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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: yoda on February 07, 2009, 03:20 PM
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Skyway TA my 87' Worlds replica. Built it to the spec of the bike I rode at the Tizer Worlds.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y47/young111/SkywayTA1.jpg)
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Well nice!
What colour white is it?
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how did you manage without a chain ffs ? :D
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props for getting it all built up looks ready to abuse.
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Cool, what are the bars?
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Liking that alot :4_17_5: :4_17_5:
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Needs some T&C stickers dave. hehe
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This might help....
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Old%20School%20Riders/dyoung01.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Old%20School%20Riders/dyoung012.jpg)
I might have a GT flip up forkstander somewhere....
G :daumenhoch:
P.S. how tight were those bloody shorts..?!
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Oh no Dave your payed good money for those Graphite X's and all you needed were some £15 SX's all along :LolLolLolLol:
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I built the bike pretty much from memory of parts I remember using around that time. Bars are Haro knee saver mk1's . My bikes changed on a weekly basis parts wise mainly cos things broke so often. I wanted the replica to look half decent hence the Black nd Chrome scheme. Think you'll agree that thing In the pics Gary posted is one ugly looking bike...Oh and no I wont be sporting a pair of those T&C board shorts on the bikes first outing :LolLolLolLol: I'd probably get arrested
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Sweet that Dave, how much were those pedals again?? :P
Daz. :daumenhoch:
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bet your 87 bike was light compared to most of the lumps peeps rode.
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Excellent :daumenhoch:
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I built the bike pretty much from memory of parts I remember using around that time. Bars are Haro knee saver mk1's . My bikes changed on a weekly basis parts wise mainly cos things broke so often. I wanted the replica to look half decent hence the Black nd Chrome scheme. Think you'll agree that thing In the pics Gary posted is one ugly looking bike...Oh and no I wont be sporting a pair of those T&C board shorts on the bikes first outing :LolLolLolLol: I'd probably get arrested
Or castrated......
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/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!
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/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!
There's a lot of serious moves in that run, smooth riding too. Nice one, havn't seen that since bitd.
Dave - the scans came from Freestyle Bmx magazine, Oct/Nov '87.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Magazine%20BMX/FBMX87.jpg)
G :daumenhoch:
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/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!
Hey Mark,
that run isnt the actual Worlds run. I have that on VHS. Ramp run only. This was a scammy BMX Beat run which they conned us into riding after the finals Purely for the benefit of the cameras. Hence it has some flatland stuff....I didnt really care that much at that point in the day as Id won the Pro ramps and was fkn knackered too. We'd all been competing everyday for a week by then. Anyways I bet Ruffel made plenty from it so happy days eh...... :-\
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Very nice Dave,great bike mate........
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/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!
Hey Mark,
that run isnt the actual Worlds run. I have that on VHS. Ramp run only. This was a scammy BMX Beat run which they conned us into riding after the finals Purely for the benefit of the cameras. Hence it has some flatland stuff....I didnt really care that much at that point in the day as Id won the Pro ramps and was fkn knackered too. We'd all been competing everyday for a week by then. Anyways I bet Ruffel made plenty from it so happy days eh...... :-\
Watched your run and Andy Reardon's and I don't think any of us were at our best on that TV special thing - my run sucked - kept messin' up, but managed to stay on most of the time!
I would love to see some of our actual comp. runs.
Pepi had some stuff from that year, but never managed to meet up with him again (in time) to see it.
Damn shame....
P.s., I think biggeorge WAS talikn' about the tv special comp by the way.
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I was fella.
Didnt know that wasnt the real deal until Dave posted about it on here.
Would love to see the original footage! :daumenhoch:
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I was fella.
Didnt know that wasnt the real deal until Dave posted about it on here.
Would love to see the original footage! :daumenhoch:
Don't know if they filmed the Pro runs for the individual titles, but would be great to see!
Here's the result table, not sure how the detail will come out from the scan.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Magazine%20BMX/tizer87results.jpg)
G
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I think dennys got some footage of the other venues, gloucester i think, I have seen pepi and daves runs somewhere on the interweb. was a mad week thats for sure, think everyone toned there runs down for the tv.
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Dave at Gloucester:
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Denny has 136 videos on YouTube!
Bloody hell!
Good run Dave!
You did lots of cool fakies back then!
G :daumenhoch:
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Ive got loads of footage from the Final runs in Calisle but its all on VHS. I need to get it copied over to digital but I suck at getting around to sorting it out. Im going to dig it out tonight and try and figure out the next move. Loads of Hoffman on there during practice etc. Sure your runs will be there too Gary. Will let you know later on :daumenhoch:
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Ive got loads of footage from the Final runs in Calisle but its all on VHS. I need to get it copied over to digital but I suck at getting around to sorting it out. Im going to dig it out tonight and try and figure out the next move. Loads of Hoffman on there during practice etc. Sure your runs will be there too Gary. Will let you know later on :daumenhoch:
Dave, Moley on here is the man for that, he did mad matt for me recently, top reliable bloke, and that footage is priceless, have you got footage of the shattered rear tuff he did in practice?
My most memorable memory in bmx is seeing hoffman ride for the first time in the tizer worlds week although I cant remember the venue.
Moley I'm sorry to keep volunteering your services but i know your cool :daumenhoch:
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Yep Steve Ive got great footage of Hoffman destroying his rear tuff in practice. Ive got a couple of people to shake down with regards to copying the footage. I'll see what I can get sorted out.
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Would love to blag a copy when you get it sorted although that shattered tuff incident is inprinted in my brain i thought hawkins was gonna have coronary.
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Ive got loads of footage from the Final runs in Calisle but its all on VHS. I need to get it copied over to digital but I suck at getting around to sorting it out. Im going to dig it out tonight and try and figure out the next move. Loads of Hoffman on there during practice etc. Sure your runs will be there too Gary. Will let you know later on :daumenhoch:
WOW.
Love to see everyones runs, I was so nervous back then I missed half of it!
All I remember was everyone tryin' real hard and the crowd going mental, which was really scary when you had to ride next!
G
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Would love to blag a copy when you get it sorted although that shattered tuff incident is inprinted in my brain i thought hawkins was gonna have coronary.
I remember when that happened. Hoffman did a huge granny air and shattered his rear skyway, then Pete H ran out to grab his bike.
you've never seen Hawkins move so fast on someone's rear .. ;D
narf narf...
awaiting witty comments....................... ;)
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Would love to blag a copy when you get it sorted although that shattered tuff incident is inprinted in my brain i thought hawkins was gonna have coronary.
I remember when that happened. Hoffman did a huge granny air and shattered his rear skyway, then Pete H ran out to grab his bike.
you've never seen Hawkins move so fast on someone's rear .. ;D
narf narf...
awaiting witty comments....................... ;)
But Ross my dear man, that was the story of the '87 worlds.... and it had nothing to do with Hoffman on a quarterpipe....
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That's a lovely build - well done - just needs a good thrashing.
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Last time I seen you on a skyway Dave it broke in half ;D I remeber you seeing double for 10mins or so.
I got hold of an old skyway, it was a little crushed on the bottom tube from a bash gard - was OK, I built it up and rode it a couple of time. Very short toptube but felt great in the air. I sold it on to some oldschool racer from Boro about 5 years ago.
They were nice bikes but I would have killed for a Hutch back in the day, then again I loved my DP :)
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Yep Steve Ive got great footage of Hoffman destroying his rear tuff in practice. Ive got a couple of people to shake down with regards to copying the footage. I'll see what I can get sorted out.
i'd love to see the footage too. great watching old stuff., and this i wouldn't have seen as i didn't attend it. i can transfer easily enough- i do all mine from vhs to mini dv camcorder tape , then reupload to the pc for editing, or to dvd recorder for dvd- no loss of quality either.
(been going thru a lot of the old skate footage/ party stuff i filmed over the years for the pritchard vs dainton/ dirty sanchez documentary. grew up with the nutters.
so converting is a doddle- just getting the tapes - if they went missing in the post- :2gunsfiring_v1: old footage is priceless if there is no other copy.
i kept ALL my vhs tapes and got shoeboxes piled high with the camcorder tapes from over the years. just never enough time in the week let alone the day.)
on the look out for old/mid bmx freestyle footage. i'm hoping to do a dvd from then to now. got all my filming from 1991 to present, plus bits and bobs already off others from 83/84, 86,87,88, 90. looking to gather as much as i can together by early next year (2010) then edit. anyone out there willing to submit your original footage then pm me.