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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: Stevo on November 03, 2005, 10:34 PM
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Couldn't resist posting another pic from BMX Action Bike Feb '85 (last one honest), but I see Mr Campbell is a rider held in high esteem amongst the members here – me too. The trick was debuted in my home town of Edinburgh and he is riding the Scotia BMX quarter pipe (Scotia were one of the top BMX shops in Scotland at the time). A few of my mates were there, I wasn't :'( Anyway, this trick went down a storm and he did it again in the Holeshot comp in London and won the championship. Do you reckon the framestand fakie is still rad today? ??? There's no way I would attempt it ;D
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yeh its way rad
also ron wilkersons fakies at the kelloggs in 85
sheeeeeesh.
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I think that trick stands the test of time
still rad now
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Love the avatars guys. ;D
Thought you might agree. Just wanted to share a cool pic of Craig C. 8)
Yeah, Wilkerson's fakies at the Kelloggs stick in my mind too. Awesome! :D
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great stuff. What ever happened to the Scotia ramp? and all the other Vincents that must be lying about somewhere?
I think i'll start collecting old school quarterpipes..
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Fakies Rule, Framestand Fakies are nuts. Anyone got a pic of Dominguez doing Fakies??? He was a fakie God!
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Fakies Rule, Framestand Fakies are nuts. Anyone got a pic of Dominguez doing Fakies??? He was a fakie God!
Here's a pic of Mike D doing an awesome fakie. The pedals must spin like hell when he hits the pipe and rolls back. Even if he had a coaster there's risk of locking the back wheel. Hats off! :D
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that pics definitely rad. big audio dynamite were bad?
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holy crap i never seen a fakie that big!!!
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yeah that is one big fakie :D
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if i got that high in a fakie, i would have slammed bigtime
in fact i would still be lay there now
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Ive seen mat do them at 9ft....
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Yip. On Aggroman and Headfirst also..... ;)
Wilkerson used to have a big fakie as well I think.
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Carlo. got any photos? that would be well rad. I remember seeing mcCoy bail on one at the worlds in Manchester, and hit his head. He didn't know where he was.... Very crazy trick. did anyone ever hook up with them? It's the only trick where its better to hook up the front wheel as opposed to the rear ;D
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I saw McCoy bail at manchester too. He didnt know his arse from his elbow when he hit the deck.
he tried to get up but his legs were like jelly. :o
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Nice pic Stevo.....that brings back a few memories.
I think I was there that day. Was that the demo at Meadowbank Stadium? I'm sure I remember Junior from Livi getting higher than anyone else of that ramp.
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Cant believe it took this long for that to be used as a
username nice one trix.
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Nice pic Stevo.....that brings back a few memories.
I think I was there that day. Was that the demo at Meadowbank Stadium? I'm sure I remember Junior from Livi getting higher than anyone else of that ramp.
Hi there i rode at that day at meadowbank that skyway quarterpipe was amazing! i remember falling off the edge of that tiny scotia pipe though i've got pictures from that day must post them up got loads of other pics from livi skatepark as well as our travels to Rom, Southsea etc that i havent got around to posting yet must get on it! Ricky
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Hi,
I was there too, although it all seems a long time ago now. Anyway, on the subject of what happened to the old ramps, especially the Scotia ones, well, ,my mates and I bought two of them and kept them in our home town of Troon, Ayrshire. The first one was all-wooden, about 6' wide, painted white with a blue arrow up the front and the Scotia logo at the top. This ramp always wanted to tip over backwards, and was forever propped up with pieces of timber. Problem was, the arrangeemnt of this timber meant that the ramp was different almost every time you hit it, sometimes undervert sometimes over, sometimes not supported at all, and would topple over backwards while you rode up.
The other one was a bigger metal framed one, which folded out to include a towhitch and proper wheels, so it could be towed behind a car, I think it was made by Vincent. This was a good pipe - we were too young to drive, so we kept it at someone's house, and we used to sit on it to counterbalance it and push it to the local schoolyard to use it - happy days! That pipe was the business at the time, though I'm sure it's probably not as big as I remember it being.
Both ramps ended up at the local bmx track which by then had seen better days. We built them into a sort-of half-pipe arrangement along with a mini ramp - lots of options how to ride it, all of them crap. It gets very windy in Troon, and they ended up blowing away during a storm, never did see them again - shame, really.
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Why are all the pictures deleted?
Is there now a copyright issue on RAD?
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Why are all the pictures deleted?
Is there now a copyright issue on RAD?
yeah, what's happening?
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Why are all the pictures deleted?
Is there now a copyright issue on RAD?
yeah, what's happening?
Check the date of the thread :idiot2:
Also if an admin had deleted the pics then it would say so at the bottom, just like this one :daumenhoch:
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Both ramps ended up at the local bmx track which by then had seen better days. We built them into a sort-of half-pipe arrangement along with a mini ramp - lots of options how to ride it, all of them crap. It gets very windy in Troon, and they ended up blowing away during a storm, never did see them again - shame, really.
I wanna know how the ramps ended up blowing away... must have been some storm... :shocked:
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Both ramps ended up at the local bmx track which by then had seen better days. We built them into a sort-of half-pipe arrangement along with a mini ramp - lots of options how to ride it, all of them crap. It gets very windy in Troon, and they ended up blowing away during a storm, never did see them again - shame, really.
I wanna know how the ramps ended up blowing away... must have been some storm... :shocked:
haha. thats the west of Scotland for you...
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i wanna know who rodeoflip is..
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My name is Liam, some of the Scottish guys may remember me as one of the guys from Troon; there were a few of us (still see most of the guys regularly, although I've moved away now), who used to travel to competitions and Livi BITD. I was usually on a RL20 (had a couple of those, one which was bought off Eeko, or the "Yeti"). Remember lots of the names and faces which come up here, but doubt they'll remember me.
And yes, the wind does get up sometimes around the west of Scotland - that pipe was tied down with cables and had a pile of rock on top as ballast, and it still disappeared. The shipyard building down the road was partly blown away a few years ago, there were sheets of corrugated steel flying right across the bay
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Troon Guys! I remember meeting you guys at Livi in the early 90s
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ah liam alone! the troon goons! you guys got me into chips and cheese, i see huv out workin on the roads wi the council a bit, dont suppose you stil work for jvc?
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Nice to be remembered! Yep, used to hang around at Livi from about the mid-80s to about the mid-90s.
Sorry to hear that we started you on the sorry route to chips and cheese, that feels a bit like a jakie telling you that you got him into the Buckie. Chips, cheese and kebab meat - now there's a real treat when you're pished up.
Still see the boys around - was over the NW200 (motorbike race) with big Huv and Dave Kyle a fortnight ago. Huv hasn't changed one bit
Craig / Waigie now lives in Lewis, and is a bit of a kitesurfing guru. His brother Scott is a hairdresser and golf nut, but still a bit of a mentalist when he gets the heid down. Not so sure where the others are these days, kinda feel out of touch over the years - no idea about Jim Dandie (now there's a name from the past), Ian Coates lives in the US somewhere now, missing presumed gay / pogered. All now married with kids.
I don't work for JVC now, so no more cheap TVs or hi-fis. They closed down about a year ago, but I left in 1997, so nothing to do with me. Right now I live in the Lake District.