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Nostalgic Friday

Posted by Landozine - 11/06/10 at 12:06:22 pm

I meant to post this up last night in the spirit of a Throwback Thursday, but ended up forgetting. So today we can have a Nostalgic Friday. Many of you young shralpers are too new to the scene to remember this, but around 5 years ago Joe Mamma’s threw an event called ‘Freuben’ and it was awesome. This was held at the height of OSP’s existence. The ramps were pretty fun, the titanic multi level useless street section had not been built yet, and Ottawa’s scene was blossoming. Its actually kind of funny, none of the riders in this video are even riding in Ottawa anymore. Remi is out of the game, Ted is a dad out west (but im sure he’s still ripping), Dave McCaig is a travelling man, Freak got deep into the gay porn industry in MTL, and Jeremy Deme is out west running the show.

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.

Throwback Thursday – Old Ottawa Scene Report

Posted by Landozine - 08/04/10 at 06:04:29 pm

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.

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Throwback Thursday

Posted by Prashant - 01/04/10 at 07:04:40 am

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.

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Throwback Thursday

Posted by Prashant - 25/02/10 at 09:02:27 am

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.

Throwback Thursday

Posted by Prashant - 18/02/10 at 09:02:56 am

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

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Throwback Thursday

Posted by Landozine - 18/12/09 at 01:12:17 am

I dug this little picture out of the vault today. A classic Jeff Bedard shot. This was at the Ryan Heights skatepark in Sudbury that, for all intensive purposes, Jeff and I built. This park was great; when we started riding there, we’d get kicked out all the time because it was no bikes allowed. By the time the park died 5 or 6 years later, Jeff and I had keys to the maintenance shed, ordered the wood we wanted and built the ramps we thought would be best. In retrospect I wish I had known more about ramp construction because we could have built some really amazing stuff, but regardless I’ll always love that place for what it was.

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…

Throwback Thursday

Posted by Landozine - 26/11/09 at 11:11:43 pm

I have such a hard time remembering to post throwbacks… like every Wednesday I think about it, and then BAM all of a sudden its Friday and I’ve missed the boat. But this time, I’m on it. And do I have a good throwback for you all! First off, this is before my time… as this video was made before I had any connection to the Ottawa scene. Brandon Lalonde sent it to me today…Rich Redmond’s First Video Part!

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.

Throwback Thursday

Posted by Prashant - 12/11/09 at 09:11:20 am

Rich Redmond with his first time doing a turndown on a quarter at East Coast Terminal (RIP) some time in 2004.

Throwback Thursday

Posted by Prashant - 10/09/09 at 07:09:59 am

Jeff tucks over the smaller pyramid.

I don’t know if these photos are old enough to be considered a ‘throwback’, but in light of hearing that this spot in Jersey City, NJ has been torn down and plowed, I thought I would put up these photos I had on my computer from a trip four years ago. Click below to read more and see some more photos.

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Throwback Thursday

Posted by Landozine - 31/07/09 at 12:07:39 am

For this installment of Throwback Thursday, I bring you a photo of Kyle Lafleur from several years ago. twisting a pretty decent one footed x-up over a barely existent box-jump at our old home park, Ryan Heights in Sudbury. For anyone who never got a chance to ride this park, it was in the middle of a super sketchy neighbourhood, and was totally run by volunteers. This photo predates Kyle’s learning of barspins, which is pretty much the only trick he ever does now. He used to be pretty good.

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