Author Topic: Skyway TA (Read 10228 times)

yoda · « **on:** February 07, 2009, 03:20 PM »

Skyway TA my 87' Worlds replica. Built it to the spec of the bike I rode at the Tizer Worlds.

munners · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2009, 03:21 PM »

Well nice!

What colour white is it?

Bigfrawg · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2009, 04:26 PM »

how did you manage without a chain ffs ?

harris · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2009, 04:28 PM »

props for getting it all built up looks ready to abuse.

ron burgundy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2009, 05:11 PM »

Cool, what are the bars?

magna13 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2009, 05:41 PM »

Liking that alot

lodge · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2009, 06:00 PM »

Needs some T&C stickers dave. hehe

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2009, 09:05 PM »

This might help....

I might have a GT flip up forkstander somewhere....

G

P.S. how tight were those bloody shorts..?!

Bigplinky · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2009, 11:21 PM »

Oh no Dave your payed good money for those Graphite X's and all you needed were some £15 SX's all along

yoda · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2009, 10:56 AM »

I built the bike pretty much from memory of parts I remember using around that time. Bars are Haro knee saver mk1's . My bikes changed on a weekly basis parts wise mainly cos things broke so often. I wanted the replica to look half decent hence the Black nd Chrome scheme. Think you'll agree that thing In the pics Gary posted is one ugly looking bike...Oh and no I wont be sporting a pair of those T&C board shorts on the bikes first outing

I'd probably get arrested

Flatcap · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2009, 11:07 AM »

Sweet that Dave, how much were those pedals again??

Daz.

lodge · « **Reply #11 on:** February 08, 2009, 11:16 AM »

bet your 87 bike was light compared to most of the lumps peeps rode.

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #12 on:** February 08, 2009, 12:01 PM »

Excellent

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #13 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:57 PM »

Quote from: Young on February 08, 2009, 10:56 AM

I built the bike pretty much from memory of parts I remember using around that time. Bars are Haro knee saver mk1's . My bikes changed on a weekly basis parts wise mainly cos things broke so often. I wanted the replica to look half decent hence the Black nd Chrome scheme. Think you'll agree that thing In the pics Gary posted is one ugly looking bike...Oh and no I wont be sporting a pair of those T&C board shorts on the bikes first outing I'd probably get arrested

Or castrated......

Biggeorge · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:50 PM »

/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:44 PM »

Quote from: biggeorge on February 08, 2009, 07:50 PM

/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!

There's a lot of serious moves in that run, smooth riding too. Nice one, havn't seen that since bitd.

Dave - the scans came from Freestyle Bmx magazine, Oct/Nov '87.

G

yoda · « **Reply #16 on:** February 09, 2009, 08:37 AM »

Quote from: biggeorge on February 08, 2009, 07:50 PM

/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!

Hey Mark,
that run isnt the actual Worlds run. I have that on VHS. Ramp run only. This was a scammy BMX Beat run which they conned us into riding after the finals Purely for the benefit of the cameras. Hence it has some flatland stuff....I didnt really care that much at that point in the day as Id won the Pro ramps and was fkn knackered too. We'd all been competing everyday for a week by then. Anyways I bet Ruffel made plenty from it so happy days eh...... $:-\$

JAY · « **Reply #17 on:** February 09, 2009, 07:20 PM »

Very nice Dave,great bike mate........

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #18 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:10 PM »

Quote from: Young on February 09, 2009, 08:37 AM

Quote from: biggeorge on February 08, 2009, 07:50 PM
/>theres a vid of your run fella, I thought you'd won it!
Sorry Garry!
Hey Mark,
that run isnt the actual Worlds run. I have that on VHS. Ramp run only. This was a scammy BMX Beat run which they conned us into riding after the finals Purely for the benefit of the cameras. Hence it has some flatland stuff....I didnt really care that much at that point in the day as Id won the Pro ramps and was fkn knackered too. We'd all been competing everyday for a week by then. Anyways I bet Ruffel made plenty from it so happy days eh...... $:-\$

Watched your run and Andy Reardon's and I don't think any of us were at our best on that TV special thing - my run sucked - kept messin' up, but managed to stay on most of the time!
I would love to see some of our actual comp. runs.
Pepi had some stuff from that year, but never managed to meet up with him again (in time) to see it.
Damn shame....

P.s., I think biggeorge WAS talikn' about the tv special comp by the way.

Biggeorge · « **Reply #19 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:19 PM »

I was fella.
Didnt know that wasnt the real deal until Dave posted about it on here.
Would love to see the original footage!

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #20 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:32 PM »

Quote from: biggeorge on February 09, 2009, 09:19 PM

I was fella.
Didnt know that wasnt the real deal until Dave posted about it on here.
Would love to see the original footage!

Don't know if they filmed the Pro runs for the individual titles, but would be great to see!
Here's the result table, not sure how the detail will come out from the scan.

G

lodge · « **Reply #21 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:57 PM »

I think dennys got some footage of the other venues, gloucester i think, I have seen pepi and daves runs somewhere on the interweb. was a mad week thats for sure, think everyone toned there runs down for the tv.

Biggeorge · « **Reply #22 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:05 PM »

Dave at Gloucester:

bmxer4ever · « **Reply #23 on:** February 09, 2009, 11:41 PM »

Denny has 136 videos on YouTube!
Bloody hell!

Good run Dave!
You did lots of cool fakies back then!
G

yoda · « **Reply #24 on:** February 10, 2009, 08:35 AM »

Ive got loads of footage from the Final runs in Calisle but its all on VHS. I need to get it copied over to digital but I suck at getting around to sorting it out. Im going to dig it out tonight and try and figure out the next move. Loads of Hoffman on there during practice etc. Sure your runs will be there too Gary. Will let you know later on

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