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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: theRuler on March 21, 2006, 01:19 PM
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who's got a backyard ramp build on the go, ready for use in the summer?
to host the radbmx barby / ramp jam?
i dont have room in mine :(
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has mr stupple finished his yet??
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lets hope it's done by the time summer comes :)
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Its ongoing, done a bit last weekend with Rombloke, and done some more this week too :daumenhoch:
Once the weather improves a bit it wont take long to get it in to a ridable condition :daumenhoch:
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god help the poor people next door once thats finished lol.
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Here`s the latest pics :
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/DSCF0488.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/DSCF0487.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v472/billstup/DSCF0486.jpg)
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Yip.
'Love thy neighbour'
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How does that get by the Missus?? Looks mighty impressive :daumenhoch:
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bill, i take it then that all those transition sections i cut were hunky dory.....did all the 4 X 2's go in ok... no fettling.
we'll hit it again the week after bones saturday....we'll get the ply on that, then its just the platforms and hand rails
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looks good doesnt it.....its a lot bigger than what the pictures show, ...i think
Dave
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I wonder if Google Earth will show that amazing land mark . . . looks awesome :shocked:
Cheers
Steve :daumenhoch:
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i want one of them
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let me know when u cut the ribbon :)
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i can bang the last nail in :LolLolLolLol:
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that is looking awesome :daumenhoch:
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looking real good guys good job
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ramp looks super good, looks like a proper job to, cutting the transitions to slot the 4x2s. top job guys :daumenhoch:
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soon be time to break out the bacardi breezers bill!
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Dude that is one awesome looking ramp, you must either be way up on the brownie points or the missus doesn't take an interest in the garden :LolLolLolLol:
I thought I had it hard hiding my new Haro Master F&F in garage from my missus, how the hell do you hide that in the garden, got an invisibility cloak then? :LolLolLolLol:
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ramp looks super good, looks like a proper job to, cutting the transitions to slot the 4x2s. top job guys :daumenhoch:
tell me about it...made me go wonky eyed cutting all those slots
Dave
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It took a year of grinding her down before it changed from `no` to `how big is this ramp going to be then` and I knew I was in :daumenhoch:
Mind you it cost me a new three piece suite and a family holiday in Portugal this summer :idiot2:
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nice one bill, just make sure you dont do the bar b to close ??? :daumenhoch: :Great_Britain: :daumenhoch:
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Any houses for sale near you Bill ? ;D
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weekend after bones. do you want me and glenn to come and help bill? :daumenhoch:
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Do you mean after Epic, it`ll be finished before Bones :daumenhoch: or is that the plan :LolLolLolLol:
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ring me if you need me mate :daumenhoch:
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god help the poor people next door once thats finished lol.
ba dum ba ding
da dum ba ding
ba dum CHIIING da bing
the neighbours will love it
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theres more sound affects from mr stuntman him self than the ramp noise lol
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It took a year of grinding her down before it changed from `no` to `how big is this ramp going to be then` and I knew I was in :daumenhoch:
Mind you it cost me a new three piece suite and a family holiday in Portugal this summer :idiot2:
I'm at that stage now. Every time we're at the Home improvement (B & Q) place, I slide the plywood sheets onto the floor at an angle, like a kickramp to demonstrate to the wife, that "it'll be no trouble at all" and i say things like " wow that is cheap for ply" ;D. she hasn't got past the 'NO" stage yet, but she'll come around. One factor that she keeps bringing up is that we rent the place, and the owners wont' like it. I explain that every house owner would love a half pipe in their back garden... and even showed her your backyard ramp, and say " see... everyone else has one......" :)
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:LolLolLolLol: I take no responsability for divorce`s that may occur after following my lead :daumenhoch:
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:LolLolLolLol: I take no responsability for divorce`s that may occur after following my lead :daumenhoch:
i showed the pics of your ramp build to mrs ruler last night
you know what, she wasn't really impressed
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and before mr rombloke asks, the answer is no, we have no room :D
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im going to build a little spine i think. just big enough to conquer my fear of them
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im going to build a little spine i think. just big enough to conquer my fear of them
(http://30cms.co.uk/temp/scans/ss6.jpg)
built this one in winter 96. hehe pretty small but was fun
we would pull the ramps apart and jump in between them.
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good idea. thats wot ill do then. kill two birds with one ramp.
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after that one we built another that was a foot taller. that was dope. but really shaky.
that one above though - the one side would fold up and it became a quarter pipe. used to use it next to another quarter pipe we built, that was up against the wall of my dad's workshop unit.
it eventually rotted away by the end of last century.
good fun though.
by 2002 my dad no longer had his workshop / big yard so there was nowhere to build ramps :(
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WOW....
Bill that must be costing you an arm and leg in wood cost!
great looking ramp :daumenhoch:
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jewson is pretty cheap for wood
make sure you get treated stuff though
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well its not a bill scale ramp, but i managed to let the wife let me have this. small but fun, still bloody hurts when you fall though!! :buck2:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/f374/steve1275/PICT0037.jpg)
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that looks real good steve
what size is the radius on the transitions?
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that looks fun :D
the mini at epic is spot on, small but steep transitions, i wana build a similar one in my garden, will have to measure it up next time i'm up there!
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You not coming this Saturday Rich ?
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i think i done 6ft radius on the transitions , i wanted to keep at least 7ft flat bottom so you have enough time to think between walls . its bloody tight but good fun, small platforms so if you get it wrong your either in the field or in the apple tree... :buck2:
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all da ramps look gr8 :daumenhoch:
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Hey Bill, i take it you dont believe in saving the forests mate! :LolLolLolLol:
Me thinks you've built that to last for life eh,you'd need a bloody 2ton bike to brake that bugger!!! ;D
Are you expecting tornados down south???
I made my quarter pipe out of cls 3" x 2" and thats plenty strong enough.
It will be a brilliant ramp when you've finish it though. :daumenhoch:
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I have built it to last :daumenhoch:
All of the structual timber is reclaimed floor joists from a couple of refurbs, but I had to buy all the plywood sheets and the 5.4m lenghs of 4"x 2" :(
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When's the finishing off party Billy? :daumenhoch:
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When's the finishing off party Billy? :daumenhoch:
Do you mean Bill finishing the ramp off, or
The ramp finishing Bill off?
I think the latter will happen 10 mins after the former :LolLolLolLol: only joking..
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yeah a garden ramp party sounds fun at billys house ;)
gutted not going to epic, off snowboarding next week, again without the mrs! so gona treat her to meal and back then home to watch pompey vs arsenal! you guys will love it, the best park i've been to :)
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Shame you wont be there Rich, have fun boardin.