Pro BMX Freestylers RL Osborn, Martin Aparijo, Ron Wilkerson, Dave Nourie, Josh White, Rick Allison, Fred Blood, Pete Agustin, Chris Lashua and Dave Vanderspek, "The Curb Dog".
Damn even the 80's bikes where bad ass beautiful and freakin' expensive... I remember having about 15 bikes from a few GT Performers ($600 ea.), Diamondbacks, Huffy's, etc... u name it! Best decade EVER....
With Flight Cranks, chrome Peregrine HP-48s, and a good stem and bars you're looking at over $1,000 in 1987 easily. Modern bikes are boring and all look the same, someone need to spice it up!
Exactly the same for me except I had light gray with everything else white. But the seat was gray. Turned out to be a very rare seat. It’s long gone now.
Bike I had when I stopped riding in 88 was a Redline frame all GT everything else and Zrims. Wish I could go back to those days. Was so fun and I didn’t even know how fun it was.
You don't see many of these old tricks being done by modern riders seems like in the 80's 70% of kids could at least do several different tricks and now probably 70% are to lazy to even ride a bike
Theres a lot of new flatland … its a lot smoother these days and many different tricks strung together… modern flatland is much more fluid . Although I’m an 80’s kid.. modern flatland is pretty amazing on its own
Its crazy to think how much Flatland changes the very next year once Kevin Jones and the plywood hoods are on the Scene...For examples there is no hitchhiker, hang 5 , steam roller or whiplash yet...then Boom every thing changes..
You are so right. I went to a contest in 88 and all the front rolling tricks blew my mind. Hang nothings, hitch hikers, multiple whiplashes, death trucks, and one kid could do rolaids. Changed my world. I love flatland to this day. Bought a fish bone bmx in 99 that I still have. Wish I had still had my GT pro freestyle tour that I rode in the late 80"s
I guess to be fair, I only noticed that their pedals weren't going backwards, so it's totally possible that they were just riding coaster brakes. That would certainly make a lot more sense. I just tried to watch the rider at 4 minutes or (Rob Peterson it sounds like the announcer is saying), but I can't see if they ever pedaled backwards. They certainly had a coaster hub because they clearly go backwards on several occasions, but I can't tell if it's a coaster brake or not.
@@onzie9 R.L. Osborn was already riding the then new R.L.Edge hub by ACS which was the first standalone freecoaster alloy hub. Ron Wilkerson was riding the ACS Freecoaster mechanism, designed to work with suntour coaster brake hub guts,which would enable the rider,via two knobs, to switch back and forth from freewheel to coasterbrake, but, the freewheel option had the "freecoasting" function of not having the pedals pedal backwards, stemming from this idea, the R.L. Edge hub abovementioned was spawned, the Freecoaster adapter for suntour hubs had been available since late 1985. It has been a long way to achieve reliable freecoasters, but these were the first two options.
