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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: SaMAlex on November 25, 2009, 02:16 PM
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My mate Taff has finally got round to scanning in a load of old riding photos so I thought Id post some up here. I used to ride with Taff all the time but he was pretty unlucky and had way to many nasty crashes, so doesn’t ride any more.
The first 3 are me at radlands. This is on my second dirtbike that I got in 92/93ish. Its a mk2 with Mexican decals. It didn’t come with 990 mounts, I put them on myself.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/Radlandsblunt.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/Radlandsfakey.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/Radlandspegfakey.jpg)
The next 2 are the same frame but I had a new dirtbike by then so the purple one got hand painted black and I used it for jumping. These pics were taken on the jump box in my friend Crowmans back garden
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/TableatCrowmans-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/Gardenjump.jpg)
Finally a few of the man himself. Taff getting loose, and some of how he paid for it!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/taffx.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/taffblunt-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/taffhip.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/taffarm.jpg)
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loving the pics Alex, get those none bmx ones up of you on the car roof. they crack me up!
:LolLolLolLol:
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get those none bmx ones up of you on the car roof.
These ones?
I have no idea where that is, why Im dancing on my car roof, or why Im wearing a super tight T-shirt :-[
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/roof.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/poledance.jpg)
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cool pics :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
used to love going to radlands for the old world qualifiers, remember one year sleeping in the car outside the park and waking up to a foot of snow and looking out the window to see effraim carrying his bike up the road from his bed & breakfast!!
the old koc car in the street course, that was 92 iirc and the last time we had one in the street course :'( :'( :'(
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so tight thermal t's were well cool before Webby was even out of nappies?
you do look happy though Alex!
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thats one hell of a bruise!
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thats one hell of a bruise!
Taff was never one to do things by halves. That was from a small slide out when he was cycling along a toe path next to a river. His front wheel washed out and he landed on the side of a concrete drain cover. It was so bad that they thought he'd messed up his insides and he had to get air lifted away (cos it was miles from any roads).
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Yeah cool pics mate
are you ridin left side drive in that first pic?
Your mates bruise is the worst I've ever seen from ridin'... ouch
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are you ridin left side drive in that first pic?
Left hand drive in the first 3 pics ;)
That was my second or third prototype LHD hub (a modified MTB cassette hub) before I started making the whole hub from scratch. On the blunt pic you can see its a 36 spoke araya aero rim with thick guage spokes.
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those grifter spoke guards looked awful.
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NICE PANTS!
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those grifter spoke guards looked awful.
Yeah they did! Generally, I hate the look of most of my bikes, esp from the early 90s. I never really was one for style, I just knew what tricks I wanted to do and built my bike for them, even if it was pretty stinky lookin
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Good pics Alex.
I remember the blood curdling screams when Taff snapped his leg at Radlands one night :P He always went for it though didn't he! I think you (or was it Sboy?) told me a story recently that he was doing a manual in his back garden at a BBQ(?) & looped out & smashed his head on the floor good old Taff :daumenhoch: :LolLolLolLol:
Some of the better Radlands layouts in those pics too :smitten: