Yes, it's funny to see all those still pictures in magazines and then seeing them back then in Summer tours Seeing these tricks actually done, as well as in videos they would release. I was blessed to see many summer tours meet all GT Eddie, Martin & Josh White and a special treat was the bike shop PJ Cycle Center in Lake Mary Florida me and a buddy Frank rode for had a guy named Ron called asking if there is any place to go and session in town. Me and Frank laughed and looked at each other and said it's Ron Wilkerson. It was, with Brian Blyther & Dave Nourie. Seeing them when we got to the hotel was jaw dropping for two 15 year olds and Dave took the call & brought us was like 20 and ran the shop more or less we rode for. Ron Wilkerson was my overall favorite because I was doing overall flat land and ramp, terrible ramp actually just mostly getting a bit of air and doing short ramp Enough to get the first place overall trophy one time. And to be riding in downtown Orlando sitting next to Ron Wilkerson on my Haro as well as his, Doing tricks like riding with buddies it was incredible and my first time I met a celebrity type thing.
I remember the summer of 1985. Two great things happened that summer. I got my first "real" BMX bike (a Schwinn Predator Nighthawk) for my 14th birthday and I got to watch the CW freestyle team perform in my town. The police blocked off the center of downtown Urbana, IL and Dizz, Buff and Ceppie took to the street. Seeing freestyle heroes LIVE was one of my coolest experiences as a kid. Thanks for sharing what has become a nostalgic part of my youth.
I imagine that's Harold "Magoo" doing the announcing. He was good, and a good announcer was as important as the music and the crowd to pump up a great BMX freestyle show. For 14-15 year old kid like I was back in 1987 and 1988 this was the first thing close to a concert and celebrity meeting I would 1st ever have, freestyle shows and AFA contests.
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@@DarrenJShank I did the same thing in 1990 when I got my license thinking we would drive to the session places and the ramps sometimes when we did ramp riding And myself left bikes for awhile, had a pro raider hutch I would do a little street and ride with the buddy I used to ride bikes with since I was 4 mostly to chat. Now at 51 I got an electric bike, in E bike that looks so much like my 1989 Haro Master and it's great to jump as well as do errands and run around town. Spending most of my life as a gear jammer/truck driver like my dad was, as well as restoring A few cars with dad like his 53 chevy, a 1965 galaxy convertible, and he helped find a 1967 Cougar for me that I bought in 1994, and it gave me degenerative disk disease that kind of took B M X riding out of the equation a bit. Pretty cool story Darren, now they got remakes of these bikes and I might get me AGT Pro Performer like I started off with, a day glow orange 1986 last of the old frames before the down tube with that ugly S shape. Check out some of my BMX Restoration videos on my favorites, I can't believe I sold my Hutch Pro Raider & GT frame the other year but both guys restored them both like classic cars, the guy that bought my GT frame showed me a picture it brought me to tears.
Ohh yes they were, especially the day glow colors like my day glow orange GT Pro Performer And colors many people probably wouldn't dare ride as a bike color like a pink Skyway St Styler I had for a few days before it got stolen, it was pink as a cupcake frosting color but I had GT components that were chrome and it rode so nice that it looks so cool and it got stolen three days after I put it together. I got a box of 1986-87 Freestylin' Magazines I still run through to see all those incredible looking bikes of many brands most of them all made here in the USA, like Huntington Beach California where G T 's were made back then.
DIZ is still around. I see him every now and then riding his mountain bike around Orangvale california. His brother Bob does our outdo glass on our trucks. I still have a 16” DIZ addition in my garage that came from John. Awesome video, miss those days.
OK fellow old school BM Xers, who is the young guy (not Ceppie)? His name is on the tip of my tongue trying to remember team CW 's lineup but this was pretty much it, Dizz, Ceppie & him. I bet on a better bike he'd have been incredible at Overall riding. not slamming CW bikes but riding my one buddies CW back in the late 80s was a CHORE. I think it's in the geometry, Do a steamroller or a whiplash and the frame seems to stop halfway Where my GT Pro Performer and especially my 1988 Haro Master like Dennis McCoy rode black and chrome at the AFA masters in Florida I saw him. Even my Skyway Street styler I had a few days before it got stolen had way better geometry than the CW 's.
OMG! I was there!!! I was 13 years old. Me and my family saw those guys at East Towne Mall the next day! They talked to us for a long time and were very nice.
I saw them on this tour. I’d forgotten what a total beast Dizz was. I wasn’t a metal head so I didn’t identify with him the way I did with Ceppie, but there’s no question- Dizz was a master.
Yeah he definitely was a beast I remember seeing the first riding Dizz Hicks did on a video and it was so fast how we got into those upside down flat land tricks and seeing him do kick turn ramp stuff was inspiring but I could never do it off the pedals. Honestly he was one of the few riders that also influenced me and friends to ride coaster brake after awhile before free coaster came out. I always rode coaster for my remaining freestyle days especially when we went brake less during the riding trick phase of mid 1988. I understand how you identified with Ceppie because I looked more like Him with long bangs but bleached like Ron Wilkerson had, I was into the Punk Rock/Hard Core music of the late 70's & 80's. Like when me and my friends went to the AFA Masters in 1988 in Florida and seeing Pete Disgustin" Augustine riding was a treat! He was rolling backwards over every pro in the practice area LOL with a mission it looked like. Compared to Pete, watching Dennis McCoy and RL Osborn doing their routines was A night and day difference, I loved seeing tricks strung together and I did that myself, and as smooth and very fluent as Dennis and RL were, was awesome!
One more comment. Those uniforms wouldn't look bad now. They look good. Ever notice since 80s style came back it doesn't look old when ya watch these vids! In the 90s the 60s came back in 00s the 70s came back in the 2010s the 80s came back and in the 2020s the 90s came back along with late 1800s- early 1900s hairstyles and beards! We did em all already ! Someone's going have be original soon!!!😮😮
23:49 Can you believe that whole VHS recording package that both of them men on the roof are handling fits in our pockets now? The smartphone would have been nice back then especially how many Sony Walkman Generics (GPX) many of us smashed by accident riding. Earbuds would've been cool too.
Ceppie running Sturmey Archer drum brake hubs. They looked sexy, but were not good for freestyle. Drum brakes tend to lock up, and feathering the brakes is nearly impossible. I had them about 3 months and got rid of them.
Is the announcer going through puberty 😝 but great riding though, man I miss the 80’s and my chrome frame skyway t/a stolen in 1988 at high school😢Miss is so much!
dude, the Team Murray knock off, I live in Pittsburgh and had the Steel City colored bike too! I had to have cracked 10 trolex trackmaster rims.. hahaha, cant believe I remember that stuff...
It really is amazing and I grew up during this time graduating high school in 91. But it really is amazing how absolutely technical these guys tricks where I mean they do stuff that these kids today can't do and aren't doing. I always enjoy watching the old school boys teaching the new school some of the tricks and watching them trying to perform them. RLTW 3/75
Me siento como un niño al ver este video . Hay algo que me llama poderosamente la atension : cuando retrocede para atras en la bici , el piñon no tracciona el plato con los pedales como si pasa en general
Yeah the short ramp was Dizz's MAJOR specialty, and when I started doing it I didn't realize how difficult it was to do it off the pedals. His other specialty was those incredible upside down tricks I also loved to emulate back then. I had to cut a skyway axle peg in half on my right on the front rim to have something to grab when the bike was upside down, I probably went through two seats a year doing that stuff but it was really fun and in contest it would get people's attention for sure.
Dizz totally sucks here on the flatland. He misses everything difficult he tried. I thought he was supposed to be great. The 2nd guy smoked him. I mean it's not even close. And how was the 3rd guy even pro. He literally missed every trick he attempted. The ramp was pretty good for everyone. Not sure how I'd judge that one. And my God, the announcer, is that somebody's mom?
Yeah and his feet hit the ground 20 times every round. Style, yes. Precision, not even close. I'll take McCoy and Eddie Fiola over these chumps any day.
