Some Early-Mid 90s riding pics

[SaMAlex]

My mate Taff has finally got round to scanning in a load of old riding photos so I thought Id post some up here. I used to ride with Taff all the time but he was pretty unlucky and had way to many nasty crashes, so doesn’t ride any more.


The first 3 are me at radlands. This is on my second dirtbike that I got in 92/93ish. Its a mk2 with Mexican decals. It didn’t come with 990 mounts, I put them on myself.









The next 2 are the same frame but I had a new dirtbike by then so the purple one got hand painted black and I used it for jumping. These pics were taken on the jump box in my friend Crowmans back garden







Finally a few of the man himself. Taff getting loose, and some of how he paid for it!

[JT71]

loving the pics Alex, get those none bmx ones up of you on the car roof. they crack me up!

 

[SaMAlex]

get those none bmx ones up of you on the car roof.

These ones?

I have no idea where that is, why Im dancing on my car roof, or why Im wearing a super tight T-shirt 

[kev-s]

cool pics

used to love going to radlands for the old world qualifiers, remember one year sleeping in the car outside the park and waking up to a foot of snow and looking out the window to see effraim carrying his bike up the road from his bed & breakfast!!


the old koc car in the street course, that was 92 iirc and the last time we had one in the street course

[JT71]

so tight thermal t's were well cool before Webby was even out of nappies?

you do look happy though Alex!

[thecaptain]

thats one hell of a bruise!

[SaMAlex]

thats one hell of a bruise!

Taff was never one to do things by halves. That was from a small slide out when he was cycling along a toe path next to a river. His front wheel washed out and he landed on the side of a concrete drain cover. It was so bad that they thought he'd messed up his insides and he had to get air lifted away (cos it was miles from any roads).

[LENNY-LENTINI]

Yeah cool pics mate

are you ridin left side drive in that first pic?

Your mates bruise is the worst I've ever seen from ridin'... ouch

[SaMAlex]

are you ridin left side drive in that first pic?

Left hand drive in the first 3 pics 
That was my second or third prototype  LHD hub (a modified MTB cassette hub) before I started making the whole hub from scratch. On the blunt pic you can see its a 36 spoke araya aero rim with thick guage spokes.

[teamsano]

those grifter spoke guards looked awful.

[JT71]

NICE PANTS!

 

[SaMAlex]

those grifter spoke guards looked awful.

Yeah they did! Generally, I hate the look of most of my bikes, esp from the early 90s. I never really was one for style, I just knew what tricks I wanted to do and built my bike for them, even if it was pretty stinky lookin

[subversion]

Good pics Alex.

I remember the blood curdling screams when Taff snapped his leg at Radlands one night He always went for it though didn't he! I think you (or was it Sboy?) told me a story recently that he was doing a manual in his back garden at a BBQ(?) & looped out & smashed his head on the floor good old Taff  

Some of the better Radlands layouts in those pics too