Author Topic: PIVOTS (Read 11791 times)

FAZE3 · « **on:** September 12, 2011, 05:21 PM »

How about a post showing off that specialist old school skill, pivoting

The kids have no idea

Here's a couple of mine from bitd.

love this pic, just because of the ramp

Every weekend we'd nick loads of materials off the building site, only to find it all gone again monday after school

theRuler · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2011, 05:37 PM »

Wicked! Love the toe toucher kickturn.

Here is me kickturning at the bowls near to Yate Rocks, back in 2003

FAZE3 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 17, 2011, 01:15 PM »

Oh well, maybe it was just me & the Ruler who did pivots $:-\$

theRuler · « **Reply #3 on:** September 17, 2011, 01:54 PM »

Kickturns mate!

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #4 on:** September 17, 2011, 07:34 PM »

What a coincidence... I've scanned some in of me from Rom '84. I'll post em up tomorrow sometime.

Betty · « **Reply #5 on:** September 17, 2011, 10:55 PM »

Quote from: the®uler on September 17, 2011, 01:54 PM

Kickturns mate!

I was thinking the same... Pivots?...

Kickturns!

FAZE3 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2011, 01:48 PM »

kickturns

oh yeah, time plays havoc with the mind

stumpy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2011, 09:21 PM »

Hey ya'll, not been on here in a while, but love a good kickturn me. Here's some old pics.

Stumpy

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #8 on:** September 19, 2011, 09:34 AM »

Here's a few of me from my Ammaco days. Rom '84. The last shot is a rampstall, I'm just hopping back in. I would have fakied out to a slider or a 540 revert probably.

Please note the complete lack of colour on my bike. And who says it's just new school bikes that are all black....

Nana · « **Reply #9 on:** September 19, 2011, 11:17 AM »

Lol great pictures..........i dont have any ....we was that poor then $:-\$

theRuler · « **Reply #10 on:** September 20, 2011, 10:11 AM »

Great pics Rob!

And Stumpy - love that no hander.

I take it coasters were the order of the day at Rom?

beard1973 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 20, 2011, 10:15 AM »

Wicked pics...

Great to see these... when BMX was just MASSIVE.

In pic two.... the guy in the rollerboots... he just looks SOOOOO wrong...

ukoldschool · « **Reply #12 on:** September 20, 2011, 01:14 PM »

Thats Ted. Nice fella, him and his rollerboot mates used to maraud around the town centre most evenings where me and my mates would be praqctising no handed cowboys and making ramps out of the market stall boards....

ED209 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 20, 2011, 01:20 PM »

pre DP one hander on a shit ramp at a village fete demo

ED209 · « **Reply #14 on:** September 20, 2011, 01:25 PM »

I will scan and post the BMX Action Bike 'Out There' on Brum with the kickturn legend Eddie Keogh... he had the BEST styles and on a sweet Hutch

I love kickturns... still trying to perfect my Lawnmover kickturn

heres a lone footer from a recent Boardroom session

pickle · « **Reply #15 on:** September 20, 2011, 01:34 PM »

Ed, that pre DP one.......is that your sister?

evamedia · « **Reply #16 on:** September 20, 2011, 01:40 PM »

About 85, seem to have run out of ramp

stumpy · « **Reply #17 on:** September 20, 2011, 02:03 PM »

Great pics all, Coasters were king back then,

Rob, I remember you being super smooth, did you used to do the little hop at the end of the turn?

Stumpy

ED209 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 20, 2011, 02:12 PM »

Quote from: pickle on September 20, 2011, 01:34 PM

Ed, that pre DP one.......is that your sister?

no its not my sister... I got my D and O mixed up... should have read pre OP

FAZE3 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 20, 2011, 02:15 PM »

Great pic's, so I was the only person calling um pivots then

Love the pic's Stumpy, all proper. Your no hander puts mine to shame, particularly like the kid in the background on the 1st pic, exaggerating how high he's getting

Rob, all yours look great, again proper 80's style. The fat skater really steals the show though

, how many bikes are there, every kid must of had one.

Quote from: pickle on September 20, 2011, 01:34 PM

Ed, that pre DP one.......is that your sister?

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #20 on:** September 20, 2011, 08:00 PM »

It saddens me to have to tell you all that the skater, Ted Eden - my oldest friend - died back in 2001.

Ruler - Yes mate. For the most part round here, racers ran spokes and freestylers ran coaster Zs or Tuffs.

ukoldschool - I was one of those skaters in Romford town at night. I've skated since I was 13 and when I retired from riding (shortly after these photos actually) I went on to play street hockey in the Central London League for a few years. Street skating in London and Romford, rollerdiscos & hockey at the weekends was my life for a good while.

Stumpy - No hops for me brother!! Just the occasional one to get a 540 revert all the way round, but that's it.

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #21 on:** September 20, 2011, 09:49 PM »

rob that's a fookin wig

ukoldschool · « **Reply #22 on:** September 21, 2011, 08:58 AM »

Sorry to hear about Ted. He was a nice bloke (think he lived near the park in the posh bit from memory?). He used to bring his old deck - a very fooked up Alan Gelfand with the nastiest pizza tape I ever saw and massive powell cubics to romford some evenings and we used to borrow it off him to mess about on (we skated and bmx'd back then). My lasting memory of Ted would be rolling through Romford on his skates with a big box on his shoulder blasting out a tune which I can remember in my head but have no idea what it was called. Rob, you werent the guy that used to drive a yellow escort van were you?

curtispro · « **Reply #23 on:** September 21, 2011, 08:59 AM »

Here's one of me at a village demo back in 83? on my spray painted halfords turbo enjoy

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #24 on:** September 21, 2011, 11:15 AM »

Quote from: ukoldschool on September 21, 2011, 08:58 AM

Sorry to hear about Ted. He was a nice bloke (think he lived near the park in the posh bit from memory?). He used to bring his old deck - a very fooked up Alan Gelfand with the nastiest pizza tape I ever saw and massive powell cubics to romford some evenings and we used to borrow it off him to mess about on (we skated and bmx'd back then). My lasting memory of Ted would be rolling through Romford on his skates with a big box on his shoulder blasting out a tune which I can remember in my head but have no idea what it was called. Rob, you werent the guy that used to drive a yellow escort van were you?

Yeah, the family are still in that house in Gidea Park. Ted moved out to Laindon in the early 90s and that was his downfall sadly, managed to surround himself in scumbags.

I didn't have a yellow van back then, I was driving either a green cavalier coupe or a red cavalier saloon - you know, the old rear wheel drive ones. Ted had a gold MK4 Cortina and a couple of RS2000s.

We had a mutual friend called Kev (dark hair, big nose) who drove a yellow van. A Marina van from memory. He wasn't much of a skater though but you might have seen him hanging out with us around Romford.

Author Topic: PIVOTS (Read 11791 times)

FAZE3

theRuler

FAZE3

theRuler

FAZE3

stumpy

Nana

theRuler

ukoldschool

evamedia

stumpy

FAZE3

ukoldschool

curtispro