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Title: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: mangoboom on December 20, 2008, 09:35 PM: My downhill mountain biking buddy from the last few years died this week - back in the day (early eighties) he used to ride a Hutch Trickstar around Benfleet and was a frequent visitor to Rom Skatepark. He'd had a brain tumor for the last few years and had had a couple of operations to try and reduce it and he was doing okay, we even went out a month or so ago to do some downhill at Aston Hill and I'd talked him into getting his Hutch up to speed for a visit to Benfleet's indoor skatepark over the winter. He died in his sleep on Tuesday morning, 40 years old.

Don't know if anyone on here remembers him from the old BMX days - Adrian Greenfield, funnily enough I remember meeting him then, from a one time visit to Benfleet (you always remember when someone has a cool bike), but we only became friends in the last few years on the MTB scene.

Sad day, he was a real live your life to the full kind of guy and even with a brain tumour was still doing jumps at Aston Hill last month.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: harris on December 20, 2008, 09:37 PM: very sad news very sad. R.I.P.
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Post by: superbikedan on December 20, 2008, 09:43 PM: that's awfull, very sad news, can you get hold of any old his skool pics of him so we can honour him on here.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: Gashead on December 20, 2008, 09:43 PM: Sad news indeed
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: harris on December 20, 2008, 09:47 PM: i cant remember the name myself ,i rode benfleet the tarpots and radcity
pitsea flyover and vange ,but alot of good riders about btd.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: bmxbert on December 20, 2008, 10:03 PM: i would have been a pup then so i woulnt know him

close to home though i live about 10 minutes up the road from benfleet

sad to here of the loss....always the good guys that get the s*!t luck

R.I.P
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: Guillotte on December 21, 2008, 05:25 AM: 88 Holeshot. I rode ground to Billy Joel's "Only the good die young". And I have never ridden to anything on a non-personal level. The best of us always seem to go first and I hate it. May he be frolicking with 27 virgins while Beezlebub dangles a terrorist by his eyelids saying, "See? You DO meet up with the virgins. Who promised they were yours?"
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Post by: RATTY on December 21, 2008, 05:30 AM: :'(
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Post by: jedi on December 21, 2008, 08:43 AM: will open a beer round the fire at herts shore today for him

r.i.p
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: Flaz on December 21, 2008, 09:29 AM: R.I.P
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Post by: TwoBobRob on December 21, 2008, 01:31 PM: R.I.P.

Ride on.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: Flatcap on December 21, 2008, 04:10 PM: Sad - R.I.P.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: Broggie on December 22, 2008, 04:19 PM: 40 is no age to go out at, life is so unfair....so much more to be done, so much more to see. RIP.

Ray.
Title: Re: Old Skool - Freestyler from Essex died.
Post by: welsh denny on December 22, 2008, 09:01 PM: sad news. R.I.P.