martin aparijo 1986

[theRuler]

instead of another eddie fiola replica, build one of these

[gary4130]

nice pic ,got any more of him ?

[WizardWeb]

I was always curious about the half a framestander on the right side of the bike. I don't recall anyone else using that.... So yeah a good candidate for a build I'd say.

[Trev]

I was always curious about the half a framestander on the right side of the bike. I don't recall anyone else using that.... So yeah a good candidate for a build I'd say.

sorry mate, you've lost me there.    what do you mean by half a framestander?

[WizardWeb]

No worries Trev, look at the decade pic above, he has white framestaders in the proper place, but a chrome sawn off framestander pointing down from the axle. I guess he used it for more support when the bike was upside down....etc...

I'll see if I can dig out a pic where you can see it better.....

[Trev]

Ah, I see it.. I know Martin used to do a lot of upside down wheelie style tricks.

How tight would that axle nut have had to be to hold his weight as it doesn't appear to be supported by anything else..

[WizardWeb]

Unless he cut some groove in it or something so it locked with the white one, then that could support the other one. his weight would force the white one against the chainstay in the way it was designed.

Or maybe it did slip like hell, that's why no one else copied it ! 

[SaMAlex]

I think it was a sponsorship thing. Flatland was starting to move toward upsidedown bike stuff that was better suited to using normal Pegs, but GT were still trying to push their foot stander things. Martin had to use a second "door handle" on one side to do a few upside down bike tricks, even though using a  peg would have been much better. The extra stander did have a notch that fitted into the other stander so it might have held OK ... until it bent and snapped Im guessing.

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[buissonrouge]

Brahim the OldFlatlander scanned the whole magazine (BMX Action Bike march 1986)
 
http://freestyle.bmx.free.fr/BMXAB_0386.zip

We are missing some pages.
theRuler, can you please scan pages 35, 36, 37, 38 (circa 200dpi) and email them to me buissonrouge@23mag.com
Thanks.


We also have on our own forum a pretty big martin aparijo topic. It's in french but still worth a look : http://rothenbusch.free.fr/phpBB2/viewtopic.php't=785&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0