Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
Which trick got you into BMX?
RATTY:
I lived in the next road to andy ruffell and I was in the same class as him at school,and I worked in the bike shop where the first mongooses were sold in our area,
Andy was a big inspiration, as was pete middleton, kav strutt, nikky mathews etc.
I think there was so much talent where I lived you either got good or did something else,
to stand out in walthamstow at that time you had to be truly awesome on a bmx.
Great times........
brass monkey!:
--- Quote from: ratty on August 31, 2006, 10:56 AM ---I lived in the next road to andy ruffell and I was in the same class as him at school,and I worked in the bike shop where the first mongooses were sold in our area,
Andy was a big inspiration, as was pete middleton, kav strutt, nikky mathews etc.
I think there was so much talent where I lived you either got good or did something else,
to stand out in walthamstow at that time you had to be truly awesome on a bmx.
Great times........
--- End quote ---
Lived 100 yards from the boy Craig Campbell, had plenty of bruises tryin to copy the trick he made look easy ! This was pre-Skyway, Prolite days, when he had a Haro Gen 1,....me, I had some heavy steel job, before I got my 600a ! hmmmm....
Del:
I saw some local kid do a rockwalk, I thought it was the most amazing thing I've seen.
I was so pleased with myself when I eventually got them wired.
MartyC:
Skating at Harrow and watching Andy Ruffell and Cav Strutt ripping it up. Probably the trick that got me was Cav pulling the biggest, most flat table top out of the old peanut bowl, must have been 6 to 8 ft high and thinking I gotta try that! Man they were so rad I remember their moves like I was watching them yesterday :LolLolLolLol:
Flaz:
watching some geeza near me jumping about 30/40 ft on a suzuki pe 175 :shocked: then bmx came over here and I was hooked,
bunny hops amazed me, the fact that you could jump without a ramp :idiot2: at time it blew me away ;D
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