Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
More from Kellogg's 1985
absinthe_boy:
My recollection of the day is that the crowd generally felt that the freestyle final was fixed in Ron's favour. There had been some concern over one of the judges giving lower scores than the others. I think it was Mason Smith who was the judge in question but if he scored everyone low it wouldn't make it unfair for anyone.
The feeling in the crowd, certainly where I was, was that it was fixed for an American to win and that poor Neil was never really in with a chance.
But who knows? Maybe we were just caught up in a bit of patriotism. I doubt the original unedited tapes still exist but they certainly edited the broadcast to better reflect the result.
factory pilot:
--- Quote from: Retrodan72 on December 30, 2015, 04:35 PM ---Brilliant pics matey.
Ant and Andy will be straight on to eBay looking for some of those Oakley braces.
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I am lovin' those braces .... :LolLolLolLol: do they do them in hot pink? ::)
On a serious note these pictures are amazing !! There must be very few pictures of the Kellogg's around in general.
The quality of these pictures is incredible.
I'm sure Andy Ruffell would like to see these rare pictures of his brother?
Does anybody know him on FB to pass on that they are on here?
The whole of these sets of pictures would make a great book ... They are all gems that have been hidden for a long time !
Thanks so much for sharing these in here.
The behind the scenes info is also a real revalation ...
Alledgedly there was also more than smell of fixing associated with the U.S. King of the skatepark series ....
I guess that's the way of the world whenever there is money and sponsors involved >:(
absinthe_boy:
Doesn't Andy Ruffell have his own company these days? I could possibly contact him as his details should be available from Companies House, if people think he'd be interested. Or if anyone has an email address for Andy I'd happily send him better quality scans.
I am still looking for my note book that I took to the Kellogg's competition. I collected loads of autographs from the top guys including Andy & Neil Ruffell, Eddie Fiola (difficult, he was moody), etc. And a lot of the big names in racing such as Harry Leary, Geth Shooter (was there when be beat the yanks) and so on.
The book and photos together would make a good scrap book type project :)
griff:
fantastic pics again :daumenhoch:
just sent Andy a link to this thread via FB, hopefully he'll see it!
factory pilot:
--- Quote from: griff on January 05, 2016, 03:57 PM ---fantastic pics again :daumenhoch:
just sent Andy a link to this thread via FB, hopefully he'll see it!
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Top work Griffster! :4_17_5:
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