Mike, Dig june 2005: My friends and I went to every Rampage contest. And Mike Ocoboc when those S&M videos were coming out. I hadn't traveled back then, but as far as the Midwest went, those were the guys that I really looked up to. Eventually, I stopped seeing him in the magazine, and after that, it was obviously Joe Rich and Taj and those guys, and Luc E, When the Standard Fat Ones video came out, that whole time era, I couldn't really speak for anyone else. It was just a hunch I had from seeing him in the magazines, but years later, when I met all these people that used to know him, I found out that he was super cool and that he grew into bigger and better things like being a DJ in London. I never even saw him in a video until years later, but every photo I saw of him in a magazine, he was just like, cool. I never met him or saw him ride in person. Mike, Dig june 2005: Back then, I really looked up to Craig Campbell. Michael Ardelean letter in BMX Plus! october 1990. It was the only thing all of us would be focusing on, the fact that we know we'd be riding the next day. That was the point in time where it was literally an obsession. That was one of the first times we had actually witnessed BMX riding happening right in front of us, and you could see how possible it was and how tricks were executed, and within a few months, we had ramps in Jason Suchan's backyard a mini ramp, a spine, a box jump, and we just progressed. mini ramp, and Joe Johnson was coming close to pulling double tailwhip airs on the thing. And their ramp was a haflpipe, it was the biggest ramp we'd ever seen, but it was basically a 7 ft. And Mirra was 15, and he was amazing, doing all these flatland tricks. Wayne pageant, and Jim Burgess ended up making out with Ms. It was this white trash carnival kinda thing with gross elephant ears and cotton candy, and the team came and set up their ramps there and did the demo, and there was a Ms. The town next to me was Wayne, and they had this thing called the Wayne Festival. It was the first time I saw a freestyler with pegs riding a race bike. He had this mullet that was curly in the back, and he rode an Auburn. Back then, Jim was the cool dude out of those four guys. In 1990, the GT team came to my town, Dave Mirra was 15-years-old, and he had a mushroom bowl haircut that was bleached blond on top, and Joe Johnson, Jess Dyrenforth and Jim Burgess. Eventually, we met Mark Flippowicz and the people at Albe's, and we used to go there every weekend and we used to watch demos of whatever team came to town. This was years after BMX fizzled out of popularity, when no one rode and no one knew anything about riding. The five of us and my younger brother were the diehard riding crew, and we didn't know anyone else that rode. And then, over the next few months, I met four guys: Big Matt and Little Matt, this other guy named Jimmy and Jason Suchan. Those guys fizzled out of the whole riding scene and I only rode their halfpipe like ten times, and then I never saw them again. He had a Mongoose Supergoose and he could do hang-5s down my whole street. So I used to go there, and this guy named Cliff, he had this feathered mullet, super tight jeans and a hairbrush in his back pocket. halfpipe in their backyard, within riding distance from my house. There wasn't really anybody else riding except for these old burnout guys that I met a couple years later, when I could actually do some tricks and they were impressed that an 11-yearold kid on a 50 lb. $140 with red anodized parts, I got it at Wild Bill's Bike Shop down the street from my house. I subscribed to Go Magazine and BMX Plus! and I used to just cruise around the neighborhood. So for the first two or three years, I just rode around my neighborhood. It never occurred to me to actually buy it or save my allowance, so I used to just do that, but it didn't seem accessible at all cause I didn't know anybody that rode. There was a drug store down my street, and I used to walk there all the time to run errands for my mom, and I would just hang out and read Freestylin' for 45 minutes at a time at the drug store. Mike, Dig june 2005: What got me into riding was that I basically saw it in a magazine, when BMX Action and Freestylin' were still around. If you want to add any info, please contact 1978
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |