My favorite moment in Flatland was lucky enough to be caught on Tape. My First decade was definatly the GREATEEST MOMENT EVER!!! I can't ever remember being just so compleatly happy and feeling very compleate. The only other moment that edges a very close second was being reconized by Scott at the Round Up II. It was so compleatly unexpected and humbling moment for me. All the work I do on BMX Freestyler made me feel like I just got paid..$1,000,000!!!

What are your favorite momeents???

Not a favorite moment, but my worst embarrasing moment...was on 4th of July, they were having a parade downtown out in BFE Idaho. There, people thought you were the man if you can do any little trick.
At this busy intersection, after doing a surfer, I did a bar hop. Got my left foot stuck and fell on my face. Oviously, I wasn't throwing candy.
This had to be the worst, since everyone knew who I was...being only asian in town.

Either a cranked spinning trick or a G-turn that kept floating. I don't really remember any one time doing it but I remember the feeling of being right on the sweet spot.

One memory that stands out in my mind is the feeling of a carving a fast firehydrant. You know how you get a bit of speed and do the beginning 180 really quick, then just carve in an big smooth arc rolling backwards? (Much like a moderately fast, carving G-Turn, where you could slide out if you hit just a hint of sand)

I really recall the feeling and sound of the front tire carving hard, making a sound that was somewhere between scraping and squealing. Then, once the back end comes around, immediately hitting a cherrypicker and spinning the bars, or perhaps blasting a quick decade.

Ahh, good times, good times.

Lawnmowers. Becuase that trick still impresses the kids.

the 1st time i found courage to let the saddle glided between my knees and let the bars hit the floor for a miami hopper and maybe the 2 times in a row that i pulled out a triple decade. a very special moment knowing that some guys broke my jaws to stole my bikes few minutes after. joy then pain.

2 times come to mind; one I did a show at a school for the blind (!) and two, pulling my first decade.

Jesse D

Surfer on a gravel road.

Finding the sweet spot and knowing your can do this hang five for as long as you have momentum and smooth pavement!

pulling my first whiplash.

me and my riding buddy were warming up in front of one of our friends house, and i was REAL close to pulling them....my buddy tells me that were not leaving until i pull one clean.

after about 10 tries......pulled....clean.....aaaaaaaahhhh.

Pulling a boomerang for the first time when i was 13.

Hitting my jaw on the pavement while doing a barstand (don't know the exact name) back in 86.
Man, that were the days..........
Still eating liquids..

First boomerang in the pits of a halfpipe contest in Moorhead MN, spring 1987.

One memory that stands out, was trying to learn a whiplash. I struggled and struggled but just could not get it. So one day, we are all hanging out riding and I'm just getting mad at myself over a stinking whiplash. I looked at Kip and said "Screw it (probably not actually "screw it") I'll just learn them opposite direction" and I went out and pulled an opposite direction one on the very first try and then about every try after that.

I finally did learn a regular whiplash later on, but for some reason the opposite direction one just came easy.

Carving long drawn out flail boomerangs was always fun too.

[ September 28, 2006, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Bust It ]

Probably when I could do an Endo for the first time using my front brakes. I remember when I first saw the neighborhood kids doing them with their front brakes. I couldn't do one so I had to use my foot and jam it between the tire and fork, lol. Other than that, my favorite memories were riding at night under the street lights in front of the house w/friends, or some parking lot. And during the day at the local pool/playground, shopping center, or 7-Eleven. Some great memories!

Best memories are certain tricks I learned. I can still remember exactly where I was when I first pulled it off. Decade - Rollaid - Bar ride - Fire hydrant to pedal picker

My strongest memory in flatland was also the worst.

A bad Scura Tuck.

I've done 100's of them but one day I didnt jump off the pedals well enough to flip over and sort of ended up doing an overpeaked top gun. I let go of the grip to try and fall in a decent manner. I came down with my lower back landing on the crossbar/grip area. The worst pain I've ever felt in my life. It was real REAL bad. To top it off, it was in front of about 12 people. I never tried a single Scura Tuck again.

My two friends rode for the local bike shop, Pedal Away, and did shows at schools and fairs and such. Of course the other three of our crew also wanted to ride for the shop and do shows, but we had just started out and weren't very good.

They were giving my friend Tim a chance to try out by doing a show with them at a nearby school (ourselves only being in 8th grade at the time I think), but he couldn't do it because he had a test that day, so they asked me.

I was nervous but I did pretty well, it was the days of framestands, nourie stands and stuff like that. My friends could do miami hoppers and some of the harder tricks, but I had been trying to learn quickspins but hadn't ridden out of one yet, nobody else had learned it yet.

So it was the end of the show and my last run and for my last trick I decided to do a quickspin, and I did it super fast and everyone was clapping and then I just brought the bike up and rode out of it perfectly.

I was so super stoked and it looked like I knew I was gonna pull it all along and I was on the team from that point on.

Hitting my first decade

^yep last year for me. sailing over the headtupbe and feet landing right on the peddal and seatpost, rode away.

t'was indeed a magically delicious moment.

Lucky would be proud.

herseys syrup and poker.....
you had to be there..................

Busting my *** in front of Woody Itson! 1988 wayne new jersey. tried a decade and oh well.

Riding with friends, whether it was a warm summer night, or 20 degrees in the dead of winter in a shoveled out space. I remember us sometimes putting on the full uniforms for fun, and riding around like we were full factory or something haha.

Jeff

MEmories....

Linking a set of tricks in a odd new way.
I remember the first time I connected A firehydrant to a reverse whiplash to a funky chicken/front yard to a reverse split footed (1-foot over the bar) boomerang to a backyard.
Talk about dizzy.

I had a tough time getting consistency, and it was raw, but I pulled it.

Dan

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