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Rom perfomance bowel
« on: February 07, 2007, 03:47 PM »
I found a old pic of the performance bowel of rom and it had more vert.



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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2007, 03:51 PM »
oooooooooer great pic.must have been very early.

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 03:52 PM »
 dam thats looks a beast of a bowl, the surface looks good back then  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 04:22 PM »
Yep that bowl certainly looks like it could turn your BOWELS upside down mate..... ;)

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2007, 04:23 PM »
hehe was on the same thought  :D

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2007, 04:25 PM »
fook didnt realise it used to be like that 


anyone  remember it like that ??

yoda

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2007, 04:26 PM »
surely Billy was around then....... ;D

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2007, 04:34 PM »
I think I saw some photo's that Superbikedan had when it was like that..

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2007, 04:36 PM »
Yep that bowl certainly looks like it could turn your BOWELS upside down mate..... ;)

tee hee, me also !!
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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2007, 04:38 PM »

wow! what a great find... i never realised it used to be bigger.  :shocked:

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2007, 05:46 PM »

wow! what a great find... i never realised it used to be bigger.  :shocked:

I didn't realise until a guy at work told me - he used to skateboard there when it was like that

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2007, 05:49 PM »
Oh yeah........  it had the same wall as the halfpipe. Hence the name 'Performance'.   If you speak to an oldschool skater about it you'll find that they call it a budget bowl now the wall is gone.

I started riding in 82 and it was long gone by then   :'(


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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2007, 06:29 PM »
Holy shite-sticks! That's MASSIVE!

Never ever knew it had been like that and I rode it from about 83...

Awesome pic dude.

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2007, 06:40 PM »
ace pic

not what i was expecting though


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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2007, 07:09 PM »
I skated there when it was like that, Harrow's performance bowl was the same too...

Rodga Harvey getting some air!



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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2007, 07:35 PM »
I have seen that pic of Harrow with the extension but never of Rom. That "performance" bowl at Harrow is still coverd up, right? They have dug up the peanut and the skate bowl that were both filled in for most of the 90s as well

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2007, 10:10 PM »
I have seen that pic of Harrow with the extension but never of Rom. That "performance" bowl at Harrow is still coverd up, right? They have dug up the peanut and the skate bowl that were both filled in for most of the 90s as well

Yeah, legend has it they tried to dig the peanut bowl out back in the late 80's but found an old Ford Escort buried in it so just filled it back in as it was too much work to get the car out  :idiot2:


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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2007, 10:15 PM »



marty we tried to dig it out, there was no car in it, come the monday the council filled it back in

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2007, 10:20 PM »



marty we tried to dig it out, there was no car in it, come the monday the council filled it back in

Thanks Pete, that's another urban legend up is smoke  :LolLolLolLol:


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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2007, 10:54 PM »
is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2007, 12:00 AM »
is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.

Alex, I don't think the Classic Pool as it used to be called has ever been filled in, always been open for as long as I can remember  :daumenhoch:


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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2007, 01:39 PM »
The first few times I went there, prob in the early 90s, the white fugure 8 shaped pool with the propper pool coping was filled in and so was the peanut. I had seen pictures of the white bowl (Andy Ruffell on the cover on BMXA number 3?) and the first time I rode it I was amazed how kinked the transition was and with the funny roll in thing, that may have been added later. I havent been there since the peanut had been dug out.

Here is a pic of Harrow and it shows everything empty apart from the bowl that used to have extra vert (like the half pipe), and also a pic of how that bowl used to be.




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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2007, 07:27 PM »
im sure i saw a picture back in the day of crazylegs airing as high as the lamp post at rom,when i went there two years ago i could'nt  believe how he could get so high out that bowl but the extra vert bit explains that one,still rad..

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2007, 08:09 PM »
it cant be rom it looks to clean...  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Rom perfomance bowel
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2007, 08:34 PM »
is that right that the peanut is ridable now? I saw a pic (on here I think) and it looked like it was dug out. During the 90s the skate bowl, perfornamce and peanut were all filled in but the last time I went (A while ago) the skate bowl was empty.

Alex, I don't think the Classic Pool as it used to be called has ever been filled in, always been open for as long as I can remember  :daumenhoch:


marty i went to haro for the first time in 82 and it was filled in then, later that the year the other 2 were filled in

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