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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: retrorider.u.k on March 25, 2007, 11:48 PM
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r.l osborn too :daumenhoch:
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I love the flatland technical freestyle. Those vids were a nice find.
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how many pedal cages must Woody have got through? Good job he was sponsored and he's not buying them at todays prices ! :LolLolLolLol:
What puzzles me is why does RL spin the bars back when he's got a rotor? It doesn't come across like he means it as a trick.... ???
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What puzzles me is why does RL spin the bars back when he's got a rotor? It doesn't come across like he means it as a trick.... ???
I thought that too. Force of habit maybe? Could be nervousness too I guess.
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Cool find. I love watching old school flatland.... I especially loved these two clips as there was not a single trick on there i couldn't do bitd, albeit about a year or so after that....
A bit dubious about the year it claimed to be though. 1985. Maybe it was. But there were a couple of very new tricks in there for the time. Woody's pedal picker. Think that may have been invented very late 1985. The quickspin though, I'm pretty sure that was 86. I remember Scott Freeman coming over in 86 and showing us a trick that had only just been invented.
A bit disappointed with some of Woody's run though. Three attempts to pull a cherry picker? Most brits at that time were pulling them first time, every time.
I think if you saw a lot of the US competition runs from back then, you'd realise that they weren't that far ahead of us as the magazines or competition organisers would have liked us to believe.
That aside, they were two great riders and two great runs. Great find. :daumenhoch:
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What puzzles me is why does RL spin the bars back when he's got a rotor? It doesn't come across like he means it as a trick.... ???
I thought that too. Force of habit maybe? Could be nervousness too I guess.
Was weird, considering he did them a few times and just on their own. I used to sometimes spin the bars for the hell of it though. Usually though after I did a decade or something like that. But they used to be very quick and pretty much done instantly after pulling a trick, so that it was almost like a link.
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was it the showmanship part of the routine ? :LolLolLolLol: or had he just put a rotor on ,and wasn't use to it yet
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:daumenhoch:
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thats cheating, they are using brakes..
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This is a decent one of fiola
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good vids :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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Great vid that, isn't that ron wilkinson on the GT at the end, in the blue trousers?
Fiola was way smooth on the flatland stuff.