We all have them, the pics of yourself riding that you just love.

Here is one of mine, Why? I don't really know, I just love this picture. The way the Yes lines up on the leathers. Or maybe because I am vertical over the bike. Or because this was one of the only contests held in Raleigh as a kid. (yeah, it is a contest, all the people are in front of me...)

Anyway, here is one of my favorites 89 decade



Another of my favorites, Sadly I don't have the original anymore, only this photocopy of it... Here I am hard at work at Lechmere and the guy next to me is also hard at work... Jon Byers and I had a blast working there. This was right before he was picked up by Bully bikes.



Here is another, this is the cover of a local zine. My friend John was very shy. When he had to make a presentation in front of the class, he skipped school for a week because of his fear of being in front of people. Freestyle changed his life, he rode flat with me everyday and became a very good rider. He was so excited to make the cover of this zine. It was the beginning of him becoming more confident.



Like Timo, one of my favorite freestyle pictures in the zines ever was Craig Lapaige doing a landspeeder...

This was my best imitation, as you can see it is lacking, but I am still proud of it. Contest Woodward in 1990.



Lets see yours.

gm

[ August 22, 2006, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: FreeEnterprise ]

Lookback one-footed bar endo. March 1985



Sometime in late 1985:


Oct 1986:



1988 - I think!




June 2006:

Old:


Older:


A month ago:

Sorry , I don't have any old but this is me ....2005

This first one was taken by a photography class student for some project.
This one, I don't know why, but I like it.

I have a lot more of us, I'll have to get around to posting.

[ August 22, 2006, 05:06 PM: Message edited by: radlad1 ]

Cool pictures!

I have many favorites. Let's start off with the oldest one i got of me on a bike. This is from 1982, i know, that's not exactly a "BMX" bike but i loved it anyway! Man, i even had imaginary aluminum exhaust pipes on the back and painted stuff like "Good Year" on the tires. At the time i was at second grade in school, age 9 so.. Photo taken and hand made/exposed by my father. Just look how focused i am, pedaling as hard as i could. Speed-o-meter and a light generator, no less:


Up next, a ten year time warp all the way to year 1992. Here i'm Hang fiveing at the premises of a local bike shop called Vartiokylän Pyörä. We were lucky and privileged to ride there from 1991 to 1993, thanks to the kind owner Raimo Rouvinen who was selling/distributing GT/Dyno at the time. The floor was slippery but we got used to it during every winter.
I guess you could say i was "slightly" influenced by Perry Mervar, Brandt, Emerson with the clothing style. Around that time i had learned to pull my rolling tricks somewhat consistently. Sporting shorter-than-short Hammer shorts, Hammer guards and cool black Nikes just like Brandt at the time. Wish i still had them. 1991 GT Pro Freestyle Tour with Super Pros with RL Edges and Q-Bar/55 stem:


A 19 year old Timo with bad *** haircut and Pop Swatch. Learning Halfhikers with a blue GT seat on one of those afternoons. (Glenn, check out the huge washers on rear drop outs and the bar end rollers)


Smith Decade or "Cow maneuver" at the same place on a white Street Beat with Kneesavers. This picture captures the motion and pretty much the timeless and warm feeling of those winter afternoon riding sessions.


Shaken Locomotive, same place, same time. Even though the exposing time/shutter speed is way off in this picture, i still like it somehow.


Next up, this could probably be one of my all-time favorite riding picture. Again, at the bike shop's premises, here with a Hitchiker on the Street Beat. This picture presents even better one of those afternoon sessions after work/school. You can almost feel the warm sunshine coming in. Every time i'm looking at this picture, i get shivers.


Moving forward, i'm guessing this is late '92 or early '93 with the green Street Beat put together in 90's "mix-and-match" fashion. On the background (with elbow guards on) is very young Martti Kuoppa (..of today's KGB Bikes) waiting his turn and other locals. Homemade 95's and 180mm Flights.


Summer, 1993. Obviously, I couldn't really decide between the green and white St Beat. Picture taken at Kauniainen train station.


[ August 22, 2006, 07:24 PM: Message edited by: 2FRESH ]

winter 1982 riding my torker, doing my best buff imitation

and a chilly endo

well these have been up before but here they are.
me 1982-3.




About a 3 months ago

More.
1991 with a '88 Master landing a Smith decade. Ignore the haircut.


Of recents photos, here's couple faves. Grip ride from last year's Flatstyles jam:


This spring, Hang 5 on the 1991 Vertigo:


Another Grip ride:


Freak squeakin' last spring:

Great Pictures Guys!

Wheelie, your a stud.

Timo, classic pics. I love that hitchhiker pic too. The shadow, the spot, the angle, too cool. I don't have a single picture of me hitchhiking...

Also the one from 82 is soo classic.

Love the bowl shots guys, I never got to ride a bowl, it sure looks like fun!

Keep on posting.

ps, dopple you and me could pass for brothers in that gutlever pic... I wore a band to keep my hair out of my eyes.

The first photo is from the summer of 82 at the Brighton Skatepark in SLC.

This photo is from this summer at the Fairmont park in SLC.

Allways loved a good table top!

Too funny! It was the whole Wilkerson 80's hair thing....


Here's probably my favorite pic of me. I forgot to post it earlier. If someone could photoshop the dude in the backround out of this pic, let me know! That would be awesome!

Great pictures guys. Really good stuff.

Jeff

Here you go Jeff. And here's the only one of me on my old Trick Star.

Ok, I love posting pictures of myself lol. You've all seen these, but maybe they'll prompt more people to post?

DUDE this is a family website,,,, That one on the kickturn ramp auugggghhhh....

ha ha.

Love the leary.

Indeed...to much crotch...like that one of Scura on the beach. I have nightmares about that one to this day...lol. Great pics guys.

1987





1991




My freind Joe on my bike

1984 at age 15...

..these are the only old pics I have!..86ish..

i guess this is my favorite, by default, since it's really the only halfway decent pic i have of myself riding .

it was shot in 1987 by some school staffer at one of the grade schools i did demos at. i have a stack of school pics sent to me, but unfortunately the way it worked was: photographer went from class to class, walked in, snapped a pic or 2 of whatever was happening at that moment, moved on to the next class. this is the only pic that... A) has any action... B) doesn't have something/someone in front of the action... or C) isn't of disaster (no, not the ramp trick ).



[ August 26, 2006, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: mr coasterbrake ]

these have been posted before but, these are my fav pic's

Oh, how could I forget...



I just wish I had the negative instead of a copy of it...

but I do have this one.

Glen, that cool Bunnyhop picture reminds me of a pic in BMX Plus, i guess it was '89, 2Hip Meet The Street article with Martin Aparijo Bunnyhopping into Abubaca on a car.

There's no end to my faves, sorry for flooding up the topic with these. Here's some recent ones.

I call this the "Tweaked hand":


"The Dragger" which is a straight forward coasting, high-speed no handed Freak Squeak (without any repeated scuffs).


Going into to some rear wheel trick:


Back in time to 1995, Hang five at indoor car park at the mall:


Further back, 1992, Hitchiker on a blue GT ProFST, full protective gear on and i was probably sweating like a pig. I WANT THOSE SHOES BACk NOW!!


Even further.. 1989, Bunnyhopping on my '88 Master:


I used to ride ramps too, but it was too scary for my psyche in the end that i have since stayed on ground:


Tailwhip:


Thanks for your patience.

-Timo

[ August 28, 2006, 09:40 AM: Message edited by: 2FRESH ]

Timo, that "tweaked hand" pic is SICK.

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

Haha! thanks Glen. looks like the hand is growing from my neck, i know. It was shot with 10sec self timer on one afternoon, last summer.

Yeah, another "self" photographer.

That makes it even better!

Anyone who has done that will understand...

I only have 8 seconds on mine.

ps. the cig. butt on the ground is classic. Plus it gave me a place to put my "trash" icon.

Way back when there were two friends, Johan and myself. We messed about doing wheelies and stuff. Note that Johan is not on a "real" bmx, while I have my first trusty BMX chrome with seatpost two feet high:







Fast forward a few years and we formed the DJ Trick Team:


And more than 15 years later I'm still out riding:

2FRESH, I used to do that exact trick you call the Dragger. I have yet to try it since I started riding again, but I remember it was fun

One thing that was great about growing up in a near-vacuum was that almost everything we did was a "new trick". I learned boomerangs on a gravel driveway. To this day, I can't do 'em on pavement. I was the "creator-master" of the "toe-jam-endo-plant" (as named by my buddy Robert), which was a toe-jam endo where you planted the other foot on something. I guess that was the knee-jerk to my brakes never working that well because of all the dust around our place. Before I got the '87 Magician, I rode an early-80's Huffy Pro Thunder. My favorite freestyle pics involve my midwinter couch endos. Winter in North Dakota isn't exactly mild, so I rode my bike in our basement. I'd ride across the basement, ram into the couch, do an endo, and then try to pivot out. Worst-case scenario was landing on a cushy early-70s couch. I'll try to find the pics of me doing no-handed couch endos with Magnum P.I. reruns on the TV in the background when I'm home this weekend.