Author Topic: 80's pics. Ratty, Ruffell, K-Dub, Nishiki14 & bruv, & many more. enjoy! (Read 17155 times)

Tony 1-4 · « **on:** September 07, 2008, 09:34 PM »

These are some pics from an old 80's album of my mum's. Various old names like Ratty, Keith Wilson, Ruffell, Harry leary, Andy Patterson, Chris Young, John Lee, Steve Gilly to name but a few. See if you can spot any others. Maybe yourself, who knows?

Me and my little bruv (Nishiki 14) are in a lot of them (obviously) 'cos they are my mum's.

Ruffell, Ratty & K-Dub

Steve Gilly at Birmingham Wheels

Me at wheels (no plate)

Ratty at Albury

Harry Leary & Andy Patterson at Redditch

Someone else(?) at Redditch

Nishiki 14 with one of his many!

Me hot on the heels of Craig Schofield at Buckmore Park

Ruffell running to the finish line at Albury when his chain came off (1981) and still didn't finish last!

Nishiki 14 and Sam Jarvis on the gate at Buckmore. Anyone else?

Craig Schofield, Reece Marshall, Me and Tony Holland at Ipswich

Me, Andy Ruffell and Chris Young at Outwell indoor track.

Presentation night at Braintree. 1984

Same again. Nice hair!!!!!

Nishiki 14 in full factory GT livery

Nishiki 14 on my first ever BMX. Dare I say it? A team Murray (well we all gotta start somewhere!

Aah that's better, now he is trying to ride my Mongoose motomag. Bought it for 50 quid. God I wish I had that now!!

Laery & Patterson off the gate at Redditch

Tim March at Redditch

Nice gear!!!

Me on top of table top after very bad gate.

1319 is that Ratty. John Lee. Anyone else?

Me and my little bruv.

His very first bike. Aah love him. He still can't bloody ride!

Me at Braintree. Anyone notice where the start gate used to be 25 years ago?

Nishiki 14's final tally when retired at the ripe old age of 8!

Nishiki 14 at Braintree

Me and Jeremy Vince at Woodham. Anyone notice Scott Vogl's mum in the background?

Ditto

Me at Braintree

Nishiki 14 and Sam Jarvis on the gate at Ipswich

Nishiki 14 in a rather fetching jumpsuit at Redditch

Ratty at Southampton

Me at Buckmore

Nishiki 14 in all his glory!

Don't know this one. Anyone?

K-Dub at Wheels track (I think).

Didn't know you could run round as well!

Last but not least, the brothers.

magna13 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2008, 09:41 PM »

wow fantastic pics

RATTY · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2008, 09:47 PM »

Cheers Tone, bring back some great memories, especially that poxy crash hat I had to suffer

Your mum and dad rocked, took me to so many races bitd, I would never have made most of them without their support.

Have to have a p1ss up soon and chew the fat

rod · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:03 PM »

Excellent pics some top quality shots in there

Especially liking the gate pics and the boy with bike pics, pure retro stylee.

thanks

eloopnai · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:14 PM »

cracking pics there tony

ron burgundy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:16 PM »

Wow, great pics mate

Thanks for posting.

kdw712 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:16 PM »

fantastic pics

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2008, 10:23 PM »

Ratty, that one with you and Ruffell, looks like you now.

Great pics Tone, thanks for sharing

kdubbmx · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2008, 11:44 PM »

WOW!!! welcome back Tony, was wondering when you'd appear.

Great pics, fantastic memories, thanks for sharing. Some of them are magazine shots arent they? Def seen some of them before.

Heres what i see,

pic 1, Ruffell leading me & Ratty with Jamie Vince behind Ratty, Southampton 81.

pic 4, Ratty in second at Albury behind Colin Bussy (walthamstow rider)

pic 6, that 'someone else' is GT pro Greg Esser at the Anglo am 2 (1982) i travelled around the US with Greg that year.

pic 19, Tim March with the Dutch no.1 rider Adie Van Der Van who drove to races in a new Porsche 928 at 17!! (Redditch Anglo-Am 1982)

pic 22, Ratty at Redditch, Mark White (no.4 Falcon Kit)

pic 33, Ratty at Southampton in his 'team masons' shirt with your cousin & Sean McDonaugh cheering, who's that in the bmx plus t shirt??

pic 34, Glen Steadman? (prostar) cutting you up at Buckmore.

pic 37, not sure that is me? cant remember wearing goggles (ever) or that white shirt? could be Gary Willats racing Nicky Matthews & Martin jose, he got put in their age group at a race there (he was younger) & just got on with it & beat them!!

spillers#1 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 08, 2008, 05:42 AM »

Brilliant piccies love looking at em

Tony 1-4 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 08, 2008, 07:56 AM »

Of course I knew Bob, I was star struck and got my mum to take a piccie next to Ruffell!. Wasn't keen on Chris Young though.

RATTY · « **Reply #11 on:** September 08, 2008, 08:08 AM »

Quote from: Tony 1-4 on September 08, 2008, 07:56 AM

Of course I knew Bob, I was star struck and got my mum to take a piccie next to Ruffell!. Wasn't keen on Chris Young though.

We met up with Chris recently Tone, a really nice, unassuming guy now, his dad passed away recently

He has a few great memories, has had a real hard time of it lately.

Stodgy · « **Reply #12 on:** September 08, 2008, 08:24 AM »

Awesome Pic Tone. Thanks for posting them dude.

I love all the plate drilling on your Hot Plates! Early tech panels, sweet!

Tony 1-4 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 08, 2008, 09:43 AM »

Thanks for that Keith. I couldn't remember some of the names. Knew it was Glen something but couldn't remember the Steadman. Also knew it was Colin but couldn't remember his surname. Thought Gary Willets was in my age group, 'cos I'm sure he raced against the other Tony Wonfor and Sean McDonagh. Ratty is third behind Colin and someone else at Albury. Were you there when Colin's trousers split wide open and we taped him up with a complete roll of tape?. He looked like he had a nappy on

Also, I think that was when Chris Wonfor (Uncle, manager of Masons) borrowed his mates camper van to go to Albury and he took it through the width restriction at Wood St. station (Walthamstow)and it wasn't wide enough. What a mess!
Great memories. Seems like only yesterday. Had a look the other day and apparrently they are rebuilding the Birmingham wheels BMX track. That was my favourite track. Remember seeing Pete Middleton crash on the camels towards the end. When he got up he was holding 2 pieces of bike. His pro-class had snapped clean in half. Priceless!

Mattdub · « **Reply #14 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:03 AM »

Great pics , thanks for posting

dialledbikes · « **Reply #15 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:15 AM »

Excellent pics.

Makes me wonder how good the likes of Ratty and Nishiki could've been if they hadn't given up racing so soon.

kdubbmx · « **Reply #16 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:21 AM »

Ratty is in front of Jamie Vince in the 1st pic, that should tell you how good he was.

Nishiki was battling for nat no.1 with Sam Jarvis.

kdubbmx · « **Reply #17 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:24 AM »

Tony, Gary Willats was in your group but they messed his entry up that day & put him up a year, most people would complain etc he just raced them & won!! Shows how hard your group was with Schofield, Maloney, Stock etc etc!

dialledbikes · « **Reply #18 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:48 AM »

Quote from: kdubbmx on September 08, 2008, 10:21 AM

Ratty is in front of Jamie Vince in the 1st pic, that should tell you how good he was.

Nishiki was battling for nat no.1 with Sam Jarvis.

Yeah, pretty amazing. If they'd carried on they could've been as famous (in BMX circles) as Ruffell, Slater, Schofield, Middleton, Matthews, Salisbury, Vince, Maloney and some old geezer named Wilson

Ratty, lay off those tabs, get a K-Dub training programme and give us hell in 40+ next year. I love a good comeback story!

MOORO · « **Reply #19 on:** September 08, 2008, 10:50 AM »

Pic 2 i think is either Scott Vogel or Dylan Clayton in the Robinson kit ,and Jamie Staff tucked in the Raleigh uniform

Tony 1-4 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 08, 2008, 12:19 PM »

Gutted for Sam (or Daniel as he was known then) as he got a number 4 plate at the end of the season. That was the year of the world championships in Japan. Top 3 had all their expenses paid to go and he missed out by a couple of points I think to Louis Mears. Mum and Dad couldn't afford to go.

Suppose he'll just have to make up for it now in the old fart's class

Tony 1-4 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 08, 2008, 12:22 PM »

Also Keith, the only picture that isn't a photo is the first black and white one. I got that off Ruffells own site. The rest are all photos scanned from mum's album.

Wasn't Scott Vogl by the way. He was only about 7 or 8 then. That is Steve Gilly in front and he was about 12 at the time.

DR VINOAH · « **Reply #22 on:** September 08, 2008, 12:35 PM »

ace pix mr 1-4

are these from the much loved photo album & shoe box?

im sure young samuel has shown them to us b4

but loverlee to up them for the rest of the rad community

question?

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where are the shots of Scott Braithwaite
he was also in your age group alongside
Schoffy , Malony , Young , Riviera
scott was on Sixar "Scorpions" shop team
thier race gear was yellow/orange if i recall correct

one more question tony 1-4
did you ever beat Schofield?

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Tony 1-4 · « **Reply #23 on:** September 08, 2008, 01:12 PM »

Yeah, course I did. When he fell off.

I was very quick out of the gate (something to do with the 27 inch thighs I've got!) but somehow they all came powering past me.

You speak as if we are aquainted. Have I had the pleasure?