Author Topic: Am I in the minority? (Read 1622 times)

andy619 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 02, 2007, 12:53 PM »

I started racing first. Freestyle started about 1 1/2 years later for me. Stopped racing after two years to focus on ramp riding.

highrisedrifter · « **Reply #26 on:** October 02, 2007, 01:11 PM »

Freestyle first for me. I raced once but it wasn't really my bag and still isn't.

I placed in a couple of competitions BITD, I remember one where Andy Ruffell was showcasing his stuff, he wasn't taking part. The winner of the competition got to sit in a car that the Ruff jumped over on his bike. It was exhilarating at the time but now I see it as a crude marketing ploy by a local car company to get one of their new cars in the limelight. Still, I got his autograph.

I think that was the first competition I did on my new T/A.

HRD

dan-dare · « **Reply #27 on:** October 02, 2007, 02:35 PM »

Quote from: OrgasmDonor on October 02, 2007, 10:55 AM

in the very early eighties there was building work in the suburbs and some fantastically large mounds to fly off,

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #28 on:** October 02, 2007, 02:55 PM »

danger ramps

nice one dan, thats the place, you got any piccys of the mounds dude?

billstup · « **Reply #29 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:34 PM »

Quote from: OrgasmDonor on October 02, 2007, 02:55 PM

danger ramps nice one dan, thats the place, you got any piccys of the mounds dude?

Danger ramps, you aint joking there

Flying_fox · « **Reply #30 on:** October 02, 2007, 08:39 PM »

I've raced bikes on and off for the last 24 years, it's in my blood.

I do like riding 'freestyle' now more than ever, but I do tend to hang out near a jump box, or at some trials. Jumping more than freestyle probably, I've never been a trick pony.

I love BMX what ever.

Dingobmxer · « **Reply #31 on:** October 02, 2007, 08:49 PM »

I am a BMXer, thats all it was called when I started before the "label police" divided us

and before that we went "scrambling" on our Grifters and racers with cow horns on

DINGO

MartyC · « **Reply #32 on:** October 02, 2007, 08:57 PM »

Quote from: Dingobmxer on October 02, 2007, 08:49 PM

I am a BMXer, thats all it was called when I started before the "label police" divided us

Amen

dialledbikes · « **Reply #33 on:** October 03, 2007, 12:00 PM »

As Mark said above, before BMX, there was "scrambling" on our Grifters.

Then BMX arrived and the mags mainly showed racing, so that's what we got into. But we still mainly rode our bikes in the woods, at the skatepark or on jumps make out of bits of wood and milk crates.

I think Tim Ruck once had a quote in Invert/Ride that said "BMX is BMX is BMX" (with a pic of him doing a fakie fence ride). I think that sums it up nicely. If it involves riding a BMX bike, it's BMX.

We need King of Dirt Comps back at the races!