Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
Bricks and Milk Crates
woodzy:
me and mates still build some of our ramps with bricks even though ive gt a plastic rampage ramp
Bren Gunn:
Cool pics dude, thanks for posting.
mike pardon:
Oh yes great pics. I used to dream of a grifter!!!
You all used to have racers right? well we used to turn the bars upside down and do "how many pedal wheelies" then Evil Knieval was out and we did the whole milk crate gap jump thing. It was awesome you became he local hero...
And when my mate at school started talking about these bikes called BMX he has seen in Halfords TEAM MURRAY's i almost had an accident!!! I used to make him describe every feature on them, he had a test ride on one in the shop and i remember his exact words..
" its goes so fast"
well that was it game over,,, i had to have one. This was the machine we had all been dreaming about right??
a bike that was made for the rough stuff...
God it was like a dream. Then Alans opened and we used to walk down from school in dinner and look in the window and chew our meat pies. Drooling on the ledge.. Know he had some exotic species in the shop. Mongooses and (cant remember the rest) it was like another world. Around that time i saw Bmx on Magpie (kiddies show)
i was lay on the floor as you do after school, watching telly when TINKER JUAREZ came on riding at a skatepark and did a 360 out of a bowl... OH MY GOD.....I could not believe what i had witnessed.. Was it true? did my eyes trick me....I was the best thing ever. I had to try and emulate that guy so i commandered my sisters 16 inch pushbike that looked nothing like a bmx and went "down the fields" to practise being Tinker.. I figured the small wheels would help but it didnt and was soon consigned to the scrap heap.
Then came xmas and a suprise i will never ever forget.. but thats another story.. night night
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muttley:
Another sutton boy eh ;) The concrete bump is still there but with a fence in front of it >:(
Have to admit i never new thay had a half pipe there, when was that from and to ?
Jazzchimp:
Class, see the Puch Murray in the first shot was the same colour as mine BITD, how you got that off the ground is a mystery to me!
Pikey, nice job summing up the feelings of those pioneering days. I remember when I got my Murray no-one knew what the heck it was - they thought it was a plastic bike!! Within a year every kid in the uk had one!! Happy dayz
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