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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: harris on October 16, 2008, 08:20 PM
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while everyones about tonight and in fine humour,give us all a story about this more unknown era.
a short on to start
the year 1997 i think a day out with a few pals, millsey and co been to rom burnt to toast again of the concret glare
set of to leigh ,had a good ride as usual then time for a pot noodle and drink,i was sat on the benches by the vert ramp
and watching some good moves by locals,a tall tall ginger lad "skateboarder" came and sat down beside us.
this 6'5+ ginger wizz couldnt arf ride well .we got chatting and he asked why we still rode bmx ,i remember just saying
couldnt ever let it go.i watched him later sat on the vert ramp just watching the bmx going off for over an hour,,,i still wonder what he was thinking that day.
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backyard 96!
booked in at the spookiest hotel in hastings. lazarou and his lady were two rooms from mine. in the middle of the night laz climbed onto the window ledge and stood at the window of what he thought was my room next to his, with full intent on scaring the sh!t out of me he proceeded to make noises and scratch the windows. to then find out that it wasn't my window but some old ladies instead!
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:LolLolLolLol: laz is priceless .a forever friend
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backyard 97
four of us went that year, laz and myself in hotel and the other two in the back of the van. in the morning laz and myself sat in the bay window to eat our cornflakes and full english over looking the sea when the van door slid open and two smelly fat fookers climbed out, sat on the wall and watched us eat. there faces were priceless!
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god knows what year, I left home and moved into a flat in banbury...late 90s.
tried drugs and skating but neither stuck. wonder what would have happened had i gotten back into bmx then...i coveted the bikes i saw but ended up on a hardtail with 100mm travel forks (a lot then) and 26" wheels, tried a couple of bmxes but mtbs seemed easier.....as did the filthy milf I ended up moving in with. lol.
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at one of the later Backyard Jams a load of us went down in a mates transit van. The first night, a punk girl ended up sleeping in the van with us. She got in the front seat and got it on with one of the lads we were with, on the front seat of the van, even tho she was kinda pretending to be asleep the whole time. He was lookin over the seats at us, telling us things like "she has 2 pairs of knickers on!". We all fell asleep and left them to it. I woke a few hours later and the seats were rocking. I looked over and she was giving my mate a hand job, but still pretending to be asleep. The hand job wasnt great and my mate was struggling to "finish". He was just about to get there when he caught my eyes looking over the front seats. I think that put a stop to any happy ending he was hoping for!
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Road trip, 1992 ending at the Rider Cup in Spittlefields Market. 3 raggy Hartlepool lads in a Nissan Sunny saloon hire car, been eating junk food for days, tired as, we found a field just of a dark country lane near Nottingham to park up and get some kipp... middle of the night, we get a tap on the window and torch in my face, half a sleep I wound window down only to see a young female officer gagging on the stench of a nights worth rotten egg farts seeping out of the car...
"move the car please lads, your parked on a golf course" ;D
Whoops :buck2:
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pervert!
walking along hastings prominade with a battered marsbar
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;D
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pervert!
walking along hastings prominade with a battered marsbar
hastings? surely that's completely the wrong end of the uk for a battered mars bar? :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
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1990ish Early October
Picking Mushrooms in a area known as Egton mass, foggy as fook middle of knowhere around 6.am. Three off us there on a night club tip off . Fooked from sleeping in a Nova 1.2 make our way down a country road in the pitch black.
Freezing with one of the lads moaning about the cold and wanting to get back in the car we struggled on.
Good trip on the night though :daumenhoch:
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koc 98ish
one of mine and laz's 'associates' decided he was going to drop off the prominade wall on his bike. he rode forward to gain momentum and then literally dropped off. he didn't pull up or anything. just rode off, nosedived into the floor and ended in a heap around his bike displaying a serious sweaty arse crack that later became known as 'southsea arse' in lazarous best man's speach!
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i poo'ed in a box once and some bugger stole it :-\
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BMX racing world champs 99 or 2000, JJ as usual stood with his race pants open and hanging round his knees to cool off, (he raced in stinking hot conditions that day) next to the mini bus when Martin "Oggy" Ogden ran round the bus and de-bagged him in front of all the kids on the trip with us :LolLolLolLol:
:) DINGO :)
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1997, 4 hour drive to mount hawke, get to ride for an hour before it closes, Out on the piss in Newquay and wake up next morning to Jase Hewitt puking in the sink, then drive another 4 hours home as to ill to ride!!! 8 hours driving for 1 hours riding :idiot2: :LolLolLolLol:
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around 98 i worked at rampage in leigh on sea. me and another guy at the time was creasoting under the big spine and the vert wall of the complex. we had a bit of a
chuff and a bevy and got on with our painting. turns out to much creasote and beer n puff makes pretty messy 17 year olds!!!! lol. the guy who helped me now skates for death and is called lee blackwell. think stu king jerry galley and lemsip were also there that weekend. and scott from t1. he was a beast on the jumpbox.
:daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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All I can tell you about this era is that I entered a drink and drug induced haze around 1991 and re-appeared sometime in 2002, I have hardly any memories of this period, but apparantly I got married and divorced during it.
I am impressed that some of you rode BMX's during the 90's, as I was so fooked that I couldn't even spell BMX.
The End. :D
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sep 97-last play contest held,daytona bch stonedge skatepark,last contest i entered (article in ride bmx us dec/jan 97.anybody got a copy of the props that covered it?)
i wake up early to get there to register for the comp.get there and mike andrews (current eastern rider now) pulls up in his trademark beat van,i walk up and start talking to him like i usually did,telling him about how im kinda nervous about the comp. he starts his usual warm up technique which was alcohol "here,drink some of this,itll calm your nerves" well i take a huge chug, then another.....then about 5 mins later when he was padding up(all hes wearing is pink shorts and a full face with a huge thug sticker on the visor lol) i realize im halfway drunk. "ok i can still ride tho....sorta" go inside out the back door so i can fill out the sign your life away form(idk how i even signed my name at the time) talking to hal from play and chad degroot and ryan nyquist are standing right behind me. chad is giving ryan shit about how he spins so many barspins all the time. "you must use vasoline in your headset" then he trails off saying a bunch of gay type stuff to him,im laughing the whole time.(this is right after baco "pride came out....with rainbow sticker. ive always questioned chads sexuallity) ryan throws a mostly empty powerade bottle,misses him and nails me right in the back of the head. i about fall into the stand and almost knock down a bunch of sprockets. "sorry" its all good,dont worry about it. fast foward a bit. im standing next to the box jump watching the runs and im standing next to cory nastazio. i look over at him and he is doing some tit grab gesture towards my buddy joes hot hot gf standing on one of the quarters next to the bowl. shes giving him the finger shaking her head nooooo. i lean in saying "thats my buddies gf,leave her alone. hes getting pisst and will beat the shit out of you,hes bigger than you" he turns to me and gets right up in my face " stay the fook out of this,not your concern"(he was always a cock-a-doodle-doy prick asshole when he came to the park weekly) to which i reply "it is my bussiness,they are my good friends" yada yada i almost get in a fight with him. somebody else rolls up and breaks it up. fast foward a bit more. my runs are coming up. now im already still pretty buzzed and still riled up bout cory and super nervous about the comp. my runs are terrible. at the end of my last run i say "fook it, im riding so terrible im MY park,ill try something good" nyquist gives me a pat on the shoulder and says "good luck". i try a 360 lookback to a feble grind down the side of the box......well i mostly pulled it, something with my pedal catches the coping on the side. instant stop.(bent my primo pedal almost straight back) i jack myself so hard into the bars i flip over them and bounce so hard off the ground both my shoes come flying off ten feet in the air. knocks all the breath out of me,but the crowd thought it was the shit. takes a sec to get up to which i look up to my buddies tim and joe about tackle me,thinking it was so awesome i went for it......and that i slammed that hard and am not dead. i stagger over to underneath the mini where i sit for quite awhile,dazed and confused. comp ends,mike asks "did my juice help?" ummmm....no lol.everybody leaves after awhile. then the next day i hear of hal flipping the van back home. crazy day.........i got a bunch of stories but i think that was the funniest/best. mid school rocks. pics are blurry but look at the sequence of mike and what he is wearing....pink/purple shorts,buff and cut with a huge "thug" sticker on his lid riding the shit out of his condor lol. he always did funny shit that made me laugh.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/PA160339.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/PA160340.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/hh166/adamdawson/PA160341.jpg)
i even got my name in the mag for such shit runs :D
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KOC in 93 or 94...
Tim Ruck was supposed to be writing up the contest for Ride. I took Tim over to the Jolly Sailir pub at 11am, with our [now sadly passed away] friend Keasty.
In the pub, we drank a gallon of cider each [8 pints!] and during the course orf our visit, Keasty and Tim challenged a man just out of prison THAT DAY for GBH to a pool match. They beat him and he was so drunk he actually paid up the £0 they had bet with him - and he was a terrifying man to be around.
I then fell down the concteret steps of the pub, split my chin open, and we all went back to the seating area stands next to the street course where Tim spent the rest of the contest being sick right at the back of the stands on the top row.
Needlees to say no write up went into Ride, in fct in that issue, they even mention in the news section that there should have been a write up but someone got too drunk I think...!
Happy days.
KOC 92
We had all sneakily booked into the holiday park in southsea with our tents - loads and loads of us as single bookings - and we then got trolleyed in the campsite bar - unbelievalbly a group of about 7 really cute girls walked in... and that eveing we all got luvky back in ther caraven. Well, some did, others of us took our lovin' to the beach and slept there!
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KOC, early 90s. We got there for the friday night and slept on the grass outside. 3 girls ended up hanging out with us, and my mate was up for some fun. He didnt bother with the better looking one, thinking she would be less lightly to put out. Later, when he was in the bushes outside the skatepark with one of the "lesser looking" girls, she was reluctant to his advances. We all heard him shout out "Come on, Ive alowed for this!"
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backyard jam early 90's, we travelled down to the duly's on the friday night, drinking and more drinking ensued, me and my beau of the time feeling very fruity and fuelled by drink decided that a bit of hows your father was the way forward, we thought the peeps in the next room were asleep, well, they were but we woke them up :-[ dug us out for the entire weekend for that :LolLolLolLol:
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backyard jam early 90's, we travelled down to the duly's on the friday night
I stayed at Dulys house in 92 (I think?). Were you also there that night?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/dulyhouse93withnames.jpg)
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Steve Bell ?????????? Tolkien figure ????????
;D
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I stayed at Dulys house in 92 (I think?). Were you also there that night?
I didn't stay at Keiths 92 but did 93
Some of the original BAD (bicycles and Dirt) gang there, classic, still have my BAD shirt and membership card :LolLolLolLol:
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i poo'ed in a box once and some bugger stole it :-\
Fookin Pikey's! They will nick anything Pete. ::)
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another that stuck in my mind
stevenaged about 1996 having a ball ripping around with a few locals
a good rider was riding the bullit the one like at harrow ,he was getting some good air
then started grinding and just balancing on the edge of the wall,then he just kinda fell over the side
onto the floor ,it wasnt far and landed on his knees and hands but he was KO on the deck
we couldnt see what he did to get knocked out 3 weeks or so we went back and i asked how that lad was
the handle bar had gone in his mouth and busted his jaw :P
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I stayed at Dulys house in 92 (I think?). Were you also there that night?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/dulyhouse93withnames.jpg)
haha, i stayed there that nite too and woke up using alex's crotch as a pillow.
i overheard alex whispering to one of his friends later about it.
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gogo have you ever thought about writing a book ,the real years.
you lot ooop north have travelled for like ever riding meets events and could give
a mad overview of a time that was overlooked.dame that would be one interesting read.
the infamous teamsano on the road
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haha, what a book that would be!
if i could remember it all. :idiot2:
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that would be some book gogo!
but where would ya start. to many good times!
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maybe the jungle mumbler?
or up the swings?
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Goags........what are you doing to Mins in that photo???
And where's your other hand..??! :LolLolLolLol:
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Hey Mr Ron 2elliot Burgandy i remember you ragady arse bunch in yr Red nissan Sunny lol. I also remeber your left turn at the traffic lights from the 3rd lane LOL
Great weekend loads of Fun!!!!!!
Fil
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Sorry for being Johnny-come-lately to this one, but looking at some of the KOC photos and seeing this thread has sparked some brilliant memories
Early 90's KOC... Proud owner of a Sherpa Minibus with just me and a mate. Riding a hand-painted Dirt Bros. re-badged Skyway TA.
Parked up at the top of the Skatepark on Friday. Early evening Witness Chase Gouin ripping it up in the carpark next to the pyramid leisure centre (with no cranks in the bike), then a local I used to know (had a fetish for Ford Escorts) rocks up and holds his own (was an amazing flatlander).
Hook up with some mental Scottish lads (Sandy, Ross and someone else long forgotten the name) spent most of the evening drinking & riding around Southsea getting into trouble (Pyramid leisure centre again riding over the fire exit). Come back, van is full of people (forgot to lock-it). Slept on roof.
Next morning the grass around the skatepark looks like nam. People everywhere, beer for breakfast, go watch "the pro's" rinse and repeat for two days. For four years running that was the bank-holiday weekend I lived for
Me and the van full of people head up to Nottingham for a jam. Meet up again with Scottish lads from KOC had given Gerry G a lift, been there 5 mins he hooks up of the vert ramp and KO's himself taken off by St. Johns.
Watch the riding, start getting pissed with Scottish lads all climb into two cars, drive into centre of Nottingham very drunk in nightclub, mostly remember walking from the town centre back to the Jam (where my van was parked).
Spent the rest of the weekend sleeping in somebody's house on the outskirts of Nottingham very funny night.
Love the fact that we did it, couldn't have done half of it now KOC was like our own little Sturgis, BMX came into town - ripped it up and left.
My fondest memories of riding, and almost 20 years ago now
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1990 aged 14 discover weed > woke up in 2002 married to a woman I hated
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Early 90's KOC.... Early evening Witness Chase Gouin ripping it up
Me and the van full of people head up to Nottingham for a jam. Meet up again with Scottish lads from KOC had given Gerry G a lift, been there 5 mins he hooks up of the vert ramp and KO's himself taken off by St. Johns.
I was at both of these comps. The first time I really got to know the Scottish guys. I still speak to Gogo and Grant Smith all the time, top men for sure
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backyard 93, im 15 years old and sleeping in the back of a ford escort van with dennis wingham and our other mate piers, first time away from home and first backyard jam, great memories
backyard 94, arrive at the track around midnight, really want to ride so we park up on the grass bank overlooking the track and put the headlights on so they shine across the main jump, had a few jumps before crashing and thinking, best wait till daylight!
it was also the year some german guy with a camera gave me some american football type top to wear whilst he took pics of me riding the main jump, never did find out what the pics were for and the german guy asked for the top back when i was done!!
the great raw sausage and burger fight of backyard 95, 4 car loads of mates parked up in the field
with left over bbq food so we decide to have a food fight, car windows are all open and its just a total mess everywhere
backyard 96, pulling up to the field gate, windows go down, big plume of smoke pours out of the windows and ian morris (collecting entrance fee on the gate) says " you wont be needing any weed then!"
koc 92 to the end are pretty much a blur, koc was/is my home comp so it was always very messy, pretty much always too drunk to ride after being to chaos, one year i even had appendicitis and still stayed out and got drunk instead of going to hospital :idiot2:
and finally jon pratt, £6.35 raised by southsea locals, a 2nd hand car boot vibrator, 3 in 1 bike oil and ronnie remo with a video camera in the skatepark toilets, need i say anymore?
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KOC, early 90s. We got there for the friday night and slept on the grass outside. 3 girls ended up hanging out with us, and my mate was up for some fun. He didnt bother with the better looking one, thinking she would be less lightly to put out. Later, when he was in the bushes outside the skatepark with one of the "lesser looking" girls, she was reluctant to his advances. We all heard him shout out "Come on, Ive alowed for this!"
I proper lol'ed at this.
I have fond memories of LOS but nocrazy stories really.
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Except if I think about it I do lol.
Went out to Germany when I was 15 (Koln), took my bike with me on the back of me mums car, and ended up in the local bike shop (Busy Ps I believe). Hung out there abit and managed to blag a trip to Koln skatepark with a couple of the guys there, it was closed at the time and got to ride with them for a couple of hours. Ended up going on a trip to Muchen Gladbach skatepark with a bunch of those guys, in a van with sofas in the back. In hindsight I don't know what my mum was thinking letting me go off on a roadtrip with a bunch of strangers :D
Had a awesome nights riding. Later a bunch of those guys were riding for, and I think maybe the founders of WeThePeople. Only name I remember was Axle.
Reading the bit about Stevenage reminded me of my first proper injury, one day I finally got the courage to drop in and was actually popping tiny airs out of it, before hooking up and slamming to the ground with a crunch, cost me 2 cracked teeth, 20 stitchs in my chin and various other injurys. :4_17_5:
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Mad Mick(aka mr Pants) always up to daft stuff at backyard jams. We were all sat on me mates hire van watching agroup dirt when mad mick walks over and takes a pee all over Dan Galls bike - Dan werent too chuffed about that one - later on mick did a naked fire dance and burnt his nuts on a camp fire. Might have posted this tail before on here but still makes me laugh.
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2hip sacramento 1993
there was a change of venue for the next day to an airforce base for the vert and mini. Me and my old mate will had got talking to a guy Karl from coventry, who said we could stay where he was staying whilst in california. Sadly this was Mutt's apartment. Just before we set off a little sad orphan called grant smith realised he had been left behind by the S&M lot (see "grant smith travel tips" in an early Dig) so we hoy his bike onto Mutt's bike rack and set off. At speed. Following Mutt down a freeway he is doing 85+ weaving, opening his door sticking his legs out you name it. Grant's bike shifts off one of the racks to dangle 10cm off the road, flash him to pull over, he jumps on brakes and we nearly rearend the twat. Turns out he strapped the bikes together but not to the rack. Sort this whilst he moons and spasms and gurns at rush hour traffic. at his apartment Mutt goes off to bed and makes odd noises, Karl complains about him masturbating all the time and Will and Grant, at Karl's reassurance, make hugely long phone calls home to friends and family. Believe me transatlantic calls in the 90s weren't cheap.
"fill in the next 5000 miles of roadtrip here, lots of baco uncut live at rampage, a subdued hoffman bikes HQ, a few days in Austin before it became played out, amd the 93 BS finals and lots of masturbatry references by midwest riders"
a few weeks after we get back everybody who received phone calls from grant and will receive howling guttural midnight calls from Concord California "woo now gwant smith woo now wil evwans howwwwwwwwwwwooooooo urf urf you owe me 100 dollars yo muddafika!" etc etc. Bear in mind will is living at home with his mum and dad. He was as popular as a cock flavoured lolly until Mutt finally gave up... I saw Mutt again at the seal beach BS finals in 96 (they were shit, horrible TV contest) I hid under a quarter pipe til he pissed off. At this same contest I got hit on by Dave Young (not the Geordie one, the street monster one)'s gay housemates as I slept on his sofa, and also had the misfortune to walk in on his little brown behind bobbing up and down on his missus. randy ferret, i only popped out of the house for 5 minutes!!