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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: madall on February 20, 2006, 12:12 PM

Title: Andy Ruffell
Post by: madall on February 20, 2006, 12:12 PM

Has anyone from the forum manged to get in touch with Andy Ruffell and ask him to venture onto this site ?



Allan M

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: ORB on February 20, 2006, 12:17 PM

Yeah, he knows all about us matey

had a talk to him at Bournemouth

Man, that geezer looks a little different now :)

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: Brownie on February 20, 2006, 12:25 PM

Read an article on him last night. All about his music and TV work. Guy is a big success now. Just shows you how driven he must be as a person.

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: Frosty on February 20, 2006, 01:27 PM

He also got a mention on the Radio 1 handover from Spoons to Vernon Kay at the weekend, including Vern quoting, Diamondback, Mongoose etc, but did take the piss about an old man riding a kids bike!!!

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: madall on February 20, 2006, 01:49 PM

I had a look on his web site www.andyruffell.com and he is a fat boy now probably like most of us old school touching the old four O! Yes he's a cult hero in the dance world scene but im surprised I havent seen him on here from time to time, the ruffells probably did more for BMX than anyone else in the UK Neil was by far the best freestyler I think the UK hase ever produced and that includes Bestwick. And Andy speaks for himself very very talented man.... big up


Allan M

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: Brownie on February 20, 2006, 02:25 PM

Spooney deserves respect too. Not many people have made a career out of radio without being able to speak properly.  ;D

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: tricknuts on February 20, 2006, 06:23 PM

there's some good scans from his site. Especially of Neil.

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: billstup on February 20, 2006, 11:24 PM

Yeah thats been updated, its got some great scans, only trouble is the text is too small to read and it distorts when you zoom in, but his biography makes good reading  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: madall on February 20, 2006, 11:31 PM

Bill
Whens the last time you spoke to Andy?

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: billstup on February 20, 2006, 11:47 PM

At the 25th aniversary bash at Bournemouth last year, he mostly lives in the states now  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: madall on February 21, 2006, 12:06 AM

Is he still part of the BMX scene Bill?

Title: Re: Andy Ruffell
Post by: billstup on February 21, 2006, 07:08 PM

Nope, not unless we can persuade him to make a British `Joe kid` film  :daumenhoch: