Check this!! Lowestoft UKBFA 1986 Pics....!

[bmxer4ever]

Here's some pics I thought I'd lost (yes - another treasure found!), Lowestoft UKBFA 1986, I was competing in Masterclass, Craig Campbell, Neil Ruffell and Pepi in Pro and Scotty Freeman was over courtesy of Skyway...
See how many other famous faces you can spot in the background!
You may even see yourself - post if you do!
Enjoy!

















































I found these last week, but posted soooo many pics last weekend, I kept these back!
Probably one of the rarest sets I've got next to the '85 GT World Tour pics.
Hope you all enjoyed them.
G

[CD17]

Great Pics again 

How cool is this one 

[andy619]

Top pics again Gary.  CC riding pics are awesome and so is that prolite.

[harris]

quality pics mate ,top top find   

[bmxer4ever]

Top pics again Gary.  CC riding pics are awesome and so is that prolite.

Hi Andy - cheers for the comment!
(Where's the Prolite???)

[2020mad]

Great pics, i'm in background in two of the pics 

[bmxer4ever]

Great pics, i'm in background in two of the pics 

Which ones? Where are you?

[Longun]

I videoed that comp for Hawkins. Wonder what happened to that tape.

[2020mad]

Pics 2 and 5. maroon tee, grey colour fleck trousers, white boots with camera. used to be in yarmouth all the time my grandparents owned a few static caravans there so we would go most weekends to help sort out cleaning between bookings.  I think i may be able to find a pic at my parents of me wearing same gear eating chips by the lowestoft lifeboat station later that day. but have no idea where photos went of that day or any other of my bmx outings  , shame cos i probley would have a few of you as i was standing opposite by looks of it.

[bmxer4ever]

quality pics mate ,top top find   

Cheers D. Glad you enjoyed them!
G

[bmxer4ever]

Pics 2 and 5. maroon tee, grey colour fleck trousers, white boots with camera. used to be in yarmouth all the time my grandparents owned a few static caravans there so we would go most weekends to help sort out cleaning between bookings.  I think i may be able to find a pic at my parents of me wearing same gear eating chips by the lowestoft lifeboat station later that day. but have no idea where photos went of that day or any other of my bmx outings  , shame cos i probley would have a few of you as i was standing opposite by looks of it.

Cool! Shame you don't have any pics - No-One seems to have any pics of me.. - I'll have a look, see if I recoginise you!

Oh yeah - I see you! SLR by the looks of it too - Canon?

[macky]

AMAZING pics!!!      

I always love seeing pics from Bfa day's !!


And that Candybar X-up.... Whoa!!

was that Campbell or Pepi ??

[bmxer4ever]

AMAZING pics!!!      

I always love seeing pics from Bfa day's !!


And that Candybar X-up.... Whoa!!

was that Campbell or Pepi ??

Can Can X-Up is none other than Craig Campbell....

[bmxer4ever]

I videoed that comp for Hawkins. Wonder what happened to that tape.

That would be a great vid to see now!

[gary4130]

amazing pics gary  have you got anymore to show?

[rosscoe]

great stuff matey, god bless neil ruffel

[welsh denny]

great stuff. didn't really bother with comps bitd but love looking at the old pics.

 

[bmxer4ever]

amazing pics gary  have you got anymore to show?

Cheers dude.
To be honest, I've showed you all that many, I'm starting to run out!
I think I've got a LOADS of slides from BFA comps, but I don't know how I'm gonna get 'em scanned.
Maybe Denny will know....

[welsh denny]

i took a fellow rad members advice and got myself a canon canoscan 4400F . top scanner which has an adaptor to do 35mm film negatives. does em pretty quick too compared with some scanners. i got mine from amazon after doing price searching (hidden post charges on many bumping it up). think i paid around £70-80 with next day delivery. done about 600 negs of my mates old bmx and skate so far which may be used as part of exhibition later in the year perhaps.

eg. mike cameron backwards framestand 1 footed (with a board)


honestly gary, if its 35mm film then you should get one.
also my mate has some film negs which are tiny and the scanner won't do them. gutted as it'll cost a fortune to get them done. think my mate chris said it 101 film or something.

[SaMAlex]

Pics like this always confuse me. The riding at that time was loads of fannying round with fairly lame flatland .... and then KABOOB! The vert riding shots come out!  

How could BMX include doing can can lawn mowers in full face helmets, and then the most amazing quaterpipe airs ...? Un real! Campbell and Ruffel were so good at airs (along with a massive list of others too)

[bmxer4ever]

Pics like this always confuse me. The riding at that time was loads of fannying round with fairly lame flatland .... and then KABOOB! The vert riding shots come out!  

How could BMX include doing can can lawn mowers in full face helmets, and then the most amazing quaterpipe airs ...? Un real! Campbell and Ruffel were so good at airs (along with a massive list of others too)

Back then, we rode everything, IF you could. Pro flat was as hotly contested as Pro ramps. There's many reasons for this.
When contests started, you actually had compulsory moves you had to do. I remember in my first few comps., '84 i think, you had to do things like , amongst others, a wheel balance, a front hop, a kick turn and an aerial. The more interesting , varied or original your wheel balance, front hop, kickturn or aerial was, the more points you scored. The highest scorers then qualified to a Freestyle final were you could do ANYTHING in your run. That's just the way that contests ran. The compulsory thing was dropped around late '84 and the comps split into a flat run and a ramp run, with most people at the time doing both. It was only as more tricks came out and people had to start specialising to keep up that riders became flat OR ramp riders, depending on their strengths. I always rode both, as did many others, as I enjoyed both, you were in the running for prizemoney (we were all skint teenagers!) in both and in some instances, the year end rankings COUNTED both. To get from Masterclass to Pro, you had to finish the year in the top 5 I think, so every point counted.
Sponsors also wanted you to enter and win everything for maximum exposure.

As for flatland in a full face - you bought the helmet you needed for ramps - typically a MOTO4 at that time if you could afford it - and, because helmets were compulsory for Flatland too, you rode the same helmet as few people, including myself, could afford TWO helmets. Since most of us got trains to comps and rode to and from the train stations, you couldn't CARRY 2 helmets.

As for LAME flatland tricks - have you tried a bar ride lately? Or any of the other cutting edge (at the time) tricks that we all spent 7 hours a day perfecting.....

Here's me "fannying round with fairly lame flatland " in the 80's


















"then KABOOB! The vert riding shots come out!  "















Hope that clears up any confusion dude!!

[Flatcap]

Quality AGAIN Gaz - nice one dude!

Daz. 

[Trev]

Wicked pics Gary.  Always great seeing (new) old pics of Craig, Neil, Pepi etc... Especially private photos. Lots of people will probably remember (or at least recognise) every pic that was published in the mags. Seeing someone's private stash is always so cool.

[lodge]

Great post Gary, brought back some good memories, i had that comp on vhs untill 2005, too many faces in those pics too list but i will say Barbara Thompson is in there on the right with the skyway top on in the pic of freeman doing the candybar framestand thingy.
Thanks for posting.

[bmxer4ever]

i took a fellow rad members advice and got myself a canon canoscan 4400F . top scanner which has an adaptor to do 35mm film negatives. does em pretty quick too compared with some scanners. i got mine from amazon after doing price searching (hidden post charges on many bumping it up). think i paid around £70-80 with next day delivery. done about 600 negs of my mates old bmx and skate so far which may be used as part of exhibition later in the year perhaps.

honestly gary, if its 35mm film then you should get one.
also my mate has some film negs which are tiny and the scanner won't do them. gutted as it'll cost a fortune to get them done. think my mate chris said it 101 film or something.

Thanks for the prompt reply D.
You say that scanner will do 35mm negatives, but will it do slide (positive) film. That's what I'm talking about. I have a lot of boxes of colour slides, Tizer Worlds in '88 for one, and loads of UKBFA comp ramp run pics - some of the airs are awesome. Would love to be able to scan 'em and post them up.
And is that negative scanner just something that plugs into your computer, or, as it sounds, part of a BIG A4 scanner (which i don't really need - my current one seems to do the trick...). I'm really looking for something that just plugs into a USB port and can scan negs and slides....

The tiny film you're talking about is 110. Kodak sold a million of those little flat rectangular 110 Instamatic cameras back in the day - some of my pics were taken on one!

Cheers
G