Blast from the past freestyle time - Page 2

jb_11 · #16 08-14-2018, 11:23 AM

GT Pro Performer in white.

Matthew · #17 08-14-2018, 02:11 PM

Didn't do freestyle but I dabbled a bit in BMX racing. Used to love going to the drug store and pick up a copy of BMX Plus back in the day. And having a sweet number plate twisty tied to my handlebars. Awesome memories!!!

d_douglas · #18 08-14-2018, 03:19 PM

I volunteer as a bike advocacy boardmember and a new person on the Board told us that he won the World Champion freestyle BMX title in 1986 or something!

I googled him and found some pretty awful grainy youtube footage of him at Expo86 in Vancouver in a white jumpsuit pulling some pretty insane tricks on a bike. You would never know to see him now, except for the stories and the immense number of scars on his arms from wipeouts and surgeries

dcowboys31 · #19 08-15-2018, 02:50 PM

Really love seeing the old BMX / Freestyle stuff every now and again. Best memory was seeing the CW Freestyle team perform in Marlborough MA back I think in 1986 or 1987. Dizz Hicks, Ceppie Maes, Greg Kove and a young kid whose name I cannot remember. Was able to get the factory CW Freestyle frame from the bike store that the team rode at the time and really wish I kept that bike. Black with pink decals and started with black Skyway Magnesium Tuff wheels but switched over the 48 spoke Peregrine wheels.

If you have a few minutes check out this flatland competition from 2013 (especially the kid with the tan backwards hat brown pants at about the 9:10 mark). Due to the ESPN X-Games I knew the ramp stuff was crazy, but the flatland competitions are absolutely unbelievable (no brakes on any of those bikes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIWrIjlI0Q4

Jay