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Title: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 24, 2007, 12:11 AM: I really thought these pics were lost years ago, but I found them the other month and just got them scanned.. Hope you enjoy :daumenhoch:

My bike in the middle, my mate Jamie riding it

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/mybike.jpg)

Me havin a go at a table top

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/menearlyflat.jpg)

My mate Leeroy, with a spanking Kuwi

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_E0ED07A6CD4E4AF088EB9DC18E5B88A.jpg)

My mate Jay

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_D3138C2FFA4341A8986C72794EC9-1.jpg)

I wasnt exactly David Bailey

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_D52A057E05304324A3A096CAFDE5-1.jpg)

Power wheelie on the berm, lol the track was as small as Hersden

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_C1863E2A39444A9AB2C25A89A46F388.jpg)

Huge drop off in some flats near the track

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_C6E2378E8A2743E8BBDCFD422925-1.jpg)

Kickturn in the dark

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_57880FCBE53147A18B936A5DFB50CF5.jpg)

How I wish the pic had all of me in the shot

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_838B74877C8C4598B44229046512D47.jpg)

Random wheelie

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_463C155B5AB543CD8A90A0423F732F9.jpg)

This reminds me of that magazine shot outside burger king, we did it years before them, shame the pic is so bad

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_81F00837B1FC4058AB8D087105AE0BC.jpg)

Good bale, see the grafitti on the fence, Cav Strutt called me tuff boy, and decided to paint it on the wall

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_24B6CD1A4C214A7580FCD9C05C77ACF.jpg)

Another angle on the drop in

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_8A9CC15B4824470889BC6DCA4AB0982.jpg)

My goose after a few mods and crashes, check my mums front room, that grafitti is still there 26 years later, allbeit under wallpaper now ;D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_7ABE682D69BC407E8C4C246CC2B2842.jpg)

I could jump bitd, wish I could now

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_2B8DDCCF321345EC8834CC048C72E9D.jpg)

Finally a race pic from Buckmore Park, Keith Wilson in front. Tony Slater and Chris Simmons waiting for the next moto

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_4E97010653754EEDBC13B0824C7662A.jpg)

Chris Simmons leads me at Southampton in 1982

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/cid_CE95A8995DB84F7499215D134F46-1.jpg)

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Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: Trev on June 24, 2007, 12:18 AM: cool pics mr ratster. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: SaMAlex on June 24, 2007, 12:33 AM: Man, those pics are great!!

Love um, thanks for posting them Ratty
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: jimmyp on June 24, 2007, 12:41 AM: Good pics there m8. aHH WHAT YOU WOULD GIVE JUST TO GO BACK FOR ONE DAY :angel: :angel: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 24, 2007, 12:43 AM: Just one day?? Would I just :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: nic968 on June 24, 2007, 06:44 PM: Great pics Ratty..Nice trip back in time there...
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: DR VINOAH on June 24, 2007, 06:51 PM: tone
im glad you found them pix

must be since last year you was saying bout digging em out
or hoping they was still there

ace pix

the fence graff

im sure its in an early OBMX :angel:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: Flaz on June 24, 2007, 06:59 PM: we all rode down to your track one day from the archway we called it "andy ruffells track " it was a great day out tho if my memory serves me right

:LolLolLolLol: cheers tone funny how a few photos can bring back so many memorys :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: LucyLastic on June 24, 2007, 07:09 PM: Superb pics, Tony, good one :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: teamsano on June 24, 2007, 08:19 PM: so good, no matter how bad fotos like that are(in a fotographic sense), they are always awesome. :4_17_5:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: Rooonga on June 25, 2007, 10:39 AM: Great pics, of even greater times I bet!

I wish I had some photo's of me on my bike bitd. I think a couple of pals have some, so will try to track them down.
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: zed4130 on June 25, 2007, 11:11 AM: great pics tone, love the top one , very 80's :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: kdw712 on June 25, 2007, 12:22 PM: great snaps tone

love seeing those sorta of pics from BITD :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: ORANGEZIPPY on June 26, 2007, 08:17 PM: nice pics,

doesnt matter about the quality, there still great, like seeing all the old pics, its like being in life on mars

wish i had more of me

:4_17_5:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: region11 on June 26, 2007, 09:52 PM: Classic pics! and u haven't changed a bit ;D
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 26, 2007, 09:54 PM: Quote from: Region11 on June 26, 2007, 09:52 PM
Classic pics! and u haven't changed a bit ;D

PMSL, yep still the same except I dont have any hair, and I am 5 stone heavier :2funny: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: superbikedan on June 26, 2007, 10:19 PM: just seen these mate, certainly brings back memorys, sometimes i see it like it was last week :'(

cracking set of pics, went to that track with pat and have a fuzzy pic of me on it ;D

as for buckmore park, rode it many times and when i see these old pics i look out for my old

race number 1874 :daumenhoch:

how about this ratty, superbike won the team race, it was a relay rice with the youngest first

ending in my age group, nice medal as well :coolsmiley: anyone remember that race ;)
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: superbikedan on June 26, 2007, 10:35 PM: ratty was walthamstow track in hilm high park :idiot2:

if not this is it as old as a dinosaur ;D very fuzzy

me trying an early day superman except we didn't land on the bike

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y47/purcellbmx/LastScan-5.jpg)
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 26, 2007, 10:41 PM: Thats the one Dan, Higham hill park.... Did you ever see the 8 foot jump we built at the finish line?? was a bloody rad little place, sadly now a dog ~~sh1t~~ exercise yard.
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: superbikedan on June 26, 2007, 10:44 PM: only got a vage memory of the track but remember jumping a tabletop,

it may be the one in the pic above :)
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 26, 2007, 10:52 PM: It was a great place, shame we didnt have the cameras we have today, we had some superstars over there as well, bob haro came over there when he was in london, so did a blonde torker rider, jason someone??. Bob refused to ride our quarter pipe as it was too dangerous >:D . I also remember he had his hair cut very short. I asked him where his hair had gone, he replied he wanted to look like us UK lads when he came over, was a great bloke!!
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: bsdforever on June 26, 2007, 11:58 PM: rad photos, rad stories!! :laugh:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: mattnice on June 27, 2007, 11:48 AM: is that higham hill ? i used to go there a lot,only problem was all the gypsies trying to nick ya bike.
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 27, 2007, 04:28 PM: Yes matt, thats Higham Hill :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: mattnice on June 27, 2007, 05:11 PM: did u ever go to the big drop-off in folly lane?
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 27, 2007, 05:22 PM: Ohh yes, and on fizzys a few times ::) :angel:
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: superbikedan on June 27, 2007, 11:11 PM: tone in the pic at buckmore park, chris simmons and tony slater, are they both diamond back riders :)
Title: Re: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track
Post by: RATTY on June 27, 2007, 11:59 PM: evening Dan, yes mate they both rode for Diamond back. Although Im sure Tony rode a \redline in DB clothing :shocked: