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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: markatkins on September 08, 2008, 06:28 PM
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Anyone have any old photos riding Wicksteed Skatepark Kettering from back in the day'there must be some really good photos from that place!!
Was trying to remember the year it got demolished,must have been late 80s???
They got rid of one of the best concrete parks this country had!!!
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Yeah remember it well Mark we used to ride there early 80's. The place was rad do you remember that mahoooosive bowl that was always full of green sh1t water :P
We used to wall ride it fecking scary sh1t :D
Every Sunday at least 30 of us used to ride 20 miles from Northampton to Kettering come rain or shine just to ride there :smitten:
Do you remember TA Chillie one rad local there he used to ride radlands in the 90's aswell.
Heres the only pic i have of Wicksteed TRM-85 and his brother circa 83/84.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj210/bmxbadboy/scan0003.jpg)
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I remember all the old faces,Brian wills,Chillie,Dave Colledge,some guy called Glyn who used to sky out that really deep bowl as did Chillie.There were alot of good locals who rode that park.Lots of fun times.....
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Was gutted when it got filled in :(
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/BIGWICK.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/thmb_WICKST1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/LIVBIG.jpg)
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That bottom one is Livi aint it Bill?
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Yep, sorry about that :idiot2:
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I had loads of pics of wicky skatepark with chilly, brian, tigg etc but lost the lot when I moved about 6 years ago :'(, used to travel down there from kings lynn a lot bitd, that park was awesome! Think it got filled in the early 90's?
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My only foray into concrete back in the day, i was always more of a dirt monster.
Plus there weren't any parks near me.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk42/fouronethreeoh/midlands/P9090001_1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk42/fouronethreeoh/midlands/P9090002_1.jpg)
Only spent about an hour there, we were on our way to my grandparents in the midlands.
That big bowl was a bit of a monster, im sure there was a concrete quarter pipe there as well.
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i was on that massive ride down the a43 many a time :daumenhoch: how the fook did we manage that :idiot2:
got a pic somewhere try to find it :daumenhoch:
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I still cannot believe how big that bowl is :shocked:
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the bowl was 18ft and if you look at the photo that billstup has put up where the blue helmet is on the right hand side that is where i used to drop in :idiot2:
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Bumping a ancient thread just because it took me right back to being a kid!
Used to stay near the park for a week ever summer and ride everyday :) rolling round the top of the 18 footer and dropping in was the most ballsy thing I did as a kid >:D
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Was a great park, used to love watching people try the quarter at the end of the long drive bit, it looked ok, but there was something horribly wrong with the transition!!!!
I liked the squarey mogul type bit best, some nice lines through there, and jumping out of the cigar to flat as high and as far as you could!!
Good times
MM
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Wicked place :daumenhoch:
Spot on MM, that quarter just didn't work!
More balls than me Ed, I used to sh1t myself looking into the 18ft let alone dropping in! Used to love watching Chilly rip it up ;)
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Not seen this place before, that bowl looks deep and scary :shocked:
Nice :bump: Edward :daumenhoch:
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Was a great park, used to love watching people try the quarter at the end of the long drive bit, it looked ok, but there was something horribly wrong with the transition!!!!
I liked the squarey mogul type bit best, some nice lines through there, and jumping out of the cigar to flat as high and as far as you could!!
Good times
MM
there was the long slalom bit that rand down to it.. then an uphill bit that robbed you of all speed... the the quarter which was 3 foot tranny then 2 ft vert lol