Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
The Flying Banana meets Proper
Coastvl:
Moo's bike shop! No major sponsor and he was as good as Tinker! watson was the original legend.
Skyway guys later in my life. I was out by then. Did you guys know Johnny Chopper was a factory Skyway rider?
pic taken from JC's site.
jeff spicoli:
Stevie Wevie dont be so mean on all the GT riders as most were pretty good but all G T's efforts went into Fiola . For me Lord Volker was awesome to watch . Martin Aborigani or whatever I thought was toss. The other UK Monkey would be JESS the airfreak DYRENFORTH or did you mean dave curry?. We loved skyway as much as everbody else and all the teams got on pretty good bitd ,I would always have a laugh with Neil Ruffell ,Billy Stupple,Rock Hudson, and Craig told me at Meadowbank that Peter Hawkins got in his bed. I was safer on GT thats for sure. ;D ;D ;D
P0LL0:
--- Quote from: jeff spicoli on September 20, 2006, 07:56 AM ---Stevie Wevie dont be so mean on all the GT riders as most were pretty good but all G T's efforts went into Fiola . For me Lord Volker was awesome to watch . Martin Aborigani or whatever I thought was toss. The other UK Monkey would be JESS the airfreak DYRENFORTH or did you mean dave curry?. We loved skyway as much as everbody else and all the teams got on pretty good bitd ,I would always have a laugh with Neil Ruffell ,Billy Stupple,Rock Hudson, and Craig told me at Meadowbank that Peter Hawkins got in his bed. I was safer on GT thats for sure. ;D ;D ;D
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Hang On!! http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Eddie+fiola&word2=Craig+campbell
Seriously though, the ones i met then in the list always seemed ok....Jess was always seemed so posh, coming from Highgate and all, especially to a lad from Crawley where the poshest thing that ever happened was when you found out someone owned there own crow bar! Paul Hudson i met a few times and he was ok, boring but ok! Craig and Neil alwasy seemed to live in there own little world but i reckon that was down to Pete and the way he overhyped there celebrity status.........Dave Curry.....Mmmmm, sold a pair of AZ bars recently on the bay and he mailed me to ask if they had AZ stamped on them to make sure they were genuine! Tosser!!!!! he hasnt changed a bit!
madall:
Didnt realize Hawkins was a pillow bitter :wtf:
Trev:
i was a flatlander bitd and as far as i'm concerned martin aparijo was one of the top riders. it is so easy to look back now and think they weren't that great for only doing hopping tricks and the like, but at the time, people like Martin & Woody Itson were the inspiration for most of the flatland riders back then.
Unless you were there at the time, you will never appreciate what people like Fiola, Dominguez, Itson, Aparijo, Wilkerson, Blyther did for the sport. I'm sure I've missed of plenty of people, but those in the know, know...
I have recently watched BMX Beat and known I could blow them all away, but at the time I was a mere peasant. You have to appreciate the level of skill at the time of riding.
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