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Action Bike and R.A.D. kinda help kill the competition scene. It stopped promoting the UKBFA comps and gave the image that it was way cooler to ride street. Unfortunately rather than showing the best competition riders in the country, it pretty much showed Nick Phillips and his mates dorking around London. Shame really, as it used to be a great magazine.But then again Freestyle BMX started going downhill when it became Invert. It stopped becoming a full on BMX magazine and more of a "Mark Noble and things he likes" magazine. Record and Gig reviews?? WTF!! I think i remember there once being a 4 or 5 page feature on the music Noble liked....
So at what number did freestyle bmx become nomore??? did that become anything else?
I thought I would never defend Joe Burlo - but Faze7 was a skate shop years before bmx even existed in this country....As for the mag, well being bought by Robert Maxwell and then dumped didn't help. What was left was funded mostly by TLB from his own pocket (and a remortage) and was lucky to have existed at all!
I think I remember a picture of TLB taking some pics. He was in a massive puffa jacket, taking pics of Pepi doing some rolling flatland. It was on a roof top that Pepi used to ride on up North somewhere. TLB was sat on a skateboard and Dave Curry was pushing him along so he could keep up with the action. Maybe for TLB, that counts as being a "skating photographer"!(I hope Ive got the details of the pic right. Its just popped into my head!).
Hmmmm... TLB...... the man who doesn't acknowledge taking BMX photo's in the 80's anymore....I got on alright with TLB bitd, but the way he goes on about how he was a skating photographer in the 80's and has thousands upon thousands of pics and doesn't mention BMX at all did get me wound up a tad....
Quote from: Trev on August 31, 2007, 11:41 AMHmmmm... TLB...... the man who doesn't acknowledge taking BMX photo's in the 80's anymore....I got on alright with TLB bitd, but the way he goes on about how he was a skating photographer in the 80's and has thousands upon thousands of pics and doesn't mention BMX at all did get me wound up a tad....Thats not the TLB I know, when was this Trev - what context? I think he was winding you up....
Quote from: username on August 31, 2007, 12:11 PMQuote from: Trev on August 31, 2007, 11:41 AMHmmmm... TLB...... the man who doesn't acknowledge taking BMX photo's in the 80's anymore....I got on alright with TLB bitd, but the way he goes on about how he was a skating photographer in the 80's and has thousands upon thousands of pics and doesn't mention BMX at all did get me wound up a tad....Thats not the TLB I know, when was this Trev - what context? I think he was winding you up....I believe I saw it on his website a short while back. I'll see if I can find it again.
I never knew TLB was the manager of Alpine Sports. Thats way cool