MarkSport
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 I'm starting dancing in a club in birmingham soon,will be working for a company who travel the u.k
heres a few skate vids of me
bit shit this trick but hard to do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8TYqUyI-gI
My favorite trick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCw8T2QT75A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV2fJXk2FQk
and 2 slow mo vids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV2fJXk2FQk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNk5doGz8e0
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Cosmo
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Originally posted by MarkSport
I'm starting dancing in a club in birmingham soon,will be working for a company who travel the u.k
They let dance acts in comedy clubs these days?
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MarkSport
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haha nope no comedy club...got a spot in gatecrasher coming up soon 
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gavin18787
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Originally posted by DannyB
The level of riding these days is in a whole new world, one of my recent fave riders has to be Mark Webb, the guys insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnjKQPN05E
Thats sick
I agree its come on some way since I stopped.
Tried to find a pic of my old macneil but I havent got any as it was before everyone had digi cams etc
Drives supercharged Tec with torque 
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MarkSport
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Originally posted by gavin18787
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Originally posted by DannyB
The level of riding these days is in a whole new world, one of my recent fave riders has to be Mark Webb, the guys insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnjKQPN05E
Thats sick
agreed,that vid is immense
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Jules S
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Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
ive posted these before, but some who are interested may not have seen them, my brothers old school bmx's
SE racing quadangle
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Skyway T/A
Rebel Freestyler
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he has another rebel freestyler, an earlier one with twin top tubes but cant find any pics of it built, but this is the frame and forks
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Thats some serious old school stuff going on there....does he keep them in a museum or something?
I used to have a quadangle(s), gave up on those fokkas as they snapped the headtubes almost weekly - great design in theory, shite in practice. I had a TA too, nice bike that...well strong, I only ever heard of one breaking when a nutjob jumped off something about 12' high onto the flat tarmac....it broke as did his ankle IIRC and it looked like you were riding a bike made of straws when you looked down on the top tube 
Funnily enough, both of the above were designed as race BMX's but both (in your pics) are set up for freestyle 
I wonder if your Bro' can tell me what I'm on in my pics above?...and yes they were original white Tuff 2's back in the day (broke them all too)
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eddiewhiteley
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a lot of people used skyways for freestyle back in the day, and the quad is just an old school style, no particular style to be honest, just so it looks good.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=234&cat=502
some images of the skyway 1983 european tour
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SeanXE
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Originally posted by SVM 286
Sean. 
Where did you get that Tee shirt mate? 
Republic or river island mate
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SeanXE
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Originally posted by DC90
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And heres my youtube playlist of me riding
Only six videos and there about 6-10 seconds long each just 360's etc lol but mehh here ya go
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=61CA2599E8DFCF35
So that's who you are! I've seen your car loads, I live in Houghton too. Knew the skatepark was built but never seen it.
Ahh lol, what corsa you got? may of seen it
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Jules S
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Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
a lot of people used skyways for freestyle back in the day, and the quad is just an old school style, no particular style to be honest, just so it looks good.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=234&cat=502
some images of the skyway 1983 european tour
Thats not strictly true...believe me I was back there in the day.
I'm not sure of the validity of that pic, but it aint a TA....the totally aerodynamic was a race bike..no questions of that.
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eddiewhiteley
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quote:
Originally posted by Jules S
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Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
a lot of people used skyways for freestyle back in the day, and the quad is just an old school style, no particular style to be honest, just so it looks good.
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=234&cat=502
some images of the skyway 1983 european tour
Thats not strictly true...believe me I was back there in the day.
I'm not sure of the validity of that pic, but it aint a TA....the totally aerodynamic was a race bike..no questions of that.
yeah it was originally a racde bike, but it was used for freestyle, there was a skyway trick team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss4c8DxtNC8
have you ever seen the film "joe kid on a stingray" the history of bmx?
loads of examples of skyways being used on the quarter/halfpipes etc.
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eddiewhiteley
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpALTtXyCuU&feature=related
skyway promo vid, plenty of freestyling t/a's, i know they arent all t/a's some streetbeats there aswell, but you can see t/a's were clearly used for freestyling.
check out www.radbmx.co.uk
heres a t/a with the freestyle platform
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Here you go, full story of the 1984 skyway freestyle tour.
http://mauricemeyer.com/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../BMX/chrome_ta/page_info.txt&page=BMX/1984_Skyway_TA/index
[Edited on 11-08-2009 by eddiewhiteley]
[Edited on 11-08-2009 by eddiewhiteley]
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SVM 286
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Originally posted by S7M XE
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Originally posted by SVM 286
Sean.
Where did you get that Tee shirt mate?
Republic or river island mate
Cheers Sean. It is a Henley isn't it?
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Cosmo
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eddiewhiteley - do you want me to teach you how to post pics?
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SVM 286
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That chrome Skyway and the white one are just 
I always wanted a Diamond back, a Skyway and a Mongoose. Too poor. 
Still got my Condor with teardrop chromoly frame and red Tuff IIs in the loft though.
Jules, how the hell did you manage to break those wheels? You must have been an absolute animal
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eddiewhiteley
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Originally posted by Cosmo
eddiewhiteley - do you want me to teach you how to post pics?
why what am i doing wrong?
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Jules S
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Originally posted by SVM 286
Jules, how the hell did you manage to break those wheels? You must have been an absolute animal
Pretty easily really, the original Tuff had alloy hubs with bolts though to secure each side (see the pics above) later wheels had a plastic hub as per Eddies TA shown in the pic directly above.
Skyway wheels were nigh on indestructable in terms of vert work in the early 80's, which was why we used them...prior to that we used to use race wheels, I used UKAIS pretty much solid to good effect for years. When flatland freestyle evolved the original skyway wheels showed a flaw in terms of lateral flex - the wheel itself cracked diagonally in the plastic in line with the bolts holding the hub together, hence skyway revising the hub design to the plastic on the pic Eddie posted.
Eddie, nice link there matey, brought back a few memories that
As you know, I didn't say the TA wasn't ever used for freestyle...it simply wasn't designed to be a freestyle bike. The TA just happened to be (probably) the best balanced race bike out there for freestyle use. From what I can remember (long time ago lol) the only really specialised freestyle bike at the time was the Haro..and that weighed a fooking ton
So we all used our race bikes for freestyle with good/bad results, there were 'loads' of 'add on's' around at the time to convert a 'race' bike to a 'freestyle' bike similar to the skyway foot stand you posted above. At this time foot pegs came to the fore too...we didn't need them before and tricks were invented around them.
FWIW (I know I'm rambling a tad now) I think all SE racing/Hutch/ and I think skyway stuff was solely imported into the UK by Shiners in Bristol back in the day..which is why we got them shipped in. I was certainly under consideration for the skyway sponsorship via bikelogy (now called rollermania)
Me? I chose a VDC Changa as seen in my pics and imported by shiners...had a pro version and then the standard which is the one I'm riding in the photos...the best BMX I've ever ridden.
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eddiewhiteley
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a vdc changa went on ebay last year for about a grand, but the thing is, it was obviously some old folks selling as they saw it just an old bike they had upin the loft, realbasic desription, couple of photos, bet they couldnt believe the price it went for#
lovely bikes though
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
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Originally posted by Cosmo
eddiewhiteley - do you want me to teach you how to post pics?
why what am i doing wrong?
an extra [img] and the last one each time
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eddiewhiteley
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ah well, they are showin up, thats good enough for me
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Jules S
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Originally posted by eddiewhiteley
a vdc changa went on ebay last year for about a grand, but the thing is, it was obviously some old folks selling as they saw it just an old bike they had upin the loft, realbasic desription, couple of photos, bet they couldnt believe the price it went for#
lovely bikes though
Mine was robbed out of our garage with a shed load of snap on tools.
The entire tool box went via the front lawn, with a single bike tyre line over the turf.
The old mans 911 (on jacks) was left totally untouched.
Don't you just love selective robbing barstards?
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SeanXE
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Originally posted by SVM 286
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Originally posted by S7M XE
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Originally posted by SVM 286
Sean.
Where did you get that Tee shirt mate?
Republic or river island mate
Cheers Sean. It is a Henley isn't it?
Yeahh mate, got loads of henleys shirts lol, i love emmm
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goodisonefc1986
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this is my old bmx, was one of the first sputnic's, i sold it about 18 months ago and not riden since but come into abit of cash at min so complete new bike will be ordered soon
some of me riding
[Edited on 11-08-2009 by goodisonefc1986]
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Kenzie
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I used to ride BMX a while ago, untill I sold it to my next door neighbour.
Ive been considering getting another one
[Edited on 11-08-2009 by Kenzie]
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the 6ft dream
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fuckin love that white skyway, what's the chrome bar thing on the top tube that extends over the tyre?
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