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what got you started..???

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selfpreservation:
my mates big bro was a sponsored motocross rider and one day out of the blue he turned up with a yamaha byz it was about 81 , et was in the air rhe rest is history

Trev:
I think it was just after watching ET. I so desperately wanted a Kuwahara. I remember entering a competition in Look-In to try and win one.  Can't remember how long after, but my parents bought me a Piranha.  Started messing about in the streets doing jumps of kerbs and stuff and building 4" high jump ramps (yup 4 inches not 4 foot). I used to watch a programme called Kick Start which had Motorbikes completing a course and tried to replicate that on my bike. Got a glimpse of BMX Beat in 84, but didn't really remember too much about it. What really got me into it though was the Kelloggs in 85. I saw the semi's and saw Neil Ruffell do a no handed cherry picker. I was blown away by it. I had never seen anything like it before and thought that is what i wanted to do. I then taped the final the following week and have probably watched that close on a thousand times. I could tell you every single bit of movement by Neil Ruffell and Ron Wilkerson. I so desperately wanted a freestyle bike after that. My dream was a Skyway like Neils, but that was way out of my price range. The closest I thought I could afford was a bike called a BH Trickstyler (anyone here remember them? - I never actually ever saw one in real life!) which came in Orange. That was about £150. I started saving like mad. But come christmas time I was getting quite good on my Piranha, so my aunt helped and said she would lend me the money to buy a Street Beat. I was so stoked when I got it, I must have rode it everyday. Even when it was raining, I would practise balancing tricks in my mum's hallway. Soon after I got my Street Beat, my parents took me to watch Holeshot in 85. I just wanted to get good enough to be able to compete with these guys. The next thing i saw was BMX Beat 85 which I think was aired in April 86. Once again I recorded them and played them to death. Did anyone noticed that there wasn't a single Street Beat in that series??? I remember wanting to learn every flatland trick i saw. I practised hard and entered my first comp in 87.

jeff spicoli:
seeing jeff watson in action now in 81 I only bought it for the skateboarding but after seeing watson I was hooked.

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