Does anyone remember this cheesy classic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgU3pXK2Ls0

Any sugestions about how to aquire a copy on DVD?

http://www.dvdsclassic.com/rad-dvd.html ... agodCQQOLQ

It's too funny to watch this intro - the moves, the leathers, the bikes. Brings back so many memories for me. I never even saw this movie as by '86 I had my driver's license and had called bmx freestyle done. Just three years later I had the need to get back on wheels though, and got my first mountain bike.

I'd have to say as cool as it looks now, when we were doing this stuff in the streets it wasn't really looked at as very cool...more like a circus sideshow! I still have a stack of some BMX Action mags from the early 80s here - I'll need to go through those and find some funny stuff to post.

Also - funny to note in the intro that while they're doing the flatland tricks and no heads are shown there's a ton of screwups, dabs and do-overs.

Funny note #2 - Seems that the pattern of history repeating itself is going strong with the white bike and component fad returning about 25 years later.

And lastly, that full pipe shown remains an awe-inspiring sight for me all these years later. I remember drooling over shots of that in the mags and imagining how tricky and threatening it'd be to pull airs off that with the ceiling looming over your head. I think that was in Upland, CA. Does anyone know if it's still around? I'd heard it was torn down, along with almost all the other early skate/bike parks in the 70s and 80s.

I saw it when it came out when I was a kid and loved it then... was into BMX at the time so it was just the movie that hit home.

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man that's so awesome. I never went to see the movie since I'd rather be out riding. But like Mikuteit said, the white is big once again. I think neon came after that, which again, you'll see it out there.

I experienced that first hand, so that's so funny to be reminded of it. Gotta love the mullets those guys were sporting.

Maybe try Ebay?

I looked up the Director, Hal Needham, and in an interview he said that they shot the movie in Canada at very low cost and that the movie made quite a bit of money through sales of the video tapes at bike shops. There has to be tapes for sale on eBay.

Download it and watch it on you computer

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If you're into reliving some of your glory days, there is always:

http://www.vintagebmx.com

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Crew Jones rules! I loved this movie as a kid and still do. Helltrack, the drop off the kix bowl spoon, getting chased by the cops through the lumber yard....all classics. Oh, and how can I forget the "dance-off" on bikes in the high school gym to the sounds of "Send Me an Angel".

What's your favortie scene?

edit: http://www.rad-on-dvd.com/

This site is pretty cool too if you want to see pics of the bikes you used to own:

http://bmxmuseum.com/

I had a Schwinn Sting Ray, Diamond Back Silver Streak, several SE Racing Quadangles (black with the camo pads ), a Skyway, and my final bike a Kuwahara Freestyle FS (that they call an Exhibitionist on here for some reason).

What bikes did you guys have?

Hey Beavis, I've got a copy of this on my computer.

It was in Upland. I rode it once (on a skateboard) and actually when I was there the guy who performed the backflip in the movie at Helltrack was there riding in the full pipe (and adjoining bowl at the end of the pipe). It was the very first skatepark that I ever skated. I was probaly 5 or 6 and this would have been 1986 or 1987. That place was awesome, with the cement double kidney bowl that was like 22 feet deep in each main kidney (fuck it was scary to ride that thing!) and the cement snake run. They also had a BMX track on the "back 40" that I remember people riding while I was there.

Well, I went to go back a year later for my next birthday. The park was still there, but there was no one there when I pulled up with my mom. The guy who owned the place said that he'd been bought out and it was going to get torn down to make a parking structure. I stared crying because I was devestated, and he let me walk around, one last time, in all the bowls and ramps. That was when he told me about McGill's Skatepark in Carlsbad, where the Carlsbad Raceway used to be... and the rest is history. I still loved the movie, and feel amazingly fortunate that I got to ride the same full pipe and bowls that were in the movie! It was like a dream now that I think back on it, now over 20 years later.

I bought a copy on ebay...there should be lots of people selling ripped dvd copys. The quality was actually pretty good.

I remember making my dad rent this for me when I was 7 or 8.

When I watched it again after buying the dvd I thought I recognized a few places in it. Turns out it was filmed in my hometown...Calgary and another nearby town Cochrane (yes the same name as the town in the movie).

Cool movie...

Back in the day, I starting racing on a Hutch, then went through a Profile, Robinson, and Finally a Free Agent in 1987 when I quit.

In recent years, I have built up a few retro-modern BMX cruisers, and one vintage 1979 OM Flyer:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33769898@N04/

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I'd have to say that the qualifying races through the park are my favorite. The way those guys ripped the single track makes it look like so much fun. I wish I could ride that course a couple of times.

What's your favorite scene?

FYI, that skatepark was called "The Pipeline". I used to skate there too back in '78-'80. And that "kidney" bowl was known as the "Combo-Bowl" as it linked a round pool with a square one and the gap between the two was the "Canyon Jump".



Don't worry, I'm full of this worthless trivia.

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