Texas AFA

Sometime this morning we got to talking about the Texas AFA. Someone on Twitter sent me over a link to this video. See if you can name off the people in that car. Joel Alamo riding to NWA's Dope Man is sick!



And wouldn't you know it. The devil makes you crash. Classic.

Classic Texas BMX picture.

Saw this over on Vintage Bmx. Great picture from my old friend Carl Lein. Little bit of early Texas BMX at its best. Shot at Southwest Supercross in Missouri City, TX (just south of Houston). Number 20 in the lead in Carl as usual. He was always fast.

More Dominquez.

Can't have that KOV post without having this up also. Austin AFA from 1988. What they hell were they thinking by not having wider ramps? 

More BMX scans.

Pulled a few more pictures to scan tonight. Just some random ones I had in a box in the garage. Love the picture of Chris. Text book perfect no-hander on vert. 

Mat Hoffman at one of the Austin AFA comps. I don't remember the year. If anyone remembers e-mail me.

 Chris Saldivar doing a no-hander on Eben's old half pipe. 

Me doing a nose  pick to fakie  somewhere off of Walzem Road.  

Monday Magazine throwbacks.

I have quite a few of these magazine scans on my hard drive. I need to get more of the pictures posted up on the site. There are some really amazing photos from some of the older BMX Action issues. I could look through those things all day long. 

BMX Action December 1983. The shot on the left was taken at the old Windsor Park Mall. Someone on the Vintage BMX board was giving my grief because I was able to go there and hang out at the Aladdin's Arcade while my mom shopped. Sorry dude. Five bucks went a long way when I was 11 years old.

 

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.