanning in the last bike Jam at Mons. I think Steve Grace got a pic from that, he was real good.
Martyn Tambling still rides and is still way rad, rides for Standard I think.
Here's my suggestion:
Derren Bailey! Amazing rider, minis, dirt jumps, all of it. He is still real good and has never had any kind of sponsor or even "flow" of parts. There is no justice! (Oh, dont tell him I said any of this!).
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pickle i no masons been around a long time
and all the riders i listed where known but
i put them in the unsung list as they inspired so many
so maybe none belong in this thread. :)
mason nearly ripped his thumb right of and had a while out but soon stepped up again.
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mason nearly ripped his thumb right of and had a while out but soon stepped up again.
I was with Mason when he broke his thumb, riding the mini in Oxford. Very nasty. After a not very bad looking crash he said he had hurt his thumb. He took his glove off and it was pointing totally the wrong way. Mason was so Tuff about it. Just put his stuff in the car and drove about an hour and a half home, and then went to his local A&E! I expect he ate a bag of nails as a snack on the way!
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Same list as General Lee, plus Jerry Galley - he's a top riders rider, rode with the Sprocket Jockeys but never really hit mainstream like his peers did. He was regularily beating Bestwick, Tabron and the like.
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jerry galley
dan price
luc "e"
SEAN MCKINNEY
paul osicka
g-sport ben and punisher craig
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robert ridge for sure
kevin jones!
waddy
chad herrington
dave freimuth
krt shmidt
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O'Connell for sure! One of the most gifted 'technical' riders you'll ever see. I sold him my King Fork/Stem combo a few years ago i wonder if he still has it? I'd like to buy it back!
Got to agree with Rob Ridge too although he never inspired me fashion wise!
As for Kevin Jones he's had 'God' status handed to him on a plate for years but never bothered with all that just happily tooling around that car park in York!
I always loved Mason's red Lengthy! (oo-er!)
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Northern Jon
Andy Quest
Tim Ruck
ALex Leech
Tommy Bowers
Andy Keast
Mike Jory
Rob Ridge
Mark Cornick
I heard Mark Cornick has a ramp in his garden now, and still rides the old yellow beater with '98 set up. That dude was / is awesome.
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Im still trying to get round to scanning in the last bike Jam at Mons. I think Steve Grace got a pic from that, he was real good.
Martyn Tambling still rides and is still way rad, rides for Standard I think.
Here's my suggestion:
Derren Bailey! Amazing rider, minis, dirt jumps, all of it. He is still real good and has never had any kind of sponsor or even "flow" of parts. There is no justice! (Oh, dont tell him I said any of this!).
Totally Derren, He used to show up at our local trails in Wallington, back in 95-96 or so.... He had the best bike ever... Green Big Daddy, Slams & Alu Peregrine rims... I totally copied his bike.
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Andy Smith from Nottingham and Chris Radford from Derby both supersmooth and top riders for the mid 90's
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Matt Warren. Ruler. :daumenhoch:
No handed blunts on big quarterpipes on a freewheel, quality.
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Good call on Matt Warren Rob, he and i had a Zima at the same time and kept bumping into each other at Wakefield, Radlands etc. Needless to say he rode his Zima a tad better than i rode mine!
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Matt Warren. Ruler. :daumenhoch:
No handed blunts on big quarterpipes on a freewheel, quality.
Good call Rob, Matt and i had Zimas around the same time and kept bumping into each other at Wakefield, Radlands etc. Needless to say, Matt rode his Zima a tad better than i rode mine!
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jason davis when he was on 2 hip and khe
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I had the priviledge of riding with Matt Warren one or twice at Wakefield, I was completely impressed. Jay Davies is still a ripper now, does anyone know if he's still in america?
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Still in Arizona last i heard....
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jason davies is living in tempe,he's still ripping and he's building a mini ramp in his yard right now.
i've not long got back from staying with him.
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Chris Hardy was an inovator for sure. G Sport Ben I remeber When he used to race and do front hops as his SHOW PIECE LOL
Shaun allison was a burley rider too!!
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In terms of Uk riders from the early mid school days, concidering the lack of coverage and footage gathered from this period then many are unsung heroes.
some of my favoorite from this time :
Lee Reynolds
Andy Brown
Aju BuBu
Phil dolan
James Mulby
Gerry Galley
In fact there were loads of gret riders from this time, but what seperate this period more noticably more than anything else was the ammount of individuality between each rider.
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For got about Aju what a smooth rider and jolly nice chap too..
Maybe a selfish punt here but everyone who kept riding when BMX was as popular as herpies deserves a hand ....
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james mulby :daumenhoch:
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Shaun allison was a burley rider too!!
he was in ride or dig a couple of years back still riding amazing.
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Now, I don't want to start a row or owt....... but I see that Gerry Galley has appeared in a few peoples lists.
I could never call him an unsung hero. He is just a hero full stop. When I returned to riding his was the first British name I heard in the same sentence as all the pros of the day. It was well recognised that he could ride any ramp, however bad, to the highest standard. I saw him regularly bring skateparks to a standstill (riders and skaters), we would all watch with our jaws on the floor.
I dont know him well enough to know his life story, but I'll bet he was offered every sponsorship deal there was at the time. I'd bet he still gets offered stuff now. I'm guessing he choose not to take those deals and stay true to himself. Something else that makes him a hero to me.
Anyone remember him riding the street comp at KOC one year and not jumping the box once? Back in the days of so-called street comps which were no more that jumpbox comps. No, Gerry went and did what he wanted to do, and stayed true.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; Legend. One of my all time favourite riders and an inspiration. An unsung hero to me would be the rider that didn't get the recognition he deserves, and thats not true of Gerry.
In my opinion, of course ;) ;D
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Hear hear, TwoBobRob.
I thought this thread started as "Unsung" and it seemed to turn into "fav".
Gerry is def my Fav rider of the 90s (pos ever). I know of several companies that offered him things and he wouldnt take it. One clothing company kept sending him boxes of stuff. He'd think about it for a while and then just send it back, saying he wouldnt be able to do anything to justify it! I think the same box of clothes went back and forth a few times!
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How cool is that? Every other fcuker would've just sold it all.
I respect him even more now. :4_17_5:
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I met Jerry Galley at the smelly ramp last year and have to say Iat the time was not aware of his legendary status (not that it would have made any difference) and I have to say he is one of the nicest blokes I've met - there is nothing pretentious or arrogant about the man - he is exceptionally rad, friendly and funny (well he took the pee out of Pete Quad a lot and that's funny in my book :LolLolLolLol:). Here's a clip of him nearly hitting the roof at the smelly ramp :daumenhoch:.
I also have to mention Zak Shaw, he is very rad too :daumenhoch:.
Jerry....
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/th_Jerry.jpg) (http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g114/martycoughlin/?action=view¤t=Jerry.flv)
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Everyone, sing along:
"Gerry, oh Gerry,
Watching you ride is so Scary"
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Top man is Jerry (with a 'J'!), rad as fook and constantly a pleasure to be with and ride with - I was so lucky to ride with him twice a week down at the barn (RIP), he taught me so much stuff, from peg stalls to how to effectively take the piss out of Pete. Genius.
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Top man is Jerry (with a 'J'!)
Oops............. My bad, I stand corrected.... :-[
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I'm bringing this one back with Chris Hallman and Jeff Harrington.
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wow i wondered were this thread had vanished
i have a strange unsung hero of midschool
the guys of props .
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Who were those dudes Alex Leach had with him lat Epic ast night, the one in the yellow shirt totally ripped :daumenhoch:
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Jeff Harrington....... funky hairdoos..... He liked a gap as I recall :)
I'll see your Jeff Harrington and raise you a Tom Haugen. Always loved his style.
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Who were those dudes Alex Leach had with him lat Epic ast night, the one in the yellow shirt totally ripped :daumenhoch:
I just asked him actually, have a peek in P & G.....
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Who were those dudes Alex Leach had with him lat Epic ast night, the one in the yellow shirt totally ripped :daumenhoch:
Derren Bailey. See my entry on the first page of this tread
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wow i wondered were this thread had vanished
i have a strange unsung hero of midschool
the guys of props .
Marco Massei and Chris Rye, good riders and good blokes. Involved in the legendary Baco series of 'events' with Hilson and DeGroot.
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Jeff Harrington....... funky hairdoos..... He liked a gap as I recall :)
I'll see your Jeff Harrington and raise you a Tom Haugen. Always loved his style.
I'll see your Tom Hagen and raise with a Pete Augustin Robert.
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whatever happened to dave clymer?
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whatever happened to dave clymer?
speed took him, although he is around a bit now and is OK
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whatever happened to dave clymer?
We'll have to 'Ask Alex'! Or the Team Sano lads, they might know. Last time i saw him he was upside down slamming into the arse end of the Chasm!
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he was living in a shed in the pow house and left behind a pile of jobby covered dildos.
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:shocked:
:2funny:
:LolLolLolLol:
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I don't have any tattoos...... nor do I want any.
But if I did, I'd have that target in the middle of my shin just like Clymers. Nothing sums up BMX more for me than a fooking pedal to the shin :)
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he was living in a shed in the pow house and left behind a pile of jobby covered dildos.
interesting situation!
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;D
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I don't have any tattoos...... nor do I want any.
But if I did, I'd have that target in the middle of my shin just like Clymers. Nothing sums up BMX more for me than a fooking pedal to the shin :)
...when you do the hop around dance until the pain turns into a perverse pleasure.....
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Ive got a classic Clymer story when we built him a ramp all through the night for a show at magic mountin "riders against drugs" or something. I'll scan some pics and post it up sometime.
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I don't have any tattoos...... nor do I want any.
But if I did, I'd have that target in the middle of my shin just like Clymers. Nothing sums up BMX more for me than a fooking pedal to the shin :)
...when you do the hop around dance until the pain turns into a perverse pleasure.....
perverse pleasure indeed! i thought it was just me that enjoyed that!
no ones mentioned mike ocoboc,
clymer just rules.
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Jeff Harrington....... funky hairdoos..... He liked a gap as I recall :)
I'll see your Jeff Harrington and raise you a Tom Haugen. Always loved his style.
I'll see your Tom Hagen and raise with a Pete Augustin Robert.
I'll see your Pete Augustin and raise you a Davin Halford ;)
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the unsung heros of the 90s is all of us lot.
it wasnt a fashion or the in thing.
it was mates riding ,alot of traveling and dedication so props to all :daumenhoch:
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Feel the love ;)
For me, it was everyone else. Coz I sucked. :-[
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Jeff Harrington....... funky hairdoos..... He liked a gap as I recall :)
I'll see your Jeff Harrington and raise you a Tom Haugen. Always loved his style.
I'll see your Tom Hagen and raise with a Pete Augustin Robert.
I'll see your Pete Augustin and raise you a Davin Halford ;)
Psycho!! Anyway i'll put you out of your misery with an ICE MONEY smackdown!
Checkmate, Gin and Yahtzee my friend!
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How funny is that????? I was SO going to say Ice Money!! Honestly I was. What was his story? I heard he won some insurance claim or summat and had a lot of money to throw about?
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hahahahahaha ice money man :LolLolLolLol:
wasnt there an iguana invlved somewhere?
can anyone find the letter he wrote to odyssey?
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I don't know anything about the geezer other than he was often on Props, and often not in a good way ;D ;D ;D
What was the thing with Oddy?
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He was a proper nob by all accounts! He used to rent limos to turn up to contests and tout himself around like a Rap/Movie star! I think it was Todd Lyons who got his letter/resume looking for sponsorship and it was a pack of lies saying he'd won this contest and that, world champion this and that, i think one of the contests he claimed to have won was actually won by the guy (Tood) he sent the letter to!! This may not be true but it's the story as i know it. :)
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http://icemoney.biz.ly/
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He was a proper nob by all accounts! He used to rent limos to turn up to contests and tout himself around like a Rap/Movie star! I think it was Todd Lyons who got his letter/resume looking for sponsorship and it was a pack of lies saying he'd won this contest and that, world champion this and that, i think one of the contests he claimed to have won was actually won by the guy (Tood) he sent the letter to!! This may not be true but it's the story as i know it. :)
thats the one!
i saw the letter years ago on the net, i felt bad for ice to be honest, the spelling was like a 5 year old,
http://members.aol.com/fidgetjs/icemoney.html
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http://icemoney.biz.ly/
:wtf:
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Yeah he certainly seems like a nob in that interview :idiot2:
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the letter is on here,
http://members.aol.com/fidgetjs/icemoney.html
aww bless!
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I'd love to know what makes him tick.
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ironic really as todd lyons is probably the "ice money" of modern bmx!
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It's ironic that his real name is Greg Hunt!
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ironic really as todd lyons is probably the "ice money" of modern bmx!
;D ;D ;D fair point ;D ;D ;D
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ironic really as todd lyons is probably the "ice money" of modern bmx!
;D ;D ;D fair point ;D ;D ;D
maybe i was a bit harsh as todd was a genuinely good rider :daumenhoch:,
Greg hunt :LolLolLolLol:
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He was certainly fast in his day, and one of the first racers to ride freestyle comps. It seemed to me that he got stuck in the backflip thing forever though. I couldn't tell you what tricks he has, all I've ever seen from him is flips..
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It's ironic that his real name is Greg Hunt!
Is his brother called Mike? Just a thought :LolLolLolLol:
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Just taking this thread back to the top
Steve Grace.......Quality rider and top guy Ive not heard his name in years!
Also in my unsung heroes list (UK version) would include
Jerry (of course and defo at the top of the list!)
Steff Evans.......Demi God as Mark Noble used to call him!
Mike Canning........Big in the 80's but in the background in the 90's
Shaun Scarfe......watch him rip up the minis and midi with Zak at Leigh on sea on one of the early BSD vids
Grant Smith......... and all the Team Sano lot which includes GoGo, Ross Sewage and the scarily mental Scott Timmins
Marizu O'Kereke.........Never heard of him? ask Zak or Mad Jon they will rate Marizu right up there with the maddest of them
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Steff Evans.......Demi God as Mark Noble used to call him!
would you believe i just spent the wekend with steff in full meltdown mode (and a suave tuxedo) as he successfully dragged 30 wrexham skater reprobates and oxford graduates in fancy dress around newcastle for his brother tommy evans' stag do.
it's a kind of life i tell you!
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Steff Evans.......Demi God as Mark Noble used to call him!
wrexham skater reprobates
Nothing spells Danger like skaters from wrexham .... NOTHING!
One of them ... "Tall Pete", lived in Oxford for a while, and as a result a few wrexham lads visited from time to time, and I found myself in wrexham a few times. Top lads, but Danger!
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Tom Evans!!!!!
Does he still have a Poo fetish?
If you're not sure what im on about.....ask Steff
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Tom Evans!!!!!
Does he still have a Poo fetish?
If you're not sure what im on about.....ask Steff
What, "Tom LOG"?
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tomlog apppears to have eased the log out of his life.........
dan eds and rich gibb were upholding the true spirit of wrexham/llan skaters over the weekend... no sleep til bedtime
coincidentally enough, tomlog met another lad called tom at university. whose nickname was also tomlog. for the same reasons....
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can i add a few more?
Mike Ocoboc
Keith Treanor
Dave Griffin
Tim Ruck
Mike Jory
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Ive just rememberred a couple more too!
Fids
and Dave Beveridge!
Incedentally, I remeber 'nightclubbing' with Keith Treanor, we were pretending that we were really good at breakdancing and kept doing really stupid moves and stuff in the middle of the dancefloor! Hilarious!
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I remeber 'nightclubbing' with Keith Treanor
where was that?
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I remeber 'nightclubbing' with Keith Treanor
where was that?
Twas in the famous Crypt in Hastings......I think Chris (Moeler) was there too!
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Ah, say no more! :LolLolLolLol:
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Sounds like 93
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Dave Griffin
good guy for sure!
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tomlog apppears to have eased the log out of his life.........
dan eds and rich gibb were upholding the true spirit of wrexham/llan skaters over the weekend... no sleep til bedtime
coincidentally enough, tomlog met another lad called tom at university. whose nickname was also tomlog. for the same reasons....
The LOG name came from Evans Junior's extraordinary mathematical ability, the stunt poo is a myth.
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you lie!!! we all saw the evidence on southsea beach!
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you lie!!! we all saw the evidence on southsea beach!
And from a tree in Llan !