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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: harris on June 16, 2007, 02:22 PM
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my thursday evening haunt :) and it could possibly re open :4_17_5:
http://http://www.radlands.com/
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i used to go down for bike night on a tues :daumenhoch:
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i did tuesdays or wednesdays for a while until they split the skaters and bmx .
thank bugger that happened or someone was going to get slammed hard.
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what years you start going down there? think i started going about 96 for few years
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i went for years on and of until about 1998/9 i guess it closed not long after.
i only ever did evenings ,weekends was leigh .
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the lad i rode with was jason mills and he opened his shop hardcore hobbies around then
so thats when we stopped going to boring driving on my own.
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i used to ride with jase hewitt and cpl of other guys from round my way
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I used to go every week, Wednesday I think. From when it first opened (91 ish I think). I liked the very first layout the best, with the big mini with the massive deck with a flat bank going into a small street area with a steep "wallride" on the back of the vert. It went down hill from there (IMO) but I guess it was what skaters wanted at that time.
I entered 2 or 3 contests there, mini and street.
Ive got loads of footage from there, some from BMX Vids and some from friends vids.
Top place, loved it!
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The first layout was the best 91ish with the big mini by the door, that ramp was awesome! Grew to love the roll-in later on and the quarter that backed onto the vert ramp by the toilet. Also remember Chris getting pissed at the comps and making an arse of himself! Great days and a great park ( It'll never be the same) :'(
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i did my first face plant on the midi next to the half pipe ,chain come of and plop.
and you are right it would never be the same.
if leigh was rebuilt ,now that would be a different matter as i would move in a a squatter .
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Yep cool place use to go on my days off in the week, did and one go when Mat Hoffman went there?
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Hoffman was there at one of the contests I entered. I dont think he rode cos his shoulder was pretty bad. One of my mates got his autograph but the only bit of paper my mate had with him was a prostitute card from a Northampton phone box. He's still got it.
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Hoffman was there at one of the contests I entered. I dont think he rode cos his shoulder was pretty bad. One of my mates got his autograph but the only bit of paper my mate had with him was a prostitute card from a Northampton phone box. He's still got it.
I remember that comp, Gogo and Bill Minns had Hoffman drinking Buckfast!!
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haha, when in rome...
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haha, when in rome...
... get pished with team sano!
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I remember the roof above the vert ramp was too low for him, Jerry had the same problem, and me (not).
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on ebay
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d87/harris15570/69b6_1.jpg)
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This thread's made me really nostalgic! I loved that park and had some great times there. :'(
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never got an opportunity to go there for some reason,
place is legend though,
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is the old bus depot still around in canterbury ,or has it been flattened for new buildings.
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Used to have the odd roadtrip up there to Radlands, always a good day out. Learnt 360s over that wee kicker to pyramid driveway thing, wallrides from those two loose quarters and my first pegstalls on the 8ft quarter that backed onto the vert ramp.
Happy days :)
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radlands vert contest 93 only (sober) shot i ever got in a mag ;)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b398/egg4130/cover-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b398/egg4130/radlands.jpg)
backflip fakie attempts there too! god knows what i was thinking :idiot2:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1853732445
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egg top piece of riding bro :daumenhoch:
dan
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I remember the roof above the vert ramp was too low for him, Jerry had the same problem, and me (not).
Well Matt still fired out a Double tailwhip air on that vert, just rode in, a few airs & BANG! put his bike down & went back to chilling! my jaw was on the floor! He also did the MC bit @ one of the comps there too :daumenhoch:
I miss Thursday nights @ Raddies..... :smitten:
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loving the backflip attempts egg, you ever pull 1?
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yes matt i pulled a few when the ramp was indoors at worcester :) came pretty close to flairs too! had no fear back then,wish i could ride like that today.
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egg we need to ride like we did in the 90,s again mate, late night sessions no fear, HAIR, Matt bursting his cherry under worcester vert ramp :LolLolLolLol:
They were the days
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yes matt i pulled a few when the ramp was indoors at worcester :) came pretty close to flairs too! had no fear back then,wish i could ride like that today.
Prob cause you are allways drunk/hung over these days :LolLolLolLol:
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i used to ride radlands during the ninetys. most fridays or thursdays. was an amazing place had the best days of my life at that park. still got the scars. would be great to see it reopen but until then there is always corby.
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I remember watchig Zak unveiling his backflip 360 attemps on his Heavy as F**k at Radlands and blowing up someones Superpros Also Jerry landing on his head with no helmet whilst doing a BIG 540 on the vert ramp...ouch!