" corystrat: As far as the best flatland riders that do not ride any longer, the name that comes to my mind is Richard Z who died in a car accident in 94 (I believe) while returning home from the York Jam when someone fell asleep at the wheel and they crashed, so the story goes. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this guy, he designed the Graveyard bars, refined our coaster shells and even did cross foot half packers way back in the early 90's. Then if you had ever seen him spin a time machine, it was like watching someone become animated. I personally feel as though there should be a documentary solely about this guy and what he has done for our sport and the bikes we ride. "nobody has ever spun on a flat bike like richard. lord have mercy. i was at the '94 york jam and saw him ride. him and edgar p. wrecked shop all day; it was almost 2 months after the crash (july 1st, 1994) that i found out, thats how information used to travel+1!!!!!!
As far as the best flatland riders that do not ride any longer, the name that comes to my mind is Richard Z who died in a car accident in 94 (I believe) while returning home from the York Jam when someone fell asleep at the wheel and they crashed, so the story goes. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this guy, he designed the Graveyard bars, refined our coaster shells and even did cross foot half packers way back in the early 90's. Then if you had ever seen him spin a time machine, it was like watching someone become animated. I personally feel as though there should be a documentary solely about this guy and what he has done for our sport and the bikes we ride.
Larry Bull / Today = http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~lbull/
Quote from: byke on January 15, 2010, 01:34:05 AMLarry Bull / Today = http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~lbull/This guy used to ride flat? I swear I've heard the name before. Got any vids or links to vids of him riding?
Mike McPhaden. He used to ride with Desroche years ago. He was ahead of his time as far as the rolling stuff goes. Marsan up in Quebec. Jesse Cantore in PA.
Oh also, Byke do you know John Yull by chance? I was riding with him yesterday and we had a bit of a bunnyhop 180 mini-session and he was trying that rollback boomerang that Larry Bull does in that clip. He made the comment to me, "That's an oldie but goodie". I thought that was odd, as I had never seen that trick before Steve Mulder did it, but apparently, it is an old trick.
Quote from: 2FLAT2FURIOUS on January 15, 2010, 12:56:21 AMMike McPhaden. He used to ride with Desroche years ago. He was ahead of his time as far as the rolling stuff goes. Marsan up in Quebec. Jesse Cantore in PA. is he the guy who did cliffhanger kickflip in La Revolution vid from 02 ?
I just started getting into flatland stuff about 3 days ago and suck so far, I blame my sh*tty bike and lack of practice.
THATS GOOD TO HEAR SEAN PETERS STILL ON THE BIKEHE STILL WORKS FOR UPS THERE IN PITTSBURGH...RIGHT?