GT World Tour Freestylin' November 1985

 

Upside Down Ones And Graphite Wheels

The undeniable perfection of this picture from a time when GT Bikes and The King Eddie Fiola where on top of the BMX world. Many an old school BMX bike collector would love to get their hands on that chrome Performer that Eddie is riding there and add it to their stable of bikes. 

GT Summer Breakout

Sad to say that I never owned a pair of those Dyno fish shoes.

Josh White Tabletop TOL

Throwback to the Freestylin' August 1986 issue post.

Happy Birthday To Eddie Fiola

Happy Birthday to the King Of The Skateparks. The caption in this photo says it all.

View more at this link Eddie Fiola post from the past.

Ground Rules Freestylin' July 1986

From the July 1986 issue of Freestylin' photo by Windy Osborn.

Eddie Fiola X-Up

Just a quick revisit to yesterday's post. I blame him on me learning my X-Ups and Bar Spins the wrong way. Crazy backward front Eddie. Wonder how crazy it was riding that Vans Half Pipe?

Josh White -- Freestylin' Aug 1986

This comes from his interview in Freestylin' magazine August 1986. There is so many rad things about that first picture I can't even describe it. Crap! I need to go ride my bike!

Download the pdf here. 

Custom GT Team Cruiser

Spotted this up over at Vintage BMX. Very nice custom build from Knight Bike Co.

Cool old school clips.

Really rare bit of footage of Tinker Juarez riding a skatepark somewhere in Cali. Year? 1978 or 1979? 

I remember seeing this contest in an issue of Freestylin' and being so stoked. Looked like so much fun.

Brian Blyther is so smooth.

Some really cool GT show footage.

Greg Guillotte.

There was always a myth about this guy in Texas. I had heard about him but never really seen him ride. We would hear things about his riding and about how high he was going. I think Eben or The Gute had ridden with him before and they were just blown away. I was never much of a vert guy, I would mess around but other than that riding anything bigger than 7 feet scared me.Even just sitting on top of a vert ramp watching Kevin and Eben blast would give me the he-be-g-b's. (Isn't that in New York?)

Then sometime in '89 when the AFA was the contest series to go to. I think this was my first time I had seen Greg ride. Holy Hell! Full on crank at those little ramps. Smooth as glass. And what I would still consider the best turn down in BMX. I watch this video and still get excited to go ride my bike. And ride it really fast.

All this babble was brought on by a post at Twitter from Jared Souney showing a cover shot of Greg from GO. Brakeless invert somewhere in Texas.

One of the best covers from GO's short life. And one of the best vert riders from back in those AFA days. One of my favorites for sure.