Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
BMX-ReCollection Scans. New Updates available 01/03/2008
evamedia:
These are brilliant, haven't found the Freestyle BMX mag I had one of my pictures in, but I'm sure I'll find it eventually.
Mr ALex Leech appears to have come second in B group of Mons Jame in issue 20, 1 place ahead of Randy Sohara[sic]
Stodgy:
Nice one Moley - it is appreciated mate. Loads of work scanning all that lot in.
Consider it stickied.
moley:
Thanks Stodgy.
It looks like the download limit will be reached well before the end of the month, so people wont be able to download once the limit is reached.
I'll keep scanning stuff and upload it at the beginning of next month when the download limit resets itself.
After a few months when most people have downloaded everything, the amount being downloaded should drop (hopefully)
and everyone should be able to download throughout the month. All hardcore downloaders should already have downloaded everything by then, just most people downloading the updates.
The download site is charging £53.00 a year for this service. The FREE service was a bit crap and only allowed 5GB of monthly downloads against the 20GB monthly download allowance plus it got rid of the adverts etc, etc.
If anyone knows of a better site to store my files, then let me know?
I am stripping trick, adverts, repair advice, etc, etc from my scans. All this stuff might come in useful if someone wants to make an Old School BMX website and use it a Knowledge Base for the community to help identifying parts, repairing, Bike tests, tricks etc, etc.
Thanks for the support!
Brandy Truffle:
Get yourself a Rapidshare account then upload them there. People can download them as many times as they like no limits and they stay online until you delete them or until 6 months no activity. Saves all this download limit crap. www.Rapidshare.com
All my music is stored there,i may have a free account spare(as you earn points) so i'll check and see. :daumenhoch:
moley:
Already paid for a year using this site, so I'll stick with it. I quite like the format. Its quite easy to download and to find stuff. It cost £53 and is worth it just for its clean lines and ad-less appearance. Just the download limit is a bit small.
Traffic should slow up after this month. I have downloaded alot during the last week but only because I've been skiving off work all week with man flu. Felt crappy throughout but still had the strength to turn a few pages and press a few buttons.
Had a look at rapidshare and it states 1 download at a time (not parallel users) and that download bandwidth is limited but doesn't say how much.
Also states that if a file isn't downloaded after 90 days it gets deleted. Not much use if your trying to create a knowledge base that someone someday just might want to check out a book or magazine and find out its missing because no-one has used it in a while.
Also had a look at filefront and a few others. I Just don't like the look of them even though I know they do their job well.
Once everything is scanned and hopefully with the help of this community in locating any missing magazines to complete the collection, then all of this info is available to this community. It's FREE. You can do what you like with it.
If anyone wants to host these files then please upload them to your download sites, I really don't mind. I'm not possessive about my scans, they're Public Domain now, the way they should be. Just tell me the link and I'll edit this Topic to include your link. Then when mine goes down, people can use yours.
These scans are to aid the BMX Community. This info could help a lot of people identifying parts or specifications of bikes for restoring or repair, even just reading a few mags has jogged my memory. A bit of nostalgia goes a long way. I couldn't remember what my old pedals were. I knew they were graphite something or other. Eventually realised they were MKS Grafight-X's. If anyone has a pair in good condition, I'd love to buy them.
Just have to pluck up the courage to go out on my BMX. People around here might think I'm a kiddie-botherer going around on "KIDS BIKE" at my age. Might have to borrow one of my mates kid's to pretend his mine, so that the local youth don't cave my head in when I go down to my local skatepark (well, if you can call it a skatepark).
If I can get into shape, I might even attempt some OS Racing. Now that would be a sight!
Thanks for your help Brandy Truffle, it's appreciated.
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