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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: SaMAlex on September 21, 2007, 02:52 PM
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Grind Magazine – 1996
Grind magazine was a BMX magazine from Future publishing. It was a one off BMX mag and I don’t think Future did any BMXs mags after it. I friend of mine was very involved in the making of Grind we all were happy to help out with all kinds of things from ‘how to’s and bike tests. One of the funnies things we did was an article on BMX rider stereotypes. 5 of us chose a riding discipline and dressed up appropriately. We hammed it up big time, and people seemed to find the funny side, even if I did think I was going to get shot by a flatland gangster for a while.
Last night I found my copy of Grind so I scanned some of it in. There is loads of cool stuff in there, the adds, the bike tests, the products, all great. I could have scanned every page but I have just done a few … for now anyway.
Cover
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/01Grindcover.jpg)
Rider stereo types
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/03Grindcrew.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/02Grindsteriotypes.jpg)
Jamie didn’t ride BMXs but he was the cleanest cut kid we knew. The closest thing we had to a race bike was Taffs 24” CW … which later he folded in half at High Wycombe race track
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/04Grindracer.jpg)
Ian was making the magazine so he got to be the cool guy Dirtjumper. That was his own bike at the time, which was Crowmans old dirtbike.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/05Grinddirtjumper.jpg)
I was the gangsta flatlander. The bike was a 16” BMX borrowed from the bike shop we all worked at. It had a double top tube and was tiny so it seemed like a good flatland bike. I totally faked some flat land tricks. The pegs were so big and the wheels so small I was just leaning with the peg on the floor for the pics
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/06Grindflatlander.jpg)
Crowman cleaned up and tucked his shirt in for the vert rider. The bike was a bike that was tested elsewhere in the magazine.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/07Grindvert.jpg)
Taff (who was taken away in an ambulance at MK07) was the street rider. He is riding Crowmans bike (see post in ‘mid’ about it). Its just the bike same now, only hes painted the frame white. Funny thing is, Taff doesn’t look far off street riders of today, with his Metal shirt.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/08Grindstreet.jpg)
There were loads of cool adds and products in Grind but Ive only scanned some of them.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/grindproducts6.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/Grindbackyardadd.jpg)
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nice one alex that lots mad my day.
cracking adds i need that mag i will go on the hunt for it lazzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ???
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Of course i have it!
It did get a lot of flak however, i can't admit to loving it myself.
Sorry Alex!
:(
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nice one alex that lots mad my day.
cracking adds
Dan
Here is another one for you
I didnt know the S&M team were co-sponsored by fishbone or that Ian Morris used a UFO for a while. It helps to explain why I got sent a UFO … even if I didn’t use it!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/Grindfishboneadd.jpg)
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its more for the adds,and the lads in it been on rad with good bit of history.
plus im re building taffs bike :)
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I didnt know someone else had been carted orff from MK in a abmulance :( Must have missed that one
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taff the loon in mucho pain with broken collar bone.
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d87/harris15570/100_0755.jpg)
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I didnt know someone else had been carted orff from MK in a abmulance :( Must have missed that one
Dan, that pic RULES!!!! Taff did his coller bone on the sunday, just having a roll around between motos. He only started back at work this week! It might well have been a bit of rib and shoulder blade too but they cant do anything about any of them so they didnt bother X-raying him all that much. Taff does like to crash!
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when was this Mag done Alex? 3:50 in 96! No wonder they never made another! ;)
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when was this Mag done Alex? 3:50 in 96! No wonder they never made another! ;)
It was a massive mag. 112 pages of full colour!
Having said that, Future publishing could have probably sold it for free, they are so big!
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lol i kept that picture back from mk as i wasnt sure it was in good taste :angel:
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Your probably right Dan. It is in bad taste to post pics like that ...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/taffshoulder.jpg)
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:LolLolLolLol:
i was actually trying to take his mind of the pain for a moment or 2 so i said smile :LolLolLolLol:
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Nice one Alex. I bought that mag and it's in one of several boxes of 1990-2001 BMX mags in my folks loft!
I'd forgotten all about that mag. Thanks for reminding me!
Came out just before the 1996 Worlds (when Dale Holmes won his first title), so it had plenty of racing in it :daumenhoch:
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Came out just before the 1996 Worlds (when Dale Holmes won his first title), so it had plenty of racing in it :daumenhoch:
There is loads of racing in it. Its a very full magazine. I might do some more scanning, Im sure there is more that people will like
Of course i have it!
It did get a lot of flak however, i can't admit to loving it myself.
Laz, have another look through it. I think you might like it more now, what with all the talk of how empty and samey UK Ride is now.
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more scans please Alex :daumenhoch:
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Came out just before the 1996 Worlds (when Dale Holmes won his first title), so it had plenty of racing in it :daumenhoch:
There is loads of racing in it. Its a very full magazine. I might do some more scanning, Im sure there is more that people will like
Of course i have it!
It did get a lot of flak however, i can't admit to loving it myself.
Laz, have another look through it. I think you might like it more now, what with all the talk of how empty and samey UK Ride is now.
Will do me old skip!
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interesting reading there dude :daumenhoch:
great to see the s&m test's and stuff,
who was the flatlander that got the kite on?? :LolLolLolLol:
cheers for posting those up like :daumenhoch:
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taffs cw cruiser is that a "pe" hub i spot..
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taffs cw cruiser is that a "pe" hub i spot..
Taffs CW had red Ukia rims on suntour large flange hubs ... the very same wheelset that are on my 24" challenger right now. Him folding that frame came right when I was after some 24" wheels. I really must give them back to him.
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I have that mag at my parents and had forgotten all about it, its in with my BMXRider collection I think?
:) DINGO :)
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Man!
I remember reading that mag on Fistral beach watching the Surfmasters competition whilst on my Honeymoon!
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if memory serves me correct it was released just in time for the backyard jam in 96 in the field. pretty much everyone had a copy. i believe future publishing needed to sell roughly 20000 cpoies to make it profitable. i don't think there was 20000 bmxers in the country at that point! maybe the next year when the big boom hit. cheers channel 5!
can't say as though i liked it though. i thought some of the pics made a mockery of the sport i love!
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Ive got a connection with the backyard 96, in the field, and this magazine.
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alex. can you remember any vids that featured the 96 backyard jam. in my collection i can only find footage of 97 on thunder.
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alex didnt you have a few pics from 96 backyard with you and ian and the girlies.
"The last resort" was 96 backyard jam i think.but you could always try stuart dawkins
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Right - I was with the 'F**k you we're from Devon' group at that 96 backyard - I remember piles and piles of Grind mag for sale - I bought one and quite liked it, tho at the time Ride was great and Grind couldnt compare really. I met Mat Hoffman i think at that jam and wanted him to sign something - he signed the label off of my cider bottle. Brilliant. I think also tht was the jam when my mateTommy Bowers nailed his ballbag to a piece of wood.
do you think jams in the new school world are as fun nowadays????
steve
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it would imo be more of a show back then it was more balls out crash n burn
and one hell of a laugh todays i think snub people a bit more but not all.
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i got that mag in loft, might have to get it down and look through it again. never really liked it back then
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too much red tape these days! there was a free for all rumble an the vert ramp over night and plenty of tent jumping going on.
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And to tie in the "Grind mag" and the "backyard" topics that are going on here ... one year, didnt someone paint onto the Vert ramp "SUCKS" under where it said "RIDE mag"?
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i think i remember that. was that 97. i think the 96 ramp was green with a massive s&m logo on it. can't remember the colour for 97. but remember the defacing! there was also some guys selling t shirts that said ripoff in the ride mag lettering style. i think laz bought one. i went for the less political super big trails t shirt done with a tennents beer logo
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I realised something just now. In Grind there were quite a few 'how to' sequences. One of them was a mini ramp 50-50. The rider was a guy called Ian from Banbury. Well, I went riding in Banbury today ... with Ian! I recon thats quite cool, that we are both still riding and all that. Ians on here but doesnt log on that much. His username is subversion and he was rippin today!
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And to tie in the "Grind mag" and the "backyard" topics that are going on here ... one year, didnt someone paint onto the Vert ramp "SUCKS" under where it said "RIDE mag"?
i believe this was the birth of the union in 95!! there were about a thousand people staying at harry and al blakey's flat, jon dye, stu king dave beveridge and some others came back laughing like drains.. They had decided to deface the ride logo on the halfpipe. Once at the ramp they said "what do we paint?" the suggestion "b0llocks" was mooted, then came the classic line "yeah, but with an X!".. so b0lox it was! backyard 95 ruled.. so much fun! the last of the classics before the big crazy field ones..
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Alex, was 1995 the one when Mike "The Boy" Ocoboc came over with the S&M team?
What happened to him? He was rad.
That was probably the last "real" Backyard Jam I went to, though I still went to the others until 1997/8 (the one when Butler, Barspinner Ryan and Chad Herrington came over).
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Mike, does this help?
1991, local vert and flat comp.
1992, McCoy, Fuzzy. Bexhill + vert in a field
1993, Moeller, Treanor. Bexhill+ mini on the hill
1994, Clymer, John Parker. Bexhill + vert in a field
1995, Mike Ocoboc, Mat Hoffman. Bexhill + vert in a field
1996, Taj Mihelich, Mat Hoffman, Shaun Butler, Kris Bennett, Dave Osato, Jay Miron. Vert and dirt in the field with the water chasm
1997, Ryan Brennan.Marvin Lotteridge.Josh Stricker.Chad Herrington.Kris Bennett.Shaun Butler.Jimmy Levan, Jamie Bestwick.Stuart King, Steve Swope.Mike Escamilla. In the same water chasm field again
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:daumenhoch:
1995 it rained. Hoffman and Ocoboc still went for it on the wet vert ramp.
I don't remember much of 1996.
1997 dirt was awesome, Barspinner won I think. Chad Herrington couldn't make it through all 3 jumps.
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1995 england vs germany football match at bexhill.. lemsip was a left wing demon and someone knocked out thomas stellwag (german keeper) as he went for a cross..
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1995 it rained. Hoffman and Ocoboc still went for it on the wet vert ramp.
Heres some pics I have from the year it rained off the vert contest.
Wet ramp (you can just make out where they painted " b0lox" under the RIDE logo)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/hastingsrain.jpg)
Didnt seem to stop Hoffman (once the ramp was dried off)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/Hoffair.jpg)
Where's we sat to watch (see who you know on here, some are on radbmx)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/backyardvan.jpg)
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Nice one Alex - great scans and a great shot of Hoffman in the wet.
:daumenhoch:
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/backyardvan.jpg)
think this one got mixed up with your glastonbury pics from the same year alex... ;D
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I see Tim ruck, I see Geoff Cin... I was next to you guys with the vw camper from plymouth!!
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Bunny hop king, steve geal at the front with the legs
Yoda on the right, with the finger, although it looks like its my arm
.......
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alex. wheres the trademark socks dude?
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alex. wheres the trademark socks dude?
Ah, that was a long time ago. I was still on coke (drinking cans of) so I was in the wilson socks with a "coke" logo on them
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not only do i see geoff cain and tim ruck, i think i also see dreadlocked Kev Perry from exeter! And do i see rob ridge too, far right?
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Geoff, Tim, Kev ... yes, yes, yes.
The lad on the far right, steve, was from wales, then moved to Newcastle, and then to Oxford. Also, in the back in the green hat is another Newcastle lad, Dave North. And tucked in there somewhere is Derren Bailey and my mate Taff.
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I realised something just now. In Grind there were quite a few 'how to' sequences. One of them was a mini ramp 50-50. The rider was a guy called Ian from Banbury. Well, I went riding in Banbury today ... with Ian! I recon thats quite cool, that we are both still riding and all that. Ians on here but doesnt log on that much. His username is subversion and he was rippin today!
Ahhhh busted! cheers Al, we had a great sesh in Banbury/Chacombe eh mate :daumenhoch: go on then, post up the how to's, give 'em all a laugh! ;D
I remember walking into WHSmiths & seeing this on the shelf, Sunil mentioned that he thought the photo shoot would make it in & when I saw it I was so stoked >:D
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sure Ian, I will try and do the scans tomorrow.
If I remember right, Sunil didnt have a motor drive so our sequences were faked. We just did the trick again and again with Sunil snapping the shot later and later each time.
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If I remember right, Sunil didnt have a motor drive so our sequences were faked. We just did the trick again and again with Sunil snapping the shot later and later each time.
Well it must have looked OK as I also remember some kid I didn't know, coming up to me @ the skatepark & thanking me for helping him to learn 50-50's! ;D
I've still got my copy in the loft (somewhere)...