82-86 Photos (crappy) photos last lot

[mr.magoo]

OK, these are poor quality, most are very embarrasing for me, but show my history

(appologies for big spaces, scanner went a bit wrong, and after spending 3 hours at it?)

first for Adenough, my dad too drove and allegro, got me round the country

for big kev 40. heres your sis and her husband, again and your mums in there if you look closely


and here is big kev 40 bitd

these are embarrasing, but where bmx started for me back in 82/83 TUFF BURNER FROM HALFORDS





did three races on that, then mum got me a goose cali, cos i couldnt do better than 3rd in the final, in an age group that was having quarters at the time


some pictures from folkestone,





folkestone presentation night 84 i think the Ruff presented and demo'd


various photos from Buckmore through a few years






not long after the Cali, realised i wanted to custom build, loved JMC's so got a shadow frame for xmas, you can see from this twas way to small for me

then i went onto a TA, as shown here, these pics were taken in Mark Andrews (RIP) drive one summer i spent there.

this was a poor bar press (for me) but only had about six metres to do it

few pics from hernebay, (everybodies favourite national track) for CRABTREE
see my gates used to be terrible, lucky for long power straights




Dave Williams (RIP) one of my favourite comentators bitd, nick named me Magic Magoo

me in Sheppey Cycles sponsored gear


guy in background lugging on a fag in blue jackey Ozzy who still owns sheppey cycles

then i went to ride for Renhams cycles (joined later by Jamie Staff (On right)

then went to MT Fox Factory Racing

my favourite doubles bitd, Wigan

went on to Scotland after that national to see my relatives

Birmingham Wheels Alan Woods?

Tim March

Superclass final, pro section being led by the Ruff

Wayne Llewellyn leading Dean Idiols and Andy Welsh (annoyin i could beat Dean every time, but always underperformed at nationals?)

some of my favourite riders


last but not least, to prove i had to pay for all my own gear, nice new race wear, look at my vans with holes all in them (was still saving for a new pair).




like i said at the top, poor qual, not that interesting, but hope you found some enjoyment, even if only laughing at me when i was 12

[jazzyje]

awesome pics neil.was looking to see if i was in any of them but realised i was always to far behind you.haha.

[mr.magoo]

I dunno, that gate picture from herne Bay i'm in lane 6 and about 5th place at the bottom of the hill, but know i was 1st by the end of the straight....should make tracks with power straights on nowadays, not so hard to fall off in a straight line

plenty of peeps to see in there though, Steve M, James M, Richard T and Dan w to name a few old friends

and the good old days of vale View school playground, where i learnt practically everything i know about bike handling

[kdubbmx]

Like the Zeronine ad repo pose with the frame pad in your hand 

[big kev 40]

remove that pic of me mate  lol

[big kev 40]

you and my sis in the same pic again     you sure you wasnt hiding anything

[Mattdub]

Cool pics 

[dialledbikes]

Cool pics Neil.

You were obviously a top rider back in the day.  What titles did you win?

[mr.magoo]

1984 and 1985 #1 Folkestone flyers, buckmore bats and hernebay flyers oh and south east region
1984 #27 UK (only did 6 nationals)
1985 #36 uk (only did 4 nationals)
but never made a national final? always underperformed against people i could easily beat? Nerves? or not familiar with tracks? who knows?


08 #2 Hersden old school

[Broggie]

Neil.

      I see nothing to laugh at, you won trophies and had a good time, made lots of friends and a lifetime of memories... As for the burner it did its job for you as it did for many BITD 



Ray.

[kdw712]

Cool pics Neil 

[mr.magoo]

Thanks, just funny laughing at my teenage appearance, who knows maybe i look funnier these days

Mike, wouldn't say i was a top rider bitd, tallented, but not top. And lucky to have been a bit bigger than most kids my age (look at Big Kev40 stood next to me, he's two years older )

Loved my burner, but not enough to want another....as for everything else BMX gave me, would never knock it, built confidence etc etc, for a kid who formerly did not mix and was very shy and retiring. (Perhaps that was the problem with nationals, stage was too big, so prefered to fade into the background around people i did not know?) Need a physcologist

[magna13]

Wow Magoo! i always love your pics you put up on RAD!... wish we could have famous riders at our presentastion nights!

[mr.magoo]

thats the last of 'em now, except the really poor ones, y'know, like where my mum's just got my front wheel coming into frame

I'll come and do presentations for yer, need to find a way of getting some extra dosh to pay to get my knee fixed privately, wife refused to let me do it, cos she thinks in a few months down the line i'll have another injury.....what does she know? (More than me probably)

[magna13]

 

[spillers#1]

Enjoyed looking at them neil  i've seen te-harve in pic ~34 i think,holding his trophy next to charlie reynolds(jays in his youngs shirt) still wears a cap like a knob 

[fcukneeski]

dude.... blast from the past       thats J HARVEY in the YOUNGS shirt next to Charlie Reynolds and me in the RALEIGH gear

 

just to add on these  ..  thats Mr Rusty's brother next to Magoo from what i think must have been a buckmore summer series

and an american dude called benny in the TORKER JT suit who stayed over in kent

good to see... nice 1

[mr.magoo]

raleigh gear - oh dear? can't remember your name, save extreme perv a job...have to say my memory for gating and jumping and cranking hard, brilliant, names and faces......doh

[paul clarkson]

i was in the same age group mr magoo we must of raced against each other at some stage  did you do any nbmxa nationals or just uk?

[mr.magoo]

No only UKBMXA, but i do remember your name, who knows could be from mags, or perhaps our paths crossed, as if no racing local used to make my Dad take me to the otherside of outer mongolia, even if only a club race, rather than have a sunday without a race, even used to be one of the hardcore Boxing day racers at Buckmore, and new years day races too, even though my old man is scottish, and had to come home from the pub to take me

what area did you live in bitd mate?

[paul clarkson]

lived in nottingham but like you raced everywhere was racing at least twice a week sometimes three with the evening meets ,burned myself out with it early 87 and packed in .but what great days

[mr.magoo]

that could be it then, spent a week or two in Nottingham area with Big Kev40 and his dad one summer, can't remember where we raced, but came home with trophies. (kinda have some memories of racing in a dog stadium)? but getting old, maybe it was a dream.

I got out in '86 but started again last may, till i knackered my knee about 7 weeks ago

[paul clarkson]

the dog stadium was no dream that was one of two tracks nottingham had at the time

[mr.magoo]

there we go then, sourthern lad raced there and took silverware, and some other track possibly Nottingham area, memory really bad on this one.... on top of a hill that overlooked a town? (narrows it down)just remember this really long field seemed like we had to walk for ages from car to track, kinda place you'd find a boot fair now?

[LucyLastic]

Super pics, Neil.  Your Wigan pic, is that Three Sisters?