My Old School Bmx pics 1982 - 84 ish (more added 30.04.10)

[spooky69]

All we had was some dodgy wood left overs, a few bricks and if lucky a half decent bike.......but how much fun was to be had back then, I remember leaving my house at 9am and returning at 8pm, all day riding ,hanging with my mates building all manner of stuff
The good old days ......and yes that is John Povah..now Etnies bmx team manager aboard a Prostar

John Povah 1983

Paul Salter 1983

Stu Ross 1983

Tony Nicholson 1983

The only decent pic I have of myself back in 1984

[billstup]

Cracking pics 

[monkian]

Welcome to the site man. Cool pics
You showing good style

[NORTY40]

Great pics mate    

Welcome to RAD too  

[spooky69]

Thanks guy's, nice to find a friendly site.....feels good to be back riding again 

[hunterdubber]

Love pics seeing from back when we were riding back then ,

Make sure you have a good search for some more 

enjoy the site mate 

[bobafett]

Cool 

[spooky69]

Hey thanks very much, will take a while to work my way around all the good stuff on here

[tricknuts]

Hey thanks very much, will take a while to work my way around all the good stuff on here

yeah your right there. There's so much shite with threads about volcanic ash that never was.

Love that quaterpipe. We had one just  the same. excellent photos. welcome to radbmx

[Moose]

Sweet pictures - thanks for posting them 

[M5AT]

Them were the days

[Gashead]

great pics 

[Mattdub]

Cool pics , welcome to RAD 

[spooky69]

Thanks very much everyone, a few more to come from that period, just need to get scanning:)

[bmxbob]

RAD 

Cool pics man 

[MartyC]

Happy days from Bosie 

Tell, did you used to wear headphones and a walkman a lot bitd?  Trying to remember you ...

[spooky69]

MartyC  -   haha, yeah that's right, the Bosanquet ramps
No that wasn't me with the headphones, but I was a regular at this spot and used to come into Heff's with these guy's when you worked there, you had the Patterson frame..yes?
Man, do you still ride?
Apart from the odd flirt with bmx,  I have mainly ridden MTB's over the last 20 odd years but I'm back on a Bmx this year and determined to continue to hit the trails, parks and the odd track, no intention to race though ( that never was my scene)!

I'll post some more pics of me on this thread tonight, I was at school with Tony and Paul in the pics so I rode with them most, dunno if you'll remember me though cos there was quite a crowd down at Bosie in those days!    Good to hear from a fellow Bosie local:

[JAY]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing........

[spooky69]

Last of the pics, I don't have too many from bitd, these are possibly scraping the bottom of the barrel... lol


Me- 1983 .I had to have a trick ramp in the garden, Mum didn't want it near the house but under the car port headroom was a bit of a problem   haha


Me- 1983 ..arrgghhh   backhops


Me -Back then I could never get fed up with endo's!


Me - Out of the nearest thing we had to a bowl  ( Bosie for the one's who remember)


Me - I might resurrect this foot on the backwheel onehanded kickturn just for a laugh next time I'm down the local skatepark:)

[rollin72]

cool pics mate, i like the last 1 of the trick ramp, all the names sprayed on it, we had 1 just the same

[MartyC]

MartyC  -   haha, yeah that's right, the Bosanquet ramps
No that wasn't me with the headphones, but I was a regular at this spot and used to come into Heff's with these guy's when you worked there, you had the Patterson frame..yes?
Man, do you still ride?
Apart from the odd flirt with bmx,  I have mainly ridden MTB's over the last 20 odd years but I'm back on a Bmx this year and determined to continue to hit the trails, parks and the odd track, no intention to race though ( that never was my scene)!

I'll post some more pics of me on this thread tonight, I was at school with Tony and Paul in the pics so I rode with them most, dunno if you'll remember me though cos there was quite a crowd down at Bosie in those days!    Good to hear from a fellow Bosie local:

Good stuff and great memory, I did have a Patterson for a while and then moved onto a Haro Freestyler as I started riding freestyle mainly.  I used to love that jump at Bosie, shame is filled in and has houses on it now:(.

Great pics too, love the endo one, that's a street off Violet Ave isn't it?

I still ride, badly nowadays though LOL!  I have also moved to Perth, Western Australia about 2 years ago but have my bikes with me and have been dabbling a little with racing as have become mates with the 40+ No2 State rider.

I used to love that kickturn ramp, 360 nose turns and one hand one foot kickturns all day long!  Were you there when we set that ramp up facing down the old railway line and jumped off it onto the slope to the bottom?  Rad times and mega air!

Do you have any pics of the huge wooden table top jump that was built at Bosie too?  I could never jump that properly, I always missed the bloody down side and landed straight on the ground, too high too far  .

[pickle]

cracking pictures and like you say, thats what it was all about BITD.....being out on your bike ALL day, building all sorts of ramps and jumps and just having a blast!   

[sid1972]

   have

you still got the bike?

[58 delray]

great pics 

[spooky69]

MartyC  ...   yeah I still pass through the old riding spot now and again and never do it without reminiscing about the good times, shame they built more houses and didnt even put a recreation area in for the growing number of kids!!!

No , the endo pic is outside my parents house in Cowley:)
I still ride regularly whether it's on the bmx or mtbs, that will never leave me whilst I'm fit, but the body doesn't react or recuperate as quickly as the mind thinks it should these days, so I'm just happy nibbling away here and there with the trick stuff, in a way it's kind of reliving it all over again, I have no pressure or desire to pull the big stuff any more on vert but show me a jump and it's hard to resist.. 

Jumping that ramp into the "bowl" area....yeah I was there then, haha....too much air, not getting the front down and slipping a pedal on landing , painful shins but back to the top for another go.......man, great times! I remember Paul Salter on one of his Diamond Backs, might have been the Silver Streak, passing out when he slipped his beartraps doing that and fainted at the sight of his own blood!!

I'm sure I had some pics of the tabletop, but my parents had all these until recently, but I haven't come across any so far.
Yeah we used to hack down the road from the corner of Bosie and hit the table at the end where it joined the grass, I remember you turning up and hitting the jump straight away and doing exactly that, missing the landing and sliding out in a heap about 15 foot away..haha...it did take a few people by surprise now and again!

Maybe we need to do a shout out for any Local riders from Hillingdon with pics of that place, someone must have taken some more, I remember when the Skyway team turned up with Craig Campbell and Paul Hudson along with their mobile 1/4 pipe, set it up opposite ours and everyone rode both ramps , by that time though John Povah ruled that ramp cos it was pretty much his back garden, was hitting it real high and with loads of variety ( I couldn't keep up with him at that point) but he rode his socks off that afternoon:)

The one thing that sticks firmly in my mind was that there was no attitude with riders that came to visit, everyone just wanted to see what everyone else could do, it was all friendly and we were happy for people to come ride that spot, it's not quite the same nowadays though in my experience!

sid1972 - no sadly i dont have any of my old bmx's, I'm currently riding a 2007/8 Hoffman Rhythm PL (can't even remember when I  bought it), no front brake, no pegs, no gyro, just set up for dirt really , although now and again I go down the local skatepark...and I use that term loosely cos it's hardly Harrow!!!