Author Topic: Mons coverage #5 The Final Mons BMX â€œJamâ€ (Read 7998 times)

SaMAlex · « **on:** April 17, 2007, 12:54 PM »

This was the final BMX contest at Mons farm. It was late 1991 and BMX was small. So small that RAD (formally BMX Action Bike) lumped the Southsea KOC and Mons Jam into the same report (it was a skate mag by then). Invert Magazine (that went on to be Ride) also covered it.

The contest wasnâ€™t a big event but looking at the riders who were there, you can see that pretty much everyone went to every comp back then. From Ian Morris (then riding in C group!) to Jamie Bestwick (riding A). The ramp was strange cos it has a 9ft Vert ramp spined with a 7ft midi. Almost all the C group rode the 7ft, all the A group rode the 9ft, and the B group were split down the middle. Not many people crossed the spine. Craig Campbell, who didnâ€™t enter, crossed it, and tried to nosepick over it!

Also, This was my first riding shot in a magazine! I came second behind a great rider â€¦ and thatâ€™s the Truth!

rory · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2007, 01:31 PM »

bsdforever · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2007, 02:27 PM »

that was some summer!!

here's me fliming on the vert ramp at KOC, i'll get round to putting the footage up soon. Also check out 3rd place C group mini!!

and on the platform at mons, I have a cool section of this jam too. Soon, soon... (sorry alex)

when craig campbell turned up I couldn't believe it, he looked like a total raver on a chrome GT aggressor. Then he started to ride, how smooth!! he did a big 540 up and down on a totally straight line (no carving) and even tried to nosepick the vert spine, I can't remember if he pulled it or not. Anyway I was stoked beyond belief, he is still one of my favourite riders of all time and for good reason.

Stodgy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2007, 03:03 PM »

Nice one Alex...I was just reading that issue in Pete's van on the way up to Dan's at the weekend...spotted your wife, Canning and Jerry in the crowd!

harris · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2007, 03:12 PM »

that comp looked top bananna you fookers all are crazy.
alex ,spotted you a mile of mate

christhejob · « **Reply #5 on:** April 17, 2007, 04:24 PM »

it's cool if you read all the results from the KOC.. you know every single one of those names..
as steff evans said "in 1987 i knew every bmxer in the country!!"
(he was asked to leave the party shortly afterwards, maybe because he took a dump in the bath)

harris · « **Reply #6 on:** April 17, 2007, 04:48 PM »

arrr the days of bashguards ,lashings of chrome ,steel pegs,kneesavers and peregrines .

teamsano · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2007, 06:33 PM »

team scotland ruling that king of concrete!

loved the sequence of andy burke nosewheelie over the picnic bench, they missed the middle pic out and it *looked like he hopped the whole thing.

*which he probably could have!

loosenut · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2007, 09:56 PM »

heres another angle on the bestwick air.

my elbow and flash gun getting some magazine coverage next to grant smith!

billstup · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2007, 10:48 PM »

Quality pics Alex, they look like they were good times for the few of you that carried on riding in the dark days

Wayne Ryder · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2007, 11:32 PM »

Quote from: teamsano on April 18, 2007, 06:33 PM

team scotland ruling that king of concrete!

loved the sequence of andy burke nosewheelie over the picnic bench, they missed the middle pic out and it *looked like he hopped the whole thing.

*which he probably could have!

Was that the year he smashed his mouth, got stitched together again, then came back to the park to smash his mouth all over again?
By the way, somewhere I've a pic of Grant at a KoC. Must rustle it up, it's a winner.

EDIT:
Found it!

teamsano · « **Reply #11 on:** April 19, 2007, 03:07 PM »

that was amos burke you are thinking about.

£10 to anyone who can spot me in the background of the grant smith picture.

Jamie C · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2007, 02:28 PM »

Quote from: teamsano on April 19, 2007, 03:07 PM

£10 to anyone who can spot me in the background of the grant smith picture.

Looks like you sat down on Grant's right shoulder.

I'm pretty sure it's me on his left shoulder with the Evolution 'ingnorace, fear, superstition' t-shirt....still got that one at home.

harris · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2007, 03:37 PM »

did maurice meyer and the gang ever ride mons ramp .

SaMAlex · « **Reply #14 on:** April 20, 2007, 03:43 PM »

Quote from: harris on April 20, 2007, 03:37 PM

did maurice meyer and the gang ever ride mons ramp .

The skyway team went there on one of the early curb dog visits so maurice may well have been with them. I think there was a picture of Eddie Roman and Hugo riding Mons ramp in a magazine. It may have been the same time that Campbell was there?

I'll ask Sunil. I think he was there that day.

harris · « **Reply #15 on:** April 20, 2007, 03:45 PM »

it would be good to see if any pics are hidding around.
when maurice pops back on hear i will pm him to ask.

sunil · « **Reply #16 on:** April 20, 2007, 04:09 PM »

Hey yeah, i was there the US skyway team turned up. There was Eddie Roman, Ron Peterson, Hugo Gonzales and Scotty Freeman, not sure who else was there, maybe some of the UK people turned up like Damon and Tony Mack, cant remember cos I was too busy doing Petersons with Peterson in the barn. Hugo Gonz was hooking up from 7ft airs and riding out of it everytime, like a 7ft disaster.

teamsano · « **Reply #17 on:** April 20, 2007, 05:39 PM »

Quote from: Jamie C on April 20, 2007, 02:28 PM

Quote from: teamsano on April 19, 2007, 03:07 PM
£10 to anyone who can spot me in the background of the grant smith picture.

Looks like you sat down on Grant's right shoulder.

no, sorry. tbh you'd have to know which kind of shinpads i had in 92 to spot me.

andy619 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 20, 2007, 06:04 PM »

Quote from: sunil on April 20, 2007, 04:09 PM

Hey yeah, i was there the US skyway team turned up. There was Eddie Roman, Ron Peterson, Hugo Gonzales and Scotty Freeman, not sure who else was there, maybe some of the UK people turned up like Damon and Tony Mack, cant remember cos I was too busy doing Petersons with Peterson in the barn. Hugo Gonz was hooking up from 7ft airs and riding out of it everytime, like a 7ft disaster.

Mon has pictures of the skyway team riding his ramps.

harris · « **Reply #19 on:** April 20, 2007, 06:06 PM »

alex get onto it

go see mon and mug his photo colection

tricknuts · « **Reply #20 on:** April 21, 2007, 05:59 AM »

time for me to get my Hugo photo out again. i met him last year. what a legend.. he's always been a fav of mine.

bsdforever · « **Reply #21 on:** April 27, 2007, 09:54 AM »

Quote from: Wayne Ryder on April 18, 2007, 11:32 PM

Quote from: teamsano on April 18, 2007, 06:33 PM
team scotland ruling that king of concrete!

loved the sequence of andy burke nosewheelie over the picnic bench, they missed the middle pic out and it *looked like he hopped the whole thing.

*which he probably could have!

Was that the year he smashed his mouth, got stitched together again, then came back to the park to smash his mouth all over again?
By the way, somewhere I've a pic of Grant at a KoC. Must rustle it up, it's a winner.

EDIT:
Found it!

excellent! that was 1992 - i got a kicking from some skinheads the night before and stayed in the hospital

bsdforever · « **Reply #22 on:** April 29, 2007, 08:59 PM »

From the 1991 BSD video Stress Kings - sorry it's taken so long Alex!!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2025894115

Footage from the last Mon's Jam in Banbury near Oxford in 1991. Riders include Jerry Galley, Zach Shaw, Sean Scarfe, Stu Dawkins, Jamie Bestwick, Craig Campbell, Alex Leech, Tim Ruck, Dave Beveridge, Ian Osborne and Chilly

harris · « **Reply #23 on:** April 29, 2007, 09:09 PM »

holy cow and o what fun ,was that alex eating the ramp

dirtyvans · « **Reply #24 on:** April 29, 2007, 09:36 PM »

that was wicked

what a cool ramp set up, back to back midi ramps

Author Topic: Mons coverage #5 The Final Mons BMX â€œJamâ€ (Read 7998 times)

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SaMAlex

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