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Southsea comps, and early backyard comps were pretty influential and would deserve some coverage. One rider who definitely needs to be interviewed would be Gerry Galley. That guy killed it and Id love to hear him talk about that era.
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Quote from: harris on September 01, 2012, 05:28 PMsano.Yes! team Sano were awesome. I bet Gogo would have some awesome stories.
RADLANDS the early comps there were awesome!
Ive got a SANO story that still makes me laugh to this day...A few years ago I wanted to get to the Coventry backyard jam but had no lift there. The guys from Dig magazine said I could get a ride with them if I worked in their booth for a few hours each day selling magazines and t shirts. I took them up on their offer and spent most of the day selling shirts and mags. One kid in particular had come past 2 or 3 times begging his mom for a Dig T shirt but she wasn't having any of it. Then on the sunday he arrived with a massive smile on his face saying his mom had given him the money for a T shirt, and he was going to get all the pros to sign it. This kid was over the moon! Im talking monumental moment in his life type of excitement.... Anyway, over the rest of the day I saw him running around getting all the pros to sign it. By late afternoon the shirt was almost full and the kids was beaming with his backyard souvenir. Next thing I notice he walks up to Gogo with a big smile on his face and asks him to sign his prize T shirt. Gogo naturally obliges, and proceeds to draw a MASSIVE cock-a-doodle-do and balls right on the front of the T shirt!!!!! The kids face just dropped and all the hours of excitement just drained from him in seconds. The kid was GUTTED!!!! He walked away with his head hanging down looking like he was about to burst into tears. Ive never seen a kid so broken in my life. To this day thats the one thing I remember from the Coventry backyard jam. I can hardly remember any of the riding but team SANO destroying that kids dreams remains clear as day. haha