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Events => Old School Series Racing => Topic started by: Moschops on July 04, 2007, 07:54 PM
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The Stephen Murray benefit race is on!
At Milton Keynes Pineham track.
This is an open fun event so you can ride what you like, if there are enough cruiser bruisers then you will have races on your own otherwise its all mixed in.
First aid has been covered by a couple of wonderful qualified volunteers, this will be basic so take it easy, MK General is only 5 mins away
All proffits are going to Stephen Murrays fund.
Raffel is being supported by Dialled Bikes, The Source, Groove Racing and MKBMX, should be some good goodies in the raffel.
Parking £2.00
Raffel £1.00 per strip
Race fees Expert £10.00 and novice £5.00
Regstration closes at 11.00am
Weather forcast Sat sunny all day and Sun patchy cloud.
Track is o-kay at the moment, and we will have works carried out on it on friday and saturday so it should be fast by sunday.
Please come along and support a great cause
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Glad it's all sorted mate, lets all pull together and raise some hard cash to help our Bro out :daumenhoch:
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Thats great, come on you lot lets get some real support for this, we managed 33 riders for Hersden, if we can do that again its £300 straight to Stephens fund. Plus its a great chance to get some real practice in ready for the RADBASH in a months time :daumenhoch:
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I'm going to join the OS group but I'll be on my Nu Skool DK as my Redline is awaiting a Chris King from the States and I don't want to build it back up again just yet. I'm sure no-one will mind an old rider on a NS bike as it's more money in the entry pot. Come on guys let's see some more names down as this is a great opportunity to get a few laps in before the August bash. Lee's put in a lot of effort to get this up and running so let's support him. Humps
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Im well up for this, and happy to be doing our little bit to help Murray.
I am trying to get my OS bike sorted out. Just need a BB spindle and tyres and its there. I will probably bring 1" threaded / 990 mount mid school bike too, just incase there is a problem with the OS bike. Like Humps00 said, Im sure no-one will mind, and I dont really care what class I ride. As long as I get a roll round, and some of my money gets to stephen.
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Still hoping to be there, fingers crossed.
But please buy plenty of raffle tickets as I'm donating a dialled bikes frame to MK as a raffle prize. Be a shame if someone got it and they only bought one strip for a quid!
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I'm donating a dialled bikes frame to MK as a raffle prize.
Good on ya, nice one.
I'll def buy loads!
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i need a new bike frame ,best i be buying some tickets then
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Update from last post. I felt guilty whilst in the garage getting the DK down from the rafters to check it out. Decided to digress and greased up the gritty, cr***y bearings on the Redline and screwed it all back together. So, count me in the OS class. Humps
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Nice one Al, see you on the gate.
Mike, thats the nuts, Im going to be buying a couple of books :daumenhoch:
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Mike,
without a doubt you da man
thanx for all yr help and a bloody generous donation :daumenhoch:
Dialled Bikes, it's the way forward :daumenhoch:
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Trying to get my pass stamped for this one :daumenhoch:
I really wanna be there for Muzza
is there gonna be enough of us for an ols school gate?
If so I will dig the Ripper out of the loft :2gunsfiring_v1:
:) DINGO :)
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Cheers guys. I wish I could do more, but the fact is, I've only sold a couple of BMX frames all year.
Fortunately, the mountain bike side of things ticks over nicely, otherwise there would be no dialled bikes BMX products or race team.
I think I have clearance for Sunday, so hope to see you all there. Nik, I will still bring the frame to Daggers on Saturday, just in case though. :daumenhoch:
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Cheers guys. I wish I could do more, but the fact is, I've sold 1 BMX frame all year.
Fortunately, the mountain bike side of things ticks over nicely, otherwise there would be no dialled bikes BMX products or race team.
Now how the fook does that work?? I love my old school bikes and have real trouble with new school, but the dialled bikes are positively excellent, what is wrong with people? they really need to have a ride on your bikes before buying some of the crap that they do!!
Perhaps you should organise a test ride day mike, where anyone interested can test ride the bikes on a track or park!!
I for one know what my new school bike is gonna be in 2008 :4_17_5: :daumenhoch:
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It's just the way the BMX market is Ratty, especially the race scene.
I'd say only around 600-800 people race regularly nationwide (average national is 350-400). Out of that number, 50% are probably too young/small to ride a dialled bikes frame. And a percentage of the remainder probably wouldn't want to buy a dialled bikes frame anyway as there is still a lot of kudos attached to owning an American branded/American made frame. Also, you can get a bloody good complete race bike these days for under £300 and I'm trying to sell frame and forksets for that price.
I will stick with it though as I have loved BMX since I first set eyes on Official BMX Magazine (the one with Tim March on the cover doing the big table at Slades Farm) and traded up my Grifter for a Moto One! And the satisfaction it brings when I can help kids fulfil their goals and potential is enormous (I've had 3 number 1 title winners and world No.4 on the team since I started it in 2005). It's like I'm reliving my youth through them.
Rome wasn't built in a day and I look at what people like Chris Moeller, Mat Hoffman, Rick Moliterno (and before them Gary Turner and The OM) achieved with their bike companies as inspiration. I never set out to shift loads of frames and get rich anyway, just to create something that is as meaningful to the new school as companies like SE, GT, Redline, Skyway, etc were/are to us old schoolers.
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Thats what I like about you, The fact that you love the sport, you still ride and the support you give your guys an girls.
Well from what I can see BMX is on the up, and the people who support the sport like you, alan and groove will be there when it becomes a giant once again!!!
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:daumenhoch: cheers Ratty, it's nice to be appreciated.
I'm loving my riding and racing more than ever now, as I never really got chance to race much as a kid (pushy parents who thought that school and getting into university was more important than athletics, football and BMX), just the odd local race and regional.
30-39 cruiser is a fast class these days, but a lot of fun (regionals that is, I haven't had the bottle to race many nationals).
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Well im going to give the nationals a shot next year, hopefully on 20", but maybe 24", only trouble will be lining up against my old adversary Tony Slater..
Ill go if you go :daumenhoch:
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I will be doing some nationals next year for sure Ratty as I will be in 40+ and (no disrespect to 40+ as there are still some fast/rad guys in that class) will feel a little less out of my depth. The 30-39 guys would slaughter me at nationals, but I think I could probably scrape a few B-finals in 40+.
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Any chance of getting an Administrators central mail out to all Radsters about this meeting as I fear attendance will be lower than it could be and I'm sure there will be peeps on here who would support the event but don't spot posts such as this. Time is ticking by and I can hear the words of many "I didn't know it was on otherwise I'd have been there" after the event. Alternatively anyone reading this can help by sending out an e-mail to BMXers in their e-mail Address Book who might not frequesnt RAD or BMX Talk for info. Post the link http://www.bmxtalk.co.uk/viewtopic.php't=11885 for times, race fees, etc. Thanks, Humps
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Mike how about a Dialled 18" micro mini frame? forks and bars too.
Redline have it sewen up at the moment as they are the only ones who make it, oh and for those of you who have one wait till you need a tyre or innertube :knuppel2:
Redline have shafted us all :yahoo_silent:
Our little club has tonnes of nippers in it, and they are all looking at Redlines, I tell you what you would sell more than a couple :daumenhoch:
Sorry to digress, where else can we plug this event?
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why dont u ask BCF to mailshot all members by email :daumenhoch:
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why dont u ask BCF to mailshot all members by email :daumenhoch:
Have asked Rollback Roger if he can do that. Humps
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cool, be the best way to get it out there to all the peeps :daumenhoch:
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Nice work poeple, you two have been a big help thanks for the support :daumenhoch:
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not a problem babe :daumenhoch: if you need help sunday with anything just lmk :)
Lets make this a good one for Stevie :daumenhoch:
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Ace cameraman and YouTube film editor "bazooka" is hatching an idea over on Talk for something that could be shown to Stephen. Anyone got access to a whiteboard and pens?? Humps
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Anyone decided their coming Sunday?? You know you want to!! Humps
PS:: Bump
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ME ME ME, should be good
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Sorry cant make it ...previous commitment.
Good luck to all and dont be tight.
Matt
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Im coming.
I have got to get 3 bikes working in time. One bike is the one I will probably ride tried and tested mid school race bike. The second is my new OS ride that might not work first time so I'll just bring it to try it out. The third is a bike that Im lending to someone cos he only has a slick tyred NS ramp/street bike. I might get away with just lending him a front wheel with a knobby tyre but I want to get the other bike sorted anyway. Right, thats my sat night all sorted!
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I can't come as my finances don't allow it.
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Hope y'all have a great day, and raise lots for Stephen.
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See you there. Humps
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After giving myself a sense of humour bypass last night :-[ we did finally decide to make the trip to MK and it was well worth it.
Steve will be pleased as punch with the way the BMX Community have pulled it together for him.
Only downer was attendance, where were u all :tickedoff:
Think the event raised close to £2K tho :daumenhoch:
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I am gutted to have missed it but had to go and check out the track ready for next week, study for one of two exams I have coming up and generally aquire "brownie points" to spend next weekend at Notts track,
we are donating at least half of all money taken next Sunday to Stephens fund and the other to the club (well its only fair)
fingers crossed we get some people attending now
Well done to the MK Crew for doing this for Stephen, he's a top guy :daumenhoch:
:) DINGO :)
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It was a cracking day at MK with I believe the official figure of £1,625 being raised for the fund (some earlier figures were overstated by the toilet costs and general rushed counting) which is a tremendous kickstart for the Benefit Fund. Personally I had in mind an attendance of 40-50 riders because of the short notice so 87 was quite amazing as I'm sure lots of people had made other arrangements when they thought they had a 'free weekend'. Huge props to the MK Club, especially Moschops, who pulled this all together at such short notice. The BMX family is just that, a family, and we look after our own. Mrs G opined that Stephen has two little angels watching over him and those helping him. Those little angels are Rob Indri and Winnie Wright who cleared the clouds from above MK to give us some fantastric weather after the misery we've suffered recently. This will be the first fundraising event I'm sure and has set the benchmark. Others will have longer to arrange things but this was nothing short of a miracle given the time available to make it happen. People involved today should take a bow, you were great!! Humps
PS: S&M Alex's early race stack and recovery to try and run me off the fourth berm was magic!! Wish I'd seen him coming I could have ducked out the way and let him launch off the top of the berm. He's going to be one to watch in August!!
PPS: Where's the pics Webdawg??
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SO WHO WON THE OLD FARTS FINAL THEN?GUTTED I COULDN'T BE THERE,WENT UP TO DAGGERS WITH TE HARVE AFTER WORK TODAY FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS CHATTING WITH THE LOCAL BATTY BOYZ ;D
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it was a great day
needed more oss riders
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it was a great day
needed more oss riders
Was a shame only 5 of us made it....you really dont know what you missed :daumenhoch:
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SO WHO WON THEN COME ON :)
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Alex Leech "S an M Alex"
Tony Waye "Ratty"
Tony Riley "bmx 796"
Alan Humps "Humps"
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NICE ONE TONE :daumenhoch: WOULD HAVE DEFINATLEY COME IF I DIDN'T HAVE TO FRIGGING WORK
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Its cool, we still have some great races coming up!!! Daggers, MK, Hayes, Hersden and Nottingham this Sunday Coming :daumenhoch:
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Alex Leech "S an M Alex"
Tony Waye "Ratty"
Tony Riley "bmx 796"
Alan Humps "Humps"
More sleep n i woulda raced, 2 hrs sleep is not the way forward :(
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I slipped the pedals about 4 times in the final. I stayed on but a few of them were very close. Ratty was right behind me and I get the feeling he didnt try too hard to get past me. If thats racing manners cos I slipped up, then thanks. Im sure you could have taken me if you'd wanted.
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I slipped the pedals about 4 times in the final. I stayed on but a few of them were very close. Ratty was right behind me and I get the feeling he didnt try too hard to get past me. If thats racing manners cos I slipped up, then thanks. Im sure you could have taken me if you'd wanted.
Alex, you deserved the win, Im not quick enough to do it cleanly, and I STAYED BEHIND COS YOU GOT A CUTE ASS >:D :2funny:
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Alex, you're a good racer! A bit more track practice and you won't be out of place racing your Challenger in the the 30+ class at regionals.
Talking of slipping pedals, I've got 4 gashes in my left calf and some gouges in my right leg after slipping the pedals trying to jump the first double from Lane 1 (no much lip there) in moto 2. Shows how vicious Crupi pedals are. I reckon my calf muscle would've been in shreds if I wasn't wearing my Dainese knee/shin pads. Back to platforms I think if I'm gonna be jumping more.
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Alex, you're a good racer! A bit more track practice and you won't be out of place racing your Challenger in the the 30+ class at regionals.
Talking of slipping pedals, I've got 4 gashes in my left calf and some gouges in my right leg after slipping the pedals trying to jump the first double from Lane 1 (no much lip there) in moto 2. Shows how vicious Crupi pedals are. I reckon my calf muscle would've been in shreds if I wasn't wearing my Dainese knee/shin pads. Back to platforms I think if I'm gonna be jumping more.
we was saying yesterday ya can tell a bmxer a mile off by the state of their calf muscles, :LolLolLolLol:
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we was saying yesterday ya can tell a bmxer a mile off by the state of their calf muscles, :LolLolLolLol:
Thats me out then!! My years riding mini ramps havent done much to build my legs up. I have got a few scars on the shins. I'd wear shin guards but they'd keep slipping off! :2funny:
Alex, you're a good racer! A bit more track practice and you won't be out of place racing your Challenger in the the 30+ class at regionals.
Thanks Mike. Id like to give racing more of a go. Maybe when my boys are a bit older we can all get into it. Im always way impressed by the tiny kids at BMX races. Some of them were jumping some big doubles!
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Well done you lot for going to MK and supporting Stephen. I would love to have gone but I was DJing Saturday night and didnt stagger home untill about 8am Sunday :idiot2:
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You missed a good un mate, sounds like u had a cracking night tho, staggering home at 8am eh ;) :LolLolLolLol: