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Re: Great Escape re-enactment
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2009, 06:56:05 pm »

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Re: Great Escape re-enactment
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2009, 09:18:30 pm »
Of course it was dangerous! ::) >:(
HELLOOOO! He could have been shot by the Germans! ;)
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Re: Great Escape re-enactment
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2009, 09:47:30 pm »
hey Freaky, glad to see i'm not the only one that knows that tyres with knobs on them are called KNOBBLIES not 'nobbys'!  cheers wally.
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Re: Great Escape re-enactment
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2009, 10:26:14 am »
im still going sub 15m, maybe its hang time or angles mx, but i cant see 20m in it  :-X still im agreeing with you Graeme, it wasnt the most spectacular jump in history so to speak, iconic maybe. :-\

Hey Wally, nothing wrong with begging the folks for a pair off knobblies, when i was a kid on the malvern star doing my trademark sissy bar wheelies, it was broggies, wheelies and then you'd stack.  and in any order.   ;D

oooh and later i was working the cross up and bunny hop into my neighbourhood routine, thats when cow horns and bull bars came in for that perfect control.    Later that year MX took off and unless you came to school after that xmas Break with a Santa Redline or mongoose you where shit. 

Well i was shit, :'( cause my folks said you can dam well ride that bike till you brake it ( or outgrow it), well no matter how many kids i had lie down on the top road to jump EK style, you think i could snap that frame, bloody well made aussie pushy ?

bloody thing, in the end i had to trash the 3 speed hub and round off the cotter pin cranks with the wrong spanner, thankfully my old man didnt do repairs or pump up tyres so  the next xmas i finally got that BMX albiet some shitty clone cheapy copy but at least i put on a DG front bar pad, but i do remember an all in house war and loosing the bike for a week cause i took the bell and wheel reflectors off.  ::)
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