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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: Steve Shindig on January 24, 2008, 08:37 PM
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Has anyone quit riding before (not just stopped cos life got in the way etc) but actually quit and what was your reason for doing so? And, what was your reason for getting back into it? (as I presume you did since you're here)
Random thread.... I don't wanna quit or anything.
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This wil be a very interesting thread!
I can understand why people quit - money, lack of a bike, girsl, wives, cars, beer etc etc etc ...
Personally Ive ridden and owned a bike since 1983. Never once quit or givenm up or been witout a bike. Looking forward to this thread though as im keen to know poeples stories.
cheers, steve
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I had a break of 20 years, stopped in Dec 84 and started again in August 04, and I stopped completly, I never rode a bmx at all, and only rode a mountain bike a couple of times to football training :(
I stopped just because I wasn`t enjoying riding at the time, Skyway had dropped me from the full factory team because of my bad atitude (which I agree with actually) and I had started to go clubbing with my mates so I never really missed it at the time, I got back into it because life had become boring >:D
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I had a break of 20 years, stopped in Dec 84 and started again in August 04, and I stopped completly, I never rode a bmx at all, and only rode a mountain bike a couple of times to football training :(
I stopped just because I wasn`t enjoying riding at the time, Skyway had dropped me from the full factory team because of my bad atitude (which I agree with actually) and I had started to go clubbing with my mates so I never really missed it at the time, I got back into it because life had become boring >:D
Any regrets Billy?
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started BMXing sometime in 79 or 80 after getting a copy of BMXaction magazine and doing up my grifter, raced locally and a little further afield thanks to Bunneys Bikes where I worked, did a bit of freestyle/street at the infamous "Broadmarsh Banks" and West Bridgeford Quarterpipe made from wood nicked off the site which is now co-op with the likes of Rosscoe and Geth but stopped riding around 86 due to fooking up my arm above the wrist at the "clay pits" and got into partying for a while then motorbikes (had to ride/build streetfighters as my wrist couldnt handle riding normal race reps)
In 1996 I was working in Reading for the weekendand saw a copy of Ride magazine which had and advert for the British Champs at Slough so on the sunday on my way home to Nottingham I popped in to take a look and my spark was rekindled, I bought a Schwinn cruiser then a candy Blue SE Quad :smitten:, joined a club and have been riding ever since (my renewed interest in riding also led to me becoming a full time mountain bike guide in 2003/4 and some of 2005) racing in England and abroad (not very succsesfully but I had the BEST time)
in 1999 I got a Shiners catalogue and a computer and started buying/collecting OS stuff which led me into meeting a whole bunch of people (a lot still on here in fact) and making a shed load of friends/riding/drinking buddies
Thankyou BMX :smitten: :4_17_5: :smitten:
:) DINGO :)
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I had a break of 20 years, stopped in Dec 84 and started again in August 04, and I stopped completly, I never rode a bmx at all, and only rode a mountain bike a couple of times to football training :(
I stopped just because I wasn`t enjoying riding at the time, Skyway had dropped me from the full factory team because of my bad atitude (which I agree with actually) and I had started to go clubbing with my mates so I never really missed it at the time, I got back into it because life had become boring >:D
Any regrets Billy?
Never any regrets Rob, don`t look back only look forwards :daumenhoch:
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1982 till 2008! 26 years in April.
....and NO, I cant do a backflip! :LolLolLolLol:
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since 1979 i have owned a bmx without a gap
i have had a few times when i havent ridden
as other hobbies just took up alot of my time.
i also rode when nobody in my area was riding so had to drive miles to see others.
injury did stop me a few times but that passed.
its part of me now so will always own ride and enjoy bmx till dans no more :)
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Quit riding in 1996 when i ripped the cartilage apart in my knee, whilst waiting for surgery i discovered men and clubbing (see us chicks aren't to blame for everything!!!), had no interest in riding bikes again til last April when i met some dodgy bald bloke with a mad bike collection, got back into riding again and quit now for a year so i can drop sprogg, can't wait to race again tho 8)
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I was kinda forced to quit, my bike was stolen (Torker Magnum 200) and the friends I was hanging around with was not into bikes, ended up with a Raleigh racer for awhile until stolen. Got a BMX again in late 2005 as I was fed up with walking to the local shops with my son riding his bike, he used to ride off, come back, ride off, come back and tell me to Hurry up, so I got a Diamond Back Joker :LolLolLolLol:
Then discovered the local race track at Dagenham and had just left a job, so I would pick the kids up from school and he would ask to go over the track, was going 2-3 times a week and got involved in the Club over there, still am.
Harrison the eldest then decided after 10 months of racing and the best part of £600 spent on him, helmet, race kit bikes etc,etc he did not want to race anymore. BUT he still loves riding and likes to jump so we go to rOm and Skaterham and the local skatepark. I still race in the Old School Series and love it, but also really enjoy the skateparks and riding with my son. Cant see me giving up riding in the near future I'm 35 and there are some slightly older and inspirational riders out there(on here aswell) 2BOB and Stupple and HUMPS who at 55 still pedals round the track impressivly.
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Good thread... ok started riding when I was 10 and gave up riding when I was about 17ish, got into restoring cars and the whole "I've got a drivers license thing" and was more interested in being in my Mini then riding. And I had some bike stuff nicked which pee'd me off and that made me avoid the sport for a while, although if it came on TV then I did always watch it then and wonder why I gave up... then when 22 I got a Dyno GT built especially for me when I had a lot of dough, fookin really nice it was too, so I started riding again for 3 years on/off but had no-one really to ride with, all my mates didn't class BMX as something they would do in their twenties only teens so I was on my jack jones. Then at 25 gave it up, met the wrong women, had a disaster of a relationship which nearly cost me my business too and to this day at 34, I haven't got on a bike since. Rob (rarman) said to come out but I am so inexperienced now and I never did much ramp stuff only ground and its moved on in such a way i'd look like a dinosaur... so i'll stick with restoring until I can get up the courage again to ride ;) :daumenhoch:
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Quit riding in 1996 when i ripped the cartilage apart in my knee, whilst waiting for surgery i discovered men and clubbing (see us chicks aren't to blame for everything!!!), had no interest in riding bikes again til last April when i met some dodgy bald bloke with a mad bike collection, got back into riding again and quit now for a year so i can drop sprogg, can't wait to race again tho 8)
you should sell that story to Mills and Boon Queenie, you make it sound SO romantic :LolLolLolLol:
;) DINGO ;)
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small hop gone wrong had my blackbike sold the same day
bought a mk2 escort and made it quick
moving to lincolnshire was a crushing blow to any idea of riding
fell into the whole old school ford scene , to the point where most old ford owners that use the internet know my name and im friends with the editor and deputy editor of retro ford magazine . for a few months 50% of the content on the back page was stuff i had found lol
walked into a job running a shop and having bikes around all day made me buy a standard 250s and build it up on the cheap
started riding with the locals in town ( it felt strange riding with people that had only just been born when i started riding lol )
bought a terrible one
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I quit at the end of 84, same as Bill. My knee was just not working, I'd been stiffed at a couple of corrupt competitions and if I'm completely honest I had a very bad case of Rom disease, even though I was driving by then I wasn't really travelling to ride, only to do demos for Ammaco. Stuck at Rom for too long finally drove me mad. So that was that.
I went off to play street hockey for a few years, then spent a few years in the gym...... bang. 1993....
Then I saw High5 all about Hoffman and it was all on again :daumenhoch: Cheers Mat.
Rode and built ramps from 93 to 2000, opened and closed a bmx shop along the way, made some friends. Got fat and lazy and got my head wrecked by a couple of women. Girls are evil. Threw the towel in again.
Got involved in a bit of supermoto riding, did some trackdays and had some cracking weekends away. Bang. 2004.
One sunday morning about September time, for no particular reason other than I had nowt better to do I dragged my arse down to Rom for a bit of a rollaround..... And there is Arma and SuperbikeDan. Hadn't seen them since 84. Within a week or two I bumped into Billstup there too, hadn't seen him in 20 year either. Met Rombloke at the same time and here I am.
I did quit another time in 97 just because the job had got on top of me, but it only lasted about 4 months. I got such a barrage of phone calls and texts from so many friends I'd forgotten I had, all the love brought me back in. Good times.
That's it now though. I won't ever quit again. I'll have a bike and I'll ride so long as my old bones allow me to do so. :)
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Quit riding in 1996 when i ripped the cartilage apart in my knee, whilst waiting for surgery i discovered men and clubbing (see us chicks aren't to blame for everything!!!), had no interest in riding bikes again til last April when i met some dodgy bald bloke with a mad bike collection, got back into riding again and quit now for a year so i can drop sprogg, can't wait to race again tho 8)
you should sell that story to Mills and Boon Queenie, you make it sound SO romantic :LolLolLolLol:
;) DINGO ;)
:LolLolLolLol: if i gave you the romantic story it'd ruin his hard as nails image >:D >:D
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had my first bike xmas 1980 i think. rode up till about 86 when i got into skating. i used to hang round with a couple of riders while i was skating so still looked at the magazines. i went to a skate/bike shop in 1995 to get a new board and ended up buying a bike aswell - i just got my first credit card :idiot2: :LolLolLolLol:
i still skated a little but got more into riding, then stopped skating all together a couple of years later.
now i am more into racing than riding skateparks, which is what i started off doing when i first had bmx
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Started in late 79, dis-located my knee in 83. Rode again 6-8 months later when the knee was fixed but just to work, stopped completely when I got a car.
I heard about Neil Ruffell in late 05, was well gutted as I knew him as a kid, did some internet research, Met 796 and san marco who told me about RAD, met Sam, Nishiki again, raced for the first time in 25 years at MK06, now I cant get enough. Best move I ever made :daumenhoch:
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I cant remember the exact year I started riding,but it was VERY early 80's. around the time OBMX was in production.
first bike was a piranha with the straight spoke metal mags[well heavy] and worked my way up to a second hand
DP freestyler...My Mum didnt have the money to buy me Haro/PK/SKYWAY etc, but was grateful for what I had.
I still amazes me now how some of the parents could afford some the bikes that were around back then-
£400 was like a months wage for my Mum, and thats how much a built-up Ripper or TA was!!!!
Anyway;I rode untill 85 and then my bike was stolen, and as money was tight [paper round pocket money only]
I was forced to QUIT..........cried my eyes out. then break dancing for a few years, then girls, beer, but always still
kept my eye on the bmx scene.I bought the odd bike parts here and there, and finally done my first build last year.
I can do 360's, rockwalks and not much else......but really want to get back some of my old tricks.
I'm 40 this year, and would love to pull a 360 out of a bowl at rom,like I used to.....28 years ago!!!
bit ambitious, I know.............but I just cant put this thing to bed.
..................................Gary.
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I rode BMX first time round from 1980 to 1986 (had a Grifter before that). Didn't ride a bike at all until 1990 when I got my first mountain bike as something to do during the holidays from Uni.
Started doing stuff on the MTB which reminded me of BMX (jumping, bunny hops, back hops, etc), found a copy of Invert (what Ride was called before it became Ride), saw that BMX wasn't dead, bought a Skyway TA off a mate's cousin (he also had a Raleigh Pro/Aero in his shed), raced at Alvaston national in 1991 and knocked myself unconscious in the bombhole, lost 4 front teeth and broke 2 bones in my right hand! Decided to stick to mountain biking for a while and did that continuously (mainly XC) until 1995-ish when I bought an S&M Holmes from custom riders, which then got upgraded to a Standard Bicycle Moto Cross.
Did one race on the Standard (David Maw Memorial Race at Chesterfield) and got the bug back again. But then broke my collarbone a few weeks later on a return trip to Chessy and also gave myself a semi scalping cos I wasn't wearing a helmet :uglystupid2: Took some more time off from BMX (though still kept the Standard and bought a Kastan cruiser) and mainly just did mountain biking.
Started collecting old school stuff around 1999. Started racing again at the Peckham Fun Day in 2004. Started racing cruiser class in 2005. Started racing OS as well in 2007. Racing 40+ cruiser at regional and nationals this year.
During this time (1994 onwards) I was working in quite a "high powered" (in their eyes/minds, not mine) job in the City doing all sorts of banking and finance deals (stuff like re-financing/sale and leaseback of ships, aircraft, power stations, etc). I remember working on one deal until around 4am on a Saturday morning, then heading down to Hastings for the Backyard Jam at 11am. Most of the people at the firms/banks I worked at couldn't understand this thing I was into.
Started dialled bikes in 2003. Initially making mountain bike frames, but with the intention of making BMX race frames and having my own team eventually. The main reason I started my bike company is because I took stock of my life and saw that the most constant thread that ran through it was a love of riding bikes, so I decided to do something I was passionate about with the hope that it would one day free me from the rat race. Still have to work for a living, but no longer in the City :daumenhoch:
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superb thread stevie..
Started riding when I was 20-21ish, had just found the wounderfull world of credit cards and 'needed' something to purchase! walked passed the local bike shop and in the window was (at the time) best BMX I had ever seen.... a diamond back venom, a snip at £300!
I walked into the shop and brought it with a few extras then rode away with a massive smile.
I had never really been into BMX and kinda missed out on the whole 'being a kid and riding' .. I new nothing of any other riders locally or if anyone still rode a BMX.. I searched for magazines, videos etc but at the time (1996ish) there was little about, mainstream at least.
Then I meet Ian, subversion on here, he just collared me riding past him one day and insisted on meeting up at the old local skate ramp, we meet on the Saturday and he completely blew me away with what could be done on a bicycle!! he then lent me a barrage of vids, which I watched non stop for a couple of days! I was completely hooked..
I try and ride everyday, whether it be a street, car park, trails, skatepark or my lounge! and pretty much have done for 10 years,
Infact the longest I've been off my bike was 5 weeks when I smashed my right ankle...
There isn't really a week that pass's when I don't think about quiting, things like the local councils, local pissheads, chav's etc etc
the bad days when nothing goes right, they all add up and I ask myself why am I doing this??..
But.... mostly, all I think about is riding, new ways of hitting an old spot, new variations on tricks, its never ending,
all the amazing people and friends I've meet, all the future friends still to come,
so could I really give up?? stop riding?? never to pick up a BMX?? watch a bike dvd ??
well, I've pretty much laid out the date for quiting riding, it just so happens to be the same day that I'd have quit breathing!!!
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I started riding in 83, I was forced to tear down my QP in 88 by the local asswads. I stopped competing by 89 because I could hang anymore, no sponsors, nowhere to ride that was close by-nobody to ride with, and I was working 5-6 days a week. I still would ride my bike occasionally,until a guy I worked with took me to the Glamis sand dunes and that began the stretch of time when I spent fall to spring weekends launching off 150' deep sand dunes. Then in 93 I began desert racing, turning wrenches and racing baja until I married and moved away in 96. I now have three children 3, 5, and 7. My son,5 , asked me to get a bike so I could ride with him and I did in July 07. I am riding 1-2 times a month at the moment, but I have a quarter-pipe being delivered to my house this saturday and will be building a little mini park in my yard next month. I spent 17 years away from bmx and now I'm back.
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there's been some great replies so far, so i'll buck the trend and give you my story.
I started riding BMX in about 82 when my mum and dad broke themselves to get me a Burner GS from the Freemans catalogue, they didn't have a pot to pee in but my whole life suddenly had meaning! i would ride that bike everywhere! i would clean it every day and strip the crank and headset regularly.....like most of you i guess? i bet there's not many 12/13 year olds that could set up or strip a bike nowadays??
anyways it changed over time to being streetbeat green with blue Z's, then blue Tuffs with coaster.....but i only ever had that burner and i loved it.......when i wasn't riding i would pretend to be riding and do jumps and tricks with my fingers :idiot2: but i also had another pasion in my life from before BMX.....Football! i loved (and still do) the game and played it whenever i could, on Sundays i would go out on my BMX with my footy kit on, play for about 3 hours then come home to change into a clean footy kit and have a bite to eat then play football till it was dark (or my dad would come and call for me to come in). None of my friends at school rode BMX's or understood the beauty of them. I guess like most of us......about 85 (15 years old) girls and peer pressure got the better of me and i stopped riding my BMX and concentrated on football and Music, this had become my new passion! i was always listening to Simple minds and U2 and i guess i just stopped riding.
I did also get in with 'the wrong crowd' and i got into shop lifting and so on, until i got cought and sent to court in about 84, i got a conditional discharge but seeing my mum in tears i realised what a little scroat i'd become! and as stupid as it sounds i found an old fishing rod and real in the garage...........i had found Fishing! and more inportantly a whole new bunch of friends.....within 4 years i was winning matches and was a very active member of a local fishing club (even had a go on the commitee!) but along came my future wife and it all stopped! along came my son :smitten: and all my time was taken up looking after both of them (the now ex wife lost her marbles!)
after a seperation and divorce in 98/2000 i found MTB's.....from 2000 up to now i spent a small fortune on MTB's but always wanted to build up an old BMX, so had a look on ebay and bought a green street beat, the auction had a little link to RADBMX and i was home again!!! it was like taking off a real tight pair of shoes that you've had to stand in all day and sitting with a glass of red wine! i was hooked! so i got back into BMX about 2005 and since becoming a member of RAD i've had the fortune of meeting some of the nicest guys ever! and would call them real friends! :daumenhoch: :4_17_5:
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I started riding when I was 8 years old........ 1984!! I rode for a few years until it became uncool so I started playing football down the local park with all the really cool blokes. Then I discovered girls, beer, fred perry etc & wouldnt have got back on a bmx for the life of me, Imagine how that would look to "the guys"?
I drifted few the next few years in at raves wearing dunagrees & listening to techno music until I discovered the sierra cosworth. Driving in this amazing automobile I would laugh at "kids" on bmx bikes in the street but still reminisce about "the good old days".... but never out loud.
I mean, why would I have want to have been into something that wasnt popular? Why would I have wanted to search the local shops for bmx parts &/or magazines? Got to events that were in cold, dank northern parks with a handful of people, even if they did all know each other? ride bikes that have 3 inch thick dropouts? Are you crazy?
Then suddenly I realised I was getting older & I wished I was still that kid that had a smile, no debt & no points on my license so i bought another bike but realised BMX was actually just full of bitching kids in tight jeans, weird looking bikes made of string & wood & old men who hate anything that wasnt made before 1986 so I thought fook it, Im off! :LolLolLolLol:
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got my first bike in 1982 my parents about broke thereselves to buy me a secondhand tuff burner(blue with yellow skyways and a set of yellow odi mushrooms) loved that bike and swapped bits with mates save pocket money and paper round money and ended up with a silverfox(mt racing) with landing gears cw copies and a load of other parts i,d managed to get cheap.this was up to 86 when someone borrowed my bike to go into town and it got nicked :( (prick never payed for it) was just starting to work just after that training yts (robbing barstewards) so didnt end up getting another bike till 02-03 when i saw a silverfox on ebay and had to have it :) then bought a green streetbeat put loads of bits on it.sold that for a big loss :(then bought an aero pro off ebay but then my gobi was moaning about space etc so sold that as well about 2-2 and a half years ago.allways kept my ebay silverfox and just built it up with trick bits.now in the process of building my haro master.thinking of getting a newer bmx for abuse so my old school rides dont get hurt though so probably didnt ride between 86-03 and dont ride a lot now but looking at going to the meets to see if i can get some of the old sparkle back :)
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'but realised BMX was actually just full of bitching kids in tight jeans, weird looking bikes made of string & wood & old men who hate anything that wasnt made before 1986'
hahahahaha.. sounds like a subversion comment!!!
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DJ - you old romantic. Your story brought a tear to my eye......... :LolLolLolLol:
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Alright,here's my go.Like most kids in the late 70's early 80's I had a bike with cowhorn bars and a massive cog on the back so you pedal like mad and go knowhere.Had a Grifter that morphed into a bmx copy.Then my dad made me a Torker replica frame which I built into a bike.Believe it or not,but that got stolen outside a Halfords in Coventry while I was trying to shoplift inside! The thieving gits! Then went thro several bikes (mongoose,kuwahara,diamondback) until I bought a Haro frame and forks for £185 (in 1983 ish).Rode 1/4 pipes for a while then in 1984 I started working and bought a Honda MTX 125, which is where the bmx took a back seat.Soon after that I got a car with a CB radio- which I swapped the bmx for (doh!).I must have been interested in bmx later on 'cause I found some BMX plus mags in parents loft from 1991/2.
Anyhow,life went by, until a friend of mine metioned this site and bought a bmx off ebay.I looked at it and just thought,I want one.So far I'm on my 10th bike in 10 months and ride every week at creation.Absolutly love it.I was 40 a few weeks ago but couldn't give a toss.My mates all do football but this is my bag,and I 'aint gonna stop.
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I had bikes from an early age, most like the pavemaster and the raleigh cobra long lost in the mists of time. When I was cycling I was free, go wherever and do whatever I wanted...
In the early 70's my friends and myself gravitated into the supermoped boom, riding fs1e's, ss50's, ap50's, fantics and the like. About 2 years ago I began to restore a Mk2 Raleigh chopper for cruising...then got into BMX...I'll probably never do fantastic tricks, but there's just something about BMX and particularly old school that's just addictive...I think I'll always have a bike now :daumenhoch:
Ray.
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not quite sure when i got my first bmx, think it was 82/83 (raleigh extra burner). wanted a bmx but couldn't have one as i had a commando (remember them- in army finish paint job) but managed to snap the forks jumping. had to wait a while but got the burner and never looked back. rode around on it as it was 'popular' back then but fully got into riding freestyle in 84 with the kelloggs, bmx action bike, bmx beat, etc. had short layoff's with injuries over the years but bmx is still a very dominant part of my life, one that outsiders just can't comprehend sometimes. with some of the more serious injuries i thought thats it now , leave the bikes alone.
tried, failed. not a day goes by that i don't think of riding or bmx in some form or another. photographing and filming also involve riding so that still keeps me 'into it' when injured etc. riding freestyle now for 24 years and still going strong- will admit havn't ridden since november but been busy with work etc, first old school build coming along, building up new ride and had to weld lugs , guides on etc so just deciding on colour and i'm back in the saddle for 08.
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began riding at southsea in 84 gave up in 87 as bmx went as dead as a dodo down southsea ... took up plank pushing on the vert and totally gave up in 88..... didnt do anything bar work , clubbing ,girls etc then in 05 began to ride again. did ok but now due to recurring injuries i have decided to call it a day.... love the sport but i think its now time for me to just watch......... :'(
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Thats a shame Mark, what is the injury ?
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yeah mark, dont pack it in just yet, think off all the fun we've had on the road trips, maybe you should just concentrate on your air variations as they were nice and smooth - forget learning tailwhips!
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
Thats because your working 24/7 Mark, ease off the work and ride more :daumenhoch:
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
Mark there is a really easy/light exercise that will sort your rotator cuff out :daumenhoch:
dont give up hope yet
:) DINGO :)
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I bought an S&M Holmes from custom riders, which then got upgraded to a Standard Bicycle Moto Cross.
Watch it! :knuppel2: :police:
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I was mainly a racer from 1984-1991, absolutely loved it, seshing all the doubles and jumps on tracks all the country and racing!
racing really died, all the clubs started closing down and i went to uni so stopped.
I also had a freestlye bike and used to spend weekends not racing at southsea skatepark.
I kept my Whitehawk race bike and still have it and used it though the 90's as transport and the odd visit to a track, all i changed was the tyres and grips, i still enjoyed pulling tables jumping of curbs and pulling power wheelies :)
I didnt have anyone to ride with so didnt really ride that much. I started collecting oldskool bikes in about 2002 and soon had a Ripper, TA and green streetbeat - that i learnt manuals on after seeing some kid do one, i thought manuals looked cool on a bike with tuffs!
I met up with Rombloke, neil, rich waxin, bob acid and billy and a few others at Rom in summer 2004 i think - from a link on Vintage bmx and this got me back into skatepark riding :daumenhoch: thankyou :) . I remeber being really nervous on the way up there, as i'd never met any of them, all i had in common with them was the white PK Ripper i took with me! of course they were a top lot and i was happy to have made some internet bmx friends 8)
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
Thats because your working 24/7 Mark, ease off the work and ride more :daumenhoch:
thats exactly what carlo said bill
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
Thats because your working 24/7 Mark, ease off the work and ride more :daumenhoch:
thats exactly what carlo said bill
Well it must be true then Mark :daumenhoch:
Have a look in to doing a few stretching, loosening exercises`every day, I do loads and it does help :daumenhoch:
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Superb thread!
Had a Grifter in '81, sold it and bought a second-hand Ammaco 202 in '82. Rode it off every ramp we could build as kids out of everything - bits of plywood, old crates... you name it. My folks bust the bank Xmas '83 and bought me a Mongoose Cali and my brother a Chromo-burner. Rode them like we stole them for a couple of years off everything we could find - "new ramp, where's Spen the test pilot" they used to ask, but Girls got in the way and I sold my 'Goose to pay for my first "lads" holiday. Damn those girls....
My brother never sold his, and it stayed in my dad's shed for nearly 20 years along with my Pro-class wheels. In the mean time, moved to Sheffield, more girls, discovered MTB's and caused more injuries than BMXing. For some reason he built it back up again (to impress a girl no dobt!) and we all remembered how to do the tricks, so he bought me a NOS Ammaco 202 he found in a bikeshop basement in 1999 for my 30th. Been riding ever since, but only just got the nerve to take our collection of old school bikes down to the local bowl - we ride every weekend now.
My old bike shop kept my smashed Tuff 11 as they never had another - man, that reeeeeeeallllly hurt when I did it, but I was a legend in my own mind for doing it.
Keep riding. My wife thinks I'm mad, but she has a 1983 Mongoose Cali, fully restored to ride and loves it when I can get her out on it!
Spencer
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shoulders bill... i think they said its my rotator cuffs would that be right.?....... im in pain most nights maybe another 19 year break will help....
Thats because your working 24/7 Mark, ease off the work and ride more :daumenhoch:
i will try bill but sometimes i wake up in the night and it feels like someone has pulled me arm out of its socket ........ but he ho no pain no gain as they say?
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Thats just Di doing that Mark :LolLolLolLol:
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Mark, no disrespect buddy, but do you ride and slam enough to ruin your shoulders?
It's gotta be something else surely?
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started late 81 / early 82 I think, stopped in 90ish, got drunk, sobered up in 96, carried on riding.
Built a skatepark local so I dont have to travel and can nip down when the weathers good (and to put something back into the sport and give the little uns a chance)
www.radcliffeskatepark.co.uk
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Great thread
started bmx in 81ish + kept going till 86 when the demon drink/girls got the better of me then thought it uncool to be seen on a bike :idiot2: :idiot2: .
I would always watch anything on the box about bmx but never rode .
I even got myself a 84 haro sport in the late 80s ( My dream bike ) which i lost /misplaced :uglystupid2:
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Then a couple of years ago i came across someone on ebay selling BmxBeat + kellogs dvds i got these just to watch + reminisce about my youth .
then thinking that maybe my old ridding bud might like to watch these i began to try + pass on some nostalgia from the 80s .This is when i came across Radbmx :4_17_5:+ found my old mate was a member here ( brianp ) i nearly cacked myself to find that he was still involved in the sport .
Now i have a couple of kids + one on the way i have to admit that the spark is back , but am having same problem as swivel with having the bxxllxks to actually get back on a bike + ride , as the sport has moved on so far , that an overwieght , bald bloke doing bunny hops doesnt exactly seem cool !!
Paul
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I quit riding in 1994, i had a pretty bad crash a couple of years before then at the Goshen halfpipe, Bury. (slammed a 540 straight to my face!) after that i couldnt ride properly, couldnt air, lost all confidence.. MAJOR pop-out-itis!! I then made the decision to quit!
Worst decision i've ever made! EVER!! hated not riding and i hadnt rode for 12 years!! but with the X-Games and Gravity games on tv, i was itching to ride again. So i finally got off my arse and got my new bike together (Hoffman condor), and met a couple of old mates i used to ride with, who, them selves are riding again
I've been riding now for nearly two years, to ride again was the BEST decision i ever made!!!
Rampworx... 2007.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/mackypicz010.jpg)
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Super intersting read this thread.
Personally I have had quits but a few breaks. In between though I was road or moutain bike racing. My last return was when i discovered again riding a bmx track was great training for downhill racing.
I think I finally thought I was out of it five years ago. Up till then I had all my old bikes stored so thought i could come back. They got sold off for silly money though without me knowing :knuppel2: I didnt get a replacement and when I started getting into rc car racing I "forgot" about 20"
After discovering this place and Os BmX I want back in..........Walking round the park and in the local deserted skate park today didnt help!!!
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Mark, no disrespect buddy, but do you ride and slam enough to ruin your shoulders?
It's gotta be something else surely?
came off in june of last year at rom.....air to flat bottom on the front wheel.hurt me shoulders through the impact but thought nothing of it, time normally heals most slams! but for this one which is not the worse ive had i am having the most grief.......its now 7 months on and my left shoulder still hurts a lot,admittedly not every day but enough to drive you insane if you know what i mean. ive been to the docs and hes adamant ive torn my shoulder cuffs ! which is fine but why has it not healed by now!!! ive now rode twice since june and been in agony the day after, any help i would be grateful for !!!!!!!
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I didn't know that, sorry to hear it bud.
Find yourself a sports physiotherapist. I know a good one in Chertsey, but I'm guessing that's too long a journey for you. Not any old physio, but a sports one. They'll be interested in your sport and will help you for sure. Even if its only to tell you precisely whats wrong and what you can do about it.
Well worth the money. (not cheap unfortunately....) :)
Don't leave it for too long mate, scar tissue is harder to deal with than the original injury quite often ;)
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i,ll give it a go thanks....
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I finally begged my parents to replace my purple and yellow commando with a Puch Murray, blue with a yellow padset a couple of weeks before Mr Stupple did a demo at the Bell Pub in Southend, not sure of the year.
Rode 1/4's from about 83 and built our own half pipe in 87, rode that for about 18 months, then went raving for about 4 years.
in '92 a friends younger brother got a GT performer for xmas, so me and a couple of mates took him down Leigh-on-sea, mostly rode park, and vert thanks to TwoBobRob until 97ish then hit the trails. My riding buddy's drifted into racing cars and motorbikes, I last rode trails in late August '99. Sold the bike, threw all the old parts(doh!).
In September 2007 moping round the house, my missus told me to go and do something. I drove down to Epsom Trails to have a look, no one was riding, but I was blown away by the trails. Said to the missus that it made me want to get a bike again, she said go for it.
Got it about a week later, hooked up with some old riding buddies, who've been great, mainly been riding Charlton and Benfleet, spent 4.5 hours yesterday throwing myself round Corby and loving it....hurts a bit today but I'm loving it.
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I quit riding in 1994, i had a pretty bad crash a couple of years before then at the Goshen halfpipe, Bury. (slammed a 540 straight to my face!) after that i couldnt ride properly, couldnt air, lost all confidence.. MAJOR pop-out-itis!! I then made the decision to quit!
Worst decision i've ever made! EVER!! hated not riding and i hadnt rode for 12 years!! but with the X-Games and Gravity games on tv, i was itching to ride again. So i finally got off my arse and got my new bike together (Hoffman condor), and met a couple of old mates i used to ride with, who, them selves are riding again
I've been riding now for nearly two years, to ride again was the BEST decision i ever made!!!
Rampworx... 2007.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/mackypicz010.jpg)
wow, thats a cracking shot........weird though, cause I remember you as the little kid ripping....................forgetting that was a good 20 years ago.....
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'but realised BMX was actually just full of bitching kids in tight jeans, weird looking bikes made of string & wood & old men who hate anything that wasnt made before 1986'
hahahahaha.. sounds like a subversion comment!!!
Thanks for that Ray :LolLolLolLol: salty olde bastid? Moi? >:D
Rather than reeling off my own 'version of events' I wrote the below a couple of years back...
http://subversionbmxblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/joe-kid-on-falcon-pro_27.html (http://subversionbmxblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/joe-kid-on-falcon-pro_27.html)
Can't see myself quiting any time soon :daumenhoch:
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I quit riding in 1994, i had a pretty bad crash a couple of years before then at the Goshen halfpipe, Bury. (slammed a 540 straight to my face!) after that i couldnt ride properly, couldnt air, lost all confidence.. MAJOR pop-out-itis!! I then made the decision to quit!
Worst decision i've ever made! EVER!! hated not riding and i hadnt rode for 12 years!! but with the X-Games and Gravity games on tv, i was itching to ride again. So i finally got off my arse and got my new bike together (Hoffman condor), and met a couple of old mates i used to ride with, who, them selves are riding again
I've been riding now for nearly two years, to ride again was the BEST decision i ever made!!!
Rampworx... 2007.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/mackypicz010.jpg)
wow, thats a cracking shot........weird though, cause I remember you as the little kid ripping....................forgetting that was a good 20 years ago.....
Thanx like, but i cant help thinking you may have mistaken me for Steve (Macky) McIntosh?? I just happen to share the same nickname as Steve had!! Really i should have used a different user name... but everyone i've ever known knows me as Macky!!
Bit guttered now though, cos you probably are talkin about Steve McIntosh and that was a Great comment!! hahaha!! :)
He was an Amazing rider though... so smooth and controlled!! Should i change my user name to avoid furher confusion??? :-\
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I would change it...lol
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I quit riding in 1994, i had a pretty bad crash a couple of years before then at the Goshen halfpipe, Bury. (slammed a 540 straight to my face!) after that i couldnt ride properly, couldnt air, lost all confidence.. MAJOR pop-out-itis!! I then made the decision to quit!
Worst decision i've ever made! EVER!! hated not riding and i hadnt rode for 12 years!! but with the X-Games and Gravity games on tv, i was itching to ride again. So i finally got off my arse and got my new bike together (Hoffman condor), and met a couple of old mates i used to ride with, who, them selves are riding again
I've been riding now for nearly two years, to ride again was the BEST decision i ever made!!!
Rampworx... 2007.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/mackypicz010.jpg)
wow, thats a cracking shot........weird though, cause I remember you as the little kid ripping....................forgetting that was a good 20 years ago.....
Thanx like, but i cant help thinking you may have mistaken me for Steve (Macky) McIntosh?? I just happen to share the same nickname as Steve had!! Really i should have used a different user name... but everyone i've ever known knows me as Macky!!
Bit guttered now though, cos you probably are talkin about Steve McIntosh and that was a Great comment!! hahaha!! :)
He was an Amazing rider though... so smooth and controlled!! Should i change my user name to avoid furher confusion??? :-\
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[....yup, you are right........soryy....but still a cracking shot, no matter who you are!
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MARK Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. dont do it bro just have a break we all need it at our age ,
me gave up in 83 or 84 ask dan think thats right . Went into parachuting for 12 years and fugged up clubbing , abit of sking and boarding into bars at the bottom of slopes which was nice. then back into bmx its now been away of life for 6 years and that means every decision i make revolves round bmx and that means everything , ITS NOT A SPORT ITS A WAY OF LIFE .......
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well seeing that you asked so nicely pat i will do me best ! im going to see a psyiotherapist and see what they say..... i dont want to stop so here goes....... :daumenhoch:
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yeah mark,
dont stop now, you need to just try and chill with your whip attempts, and try something a little less straining on your arms..
just ride and and flow some stylee airs like you know you can, but no hard landings.... get some friday evening southsea sessions going on when its nice and quiet.. some physio should help to...but dont stop riding!!!! :'(
steve :daumenhoch:
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It all started for me when i saw Mr Ruffell and his Mongoose buddy's doing a demo in Priory Park, Southend-on-Sea probably summer of 82 i reckon??
Badgered my parents into getting me a bike for xmas, so christmas 82 i got my first BMX. Cant even tell you what it was, it came with no stickers (but had a white vinyl poppered redline padset on it) It was black with all gold components. I seem to remember somebody saying one day that it was a black panther or sumit like that :-\. Anyway upgraded or swapped most of the parts on it and it ended up looking like this
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o154/Sean2000_photos/Seanbmx9.jpg)
And me gettin gnarly on it ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o154/Sean2000_photos/Seanbmx8.jpg)
Every waking minute was BMX from that moment on, swapped my way to a Gen 1 with Darren Rochford (son of the owner of Rochford Cycles, if anybody remembers them?) in the end via a nickel mongoose, a supergoose in chrome, a DB SS and Torker 280X. Started skating in about 85 as well as riding. Then got myself a Kwaka KX100 spent a lot of time at Aveley in Essex (now where lakeside is i believe) just riding and jumping it. Then had a brief spell with a Mongoose Decade in 89 riding the Canvey Island Midi ramp. Got a car, found exctasy and warehouses full of gurning idiots. blah blah blah!
Once i came down from that (about 92 ::)) One of my mates bought a PK Ripper XL, another dug his old sport outa the shed. So i went and bought a GT Vertigo to have a fook about on. Ended up with a mint Trickstar with chrome Araya 48's, Kneesavers, flights etc. and spent the summers of 92 and 93 riding at L-O-S. Heaven :smitten:
Split up with my long term bird, lost the plot a bit, sold the Hutch for £250., rediscovered exctasy with Drum & Bass, met my wife.
Got bored in 2000 and bought a Felt Cruiser for gettin around on (just got a mortgage & couldnt afford a motor) which was nice but i hanckered for a 20" to get back on the transitions. Anyway that didnt happen til April last year when i found RAD. The rest is history as they say, only 1 regret for me..............................................................................
Why the fook did i stop riding in 93 :crazy2:
So yeah ive stopped riding, but only in a physical form! As Pat said "its a way of life"
Sean. ;)
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Sean, it's funny how things turn out eh? I rode at Aveley from 79 to 81 firstly on a little 50 then onto a YZ125. After that, I got an ATC185 trike and rode that at Poles Wood Brentwood for around a year.
In 82 I threw it all in to ride BMX.
So anyhoo, I missed you at Aveley, then missed you again at Leigh on Sea 15 years later. Still, my luck ran out last year.......... :P ;D ;D ;D
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Yeh mate, it sure did.........cos im like herpes! You got me for life now buddy. ;D
The "R" ;)
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1980 until 2008 a short break in 2004 for a few months (burnt out on the whole scene) then back in action* on my cruiser.
* action as in breathlessly careering down the road wishing i'd never been born.
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never! got my first bmx in 1985 along with the bmx action bike book of that year for christmas and i've had a bmx ever since. nearly quit a few years back due to the bad attitude in the midlands skateparks and some back issues, but went back to riding more street which helped my back and i rode on my own developing my own tricks and thought 'fook em. this is my sport and its in my blood'