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Well speaking as an old school racer it was all just BMX to me so here's my view. Before racing I just went out and wheelied and bunnyhopped my way to the woods or skateparks where I jumped. I guess that was pre 'proper' freestyle but for me and the guys I rode with it was all just riding. But then 'proper freestyle came along with different bikes and the racers couldn't keep up with this pace as the 'proper' freestylers developed the sport, began doing much harder tricks and thier bikes became even more specialized but as a racer I was still really into it and we still all rode together and I used to love going to the early freestyle comps to watch or ride in the very early ones. Then a bit of a rift developed, almost like the skaters verses bikers situation, there was a definite divide between the communities. Freestylers didn't wear racepants and jerseys at this time, they wore Anarchic Adjustment and M zone t-shirts!
Quote from: gossa on October 01, 2007, 09:09 PMWell speaking as an old school racer it was all just BMX to me so here's my view. Before racing I just went out and wheelied and bunnyhopped my way to the woods or skateparks where I jumped. I guess that was pre 'proper' freestyle but for me and the guys I rode with it was all just riding. But then 'proper freestyle came along with different bikes and the racers couldn't keep up with this pace as the 'proper' freestylers developed the sport, began doing much harder tricks and thier bikes became even more specialized but as a racer I was still really into it and we still all rode together and I used to love going to the early freestyle comps to watch or ride in the very early ones. Then a bit of a rift developed, almost like the skaters verses bikers situation, there was a definite divide between the communities. Freestylers didn't wear racepants and jerseys at this time, they wore Anarchic Adjustment and M zone t-shirts!Clive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?
Quote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 09:33 PMClive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?I'm a londoner, rode around Croydon as a yoof but raced all over. Grotbags and I were arch rivals for ever, he used to phone my mum the night before a national and tell her how hard he'd been training that week to physch me out, he never knew that my mum never told me what he said.......I love Paul a lot, we were fierce riivals but now I can look back at all the good stuff he's done, but I appereciate his style and apparently he's hardly left Stephen Murrays side since the accident so i'm glad to know someone like that. He's a better dancer than me too!
Clive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?
Quote from: gossa on October 01, 2007, 10:20 PMQuote from: MartyC on October 01, 2007, 09:33 PMClive, whereabouts are you from originally? I thought I read somewhere that you used to ride with Grotbags, did you ever ride over at Haydon Hall in Eastcote?I'm a londoner, rode around Croydon as a yoof but raced all over. Grotbags and I were arch rivals for ever, he used to phone my mum the night before a national and tell her how hard he'd been training that week to physch me out, he never knew that my mum never told me what he said.......I love Paul a lot, we were fierce riivals but now I can look back at all the good stuff he's done, but I appereciate his style and apparently he's hardly left Stephen Murrays side since the accident so i'm glad to know someone like that. He's a better dancer than me too!Cool, I knew Paul when he was a little scrote on his bitsa bike, an old Mongoose with a Rear Skyway and ACS Z Rim front, all different colours and parts from everyone . He used to hang around Haydon Hall and Harrow Skatepark with us bitd, he's done good since I knew him and has been a rock for the Murray family .