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neiljonarcus

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Re: South Shields Old School BMX riders..
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2009, 06:39 AM »
we  used to  pedal down  to  conways  from  hebburn  on a saturday  . and  i had  my  £3 pocket money  so  i bought  fook  alll  "tramp"

tosser

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« Reply #26 on: February 07, 2009, 12:25 PM »
Always remember the journey's to shields amongst others,I live in Consett and bitd myself and a few mates would have a road trip with our Northern bus express Day pass,We would take the bikes to bits ,chuck them in bin bags so we could get them on the bus and head off down to Newcastle,usually hit Westgate rd first and spend ages in Kaw/Newcastle and riding around the city centre and then head further up to another bike shop just past the general hospital,can't remember the name now.Later wrap the bikes up again,jump the metro barrier and head down to Shields,remember Conways pretty well,but don't remember riding shields very much,but those little road trips when we were youngins were the best.
they where called explorer tickets

PK6061

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« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2009, 02:20 PM »
yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
     i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
     i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
     prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
     have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
     back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
     race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
     group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
     greavsie.   

suts89

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« Reply #28 on: February 09, 2009, 03:08 AM »
Wye Eye, :laugh: Deans a friend of mine.

Are you going to post those pictures of Prossa?

suts89

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« Reply #29 on: February 09, 2009, 03:17 AM »
What aboot Maxwell Street Motors, anyone remeber the the quarter pipe they had out the back?

Had some canny bikes as well, not up the same standard as Conways i dont think?

tigerbrown

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« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2009, 11:51 AM »
yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
     i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
     i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
     prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
     have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
     back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
     race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
     group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
     greavsie.   
heres some photos of dean i got off facebook i know he wont mind.. al phone him in a moment.... wish i had some pics off BITD
the one of dean and prosser isnt great but can you see the difference in size!!!! gary was a bigun haha





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Re: South Shields Old School BMX riders..
« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2009, 04:26 PM »
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Always remember the journey's to shields amongst others,I live in Consett and bitd myself and a few mates would have a road trip with our Northern bus express Day pass,We would take the bikes to bits ,chuck them in bin bags so we could get them on the bus and head off down to Newcastle,usually hit Westgate rd first and spend ages in Kaw/Newcastle and riding around the city centre and then head further up to another bike shop just past the general hospital,can't remember the name now.Later wrap the bikes up again,jump the metro barrier and head down to Shields,remember Conways pretty well,but don't remember riding shields very much,but those little road trips when we were youngins were the best.
they where called explorer tickets
That's them,cheers mate.......

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Re: South Shields Old School BMX riders..
« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2009, 04:32 PM »
yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
     i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
     i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
     prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
     have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
     back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
     race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
     group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
     greavsie.   
Gary,i'll have to scan those photo's for ya one day.I remember seeing those redline cranks in Conways,should have known you would get there first :LolLolLolLol:

moanjam

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« Reply #33 on: February 09, 2009, 04:32 PM »
yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
     i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
     i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
     prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
     have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
     back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
     race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
     group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
     greavsie.   
alright I am said dean ditchburn

moanjam

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« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2009, 04:38 PM »
yip paul did have an overall'' a top fella with some great 80's stories.
     i have one of the conways stickers on a raceinc i got off bigplinky.
     i founds some old pics of the washington track with some of gary
     prosser on his kz 1. also some pics of the grass track that must
     have been 81 ish and gary would have been on the supergoose
     back then some pics of a rider with gary on a redline with redline
     race gear could be a rider called belly from shields. in my age
     group i raced against two riders from shields dean ditchburn and
     greavsie.   
heres some photos of dean i got off facebook i know he wont mind.. al phone him in a moment.... wish i had some pics off BITD
the one of dean and prosser isnt great but can you see the difference in size!!!! gary was a bigun haha





nice one tiger , might change me mind and ride the goose this summer !!!!!!!!!

PK6061

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« Reply #35 on: February 10, 2009, 10:15 PM »
will get the pics on soon as. my name is also gary my dad  used to help
      out with the washington club i rode a pro star and had a mongoose
      shirt white body red sleves. never missed a race at the washington
      track. some more names from washington- mark robson, sox, wilco,
      andy ray or car cant remember, nick hardy, dave murry barry meyer
      and steve james. ;) them redlines still going strong jay ;D     
 

PK6061

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« Reply #36 on: February 10, 2009, 11:20 PM »
hi dean did you remember mike chilvers came to washington (factory pro star)
    he rode with all of us outside hendersons on sat and raced sunday sold his
    bike to sox telling him it was a factory model 2'' longer than my pro star
    a month or so later we got the tape out' same size  :LolLolLolLol: still a
    top rider and a cool scam. ;)

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« Reply #37 on: February 11, 2009, 08:45 AM »
Some pics of Kawasaki Newcastlewhen eddie Fiola and Dave Breed came over.......


tigerbrown

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« Reply #38 on: February 11, 2009, 10:58 AM »
some lovely photos there matey... look at all the gear in the background!!!!... takes me back... theres a sound bloke who owns a mtb shop in south shields A-S cycles who served his time in kawasaki as a youngun... was talking bout when they brought eddie fiola over just the other day... some good memories!! sez it was unreal the amount of money they were taking BITD.. selling thousands of pounds worth of gear out the back of the van round race tracks on a weekend!!!

moanjam

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« Reply #39 on: February 11, 2009, 07:50 PM »
some crackin pics there jay, dug this out





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« Reply #40 on: February 11, 2009, 08:01 PM »
Wow,the things people hold onto still amaze me........nice


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Re: South Shields Old School BMX riders..
« Reply #41 on: February 15, 2009, 08:41 PM »
Here ya go Gary..........your pics.




PK6061

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« Reply #42 on: February 16, 2009, 06:29 PM »
thanks jay :daumenhoch:
                first three pics gary prosser on his new factory kz1 at the washington track.
                next one me on the pro-star (with goose shirt on)
                next could be conways rider?
                me on the murry grass track.
                its me again with john anderson and dad
                trophy time with bloke from hendersons.
                next john and barry with deans dad in the background ?
                next dont no,
                gary again,
                peter dark of dark cycles No85.
                and me at the end. ;D

suts89

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« Reply #43 on: February 17, 2009, 03:07 AM »
Class ;D

It would great to see any pics of Conways from BITD.

I remember on a weekend outside the shop was chocka block with kids on BMX ;D

tigerbrown

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« Reply #44 on: February 17, 2009, 07:10 PM »
thanks jay :daumenhoch:
                first three pics gary prosser on his new factory kz1 at the washington track.
                next one me on the pro-star (with goose shirt on)
                next could be conways rider?
                me on the murry grass track.
                its me again with john anderson and dad
                trophy time with bloke from hendersons.
                next john and barry with deans dad in the background ?
                next dont no,
                gary again,
                peter dark of dark cycles No85.
                and me at the end. ;D
nice pics matey :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #45 on: December 15, 2018, 10:03 AM »
Hi everyone.
I know this is an old thread, but I’m hoping the people who have posted on it are still active - or perhaps with this post being bumped to the top it may get new views from people in the area.

A local charity called Tyneside Outdoors are doing a Lottery Heritage Funded project on the old BMX track at Temple Park South Shields.

As it has alot of overgrowth and trees that have grown over the past 20-30years.

I’ve been helping them myself doing the work which is basically just heavy gardening work.

I used to use the track around 1990-1995 as a young lad as I lived nearby.
The track is very narrow nowadays and more mud than the loose stone surface that I remember it having back then.

Not only are Tyneside Outdoors doing physical work on the track to try and restore it to it’s former glory as best as possible, they’re looking at the heritage history side of it too.
So if anyone has any photos/history information or perhaps even just good old memories it would be great to let them know.

For example I always remember me and my mates would enter the track from the right hand side and exit the left hand side going in an anti clockwise direction.
But maybe it was used in both directions?

I’ve uploaded some videos to Youtube of a cycle around it I done in December 2018, if you search youtube for Temple park bmx, they should come up.

Check out Tyneside Outdoors Facebook page and also the page they setup on Facebook for the project called Temple Park BMX Dirt Track.

Thankyou

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« Reply #46 on: December 20, 2018, 12:09 AM »
Richie greenhalgh does an old school bmx ride every may bank holiday weekend, great weekend out
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« Reply #47 on: December 20, 2018, 12:10 AM »
Oops, only 10 years too late to reply
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