ONE FOR THE S&M FANS EH ALEX?

[gossa]

Alex, said i'd dig you out a pic of the first S&M in Europe, well done better than that old bean, here's the first and second.....

Bike one, red mad dog, famously missing a weld on one of the dropouts! Cook Bros made, owned by Glen Leyburn of the Jive Five posse.  Bike two is the same but black and was my hack about bike as modelled by racer Andy Please.

[gossa]

I guess this was 1987?

[SaMAlex]

How cool are they?!!! That has made it worth sitting infront of the PC till 12:30, trying to get myself to go to bed!

I bought a Holmes back from the US in 1991 for one of the Ireland guys. Richard someone I think. I came home with my first dirtbike, my old bully and a Holmes that I posted on to ireland. That would be great to get that holmes back (Ive still got my first dirtbike).

Im sure I saw Will Smyths Mad dog for sale in Ride a few years ago. It was just after the Dig Vs S&M fall out and that was why I figured Will was selling it. I thought about getting it, now wish I had!

[SaMAlex]

Clive, have you got the mag with the pic of you riding the mad dog with the Graph tuffs? I was looking at it the other day, I can try and find it again (do you know what mag it was in? Cover? date?)

[TwoBobRob]

Tell me about the DIG vs S&M fallout please Alex, I've not heard of that one - never really read DIG...... 

[gossa]

Clive, have you got the mag with the pic of you riding the mad dog with the Graph tuffs? I was looking at it the other day, I can try and find it again (do you know what mag it was in? Cover? date?)

Of  course I have it, i'll through it up tomorrow mate, it was in rad mag!!!!!!

That chrome one in rad was a GT built one I think, S&M had frames made by various people early on.  Carl Alford has a very early holmes still.  Man, uess what I threw away a few days ago, the S&M cap that just reads 'S&M HAT'.  Crap, you could've had that too!

[darkersomeday]

aaaah look at those two fookers man
i'll take the black jobbie with the sweet vision chain-wheel

funky bikes

[SaMAlex]

Tell me about the DIG vs S&M fallout please Alex, I've not heard of that one - never really read DIG...... 

Not that much to say really. Dig have had a string of publishers. They were forever getting dropped and Will always found a way. For a while S&M were the publishers of Dig, but they fell out. I dont know what happened, youd have to ask Will, Moeller or John Paul Rogers.

Dig went their way and found another publisher. S&M stopped doing Dig and started up their own magazine they did for a while ("BMX Action", then "BMX Faction").

[SaMAlex]

Man, uess what I threw away a few days ago, the S&M cap that just reads 'S&M HAT'.  Crap, you could've had that too!

Dam!! Why do we do that? ... keep something for years and years, and then just chuck it away. Usually a few days before finding a use / home for it!

[SaMAlex]

I think my dirtbike was GT made. Its got tubes at the brake and BB braces. The later ones all had plates on at least one of them. It didnt come with 990 mounts, I got them put on a few months later.

[gossa]

Give that some love mate, right off to bed! Nighty night!

[Del]

i'll take the black jobbie with the sweet vision chain-wheel

We're those Vision street wear chainwheels available to buy? someone not too long ago asked me if i could do the decals for one, cant remember who it was now

[gossa]

i'll take the black jobbie with the sweet vision chain-wheel

So alex, did you see that sticker over on the jersey thread?  here's that piccy I promised, you can see the backside of the page.  I always just dreamed of getting a picture in action bike, best i managed was a mention so to get this is RAD was a small consolation


We're those Vision street wear chainwheels available to buy? someone not too long ago asked me if i could do the decals for one, cant remember who it was now

Nah mate, that was just a big sticker on some old plate of a ring!

[gossa]

[billstup]

Have you still got those graphites Clive, they`re worth a mint too   

[gossa]

Alex, I just sold those graphites to biaggio, think that was a mistake!  This was a street comp up in nottingham i think, when rock and rolls ruled!
I reckon that's a GT or CW made S&M mate, a late Mad Dog or early dirt bike maybe? god the memories fading!

[SaMAlex]

Clive, thats fooking wicked!! Ive NEVER seen that pic! I stopped getting R.A.D. cos it was more skating but I still tried to look through it and I bought it if there was some good BMX in it. I guess I missed that issue.

The shot I saw the other week was in Invert I think. It was a vertical Half page pic of you doing a fly out on what sounds like the same bike. No were near as good a shot as that one tho.  

[gossa]

Have you still got those graphites Clive, they`re worth a mint too   

Bill, got them from Darren Wood, they were his race wheels, like I said to Alex, just sold them to Biaggio and regretting it......

[harris]

sh1te hot pic clive a snap shot of a great era.

[billstup]

Have you still got those graphites Clive, they`re worth a mint too   

Bill, got them from Darren Wood, they were his race wheels, like I said to Alex, just sold them to Biaggio and regretting it......

Did you e-bay them Clive or did Biagio just offer a price ?

[SaMAlex]

Have you still got those graphites Clive, they`re worth a mint too   

Bill, got them from Darren Wood, they were his race wheels, like I said to Alex, just sold them to Biaggio and regretting it......

So, Clive. What do you say, we go round to Biagios to get YOUR wheels and MY aerospeeds? We shouldnt need to take too many people with us .... how about just your mate Charlie?

(I joke, of course, in case Biagio reads this  )

[gossa]

Have you still got those graphites Clive, they`re worth a mint too   

Bill, got them from Darren Wood, they were his race wheels, like I said to Alex, just sold them to Biaggio and regretting it......

Did you e-bay them Clive or did Biagio just offer a price ?

Funny he phoned me like three years ago and I said that i would never sell them.  He called again a few months ago and me and the misses were just buying a house and I needed the cash but check the deal: graphites with DB IRC 2.125 front and mongoose snakebelly rear, Son Lite Turbo 1 hubs (ABSOLUTELY MINT, ALMOST NOS) and original Cook Bros Racing cranks, he gave me £700 and I didn't know any better..............gutted......

[harris]

easy come easy go  cash is good when you need it .

[gossa]

Clive, thats fooking wicked!! Ive NEVER seen that pic! I stopped getting R.A.D. cos it was more skating but I still tried to look through it and I bought it if there was some good BMX in it. I guess I missed that issue.

The shot I saw the other week was in Invert I think. It was a vertical Half page pic of you doing a fly out on what sounds like the same bike. No were near as good a shot as that one tho.  

Man i dont even remember a pic in Invert, have you got it?  You never saw this one? Aww, full page mate, made my life at the time! Did you see that sticker yet?

[gossa]

easy come easy go  cash is good when you need it .

Too right mate but I'm gutted because I just hooked up with darren wood again and he's rebuilding his original TA, if I had the wheels I'd just give them back to him.

I think i'm like you Harris, it's not about the nmoney...