A few from the 80's

[southern andy]

Great pics Andy, where in the South are you? I am in Southsea, are you
thinking of riding again? What age are you now? Remember all those
tracks really well, when i finally move and find out which box all my pics
are in will post all the south central ones.

Hi Kev, I live in Totton near Southampton. I'm now 37 but very soon will be 38.  :-(

At the moment i'm sort of Mountain biking with my son in the New Forest most weekends, although i have managed to get hold of two BMX's to do up although i wouldn't know where to start really. One is a Huffy i think, no stickers to actually say but a lot of the parts have Huffy on them, the other is a late 90's early 2000 Ruption (very heavy).

Riding again wise, i would love to but i wouldn't know where to start to be honest with you.

[OrgasmDonor]

5th piccy down black lid white peak dude on gt with landing gear?? thats not our bigplinky is it?

nice gjs n the bike next to you looks bling too

[oldmankev]

Get yourself down Bournemouth track is in same place but
different layout, go oldschool to get back into it, then if you
get hooked go with a Cruiser you would be in the 30-39
age group, check BMX TALK for a decent 2nd hand ride,
beware its addictive and expensive. Trackwise in the
South there is only B/mouth Andover Hayes Dagenham
and Gosport when we get up and running pm me if you
want to know any more. Kev.

[sawzall]

andy,if you are ever in chandlers ford you are welcome to pop in and check my bikes out and talk old school,i might be able to point you in the right direction with the restos?

[southern andy]

andy,if you are ever in chandlers ford you are welcome to pop in and check my bikes out and talk old school,i might be able to point you in the right direction with the restos?

Would love that mate, could be distressing for you though seeing a grown man cry. My brother in law works in Ch'ford.

I've just been on Ebay looking for some sort of old school thing to do up, has to be a race bike rather than a freestyler, what a load of crap on there, the likes of GT, Haro and diamond back seem to make tons of them now for what seems like pennies, not like what it used to be back in the old day. These bikes aswell just dont look like some of the fantastic looking bikes in the museum. They dont seem to make them like they used to do they.

Finding this forum has certainly unearthed a huge tub of worms, can see me doing my best in the new year in trying to find an decent bike from the 80's.



EDIT>>>>>> Kev, will certainly PM you when i have got some things sorted, quite fancy a summer series at Bournemouth.  Also what is  BMX Talk, i'm assuming its a magazine like the old Bi-weekly ??

[dirtyvans]

the guy on the MRD 3rd pic down looks like Darren Collins, he used to be a petersfield BMX club member like me and Kev, a few years older than me , but not as old as Kev!

[oldmankev]

Oi oi theres no need for that, get your ass back on a race bike
Rich then well see whos old  Andy bmxtalk is a forum like this
but mostly for nu school and is a purely racing site but there is
an os section check it out.

[Twatty]

All good old SC tracks I remember well myself, being another old SC rider.

Kev; you going to Andover for gates tomorrow? I have a new recruit coming along. Its Nik the guy I took to Hayes, who now has a brand new MCS Cruiser. Looks like 40+ is getting bigger in the South Region this coming summer. Have another one also who has ordered and is waiting for his Floval to turn up early Jan.

Matt F.

[southern andy]

Went over to my mums last night and dug out a photo album or two, you'll have to excuse the shapes as she has cut around the photo to add more of them to a page.
A few more for you browse through here, you may even recognise a few plate numbers.

Below is me on my Diamond Back, sorry i cant remember the track at all.



These next ones are from Poole track in my first years of racing, about 84.




The next few are of my Brother Darren, He was 3 yrs below me. He was born in 1973. His race bikes were a Kuwahara lazerlite and a SRE. These bikes (SRE) seem to be quite rare now, as i dont seem to see any around on this forum




Again my Bro, this time at Bournemouth.



As i said, please excuse the prints as they have been scanned from an photo album and not individual prints.

[oldmankev]

That bottom set is Wimbourne great memories from that cold
place on top of that hill, Steve Sanders of SRE was in my age.