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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:06 PM

Title: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:06 PM: :) Anyone here ever ride at Harrow 83-89?

James
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Trev on August 02, 2007, 04:07 PM: that sounds like one looooong session.... you must have had a lot of relentless (or it's 80's quivilent)
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:09 PM: :)Yeah,Jolt Cola!
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:21 PM: Yep - There is quite a few of us...

Me and Quadrophenia Pete for a start...hold on let me go grab some pics out of my photobucket...
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:27 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/harrow.jpg)

Me at Harrow:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_6.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_5.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_4.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_3.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_2.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/meharrow_1.jpg)

Forgotten this guys name now...complete blank...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/harrow_unknown_2_72dpi.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/harrow_unknown_72dpi.jpg)
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: theRuler on August 02, 2007, 04:29 PM: ace pics
that place looks wicked!
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:30 PM: :) Wow! I remember a Mat Bain ,who skated as well pulling a 360 out of the deep end of the snake run and over the fence,also Pete Dossett who later became a pro skater for Deathbox doing mad high airs in the halfpipe.
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:32 PM: Couple more 'landing' pics, but they show the lovely tight halfpipe!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/dave_harrow_2_72dpi.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/dave_harrow_1_72dpi.jpg)

Oh yeah, Matt Bains fricking rocked!!!

Here's me with Matt and some other bloke called Fiola after the GT world Tour at Harrow Leisure Center in 85:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/me_fiola_72dpi.jpg)
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:34 PM: :)Cheers.I have a nostalgic tear in my eye!
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:37 PM: Pete's got a load more pics...

So, what's your name? what did you used to ride? Any pics?
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: zed4130 on August 02, 2007, 04:38 PM: yep i rode there im 83-85 , mainly 83, love watching tc, that guy was cool :daumenhoch:
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Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:42 PM: :) James ,sorry no pics-rode a Supergoose 2 in a candy red plastic??? finish,sort of like a Superburner finish-never seen another like it since.
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:45 PM: Where did ya live James?
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: zed4130 on August 02, 2007, 04:49 PM: oh 83 mag burner :crazy2: 84 chrome ta then a white ripper once :-\ and a white dp firebird :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:53 PM: Quote from: ZED on August 02, 2007, 04:49 PM
oh 83 mag burner :crazy2: 84 chrome ta then a white ripper once :-\ and a white dp firebird :daumenhoch:

Pics pics pics!
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 02, 2007, 04:56 PM: :) Last I heard,Mat Bain was running a snowboard camp in Chamonix.The `Goose got nicked from outside a sweetshop near Harrow Leisure centre,then got an Ammaco freestyle pro.
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: zed4130 on August 02, 2007, 05:13 PM: Quote from: Stodgy on August 02, 2007, 04:53 PM
Quote from: ZED on August 02, 2007, 04:49 PM
oh 83 mag burner :crazy2: 84 chrome ta then a white ripper once :-\ and a white dp firebird :daumenhoch:

Pics pics pics!
none im afraid :-\ got a album full , but my ex has them and ive been trying to get them for 12 years now, , :-\ no good pics anyway, but there are some pics of my bikes , ill keep trying ???
Title: Re: Harrow Skatepark
Post by: MartyC on August 02, 2007, 05:26 PM: I rode there a lot but from 1980 through to 1985. No photo's though, something I now regret :LolLolLolLol: