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Welcome! => Welcome => Topic started by: BathJan on July 25, 2010, 02:04 PM
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Hi all,
OK I'll be honest, I only signed up here to check out the market for my weird 80s bike (more about that later, site-supporter payment in progress!). But being here's made me all nostalgic. I practically lived at the Southport track from 1981-85 (had no choice: my Dad owned the track) so I'd love to hear anyone else's memories from those days...particularly if you remember a weird girl known as 'double o'.
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Welcome to RAD :daumenhoch:
Your Dad owned the track :shocked: ........ that would have been heaven in the 80's to a lot of people on here :D
Never went to the southport track BITD but used to catch the train from Parbold with a few others to ride on the street's and the prom ;D Happy days :)
What's this weird bike you have ?
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I used to race southport 81- 84 . I will always remember the black rubber gate. :LolLolLolLol:. If you were in the middle lanes you were a foot in front before you started. :daumenhoch: I think my first ever race was on that track. Have you got any photos?
Carl
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Yeah that's right....everyone wanted to draw the 'lane 2' ball out the hat, but if you got lane 1 there was a good chance you'd be driven of the course before the first jump.
Haven't got any photos, but hoping my Mum might dig some out.
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Be great to see some photos of that track again . :daumenhoch: its kinda where it all started for me . :smitten:
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Ok mate have you any pics of the track :daumenhoch:
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Only this crappy one of it flooded :(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz70/BathJan/track004.jpg)
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Only this crappy one of it flooded :(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz70/BathJan/track004.jpg)
that couldn't have been the sea . You never saw it at southport .. ;D
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I never rode the track but rode the skatepark on my bmx a few times :daumenhoch:
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I take it you rode a Piranha back then :daumenhoch:
They used to hire Piranha's out and didn't there used to be Honda trikes to hire on a little course next to the track ::)
I did a Piranha this year in the colour scheme I remember best from then , except I put Acorn mags on instead of the cast banana mags .
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/P1221389.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/P1221391.jpg)
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Love the pics :smitten: Mine was a Piranha frame with Mongoose bits - probably whatever was lying around my dad's shop ::) Still remember how it felt, and how I couldn't wait for my dad to get it out of the boot of the car each morning at the track. Yes we did have Honda trikes - with no brakes. Kids used to try to stop using their feet and ragged their legs to bits >:D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz70/BathJan/track002.jpg)
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Was you Dad's shop on the road just round the corner from the station going downhill towards Lord street ?
there was a bike shop round there ::)
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It was indeed just round the corner, but I don't think towards Lord St (I've not been there for years so have forgotten exactly). It was called Leisure Wheels and was quite small - not to be confused with Southport Cycles which was on the same road but much bigger. Didn't last long coz too much stuff used to get robbed. :(
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It had mongooses parked at the front i was about 11 at the time the best shop i had ever seen my mum and would take me southport every week :D
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I started racing at the Southport track but it was earlier than '81, I think about easter '80. Alan Woods organised a meet there and some of the lads camped over. They hit the skate park after the racing, got a few pics but not with me unfortunately.
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wasnt there a wooden quarter pipe there as well, next to the track somewhere, i broke my ankle on that... :'(
think i may have some photos somewhere....
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howdy