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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: theRuler on January 27, 2007, 03:10 PM

Title: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: theRuler on January 27, 2007, 03:10 PM

instead of another eddie fiola replica, build one of these

(http://30cms.co.uk/temp/z/martina.jpg)

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: gary4130 on January 28, 2007, 07:17 PM

nice pic ,got any more of him ?

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: WizardWeb on January 28, 2007, 11:44 PM

I was always curious about the half a framestander on the right side of the bike. I don't recall anyone else using that.... So yeah a good candidate for a build I'd say.

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: Trev on January 28, 2007, 11:57 PM

Quote from: WizardWeb on January 28, 2007, 11:44 PM

I was always curious about the half a framestander on the right side of the bike. I don't recall anyone else using that.... So yeah a good candidate for a build I'd say.

sorry mate, you've lost me there.  :-\  what do you mean by half a framestander?

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: WizardWeb on January 29, 2007, 12:11 AM

No worries Trev, look at the decade pic above, he has white framestaders in the proper place, but a chrome sawn off framestander pointing down from the axle. I guess he used it for more support when the bike was upside down....etc...

I'll see if I can dig out a pic where you can see it better.....

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: Trev on January 29, 2007, 12:17 AM

Ah, I see it.. I know Martin used to do a lot of upside down wheelie style tricks.

How tight would that axle nut have had to be to hold his weight as it doesn't appear to be supported by anything else..

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: WizardWeb on January 29, 2007, 12:26 AM

Unless he cut some groove in it or something so it locked with the white one, then that could support the other one. his weight would force the white one against the chainstay in the way it was designed.

Or maybe it did slip like hell, that's why no one else copied it !  ;D

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: SaMAlex on January 29, 2007, 02:40 PM

I think it was a sponsorship thing. Flatland was starting to move toward upsidedown bike stuff that was better suited to using normal Pegs, but GT were still trying to push their foot stander things. Martin had to use a second "door handle" on one side to do a few upside down bike tricks, even though using a  peg would have been much better. The extra stander did have a notch that fitted into the other stander so it might have held OK ... until it bent and snapped Im guessing.

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: double chevron on January 30, 2007, 08:29 AM

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1473/martinaparijoxa7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Title: Re: martin aparijo 1986
Post by: buissonrouge on January 31, 2007, 06:05 AM

Brahim the OldFlatlander scanned the whole magazine (BMX Action Bike march 1986)
 
http://freestyle.bmx.free.fr/BMXAB_0386.zip (http://freestyle.bmx.free.fr/BMXAB_0386.zip)

We are missing some pages.
theRuler, can you please scan pages 35, 36, 37, 38 (circa 200dpi) and email them to me buissonrouge@23mag.com
Thanks.


We also have on our own forum a pretty big martin aparijo topic. It's in french but still worth a look : http://rothenbusch.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=785&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 (http://rothenbusch.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=785&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)