1977 ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS: CATALINA CLASSIC

Fantastic for numerous  reasons:

Burly downhill decents with the guys riding out the speed wobbles.

Bobby Piercy and John Hutson riding for TURNER SUMMER SKI and SANTA CRUZ respectively....absolutely charging it!

Dale 'Sausage-Man' Smiths insanely camp freestyle moves.

Amazing Mustaches.....short shorts.

Herds of Buffalo roaming majestically across the horizon.

Jamie Hart's attache briefcase containing his race formula OJ WHEELS.

Tough girls on skateboards.

The anchor mans neat bright yellow blazer!

Amman Valley Half-Miler

A few selected shots From last weekends epic flat track weekender in deepest Wales.

All photos by Sideburn Girl at REDMAX SPEEDSHOP

FINLAND TRIP pt.4 Petrol Circus Chopper show

The PETROL CIRCUS CHOPPER SHOW was held in a plush exhibition hall in Helsinki.here are a few bikes I liked the look of.....

Below is a bike called THE ROCKET REDUCER after an MC5 song, this was a very unusual bike which represents the Fins radical approach to bike building. Its a VICKER-WOLSEY crank/bottom end with VOLKSWAGON BEETLE cylinders engineered to fit

below is a bike belonging to Mala, the owner of Finlands best chopper mag KOPTERI. Its called DOUBLE-MOTOCROSSER!

Found these swastika hats for sale at the show in amongst the usual Ducati, Yamaha and Repsol merchandise.......Hmmm??!!

Day on the Dyno......

Day out to MOTRAC RACING in Ellesmere Port with Joe Crow and Wilky to run our race bikes on the Dyno. Both mine and Wilky's bikes have developed carb troubles since modifying the exhausts to meet ACU noise testing!! Sorted out the wooliness at low revs and squeezed a couple more horses out of my bike. Pete found out he needs to "de-tune" his engine somewhat to be able to use his existing exhaust system.
Steve the Proprieter and his brother both loved the Flat track bikes and were super helpful and friendly. I fully recommend their services.

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Downhill gravity bikes

This was a Summer trip to Les Deux Alpes in about 1998. We Just completed building our second major skatepark, 'Rampworx' in Liverpool. We had a heavy deadline we had to meet and to celebrate, me, Louise and Tim Stamp a good friend who worked alongside me on all the parks I built, jumped in the car and took off.

A great trip all round: snowboarding up on the glacier, skateboarding on the mini ramp, riding trials bikes up the mountains, para-penting down the valley and the Tour de France mountain stage coming to town during our stay.

The highlight of the trip turned out to be hiring these weird downhill bikes.

They had no pedals, crazy 20" wheels with ultra-fat 8"wide soft tyres, a beefy aluminium frame, and disc brakes.

The deal was to take 'em up in the cable car to the start of the snowline, and ride the bikes down.

At a rough guess I would say it was a 7-8 mile ride down. We togged up in all our skateboard pads and helmets and spent all afternoon, in the blazing 75 degree heat, blasting down the dusty mountain fire roads. It was definitely a case of "Go as fast as you want" and at some points, we were really hauling at 50 plus MPH with some very hairy corners and big drops if you were to get a wobble on and go over the edge.

Louise also came along on a 26" beach cruiser and on a more sedate journey down, she took these pictures.