Craig Campbell 1983 Article

[rosscoe]

some scanned images for tonights entertainment, the one hander is awesome....

enjoy











Ross

[theRuler]

great stuff

[jon foz]

Thanks rosscoe :)you,re a star

jon

[SaMAlex]

that riding make no sence to me at all! I think it was fake.
Did they have photo shop back then?

[MartyC]

Pool/park riding with knobby tyres, awesome stuff.  Craig was a pretty rad little fella 

[Sean 2000]

I remember having that mag BITD.......wish i still ad em all

[DIVOT1]

cool,ive got that same bike,signature frame,

my daughter rides it,and loves it

[billstup]

that riding make no sence to me at all! I think it was fake.
Did they have photo shop back then?

How do you mean Alex ?

I can recognise all the areas of Rom that he was riding, and he was probably only 14 at the time too, although the camera angles do make it look higher than it probably was 

[SaMAlex]

that riding make no sence to me at all! I think it was fake.
Did they have photo shop back then?

How do you mean Alex ?

I can recognise all the areas of Rom that he was riding, and he was probably only 14 at the time too, although the camera angles do make it look higher than it probably was 

When you see ramps and airs from the 80s, most of them look do-able and the ramp look nice and small. That never seems to be the case with 80s skatepark pics.

Big floaty carving airs in a bowl I struggle to get out of? ... High flat one handers out of a lipless steap bank?

I just dont get it!

[lazychubs]

the one hander pict is in the snake which has a wierd bit that throws ya up and back into it

[SaMAlex]

the one hander pict is in the snake which has a wierd bit that throws ya up and back into it

Na, I think its in the one of the deeper clover leaf bowls, near where you go through to get to the mini.

There is some vid on here somewhere of him riding rom and is shows his line in there.

[superbikedan]

the one hander pict is in the snake which has a wierd bit that throws ya up and back into it

rhys   clover

[superbikedan]

that riding make no sence to me at all! I think it was fake.
Did they have photo shop back then?

How do you mean Alex ?

I can recognise all the areas of Rom that he was riding, and he was probably only 14 at the time too, although the camera angles do make it look higher than it probably was 

When you see ramps and airs from the 80s, most of them look do-able and the ramp look nice and small. That never seems to be the case with 80s skatepark pics.

Big floaty carving airs in a bowl I struggle to get out of? ... High flat one handers out of a lipless steap bank?

I just dont get it!

alex,  our trick in those days was a big bunny hop air,  that was the only way to ride

these bowls,  any pic you see of an under vert bowl,  the rider had to pull away as he aired

[SaMAlex]

I just dont think I have put in enough Rom hours to be able to get my head round it. When I do go there Im happy to just roll around, in and out of the bowls, and that feels like a massive trick. I would never be able to go to a mini ramp and be happy with just rolling about all day.

Respect the Power of Rom!

[DR VINOAH]

dan show alex some pix of you ,pat n billy stupps for an instance

a good example of different guys rideing similar lines

in the clover and performance bowl

[SaMAlex]

Im still working on trying to come over this sunday morning.
Maybe you can show me in person ... DAN!

[superbikedan]

alex  this is me  performance bowl 83   sorry its fuzzy mate.



and again,    clover,  the least vert out of all the bowls,

still an air,  try and air this bowl today

[DIVOT1]

show off

[SaMAlex]

Dan, those pics kick arse! Thanks for posting them.

So I have pads and a helmet on, roll in the performance bowl as fast as I can and just end up carving round below the lip, and still shitting myself. You were doing jaunty tables WAY out the top, in 1983, without a pad it sight!

[superbikedan]

24 years ago mate,  or for me pat rob and billy stupps,  26 +  mad    aye,

that's all we had   but even today the trick is to pull away on a undervert bowl or ramp

ark at me,  i sound like i know what i'm on about

[Trev]

i've had many a chat with dan about the real old school rom riding. i've also seen the pics.

the thing is when dan, bill stupps and pat first rode rom, there was no guidelines as to what was normal and mental. everything was the same. they didn't know it was harder to air certain parts of the parks than others. they just got on and done it.

i have seen pics of dan ride at rom from the early 80's. there are some really dodgy lines which i have NEVER seen anyone do since.  back then i guess it was just another line for them. i would love to see any of the so called rad rom youngsters try to ride into the snake run the angle dan did.  also i'd love them to try and jump out of the concrete halfpipe the same spot dan and pat used to jump out of. they would get so much more respect from us oldies and their peers if they done those two tricks than pulling tailwhips and to a certain extent even flips.

[TwoBobRob]

Trev,  those days are gone Buddy. Everything moves on. Sad but true 

Dan, that last photo with you airing the mellow clover, is that not me leaning against the lamppost?  Loads of hair, black bike, black components and wearing black?   Damn, I was ahead of my time.....

[Trev]

the thing is if dan was still riding, would he still ride those lines now he knows how mental they are? not sure...
i know everyone's older and can't afford to break bones unnecessarily, but some really mental stuff went on back then and even the spectators were unaware of how mental they were.

[dialledbikes]

Campbell was one of the raddest ever.

Does anyone remember when The Daily Star (it was definitely a tabloid, though my memory from 21-odd years ago my be shady) did a whole centre page article about him with pics take at Rom?  How mad is that, a national newspaper with a BMX related article on the centre spread!

[superbikedan]

yes rob that's you   we all looked a lot younger

mike i'm sure the tabloid centre spread was sid salsbury