What a great feeling I got from looking through this, such good times, life was good back then (still is to be honest, just different).

wow axman those are pretty artsy! I like the tuff wheel closeup the best. Nice work.

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/bikes/bmx/wallpaper03.jpg

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/bikes/bmx/wallpaper04.jpg

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/bikes/bmx/wallpaper05.jpg

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/bikes/bmx/wallpaper06.jpg

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/bikes/bmx/wallpaper07.jpg

here's a few more i like

Ok, it's time to start kicking this thread a bit....here are some more pics.


Denny rampstallin' Photo by strike


Strike with a backwards framestand. Photo by Ty/Tom


Strike again with his favorite trick, bar endo. Photo by Ty/Tom


King of Pipeline launches out of one of the jumps while Rich Hansen looks on. Photo by strike

Two interesting things in this photo:

1.Dover is where Tom Haugen invented the 360 tailwhip.

2. Rich Hansen designed the graphics for the Haro Master in the early 90's. Someone (Pat Wirz?) has to help me with the year.


Rich Hansen lays one over at Dover. Photo by strike

[ March 11, 2006, 11:46 AM: Message edited by: STRIKE ]

Ty, cancan's at the Olympik parking lot jump. Photo by strike


Ty decades at our favorite daytime spot, Greenway. Photo by strike


Holy crap, I didn't realize Tom was this flexible! Photo by strike


Scott lays one out in the aerobics room or Northgate Racquet club. Photo by strike.

I have a lot more photos, but just be glad I took some time to upload these.

that last one is AWESOME....you get almost every angle out of that trick with the mirrors.

very dope.

The last pic is definitely "frame and put on the living room wall" worthy.

Oh, yeah, Tom on that kick turn is sick. I didn't know he could kick it like that, man!!!

I don't recall ever seeing that picture of Scott and the mirrors before, but I have the negative sitting right here. Weird.

I rode with you all those years and I NEVER knew you could do backwards framestands!!

Tom was definitely the underrated rider of our group, I used to dig all his flail variations!!

Hey man, got any more of me? I seem to have lost all my old pics of me ridin....bummer!

I'll see what I can find ditchweed.

cool man!

I have a ton of vids of us BITD, if youre interested!!

That pic of me in the aerobics room is killer. Thanks for all the kudos!! I showed the wife, but she disagreed about it being living room wall worthy though. hahahahahaha

I think my mullet rocked though.

And Tom - what a crazy cat he was back then...

Strike - I looked through all my stuff for old pics, and I swear, I don't have much...but YOU seem to have a lot of the stuff I took..how'd that happen?!

Anyhoo - cool thread...keep it goin!!

Wow, what a MAJOR Minnesota dominance here, this is very impressive! The fever continues to grow in MN... I hope most of you are planning on attending the Rockford gathering in June? I just discovered this site in December and look forward to meeting up with some MN boys soon! Great shots guys

Here is a shot of me from 1981 moving from racing to freestyle on my PK


[ March 13, 2006, 11:23 PM: Message edited by: PaulyMN ]

Ya know...I think that you would bring the pictures over to my house where we'd all gather for winter riding and then the pictures would just stay there. Most of these photos and negatives I found intertwined within all of my magazines...remember the blue milk crates I'd keep them in? Yeah, that's right.

Oh and yeah, you should get it blown up and put on your living room wall...if nothing else at least in the garage!

Pauly MN, a few of us were in Rockford last year, but I'm hoping to have a lot more of us attending this year.

Oh and thanks for the kudos, I still have a lot more pictures left to post so hang on to your fedoras.

[ March 13, 2006, 11:26 PM: Message edited by: STRIKE ]

What's up with that Rogers dude, He raced in the early 80's. Let me know where you raced. You probbably beat me a few times.

If I ever figure out how to post pics on here, you'll be seeing so more good stuff.

I raced at Brooklyn Park, Shorewood, Richfield, Big Willow, St. Paul Civic Center, The Armory & Albert Lea in Minnesota. I am probably leaving a few out but that is what I can remember for now. I rode some freestyle & raced with Eric Levander & Shawn Sheely. I look forward to tipping a few beers with you guys in Rockford

Strike,

Whats cool is that you guys actually thought to take pictures. We never thoughtt o do that. At least not much. Of course, I totally regret it now.

Great stuff.

Jeff

We took a ton of pictures, but I think most of them are slides, since that's what my mom shot in her camera. Mostly we took pics of Ned doing balance tricks on various downtown Minneapolis fountains and other artifacts. I think most of them are down in North Carolina at my folks house.

Jeff,

Yeah, I don't know why but we always seemed to have a camera around. I can't speak for the other guys but, I think I'm pretty sure I got that from my Mom. She has a ton of pictures from when I was a little kid. She seemed to document a lot of stuff, so I guess it just seemed natural to document what we were doing.

Gregg

I think Strike and Stagnant were the only ones that had cameras the parents would let use :-)

I can't find ANY pictures (I know I had a couple) but I'm sure 10 years from now they will show up somewhere.

Strike, let me know if you want/need help scanning. maybe we can get them all scanned and burned to cd/dvd and give to our group.

Thanks for the offer UG2L, we'll see.

King of Pipeline with one of his classic moves...the kickout. Photo by strike


Scott (stagnant) takes it straight to the edge of sanity. Photo by Scott's Dad, Tom.


Post freestyle show team shot. Clockwise from Chris (the thumbs up kid). Chris (Humidity saC), Scott (Stagnant) Me, Jon Grimm & Pat Wirz. Photo by my Mom.


Me with a blurry lookdown in about 1989. Photo by the saC.


Me again, photo by the saC.


Practicing my footplants, photo by Tom (Ty)


Here I am, snow jumping over my '72 Olds Delta. Photo by Pat Wirz

[ March 16, 2006, 11:25 PM: Message edited by: STRIKE ]

OH yeah! THose shots are sick..Talk about digging in the achieves. In that group shot, those shorts are freaking major!

the second shot of Scott doing a wheelie is just plain RAD.

LOL

Jerry always had such a cool style...that kickout is STOKE.

and man, Beltline Schwinn...that building is SOOOO legendary! Unfortunatly its a Somali Grocery now...

I like how Jon and Chris are wearing the same tee in the group pix, while STRIKE is rocking jeans and a long sleeve on an 80-90 degree summer day....what were ya thinking man, just looking at it makes me feel warm!!!

p.s. I think Kaz has that bashgard Master....Im gonna get it from him!!!

Speaking of Jerry, was that him doing the announcing on the eagles Cancer Telethon appearance of TFT?

That's me on the Mic.. I tried to get the regional audience stoked. I was not ready for TV that evening. That was a good time...We were all a bit nervous, but it all turned out good.

Well, here it is, some stills of the famous night. Check out Stricke rocking it with the bike upside down, amazing

Hahaha, oh man, great screen shots. The riding in this isn't bad, pretty mediocre, but KOP's commentary really spices things up. This video is a must see.


Ok, since DitchWeed is jonesin' for some pics of himself, here are a few I scrounged up. All these photos were taken by myself.


Ferrillo spin, with Ditch's trademark "concentration tongue". I think it actually helped him to pull off some stuff he probably shouldn't have.


Funky? Oh yeah!


If I recall correctly, this trick was called a "Tea Kettle". Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

[ March 18, 2006, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: STRIKE ]

Dang, that almost makes me wish I didn't grow up in the big city north of ya'll. I was trying to find some pictures that my old girlfriend took at Ramp City (that was the name of Eden Prarrie Warehouse that Dale set up, right?). Did you guys ever make it up there?

best quote from the telethon?

"close, but no ceeg..." - Jerry

That still makes me laugh to this day!!

And yeah, the "concentration toungue" (LMAO) did probably help me pull some stuff!!

And the bottom trick was an , um Elephant glide or something like that....think it was a Ceppie Mays move.

Man, I miss my old Trick Star 2....

I DO NOT miss my sweet a** mullet, however!!!

My Mullet-tude was eclipsed only by STRIKE's spiked mullet BITD!! Killer pics man, all my old-school stuff is video, not photo.....but I'll post some screen caps!

Stricke definitely knew how to work the Rochester crowd.

Best. Thread. Ever. period!!!

STRIKE man, Im with Denny here, if you did a cd of images from back in the day, I'd totally be down with helping scan, compiling vids, whatever!!!!

Either way. we need to hang out....soon!

Heres an Idea, how bout a Rochester/Waseca/Pine Island/ Southern MN Faction BBQ sometime in Spring? I'll be getting a house in April...I might be able to host even....

I have that Cancer Telethon video as well! That night was legendary to us! After that showing, we booked a bunch of shows for that Spring. Gregg (Strike), Pat and I really were nervous that night, but we put on a pretty rad show.
I remember the last song in the show was a Dwezil Zappa song that Jerry (KOP) absolutely loved! Remember that KOP?

saC

Ditch, the Elephant Glide had both feet on the same side of the bike...in that pic you're straddling the top tube. It's a Tea Kettle, I'd be money on it.

Nice to see this thread kickin it through 16 pages. MN BITD rocked... I would be totally up for a BBQ...

We definitely had a lot of fun BITD on our bikes. It kept us out of trouble and gave us something really cool to spend our free time on. Keep digging up those pictures!

Ditch, you GOTTA sell me those Woody Itson bars! I wanna rebuild the 1983 Master I had BITD

Those are your O.G. bars from BITD....I might be down for a trade of some sort, Although ,Im tracking down the old Lavender Trick Star...its still in town here, so I might use it for that! But any thing can happen!!....Any chance youre gonna make it to Rockford?

Rochester is desolate, for such a big town, it kind of sucks. Humidity is the bomb, your going to build up that Haro, Now that is a bike. Let's see a pic of that frame there..
Yeah, biking did keep up out of some trouble. Nothing like hanging out in a parking lot late at night and having the police think your going to steal cars. yyyyyyaaaaa

Jason Stinehart from Waseca, Minnesota performs one of the hardest Miamie Hopper variations. Possibly called the " rag doll ". As you can see you need balls of steel to perform it, cause if you didn't they'd be smashed.

I did a couple of those.....unintentionally!!!

Some sort of bbq sounds good to me. Maybe we could have "Jimmy-T" play at it eh Tom?

Just me, Jimmy-T

Yeah, i'm up for that also, maybe plan it for when "Sac" is back for a visit soon.

Give me a date and I will be there for the BBQ! WE will have to break out some old school jams for sure!

saC

KOP, here is an old pic of my 1983 Master. If ANYONE out there has one for sale, I will trade any of my rarest bikes for it - or pay top dollar. I miss that old baby!

I have your woody bars, saC. I would entertain the notion of a trade for them, whatcha got?

You know, most of our bikes made the rounds, I think I may have owned your Master at one time....or maybe someone elses.