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Title: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 01, 2008, 02:25 PM
Since Maurice Meyer posted up that new pic of Mike D doing another fooking mahoooooosive fakie it got me comparing it with the one that most of us have already seen......very sad I know but hey!

So here's the two pics below.....which is the best? Has anyone done them higher? (if so, pics please) What was your highest fakie? etc. etc.

A proper fakie wasn't an easy trick to land and ride out of, anything beyond half a frame out and I was on my arse. I look at these pics of Dominguez and I just think WTF! How?

Daz.  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j46/Flatcap1968/1987DominguezVelofakieJTFreestyle_.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j46/Flatcap1968/MDFAKIE.jpg)
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: BrianP on September 01, 2008, 02:29 PM
 :shocked: fkme that is high!

that's a bit fast to be coming in backwards.... but being MikeD, I bet it was perfect.

I prefer the first pic. Think it's only cos it was outside tho...

(I got the front wheel out the top a wee bit a week or two ago, and that was hairy enough!)

Brian  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: kev-s on September 01, 2008, 02:46 PM
mat hoffman, aggroman 28.07mins in

http://bmxroots.com/?p=19

not sure if got the rollback

hoffman is god
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Linus27 on September 01, 2008, 03:53 PM
Both are great. Intersting to see two very different styles. One crunched up and one arms out stretched.

I go for picture one as it looks great but both are amazing.
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 01, 2008, 04:15 PM

McCoy use to get faklies pretty high!!

just tryna find some pics on google...
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 01, 2008, 04:28 PM
Ok any excuse to bore you with pics. rode out of all these, with coaster... easier to roll back but you did have to catch it right or your head would be in the ground... ;D

fakie 1... summer 85'
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v520/A1SAS/IMG_3899.jpg)

fakie 2... 87' I think
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v520/A1SAS/IMG_3895.jpg)

fakie 3 ... 87' again
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v520/A1SAS/IMG_3892.jpg)

Holeshot fakie 1... cant remember which year... 86' I think
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v520/A1SAS/IMG_3898.jpg)

Holeshot fakie 2... No footer again about 4' out but the camera bloke must have took it just at the wrong moment... ;D ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v520/A1SAS/IMG_3897.jpg)

Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 01, 2008, 04:52 PM

Great pics there!!

love the no foot fakie on the Streetbeat!!  :daumenhoch:

I loved doing fakies... but was never that good at rolling out of them...

i see more and more riders doing fakies all the time.... So i've been learning them again!!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/l_d75203de6c0168cfa6edc599971404d4.jpg)

It's the turndown fakie i'd love to learn... so hard to do!!


Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: welsh denny on September 01, 2008, 07:16 PM
josh white also blasted big fakies. got footage of him from one of the afa's (austin)  in 88 and holeshot in 87. mike d did a low fakie at the afa comp but his 540 was huge!!

vids to be uploaded soon.....
(ps. dmc did a huge turndown fakie to K.O. at the tizer worlds 88. got it somewhere....
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 01, 2008, 07:22 PM
josh white also blasted big fakies. got footage of him from one of the afa's (austin)  in 88 and holeshot in 87. mike d did a low fakie at the afa comp but his 540 was huge!!

vids to be uploaded soon.....
(ps. dmc did a huge turndown fakie to K.O. at the tizer worlds 88. got it somewhere....

Ouch... I remember that one.  I remember a big fat first aider running over to help him too.
DMC tried to get up after it but his legs gave way and he fell like tyson had jus hit him...
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lazychubs on September 01, 2008, 07:39 PM
who's the new skool bloke doin huge 180 fakies at warp speed
yeah i like em but scary when they go wrong lol
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 01, 2008, 07:59 PM
isnt a 180 fakie just an aerial and not a fakie at all???  maybe a fakie fakie....
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lazychubs on September 01, 2008, 08:01 PM
sorry should have said he does it over a jump box lol
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: profile on September 01, 2008, 08:24 PM
Mike Aitken? 
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 01, 2008, 09:13 PM
sorry should have said he does it over a jump box lol

Ya don't mean Chase Hawk do you???

Blasts HUGE 180 to fakie's over boxes, spines, vol's with hitching posts!!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/ChaseHawk.gif)

taken from Rock n road fools...
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 01, 2008, 09:26 PM
I have to confess to still finding rolling back far stood up difficult. It's much easier sat down old school style but stood up thrashes me to fook, I can do it but not far!!  >:(

Daz.
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lazychubs on September 01, 2008, 09:27 PM
this is a recent vid i see today long jump to fakie
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lazychubs on September 01, 2008, 09:45 PM
was at the simple sessions 08 but cant find the vid lol
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: bmxer4ever on September 01, 2008, 10:27 PM
Since Maurice Meyer posted up that new pic of Mike D doing another fooking mahoooooosive fakie it got me comparing it with the one that most of us have already seen......very sad I know but hey!

So here's the two pics below.....which is the best? Has anyone done them higher? (if so, pics please) What was your highest fakie? etc. etc.

A proper fakie wasn't an easy trick to land and ride out of, anything beyond half a frame out and I was on my arse. I look at these pics of Dominguez and I just think WTF! How?

Daz.  :daumenhoch:


 :LolLolLolLol:

I wondered how long it was gonna take you to start this thread Daz!

G
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 01, 2008, 10:39 PM
Since Maurice Meyer posted up that new pic of Mike D doing another fooking mahoooooosive fakie it got me comparing it with the one that most of us have already seen......very sad I know but hey!

So here's the two pics below.....which is the best? Has anyone done them higher? (if so, pics please) What was your highest fakie? etc. etc.

A proper fakie wasn't an easy trick to land and ride out of, anything beyond half a frame out and I was on my arse. I look at these pics of Dominguez and I just think WTF! How?

Daz.  :daumenhoch:


 :LolLolLolLol:

I wondered how long it was gonna take you to start this thread Daz!

G

 :LolLolLolLol:

FFS Gaz.....you can read me better than our lass!

It's gotta be worth a debate though...??

Daz.
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: madall on September 01, 2008, 10:55 PM
Ron Wilkerson did the best fakies i ever saw
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 01, 2008, 11:04 PM
Ron Wilkerson did the best fakies i ever saw

What...and that's it!  ;D

No pics?
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Ged on September 02, 2008, 02:55 AM
can anyone remember the fakie Scott Carrol did at one of the national's at Alfreton prob about 87 88

that was epic.. :idiot2:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 02, 2008, 03:45 AM
can anyone remember the fakie Scott Carrol did at one of the national's at Alfreton prob about 87 88

that was epic.. :idiot2:

Didn't Scott do one at the 88 Tizer worlds at Manchester... i'm sure he done one about 6 foot??
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 02, 2008, 03:55 AM

Mat Hoffman... taken from Aggroman...

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/Aggroman-EddieRomanVideoBMXRoots__c.jpg)
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: kev-s on September 02, 2008, 04:59 AM

Mat Hoffman... taken from Aggroman...

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/Aggroman-EddieRomanVideoBMXRoots__c.jpg)



i already posted that :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: evamedia on September 02, 2008, 08:16 AM
it's Mike Miller doing the big 180's over box's , UK rider

Dan Price always used to do 180's in the 90's
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: yoda on September 02, 2008, 10:10 AM
Love fakies, used to throw a few down in me day like...see my avatar. I'll see if I can find any better pics when Im at home. Mike D was the boy though when it came to fakies! The pics say it all  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: SaMAlex on September 02, 2008, 10:19 AM
Mike D was still doing great ones in the early 90s.

(sorry its a tiny picture)


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/1990Bully.jpg)
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: fugazi on September 02, 2008, 01:05 PM
can anyone remember the fakie Scott Carrol did at one of the national's at Alfreton prob about 87 88

that was epic.. :idiot2:


I can remember Him blasting a few big fakies at the Alfreton comps, along with someone on a streetbeat wrecking on a huge nothing fakie in practice, gnarly!
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: nee on September 02, 2008, 02:09 PM
I have to confess to still finding rolling back far stood up difficult. It's much easier sat down old school style but stood up thrashes me to fook, I can do it but not far!!  >:(

Daz.

I must admit i've never even considered roll backs standing up. They look really ugly and cack-handed to me! But then again, i've always riden with my seat at a decent height, so im able to sit down ok and do them.
Totally different debate, but i've never understood the newer 'style' of having zero seatpost either...looks really gaelic to me. And footjam nosepicks...ugly as sin to look at.....just get a front brake and make nosepicks look less cumbersome!!!!

Oh...rad pics of fakies by the way!  The top one out of the 2 pics on the original post is my fave :)
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: macky on September 02, 2008, 03:51 PM
can anyone remember the fakie Scott Carrol did at one of the national's at Alfreton prob about 87 88

that was epic.. :idiot2:


I can remember Him blasting a few big fakies at the Alfreton comps, along with someone on a streetbeat wrecking on a huge nothing fakie in practice, gnarly!

Was that not Brian Wills?? Grey Streetbeat??

Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lodge on September 02, 2008, 03:56 PM
I remember scott carrol doing some huge fakies bitd.
Respect to CC for doing those framestand fakies in 84 with both wheels out.
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 02, 2008, 06:05 PM
I remember scott carrol doing some huge fakies bitd.
Respect to CC for doing those framestand fakies in 84 with both wheels out.

Yeah, forgot about that Steve....you aint got the pedals to contend with but stood on the frame was hard too so hats off!

Daz.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: fugazi on September 02, 2008, 07:01 PM
can anyone remember the fakie Scott Carrol did at one of the national's at Alfreton prob about 87 88

that was epic.. :idiot2:


I can remember Him blasting a few big fakies at the Alfreton comps, along with someone on a streetbeat wrecking on a huge nothing fakie in practice, gnarly!

Was that not Brian Wills?? Grey Streetbeat??



No, I knew Brian bitd, I can't remember who it was, and I think the streatbeat was just white, but I seem to remember they didn't ride comps that often?

Speaking of Brian and nothings I remember him pulling his first nothing air at the worlds in Paris 88? 
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: rosscoe on September 02, 2008, 07:22 PM
terry jenkins was a master at  fakies real early on, goofy one footed tables spring top mind

then there was the lad from Cov / Nuneaton way that regularly blasted mahoooosive fakies to death at most BFA comps - forget his name which is bad as rode with him for a year or so
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 02, 2008, 08:24 PM
Is there a new fangled freewheel that let you go backward without the pedals moving....?
Like a coaster without the brake
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: evamedia on September 02, 2008, 09:21 PM
Is there a new fangled freewheel that let you go backward without the pedals moving....?
Like a coaster without the brake

Well, it's not new, I had one in the mid 80's , they're called freecoasters
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 02, 2008, 09:22 PM
Is there a new fangled freewheel that let you go backward without the pedals moving....?
Like a coaster without the brake

Yeah it's a free coaster... but they're not that new really, but they've become popular recently. I think Bill Stupps runs one...I could be wrong though.  :-\

Daz.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 02, 2008, 09:25 PM
No its not a freecoaster,I had one of those back in the 80's. they were a freewheeland a coaster brake. the new ones are just freewheel.... I think
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Flatcap on September 02, 2008, 09:31 PM
Quote
   
* Freecoasters

Freecoasters allow rolling backwards without pedaling backwards as one would need to do with a cassette or freewheel hub. The design of the freecoaster is based on coaster brake hubs with the brake pads removed allowing for backpedaling. Some companies also manufacture specific freecoaster hubs. Such hubs are very popular with street riders.

http://www.allterraincycles.co.uk/product/103322.html

http://www.winstanleysbmx.com/product/13146/Federal_Freecoaster_RHD_Hub_2007

All copy and pasted if this helps to explain dude.

Daz.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: billstup on September 02, 2008, 10:18 PM
Is there a new fangled freewheel that let you go backward without the pedals moving....?
Like a coaster without the brake

I have got a freecoaster, and yes they are like a coaster without the brake.

Are you thinking of the ACS freecoaster Sean, they were a freewheel that fitted on to a coaster brake and could be switched on and off by the flick of a lever on the freewheel ?
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 02, 2008, 11:01 PM
Yes billy, I had an ACS freecoaster, you had to undo two screws to disengage the freewheel. I take it this odysey jobie does a similar thing.

just clicked thelink.....  £139........ fook me.  :-X
I remember when odysey first started, their gear was as cheap as chips and a Haro bike would set you back some serious $$$
Now you can buy a haro bike for the same amount as an odysey hub....
fooked up world  :wtf:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: lazychubs on September 02, 2008, 11:13 PM
Yes billy, I had an ACS freecoaster, you had to undo two screws to disengage the freewheel. I take it this odysey jobie does a similar thing.

just clicked thelink.....  £139........ fook me.  :-X
I remember when odysey first started, their gear was as cheap as chips and a Haro bike would set you back some serious $$$
Now you can buy a haro bike for the same amount as an odysey hub....
fooked up world  :wtf:




they wiegh about the same aswell sean lol
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: evamedia on September 03, 2008, 10:17 AM
No its not a freecoaster,I had one of those back in the 80's. they were a freewheeland a coaster brake. the new ones are just freewheel.... I think

They're called freecoasters still, but I agree, they don't do quite what they once did
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: welsh denny on September 03, 2008, 07:37 PM
got some footage from gloucester 1987 of terry jenkins doing 1 footed invert fakies. dennis langlais was doing some big fakies there too.

got that tizer footage (whoever filmed it) with scott carroll ending his run with a big fakie. joe johnson did stylish fakies back then too- same tape.
and dmc's corker of a fakie slam. ouch!!
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: bmxer4ever on September 03, 2008, 07:49 PM
got some footage from gloucester 1987 of terry jenkins doing 1 footed invert fakies. dennis langlais was doing some big fakies there too.

got that tizer footage (whoever filmed it) with scott carroll ending his run with a big fakie. joe johnson did stylish fakies back then too- same tape.
and dmc's corker of a fakie slam. ouch!!

I think you need an assistant to help you get all this stuff online D!
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: welsh denny on September 03, 2008, 08:30 PM
got some footage from gloucester 1987 of terry jenkins doing 1 footed invert fakies. dennis langlais was doing some big fakies there too.

got that tizer footage (whoever filmed it) with scott carroll ending his run with a big fakie. joe johnson did stylish fakies back then too- same tape.
and dmc's corker of a fakie slam. ouch!!

I think you need an assistant to help you get all this stuff online D!


only 2 and a 1/2 weeks left and i got 2 weeks off work. the girlfriend is working so got loads of converting /copying to do. got to edit mike camerons wedding to dvd , copy rich sigurs footage together for him to dvd, think greg guillotte wants me to put together some of his footage, edit a new short welshsidebmx section together, convert more odd bmx clips to youtube, vimeo, facebook,etc. i'm always gonna have waay too much footage to put up but i've got a few years . :LolLolLolLol:
its great going back down memory lane viewing all the old footage and i know all you guys love it too.

(at least i hope you do....) :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: billstup on September 03, 2008, 09:01 PM
got some footage from gloucester 1987 of terry jenkins doing 1 footed invert fakies. dennis langlais was doing some big fakies there too.

got that tizer footage (whoever filmed it) with scott carroll ending his run with a big fakie. joe johnson did stylish fakies back then too- same tape.
and dmc's corker of a fakie slam. ouch!!

I think you need an assistant to help you get all this stuff online D!


only 2 and a 1/2 weeks left and i got 2 weeks off work. the girlfriend is working so got loads of converting /copying to do. got to edit mike camerons wedding to dvd , copy rich sigurs footage together for him to dvd, think greg guillotte wants me to put together some of his footage, edit a new short welshsidebmx section together, convert more odd bmx clips to youtube, vimeo, facebook,etc. i'm always gonna have waay too much footage to put up but i've got a few years . :LolLolLolLol:
its great going back down memory lane viewing all the old footage and i know all you guys love it too.

(at least i hope you do....) :LolLolLolLol:

Denny you sound as if you`re going to be really busy, so does your girlfriend need some company  :smitten:   :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: bmxer4ever on September 03, 2008, 10:03 PM
got some footage from gloucester 1987 of terry jenkins doing 1 footed invert fakies. dennis langlais was doing some big fakies there too.

got that tizer footage (whoever filmed it) with scott carroll ending his run with a big fakie. joe johnson did stylish fakies back then too- same tape.
and dmc's corker of a fakie slam. ouch!!

I think you need an assistant to help you get all this stuff online D!


only 2 and a 1/2 weeks left and i got 2 weeks off work. the girlfriend is working so got loads of converting /copying to do. got to edit mike camerons wedding to dvd , copy rich sigurs footage together for him to dvd, think greg guillotte wants me to put together some of his footage, edit a new short welshsidebmx section together, convert more odd bmx clips to youtube, vimeo, facebook,etc. i'm always gonna have waay too much footage to put up but i've got a few years . :LolLolLolLol:
its great going back down memory lane viewing all the old footage and i know all you guys love it too.

(at least i hope you do....) :LolLolLolLol:

Denny you sound as if you`re going to be really busy, so does your girlfriend need some company   :smitten:   :LolLolLolLol:

Down boy!  Naughty Billy! :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on September 03, 2008, 10:11 PM


galley has a good fakie in him, sure stodge has some on vid somewhere
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: welsh denny on September 03, 2008, 10:42 PM

Denny you sound as if you`re going to be really busy, so does your girlfriend need some company  :smitten:   :LolLolLolLol:
[/quote]



 :LolLolLolLol:

she's moody as hell at the moment so she wouldn't be fun. trust me.  :idiot2:
 think she's worried about turning 30 on 20th sept.

Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: welsh denny on September 03, 2008, 10:43 PM
 ian morris did some big ole fakies on the backyard vids.  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: sean on September 03, 2008, 10:46 PM
:LolLolLolLol:

she's moody as hell at the moment so she wouldn't be fun. trust me.  :idiot2:
 think she's worried about turning 30 on 20th sept.

My Mrs is 36 on the same day...... she's starting to get grumpy as well
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Obbie on September 04, 2008, 08:15 PM
Fakie , Fazak in 89 , use to have them about a foot or two higher , not so high these days tho , don't practice them that much any more , the skate parks get crowded and you end up crashing into someone or anyother ramp when rolling back lol /....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y11/DJJayH/BMX3-244.jpg)

and now , lol ... hurts too much now when i crashs these out ,  :uglystupid2:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y11/DJJayH/DSC00069.jpg)
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Guillotte on September 05, 2008, 02:19 AM
Cool pics Obb...I remember McCoy blasting a huge fakie at Tizer 88 I think. Smacked his head when he landed,tried to stand up, and went all wobbly-kneed.Scared the crap out of me. Was at least 6 feet out methinks.
Title: Re: FAKIES!!!
Post by: Obbie on September 05, 2008, 03:23 AM
Cool pics Obb...I remember McCoy blasting a huge fakie at Tizer 88 I think. Smacked his head when he landed,tried to stand up, and went all wobbly-kneed.Scared the crap out of me. Was at least 6 feet out methinks.
Ye man , 6 or 7 foot turn down fakie , its on the barry on a griffter cd , ya want to get that dvd dude , got a lot of stuff from bitd + ya get another  cd with extas on , check out cheekymonkey.com or .co.uk he on here i think and i'm sure he would post ya a copy over and some others he has , there boss man ,  :4_17_5:
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