Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
Early Christmas Present
Wayne Ryder:
--- Quote from: tricknuts on October 19, 2005, 06:24 AM ---quote- "I remember when i was 10 or 11 looking at this picture and thinking how amazing it was... "
Carlo I'm 33, and i look at the picture below, and think how amazing this is. This is probably one of my all time fav shots for pure out and out raw height and aggro. If I were you, I'd put this on the wall of my own office and sign it myself. You must have been about 13 or 14 at the time. Bloody nuts. Great photo. Respect
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Off the pic, to the left, somewhere near a kickturn ramp, I was stupidly looking somewhere else when this happened. The place seemed to go silent till Carlo landed I just heard 'Vrrrip..... gasps...." then a heavy, stem-bending re-entry.
Don't think I'll ever forget that, and the wait for the pics was agony! Do you have a larger version of this one?
If I remember rightly, this was filmed by someone or other. Was the footage ever broadcast?
RADHAB:
I've got it on tape and so has Carlo.........3 tricks later that bike is no more!!!!!
Carlo Griggs:
--- Quote from: RADHAB on October 19, 2005, 01:48 PM ---I've got it on tape and so has Carlo.........3 tricks later that bike is no more!!!!!
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I was 16 when that was taken... I remember nosing that fu.ker in .. My air at the other end of the hall with out pedaling was 9ft.. I also did a 5 by 5 540 5ft up and 5ft out to flat bottom... So i borrowe my team mates bike and finished that thing to... That week end i had 6 new frames from just pumping.... The plate behind the seatpost tube just was u shaped after maybe a run....
I remember skyway saying i must land hard.... I nosed them in i told them so i left a rode for someone else...
carlo
ORB:
So i take it you were a slice hard on thier bikes?
What was the strongest OS bike you rode?
tricknuts:
Is that why we see the secret stock of streetbeats coming out of the woodwork now?. Were they all your spares?
Got any more photos you would like to share with us Carlo?
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