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.

Take a look at the video, I found it on a DVD while packing up my apartment along with a bunch of other old videos, so expect to see them get posted up here soon.

Freuben Amateur Finals

]]> http://capitalbmx.net/nostalgic-friday/feed/ 2 http://capitalbmx.net/throwback-thursday-old-ottawa-scene-report/ http://capitalbmx.net/throwback-thursday-old-ottawa-scene-report/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:26:29 +0000 Landozine http://capitalbmx.net/?p=1924 Every time I go riding now I’m seeing new kids on BMX bikes, and alot of them are really good. So in the spirit of all the new blood flowing through the veins of Ottawa’s BMX scene, and with the cancerous cigar blood clot that is 39c about to expel itself from the city (but never from our hearts), I figured it was a great time to post this old article I wrote for R.E.D BMX magazine back in 2007.

Karl Oxindoxin, back when people would call him by his real name.

This Throwback Thursday is loaded with classic pictures as Karl found a gold mine of old photos from the 2005 Freuban contest held in Ottawa.  I’m not sure who the original photographer is, but you can check out over 50 pages of photos in the archives of mtbkanata here, and click below to see a small collection of them that I uploaded.

Contest organizer Jose Bray, when both pants and sideburns were larger than they are now.

Ted Bambrick – superman in a snowsuit.

Montreal’s Crazy Chris with a classic barspin over the box.

Dave McCaig aka Duncan Glastonbury, pre traveling vagrant days.

Montreal’s Freak (before he became the hip hop mixtape weirdo) and the backside of Jeremy Deme.

John Heaton in pro finals with a classic no handed flip.

Jon Jamieson took a bus (or plane?) out from PEI to come ride this contest and sleep on Rich Redmond’s floor for the week.

Chris Silva doing something over the spine, while a much younger and agile Chris Chitaroni films.

Chris Campbell, seen here with much larger hair, tore his ACL during practice, and had it misdiagnosed for over a year.

Local superhero Rich Redmond in his first pro contest.  Superman or a very straight no footed can can?

Ted was jumping the box and landing in a pedal grind down the ledge.  A couple time he missed and slid on his ass, and burned a hole in the snowsuit.

Chris Silva – LandoZine ‘05 from iccsilva on Vimeo.

A drastic jump of about 20 years from last week’s Throwback Thursday, but this is the ender part from Landozine’s 2005 release Illusion of Man, of our friend Chris Silva. Footage from back in his days of Hyper Bikes and backyard ramps.

Also in Chris Silva news, if you haven’t heard already, he has started his own small clothing brand titled Sour Fever. A small, grass roots effort, where each shirt is hand screened by Chris himself in Toronto.

I haven’t posted a Throwback Thursday piece in a while, but this should more than make up for it. Frank Krul is an Ottawa rider from way back in the day. About 8 or 9 years ago Frank got back in to riding (after getting his hands on Jay Miron’s first run custom complete Macneil bike through an airport screwup) and back in to the modern day scene here in Ottawa. He has since moved to Halifax, but recently posted a bunch of great old school photos to Facebook, and he gave me permission to post a bunch of them. He’s still has lots, so expect some more to come down the line. You can read his statement and then click below to check out the rest of the photos.

A huge part of my life was filled in by skating in the 70s/80s and and BMXing in the 80s/90s. From doing shows for Pepsi/Frito lay to doing a tour from Ontario to PEI with Boardwalk, meeting pros like Tony Hawk, riding with Dave Mirra before any of the Xgames, and practically living at Kona skatepark when I could…I present the following look into my past.

- Frank Krul

What else do you do when the sun is shining and you need to cut class? Drain a pool and shred! Ottawa in 86/87?

Thank god that Tom’s tires were white. We still had to clean the pool with acid afterwards. We had to stay under coping to avoid damage. Bummer.

Pool carve on an 86 or so Haro Master in Day-glo green.

This is probably 1990. I remember I wore those Swatch pants in the Eastern Canadian Snowboarding Championships in Hull (with an acid-wash pink Jimmy’Z t shirt). Another Haro Master bike.

Love the mullet…no seriously, better than a bald spot.

Suburban decade.

Double tailwhip….which I guess would make that a pinky squeek?

Backyard.

Lawnmower.

Kona Skatepark (Florida) with the infamous tombstone in the background. That bowl is probably 20 feet deep. This is probably 1988. GT Pro Tour, lavender Tuff wheels. Check out the Converse!

Kona…killer shorts.

On the Boardwalk East Coast tour. I did a faceplant on a wall-ride. Two watches and skate-geek attitude.

This was of course before Jeff got himself tangled up in the world of Ci-gars and could pedal fast enough to get speed to do something like this… oh those were the days…

The riding in this part is hilarious. This is exactly how I remember Rich the first time I met him. Pedal fast, huck hard, and hope for the best. Now all he does is roll around with his foot dragging on the tire. Maybe this will kick start his brain and we’ll have the old huckster back in no time.

Enjoy.