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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Steve Ornealas--Homeless Trash

A little short, but I think that had something to do with his bummed knee. Still a really good part.

Steve Ornealas from edward koenning on Vimeo.

Bob Haro Art.

View more here. http://oldschoolmags.com/Bob_Haro_Art.html

Made In Taiwan--Brian Castillo

Another epic part from Brian Castillo. So fast and so many rad lines. Switch rail down the corridor was so rad also.

07 castillo & credits from bmxmdb.com on Vimeo.

Go here to watch the full video. http://bmxmdb.com/films/108-Made-In-Taiwan

Monday, August 02, 2010

Finally picked up some new tires for the cruiser. Tioga City Slickers in 1.5 wire beaded. Really not into the black wall, but for the price it was pretty hard to pass up. Hell, it doesn't look to bad with the black walls on it.

1982 JAG BMX World Championships

This was posted on Vintage BMX earlier. The audio is kinda messed up but the footage is still really good. The opening race where that guy blows up in a wheelie is priceless.

1982 JAG BMX World Championships VEGAS-Part 2 from JAG BMX on Vimeo.

1982 JAG BMX World Championships VEGAS - Part 1 from JAG BMX on Vimeo.

Jackson Goldstone goes to kindergarten

Saw this over at BMX Board. Kid is going to be so good when he gets older.

BMX Plus September 1983

What a great cover shot. This might mark the point when BMX Plus started to cram as much stuff onto their covers as they could. Number 55 has a blood red though bubble coming out of his head. He really should be thinking of the race at hand, not coast to coast coverage.

These Redline PL-24's always seemed to be the tallest 24" cruisers out at the time. The six inch head tube didn't help matters. Wonder how many of these are around now a days? Pretty rare bird, and not to mention finding a fork with a nine inch long steering tube.

Here is a picture of that head tube. What was Redline thinking putting on those Tech II levers? The test crew for Plus had a solution, but I wouldn't call it a good fix. Horrible levers. I seem to recall Redline switching over to the Tech III when it came out. Good move.

Looks like Tim Judge made another Rad Gallery. He had the best one footed table tops. And yes, Dia-Compe is the number one brake in BMX. I might have had 4 or five set of those MX-1000 and MX-900 brakes. It was cool to run the colors all switched out. Red and black, black and red, gold and black. Who else did that?

I couldn't imagine bumping elbows with these guys in the AA pro class. Stu Thompson and Brian Patterson look like they are about to lock up while fighting for first place. These guys were crazy fast.