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Title: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Flatcap on December 22, 2008, 10:08 PM
No question for me on this - Pipeline!

Man I would have killed to ride that place bitd! It's such a shame it's no longer with us!!

Daz.
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Post by: bmxer4ever on December 22, 2008, 10:16 PM
No question for me on this - Pipeline!

Man I would have killed to ride that place bitd! It's such a shame it's no longer with us!!

Daz.

Missed it by weeks or days or somethin...!

I was in Cali. when it was still there, but never got to it.

Big bloody scary place though - but would have been a memory to cherish had I made it there.

Tell you what though - I made the terrible mistake of NOT riding Wilkerson's halfpipe when I lived 2 mins from it. (For 2 months!!)
Rode it on one of the last days and instantly got 4 foot over the canyon just messin' about on Jason Hassells kuwahara....
Now that is big regret. It was so easy to ride.
If I started ridfing it from day one.......who knows??!!
G
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: CD17 on December 23, 2008, 01:16 PM
I never rode Harrow, even though I lived about twenty miles from there. Will have to soon, maybe the old fools will go there next year  8)

Also would like to go to livingston ( is that how you spell it ) looks a great place  :)
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: andy619 on December 23, 2008, 04:01 PM
Harrow and Livingston.  I rode at ROM twice and Southsea once, but I really didn't like under-vert transitions so I didn't ride much.  I kind of just rolled around and watched the locals shred.  The second time at ROM I did air the performance bowl.  Maybe in 2009 or 2010 I will ride in the UK again and hit those spots.  Mike Buff had a really nice ramp that I saw but didn't ride.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on December 23, 2008, 04:05 PM
Harrow and Livingston.  I rode at ROM twice and Southsea once, but I really didn't like under-vert transitions so I didn't ride much.  I kind of just rolled around and watched the locals shred.  The second time at ROM I did air the performance bowl.  Maybe in 2009 or 2010 I will ride in the UK again and hit those spots.  Mike Buff had a really nice ramp that I saw but didn't ride.

next time your over andy we will take you to harrow
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Post by: Stodgy on December 23, 2008, 04:05 PM
Good call on the Pipeline.

I would have loved to have ridden Livingstone and Knebworth too...never got round to it.
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Post by: adenough on December 23, 2008, 04:07 PM
No question for me on this - Pipeline!

Man I would have killed to ride that place bitd! It's such a shame it's no longer with us!!

Daz.
beat me too it, i was in awe everytime i saw a pic of that place.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: adenough on December 23, 2008, 04:08 PM
No question for me on this - Pipeline!

Man I would have killed to ride that place bitd! It's such a shame it's no longer with us!!

Daz.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: trill on December 23, 2008, 04:42 PM
del mar and lakewood skateparks.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Rombloke on December 23, 2008, 04:56 PM
obviously im no freestyle guru, but i thought livi wasnt all that....drove the 500 miles to do it tho

Dave
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Stodgy on December 23, 2008, 05:15 PM
obviously im no freestyle guru, but i thought livi wasnt all that....drove the 500 miles to do it tho

Dave

Heard that from a few Dave, I suppose it's because it was just so legendary after the Fiola/Dominguez session...Knebworth was meant to be shite too.

Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Flatcap on December 23, 2008, 05:29 PM
I thought Livi was pretty cool.

Smaller than I expected but still a cool place.

It's a bit like the "Rom pool Zak Shaw air" though, unless you've seen it you really don't appreciate how good Framey was in it - he ruled!!

Any excuse to post up my fav Livi pic  ::)

Daz.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j46/Flatcap1968/LIVI.jpg)
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: macky on December 23, 2008, 06:01 PM
No question for me on this - Pipeline!

Man I would have killed to ride that place bitd! It's such a shame it's no longer with us!!

Daz.


I was thinking Pipline just looking at the thread title!!!  :)

Would have loved to gone there!!!

Also, not sure where this halfpipe was... the 2hip King of vert contests in 88/ 89...

This is the only pic i could find on Google...  recognise it from the wierd tree hanging over it!!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/fbu8812.jpg)

always wanted to go there!!



Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Voodoocars on December 23, 2008, 06:22 PM
Is it the pipeline that was at Upland CA you are all on about cause if you are its been rebuit.You can see it on google earth- coordinates are 34' 06'11.89" N     117' 38' 03.37"W    Its on the San Bernadino road Upland CA just by the junction of N 13th Ave.I read about it on some website a while ago. I rode Rom 25 years ago and every summer I say that I'm gonna go back.I havnt yet but I will...
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Flatcap on December 23, 2008, 06:24 PM
Wasn't it the Enchanted Ramp in Wilkerson's back yard Dave??

Gaz F will be able to tell us.

My favourite Blyther pic from that ramp.

Daz.  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j46/Flatcap1968/BlytherEnchanted.jpg)
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: OrgasmDonor on December 23, 2008, 06:33 PM
nothing as exotic for me, there used to be a place in dunston rd hartlepool where i started riding bmx and it was awesome but got demolished before i could really appreciate it, would love a day there now
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Flatcap on December 23, 2008, 06:36 PM
nothing as exotic for me, there used to be a place in dunston rd hartlepool where i started riding bmx and it was awesome but got demolished before i could really appreciate it, would love a day there now

Fooking brilliant Daz....we're all talking about really cool well known places like Southern California etc. and you pipe up about a place in Hartlepool were you live!!!

Top man, best laugh I've had all day.

Daz.  :LolLolLolLol:
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Post by: macky on December 23, 2008, 07:09 PM

Thats the one Daz!!!  :daumenhoch:

The Enchanted ramp!! That thing must have seen some AMAZING contests!!!

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Post by: teamsano on December 24, 2008, 01:00 PM
HELLTRACK
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: oldschool rider on December 24, 2008, 07:21 PM
PIPELINE and Old Kelvingrove, skated kelvingrove but never biked it.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: DML on December 24, 2008, 07:58 PM
It's got to be Livi in the UK the pipeline in the US

Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: teamsano on December 24, 2008, 10:26 PM
PIPELINE and Old Kelvingrove, skated kelvingrove but never biked it.

 i rode and skated old and new kelvingrove, bet theres not many folk have done that.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: bmxer4ever on December 25, 2008, 01:42 AM
Wasn't it the Enchanted Ramp in Wilkerson's back yard Dave??

Gaz F will be able to tell us.

My favourite Blyther pic from that ramp.

Daz.  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j46/Flatcap1968/BlytherEnchanted.jpg)

My god.....what a place.....

Kev Martin and Ron check out Joe's air.......
(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/California%201988/CALI88-12.jpg)

Oops.....I missed the lip...
(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/California%201988/CALI88-14.jpg)

Mike F@ckin' Canning....
(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/California%201988/CALI88-20.jpg)

Seal.....taken from the tree......
(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/California%201988/CALI88-25.jpg)

All I want for Christmas is a Time Machine.......

G ;)
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: jedi on December 25, 2008, 08:46 AM
i always wanted to ride pipelline.
i rode harrow this year after years of wishing i had.
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: DJ on December 25, 2008, 07:19 PM
Del Mar & there was an old snake run on the Isle Of Wight that Stevie B found online a while back, all broken & sketchy but looked a load of fun... we were planning a day over there but a local contacted Steve & said it had been demo'd just weeks earlier, gutted.
I like these old sketchy concrete places (like southsea!) not too perfect y'know?
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: OrgasmDonor on December 25, 2008, 07:27 PM
nothing as exotic for me, there used to be a place in dunston rd hartlepool where i started riding bmx and it was awesome but got demolished before i could really appreciate it, would love a day there now

Fooking brilliant Daz....we're all talking about really cool well known places like Southern California etc. and you pipe up about a place in Hartlepool were you live!!!

Top man, best laugh I've had all day.

Daz.  :LolLolLolLol:

you fookin asked  :LolLolLolLol: the place was a dirt jumpers dream, i just never got good enough quick enough to really let rip
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Post by: steve1275 on December 25, 2008, 07:55 PM
Yo DJ    Golden hill fort park must be the one on the iow you mean.. we rode and skated that place, pretty sketchy but was all we had..
went over the island a couple of years ago to look for it and its now  a power station or something,,
RAD TIMES
DARREN FREESTON AIRING THE HIP CIRCA 1985..  IOW GOLDEN HILL FORT..
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/f374/steve1275/2007_0514new0006Small.jpg)

Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Jamie C on December 26, 2008, 08:04 PM
[img width= height=]http://www.oldskaters.com/skateboard/16/rolling_thunder1.jpg[/img]

Rolling Thunder!  Seems like a regression from here to now.
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Post by: TwoBobRob on December 26, 2008, 09:19 PM
Rolling Thunder for me too.
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Post by: billstup on December 26, 2008, 10:15 PM
Rolling Thunder for me too.


Where was that ?

I rode Mad Dog Bowl in the Old Kent Rd on a skateboard, that could have been ok for a bike  ???
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 26, 2008, 10:25 PM
London somewhere....  Peerless used to talk about it all the time.  Indoor, wooden......  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Old School place you never got to ride but would have loved to.
Post by: Guillotte on December 27, 2008, 03:02 AM
Upland and Del Mar.
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