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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: mattes on February 07, 2007, 03:47 PM
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I found a old pic of the performance bowel of rom and it had more vert.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k11/quadangle/rom_performance_bowl_1979_1.jpg)
here is the link: http://middle-age-shred.com/
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oooooooooer great pic.must have been very early.
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dam thats looks a beast of a bowl, the surface looks good back then :daumenhoch:
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Yep that bowl certainly looks like it could turn your BOWELS upside down mate..... ;)
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hehe was on the same thought :D
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fook didnt realise it used to be like that
anyone remember it like that ??
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surely Billy was around then....... ;D
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I think I saw some photo's that Superbikedan had when it was like that..
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Yep that bowl certainly looks like it could turn your BOWELS upside down mate..... ;)
tee hee, me also !!
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wow! what a great find... i never realised it used to be bigger. :shocked:
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wow! what a great find... i never realised it used to be bigger. :shocked:
I didn't realise until a guy at work told me - he used to skateboard there when it was like that
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Oh yeah........ it had the same wall as the halfpipe. Hence the name 'Performance'. If you speak to an oldschool skater about it you'll find that they call it a budget bowl now the wall is gone.
I started riding in 82 and it was long gone by then :'(
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Holy shite-sticks! That's MASSIVE!
Never ever knew it had been like that and I rode it from about 83...
Awesome pic dude.
:4_17_5:
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ace pic
not what i was expecting though
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I skated there when it was like that, Harrow's performance bowl was the same too...
Rodga Harvey getting some air!
(http://www.spikeypoo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/hbgallery/rodga6.jpg)
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I have seen that pic of Harrow with the extension but never of Rom. That "performance" bowl at Harrow is still coverd up, right? They have dug up the peanut and the skate bowl that were both filled in for most of the 90s as well
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I have seen that pic of Harrow with the extension but never of Rom. That "performance" bowl at Harrow is still coverd up, right? They have dug up the peanut and the skate bowl that were both filled in for most of the 90s as well
Yeah, legend has it they tried to dig the peanut bowl out back in the late 80's but found an old Ford Escort buried in it so just filled it back in as it was too much work to get the car out :idiot2:
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marty we tried to dig it out, there was no car in it, come the monday the council filled it back in
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marty we tried to dig it out, there was no car in it, come the monday the council filled it back in
Thanks Pete, that's another urban legend up is smoke :LolLolLolLol:
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is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.
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is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.
Alex, I don't think the Classic Pool as it used to be called has ever been filled in, always been open for as long as I can remember :daumenhoch:
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The first few times I went there, prob in the early 90s, the white fugure 8 shaped pool with the propper pool coping was filled in and so was the peanut. I had seen pictures of the white bowl (Andy Ruffell on the cover on BMXA number 3?) and the first time I rode it I was amazed how kinked the transition was and with the funny roll in thing, that may have been added later. I havent been there since the peanut had been dug out.
Here is a pic of Harrow and it shows everything empty apart from the bowl that used to have extra vert (like the half pipe), and also a pic of how that bowl used to be.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/Harrow.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/rodga_harvey_harrow_81.jpg)
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im sure i saw a picture back in the day of crazylegs airing as high as the lamp post at rom,when i went there two years ago i could'nt believe how he could get so high out that bowl but the extra vert bit explains that one,still rad..
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it cant be rom it looks to clean... :LolLolLolLol:
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is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.
Alex, I don't think the Classic Pool as it used to be called has ever been filled in, always been open for as long as I can remember :daumenhoch:
marty i went to haro for the first time in 82 and it was filled in then, later that the year the other 2 were filled in
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im sure i saw a picture back in the day of crazylegs airing as high as the lamp post at rom,when i went there two years ago i could'nt believe how he could get so high out that bowl but the extra vert bit explains that one,still rad..
The extra vert went well before Crazylegs started riding there, I think it got taken down in 78/79.
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is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.
Alex, I don't think the Classic Pool as it used to be called has ever been filled in, always been open for as long as I can remember :daumenhoch:
marty i went to haro for the first time in 82 and it was filled in then, later that the year the other 2 were filled in
Pete, I rode and skated Harrow a hell of a lot during the 70's and 80's and don't remember the Classic Pool being filled, I'll ask Dave Hopkins, Harrow Boy extrodinaire as he'll know the dates for sure :-\
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you is the man
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Pete, you are right! Email from Dave (www.harrowboyz.com) ...
"Yup, some of the local lowlifes thought it would be fun to drive a car into it and set it on fire when there was no fence around the park and the council decided to fill it with earth to “protect” everybody. Didn’t last too long though and they saw the light and dug it out again."
So that's where the urban legend of the car comes from , not the peanut but the Classic Pool :LolLolLolLol:
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Great pic, great find. Wow, what a beast of a bowl.