Well, I guess X-games vert finals proved age is not a limiting fator and pretty much answered the question... MarcusV

Man, I'm supposed to get one of those books, signed and stuff... hail old School!!!

What I can remember is around '86/87... That's when street riding became pretty much what it is, but guys like Dave Vanderspeck and other pioneers, could have done it before. Gotta watch "Curb dogs" ... Remember the Dirt Bros grinding on their sprockets, ... more »

Radical Ricky rules!!! Loved that guy...

That's exactly my point, with so many other tricks, why do people have to do so many barspins? I would rather see big gaps and high airs, guys going big, but I see a lot of muscle spinning and landing anyway witha barspin thrown in the middle... There're ... more »

The craziest pic I've seen was on the cover of Go magazine and was shot from Mat's helmet, using fisheyes... Mat's always been unstoppable

Once there was a BMXPlus with a glossary for the BMX tricks. I still got that magazine somewhere, but maybe it's out of date,there're so many new tricks that I don't even bother to learn them anymore, I mean 720-barspin-tailwhip is a little to much for

I can only do them pitching the seat, that's how I learned them, and that's how I can do them. I think barspins have been around for so long, since the mid 80s, but theyre still a nice trick. Kids can do barspins out of the blue now, but I'm happy with

That was a very good bike indeed...