Random BLF Pics.

Unknown, Pedal back air at Worcester.




KennyChrome Playing with the dirt at Birmingham Wheels.

Worcester Skatepark and a tin of paint and a brush, Much Respect to Eggy and the Worcester locals for opening up and allowing a secret session to go ahead, Don't think that this will happen again in the near future?

Pigeon nice 360 turn on the banks at Bearwood, Pigeon aka coley was one of the original riders back in the day to go brakeless but sadly all of the bearwood riders did'nt choose the no brakes route as they were scared of getting hurt, You have to give to receive in life, Bunch of wet leaves.

Unknown throwing the right leg about abit at Southsea. Candybar. If you look closely in the background thats reedy redline getting ready for his turn to attack the bowl/jump.

Birmingham 1999.

This picture was taken from the deck of the midi ramp back in 1999 at the indoor skatepark that was by Aston University, Just a cool looking picture capturing a nicely laid down tabletop.

Peace and Blessings.

BLF.

KennyChrome ol boy.

These picture is of no other than Bearwood's finest KennyChrome aka Don Chromeleone getting some good height over the jump box while crossing them bars at Liverpool sometime in 2001/02.

The Don is the head of the whole Bearwood outfit some call him "Dad" and comes from the early era of when bmx started back in the day, Has a book of tricks old school and new school that blows minds whenever he rides his bmx and deserves nothing but respect. I will be doing a interview soon for the blog with Kennychrome, so check back to see what the ol boy's got to say.

Peace and Blessings.

BLF.

bmxing-reaches-bearwood-1983-84, Part 2

The Early days of bmxing down the park were some good times, having the paddling pool back in the day as the main thing to ride was really good looking back, because the pool varied in height around its edges the shallow end was about 1 and half feet in height and the deepest end was about 3 feet high.
Around the edges of the pool was a path going right around and there was a stone wall that was the outer edges of the whole paddling pool, most of the time was spent trying to bunnyhop out the pool onto the paths and it was quite a task as well as many punctures along the way and buckled many a back wheel or 2 in the learning process. In places were the stone wall was there was parts where the wall had fell apart, leaving dirt that was behind the wall all exposed these dirt patches over the years along with riders on there bikes riding up and down the dirt ending up becoming dirt jumps naturally shaping for years of fun.
As riders progressed there bunnyhop skills out of the pool this became a good run up for the dirt jumps, you would get the locals tearing through the pool bunnyhop out the pool onto the path then pedal for more speed and just hit the dirt jump and just fly through the air. There was 3 dirt jumps around the edges , one was on the edge of the play area which sent you high and skywards and the other 2 jumps sent you more for distance than height, so there was a good selection of jumps and much fun to be had. The locals that were still learning to hop out the pool would just tear around the path to hit the jumps, this route was sketchy as the gravel that made the path up was loose and slippy and as well it being a S shape approach to the the jumps.
After Gary and Devon moved on from riding they left a foundation for generations to come that has only strengthened year by year til this present day. The local riders from back in the day were a crazy bunch of dudes, riders would travel from Smethwick, Quinton, Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, and from all over Birmingham as well. There a few old pictures of the old pool set up which i will post on the blog for all to see what it looked like.
So til next time peace be upon, Part 3 to come soon and more stories about Bearwood's early bmx days til present days riding to come.The One Kennychrome will be dropping a few thoughts of his memories of the early days which should be a good read so keep checking back.

Peace and Blessings.

BLF.

Bmxing Reaches Bearwood 1983-84

The year is 1983 and the location is an old paddling pool in Lightwoods park in Bearwood, Birmingham. This paddling pool varied in height around the edges no different to todays pools e.g. shallow end and deep end. Now we have to remember that these were the days of the bunnyhops and rockwalks and skids. My first ever memory of bmx riding and bearwood was going down the park at a young age of 12 and seeing these guys on bmx bikes doing front wheel hops and 100 or more front or back wheel hops was not out the question by any means, the riders that were doing these tricks go by the names of Devon and Gary and they used to have diamond back bikes that looked amazing just like anything back in them early days looked out of this world. It would be fair to say Gary and Devon was the 1st generation of bmx riders to start riding in bearwood and i bet they back then would of never of dreamt of it going as strong as it was in there day as it still is in 2008.

..... To Be Continued,

Peace and Blessings.

BLF.

Bearwood.

Please check back soon as the history of Bearwood and Bmx will be shared.

Peace and blessings.

BLF.

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