Jorden, Derek, Dave McCaig and Jeff Bedard getting wild at Jon Jamieson’s Hull apartment.

We started the night drinking at Jon Jamieson’s place on the Quebec side, as I remember Rich had printed off a bunch of labels for us while he was at work. They read stuff like “Stick it in her Greazy Grizzle Graveyard” which were quite humorous, and we sported them on our clothes all night once we went to the bar. (Notice the label on my hat in the photo).

Chris, Jorden and Eric Gour at some greazy Hull bar.

We partied at a couple Hull bars that night but the party didn’t really take off until after last call. As we were walking back to Jon’s, Rich decided it would be a great idea to tear off Jeff’s pants.

The event.

Jeff doesn’t wear underwear. So those pants were the only thing separating us from Jeff’s manhood. Rich didn’t care. But a hobo did. After walking down the street pantsless for a few minutes, having a cop stop and ask him if he was alright and generally creating a scene. A hobo approached Jeff, and offered him his pants. The hobo took off his pants, and before jeff could get into them, Jorden took them, tore them, and threw them under a house. The hobo was not stoked.

I’m not going to go much further into this story, as if you weren’t there, you’d probably never really get it. But I will leave everyone with this.

When Jeff got home. He had to wait for the elevator. No pants. 4am. Caldwell. Classic.

The bike was my first real ride. 1984 Haro Sport…I worked for 2 years as a bee keepers helper to buy this thing.

Cheers,
Roland

Jorden and I were talking about this the other day, back when the 206 house was still around and Ted Bambrick still graced Ottawa with his presence he used to boast about being able to feel the tiniest weight differences on his bike (like changing his axle nuts to titanium, or taking 2 pins out of his pedals) so as a joke we put a hotdog (pictured above) into his bike via the seat tube. Not only did he not notice it when he went riding later that day, he didn’t notice it until it had shrivelled up to a hard little ballpark frank sized turd and started to rattle around inside his frame. I only wish I had pictures of that.

He goes higher when he doesn’t have meat in his frame.

As far as I know this is the first flair by an Ottawa rider. This is the only clip I have but it was part of 4 or 5 week long solo flair fest.

Despite the fact that I took it over and over all I got was a split open elbow. Apparently putting a “skin abrasion” back in a smelly old elbow pad is not a good idea though. A couple weeks after I initially split it open, and than split it a few more times, my elbow and arm started bugging me a little. My forearm started to ache and got swollen…can you say Popeye the Sailor Man!

I went in to a walk-in clinic and the doctor said it was infected and prescribed some antibiotics. She also told me that if it got worse to go to emergency (guess where this is going)… The next day I had to go pick up Rev at his day care which was about a 20 minute ride. By the time I got there I was feeling a little off and I noticed that my knees were a little sore. Weird I thought. I loaded Rev in the car and headed home. By the time we made it home though all my joints were really aching, it felt like I had a full body sun burn, and my left eye was swollen shut….off to emergency.

Celulitus (sp?) which is some sort of staph infection. Who knew? They seemed quite surprised that I managed to stay out of emergency so long…they immediately put me on an antibiotic IV. After about 8 hours they let me go home but I had to go back the next morning and they set me up with an IV to go. Battery powered and stored in a fanny pack…pretty cool. Had it for 1-2 weeks. Good Times!

I honestly don’t remember if this first flair happened before or after all this.

Stittsville Contest 2006

Pretty sure I got schooled in my heat by some tiny tots LOL
Roland

Poster for Spring Break 2006

More good times at the height of OSP II.

Rich on the mic.
Here are a couple edits I found on my old hard drive.

Spring Break 2006 Edit 1 – On YouTube

Spring Break 2006 Edit 2 – On YouTube

Another 2005 throwback of Rich Redmond with a tailwhip gap at the old Ottawa Skatepark while filming for Scene Here. Time flies. I don’t even remember who shot this, but I’m holding a video camera in the background.

This Throwback Thursday is brought to you by the fearless Remi Cyr, floating a (bowlegged) 270 table over the hip at CP back in 2006. It begs the question of few past names of the Ottawa scene, where are they now?

The interesting thing about this pic is the ACS Z-rims. They’re made of Dupont Zytel plastic, but are laced up like a normal wheel. You could bend the rims when landing sideways, and they would snap back into place. Bad for brakes though, and they could only hold around 40PSI, their use quickly faded in the BMX scene.

Real men rode pink bikes! This is one of the first and best vert riders Ottawa had ever seen: Nicolas Bedard. He rode on my Orleans Freestyle team with Mike Bennett, Tom Krul, Richard White and Pete Tessier (RIP). 7 feet out with no pads. Nick and another vert rider Kevin Capello from the “trick Wizards” team were the 2 guys to watch on vert in Ottawa. On this day, were were invited to ride Vanier’s BMX park. There was a lot of cliques going on at the time, and these guys had a “locals only” attitude, and supposedly had an insane vert rider that nobody ever saw ride. My team showed up, Nick went twice the height of anyone else, Mike Bennett did one handers and downside one footers and their vert guy was nowhere to be seen. We took it as seriously as a comp…freestyle jams were like breakdance battles in the 80s.

I like this pic (of me), since it’s during the time when freestyle was just being shown to the masses by Bob Haro. In fact this Torker bmx bike is the same Bob Haro rode before he built his first Haro master using the same twin top tube design. That’s Bob Haro’s first design he ever sold. Tricks back then were mostly static poses instead of the flowing rolling tricks you see now.

Mike Bennett ripping it up. He was THE bmx kid. Always rode…raced bmx, freestyle ground tricks, vert rider….he did it all, and was the first in Orleans to be a “BMXr”, everyone else followed. Riding the cleanest Hutch Trick Star BMX I had ever seen. In today’s bucks that bike was worth $2K easy.

My brother Tom Krul, doing a one-handed decade/walk over. Probably the last trick he learned before quitting bmx. Day Glo green Haro Master at Kona Skatepark in Florida.