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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: Trev on February 22, 2008, 09:54 AM
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Saw this pic on the front page and thought it was mental. Anyone know who this is?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/mkportal/modules/coppermine/albums/rom/normal_DSCI0023.jpg)
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gordy the GOD
was taken ageeees ago
and still the highest ive seen any one go in the porformance
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cool stuff.
gordy was up there last sunday. :daumenhoch:
i'd have loved to have seen Jess D ride that bowl. I heard he ruled it BITD.
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Here's a pic for you.
Jerry Galley, 1990.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/riding/jerry-rom1990.jpg)
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that one of jerry is mad
no helmet either
it was a shame i missed him the other sunday at rom
i hope to see him ride soon tho
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Hail Gerry...... :daumenhoch: love that pic
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trev, that pic of gordy, i took that :daumenhoch: :coolsmiley:
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trev, that pic of gordy, i took that :daumenhoch: :coolsmiley:
well it would have to have been..... i thought you had the sole rights to photography at Rom.... :LolLolLolLol:
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Wicked pic by the way Dan. :daumenhoch:
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the pic of gordy has either me or sbd in the black tee shirt drinking tea by the shop...lol...
no change there.
gordy rules
mind you, so does mr galley
Dave
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lol dave that's you in the black t, it can't be me as i was taking the pic ;D
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Mario van peebles
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lol dave that's you in the black t, it can't be me as i was taking the pic ;D
that has got to beat the looptail question surely....
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lol dave that's you in the black t, it can't be me as i was taking the pic ;D
that has got to beat the looptail question surely....
trev, i think he's heading that way :uglystupid2: ;D
he does it here as well ??? :crazy2:
scroll down after i explain what paint it is to daves reply :-\
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=53933.msg556876#msg556876
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lol dave that's you in the black t, it can't be me as i was taking the pic ;D
that has got to beat the looptail question surely....
i doubt it trev, i didnt read dans post, that was my mistake.....your mistake was just pure naive stupidity....lol
fook me i look like a proper unit in that pic....well 'ard
lol
Dave
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lol dave that's you in the black t, it can't be me as i was taking the pic ;D
that has got to beat the looptail question surely....
trev, i think he's heading that way :uglystupid2: ;D
he does it here as well ??? :crazy2:
scroll down after i explain what paint it is to daves reply :-\
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=53933.msg556876#msg556876
yep...cheers dan...ffs
lol
im proper loosing the plot...
Dave
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii38/evamedia/2060052497_58ecc10a32_o.jpg)
Lee Hook R.I.P. probably 1985 , he used to go just as high with just a pair of shorts and a pair of vans.
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii38/evamedia/2060052497_58ecc10a32_o.jpg)
Lee Hook R.I.P. probably 1985 , he used to go just as high with just a pair of shorts and a pair of vans.
Awesome pic!
My main memory of the Performance Bowl is someone, might have been Jess D, doing a bone air, way out and nearly half the bike pushed back and nearly touching the green lamp post behind the bowl.
Anyone remember or got the pic?
Daz.
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I think Jason Hassell used to really "bone" his airs in that performance bowl too.
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My old ridin pal Billy Chaplin from Dalston. Also a notorious "boner" of his airs :daumenhoch:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o154/Sean2000_photos/Billbmx6.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o154/Sean2000_photos/Billbmx2.jpg)
He beat CC in an improvised air comp at one session i remember.......he was one Rad MoFo!
Nick, thats a superb pic of Lee (rip) :-[, and thats my mate Sean Moriarty sitting on his bike in the background, which means i was probably there that day. Its a small world my friend!
Sean.
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Why oh why are so many rad riders no longer with us?
Very sad. :'(
Daz.
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Dunno. I recall speaking to people about this after Colin Winkelmann passed away. Such a tragic loss :(
I don't know how the numbers add up, be we seem to get more than our share in this sport.
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With Lee Hook i believe it was some sort of cancer, as opposed to drugs/suicide related deaths like so many others. :-[
Extreme (for want of a better term) sports seem to attract "extreme" characters, i think it goes hand in hand!
R.I.P Brothers, however you have fallen.
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Great pics - Love Gerry's chicken air. This is a fav pic of Tony Mac. Boned and scketched out with style...that P- Bowl is an amazing bowl...I still have dreams of doing air in that bowl...sometimes I pull too far from the lip in the dream and drift off to the drain at the bottom...it's a really scary dream.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m280/ramprat69/IMG_5361.jpg)
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Bowl is an amazing bowl...I still have dreams of doing air in that bowl...sometimes I pull too far from the lip in the dream and drift off to the drain at the bottom...it's a really scary dream.
Mmmmmm.....maybe some therapy might be in order Damon ;D
Daz.
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With Lee Hook i believe it was some sort of cancer, as opposed to drugs/suicide related deaths like so many others. :-[
Extreme (for want of a better term) sports seem to attract "extreme" characters, i think it goes hand in hand!
R.I.P Brothers, however you have fallen.
Non-hodgkins Lymphoma I think. Lee always pushed the limits of whatever he was doing, miss that bloke.
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Daz - yeah - think you're onto something there...do feel a bit nutty these days :uglystupid2:
Bowl is an amazing bowl...I still have dreams of doing air in that bowl...sometimes I pull too far from the lip in the dream and drift off to the drain at the bottom...it's a really scary dream.
Mmmmmm.....maybe some therapy might be in order Damon ;D
Daz.
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I think Jason Hassell used to really "bone" his airs in that performance bowl too.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s123/stumpy0711/JasonHassel.jpg)
Here 's the pic of Hassel Trev.
Oh an one of me..
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s123/stumpy0711/TAlookback2.jpg)
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stumpy, that has got to be one of the best lookbacks EVER!
New School ones are a whole different style to the way they were done in the 80s, and many 80s ones didnt really get the bars right round. That one is spot bo11ok on! :daumenhoch:
Love it!
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Cheers Alex, means alot to me to read that, especially from a legend like yourself!
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There's a few urban myths about the performance bowl, no ones getting close to boning as far as the post, it must be nearly a bike length.
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There's a few urban myths about the performance bowl, no ones getting close to boning as far as the post, it must be nearly a bike length.
........ "Boning and hittin the post" ..... "getting higher than the post" ...... "Dont, dont, dont, dont, dont believe The Hype" ;D
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My mate fondly tells the story of a very young Neil Ruffell spending most of one afternoon sat on his bike next to that lamp post just looking at the bowl. Eventually he must have got his head around what he was going to try, he got up on his pedals and from the lamp post just rode straight into the bowl.
And I do mean straight in. No carving in, no hop, nowt. Just straight off the edge with an almighty lump of body english to make it.
My mate calls it the raddest thing he ever saw :daumenhoch:
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One word here "JUICE"!!!!! someone must have pics????
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I spent half my teenage years around the performance bowl - I think Damon took these (apart from the last one - that was Tim LB) - cheers mate
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-Rom-1983.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-Rom1983.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-ROM5-1983.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-Rom4-1983.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-Rom3-1983.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj90/ralphtribe/Ralph-BMX-ActionBikeCover-1984.jpg)
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just in case Damon claims these are pics of him above they're not (like he did with that Ashtead Crew shot - ha ha) - they're not Damon, they're me - Ralph Tribe the guru of the gang - lol