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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: SaMAlex on December 12, 2007, 07:40 PM
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I found very old copy of Official BMX (issue 5). There is no date anywhere in it but its gotta be very early 80s. Toward the back there is a Riders Chart and it crossed my mind that there may well be some RAD members in there. Are you in there????
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/OBMX5Cover.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Magazines/OBMX5RiderChart.jpg)
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I see Rattys name in there
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ratty in the 15's, got to be 81 i think then. no doubt he will correct me
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I was thinking 82, Nicky Matthews was in my age group and I'd have been in the 14s in 82 assuming that's based on age at 1st Jan.
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I am in there twice because of a ukbmx officials fook up!! He spelt my name wrong at two meets, despite me asking him to change it, so it cost me placings in the final table.
I think I finished in 14th place in the end if they had added the points up properly, this was the 1981 points table Matt.
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Its 80 or 81. The way your age groups was decided changed in 82 I think, and you see in these rankings that Craig Scoffield & Jason Maloney are in different classes. Post 81, they raced in te same group, (my age group). Good to see some old friends mentioned in there also...
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Notice Carl Alford in there also Ratty. Not quite sure how I got home after beers with you, him & the others the other Saturday, made it back to Farnham somehow though...
Matt F.
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Was a good night Matt, we will have to do it again soon mate, I never knew Carl back then so it was good to chat the other night.
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I knew i kept seeing the name Carl Alford on a number of threads here and there, and keep thinking i'm sure it must be the same lad that i knew of as a kid. Then when i saw the farhnam comments above i figured it must be the same person - i remember doing a BMX display in Aldershot and Farnham back in the early 80's with carl and a few other locals - tim march and andy ruffel if i remember correctly came down to do a display and signing session. Can't remember what year but i would have been a cheeky mouthy thing on a GT pro with Red Skyways - carl would have been a year or two older than me - but i defo remember doing a display at our school and i remember walking to school with him - what a small world it is
Happy days indeed
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Spotted my name in the 9`s (Chris Day) i think that its the rankings for 1981.
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2 of my m8s are in the 13s, lee halveson and scott ringrobe which should read ringrose. both canvey roadrunners, scott only raced for 1 season,im sure he would have done blinding if he stuck at it longer. he was absoulute pukka motocross rider. i still see him about ill have to see if his old supergooses are still in his garage. all 4 of em. lost all contact with lee yrs ago. bought my old diamond back of him, remember it like yesterday. and im now 40 :-[