Author Topic: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track (Read 2500 times)

RATTY · « **on:** June 24, 2007, 12:11 AM »

I really thought these pics were lost years ago, but I found them the other month and just got them scanned.. Hope you enjoy

My bike in the middle, my mate Jamie riding it

Me havin a go at a table top

My mate Leeroy, with a spanking Kuwi

My mate Jay

I wasnt exactly David Bailey

Power wheelie on the berm, lol the track was as small as Hersden

Huge drop off in some flats near the track

Kickturn in the dark

How I wish the pic had all of me in the shot

Random wheelie

This reminds me of that magazine shot outside burger king, we did it years before them, shame the pic is so bad

Good bale, see the grafitti on the fence, Cav Strutt called me tuff boy, and decided to paint it on the wall

Another angle on the drop in

My goose after a few mods and crashes, check my mums front room, that grafitti is still there 26 years later, allbeit under wallpaper now

I could jump bitd, wish I could now

Finally a race pic from Buckmore Park, Keith Wilson in front. Tony Slater and Chris Simmons waiting for the next moto

Chris Simmons leads me at Southampton in 1982

Trev · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:18 AM »

cool pics mr ratster.

SaMAlex · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:33 AM »

Man, those pics are great!!

Love um, thanks for posting them Ratty

jimmyp · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:41 AM »

Good pics there m8. aHH WHAT YOU WOULD GIVE JUST TO GO BACK FOR ONE DAY

RATTY · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2007, 12:43 AM »

Just one day?? Would I just

nic968 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2007, 06:44 PM »

Great pics Ratty..Nice trip back in time there...

DR VINOAH · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2007, 06:51 PM »

tone
im glad you found them pix

must be since last year you was saying bout digging em out
or hoping they was still there

ace pix

the fence graff

im sure its in an early OBMX

Flaz · « **Reply #7 on:** June 24, 2007, 06:59 PM »

we all rode down to your track one day from the archway we called it "andy ruffells track " it was a great day out tho if my memory serves me right

cheers tone funny how a few photos can bring back so many memorys

LucyLastic · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2007, 07:09 PM »

Superb pics, Tony, good one

teamsano · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2007, 08:19 PM »

so good, no matter how bad fotos like that are(in a fotographic sense), they are always awesome.

Rooonga · « **Reply #10 on:** June 25, 2007, 10:39 AM »

Great pics, of even greater times I bet!

I wish I had some photo's of me on my bike bitd. I think a couple of pals have some, so will try to track them down.

zed4130 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 25, 2007, 11:11 AM »

great pics tone, love the top one , very 80's

kdw712 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 25, 2007, 12:22 PM »

great snaps tone

love seeing those sorta of pics from BITD

ORANGEZIPPY · « **Reply #13 on:** June 26, 2007, 08:17 PM »

nice pics,

doesnt matter about the quality, there still great, like seeing all the old pics, its like being in life on mars

wish i had more of me

region11 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2007, 09:52 PM »

Classic pics! and u haven't changed a bit

RATTY · « **Reply #15 on:** June 26, 2007, 09:54 PM »

Quote from: Region11 on June 26, 2007, 09:52 PM

Classic pics! and u haven't changed a bit

PMSL, yep still the same except I dont have any hair, and I am 5 stone heavier

superbikedan · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2007, 10:19 PM »

just seen these mate, certainly brings back memorys, sometimes i see it like it was last week

cracking set of pics, went to that track with pat and have a fuzzy pic of me on it

as for buckmore park, rode it many times and when i see these old pics i look out for my old

race number 1874

how about this ratty, superbike won the team race, it was a relay rice with the youngest first

ending in my age group, nice medal as well

anyone remember that race

superbikedan · « **Reply #17 on:** June 26, 2007, 10:35 PM »

ratty was walthamstow track in hilm high park

if not this is it as old as a dinosaur

very fuzzy

me trying an early day superman except we didn't land on the bike

RATTY · « **Reply #18 on:** June 26, 2007, 10:41 PM »

Thats the one Dan, Higham hill park.... Did you ever see the 8 foot jump we built at the finish line?? was a bloody rad little place, sadly now a dog ~~sh1t~~ exercise yard.

superbikedan · « **Reply #19 on:** June 26, 2007, 10:44 PM »

only got a vage memory of the track but remember jumping a tabletop,

it may be the one in the pic above

RATTY · « **Reply #20 on:** June 26, 2007, 10:52 PM »

It was a great place, shame we didnt have the cameras we have today, we had some superstars over there as well, bob haro came over there when he was in london, so did a blonde torker rider, jason someone??. Bob refused to ride our quarter pipe as it was too dangerous

. I also remember he had his hair cut very short. I asked him where his hair had gone, he replied he wanted to look like us UK lads when he came over, was a great bloke!!

bsdforever · « **Reply #21 on:** June 26, 2007, 11:58 PM »

rad photos, rad stories!!

mattnice · « **Reply #22 on:** June 27, 2007, 11:48 AM »

is that higham hill ? i used to go there a lot,only problem was all the gypsies trying to nick ya bike.

RATTY · « **Reply #23 on:** June 27, 2007, 04:28 PM »

Yes matt, thats Higham Hill

mattnice · « **Reply #24 on:** June 27, 2007, 05:11 PM »

did u ever go to the big drop-off in folly lane?

Author Topic: Some very early pics from Walthamstow track (Read 2500 times)

Trev

SaMAlex

nic968

DR VINOAH

Flaz

teamsano

Rooonga

zed4130

bsdforever

mattnice

mattnice