ABA Grands Flashback 95
It’s November the 5th and the countdown to the 2012 Grands is officially on! Kiwi Marc Willers will be looking to defend that No.1 plate in a few weeks time in Tulsa. Back in the early 90′s an overseas rider couldn’t win the Pro title, the rule until ’96 was that you had to be a US citizen to be crowned the champion…
Let’s rewind to the contraversial year of ’95. French BMX Legend Christophe Leveque the owner of Chase BMX , Elevn and BRG brands was the foreigner that had come to the States and been serving up some Euro game to the AA Pro Class. He’d done enough to win the title but the ruling granted Gary Ellis the title who wasn’t in the main that day..
Before the gate dropped on final no1, Brian Foster was the only rider on the gate who could win the overall #1 Pro Title, but he had to get 6th overall or better to win it. This seemed realistic surely? The first two mains were terrible for him, and he went into the 3rd main with 15 points. Foster had to WIN the 3rd round to get the title but couldn’t do it crashing out in the final whilst in second chasing down Leveque, BF had blown his chance crashing in all three mains!.. In the end, Gary Ellis wins the #1 Pro title by default. If that rule didn’t exist, Christophe Leveque would have won the crown. Controversy at its finest, mixed reactions from the crowd and a look of shock and relief on Gary Ellis’s face as he walked away with another big year end cheque, truck and title!
Also notice Jamie Staff riding for Haro Bikes…
2012 Grands are just around the corner…..Already looking forward to the season finale!
oh dear!
1995 was the year when i got my first person-centred psychotherapy.
My mum sent me to the shrink, i got too strange.
Anyway, i liked Lopes on SE bitd.
Staff turned out as an arsehole.
Not just UK but WorldwideBMX hates him nowadays. and that with good reason.
Staff this arsecrawler never had the class of a Hoy or a bloody Holmes Monster.
lol
who´s the idiot trying to style but brutally bailing on 2nd straight in run 1?
dim.
well idiotic staff aside,
at least in 95 there was still british bossness in international bmx.
nowadays its just embarrassing. even krauts have better perspective than you.
#herh!
blimey
just tried to watch the whole video. but this terrible yankee accent makes me headaches.
this holmes monster must have no braincells left to daily stand this….
well i mean how much can you hate your country to voluntary chose yankee hell…?
ban holmes 4 ever! better make me the next british bmx coach.
i well (although i hate it) i at least respect gb in a way and will give your younguns a nice Hitler Youth drill!
Much better than a fat and degenerated wobbly holmes.
think about it.
i will work hand in hand with ady and tony.
while ady´s the good cop (typical british moan, sniff) , i´ll be the bad cop (shut up, be man, stalingrad!). and tony makes them spoiled kids to internalise a proper Morrissey attitude. (sex drugs rock n roll, awkward tattoos, atheism)
I´m sure this mixture will definitely produce euro, world and olympic champs till 2020.
Tony & Morrissey says:
“One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it’s another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNfTx9pGzA
BF is the crash test dummyx3
Give Adrian Warden more influence to UKBMX!
But also put tony out of his misery to be a butcher in westend londinium. make him a well payed bc official!
ok and make me british coach. i have dual citizenship although my english is shite. if ppl understand 80% i´m talking to them im happy.
i´ve trained bmx kids in my local club more than 5 yrs. well, most of them became drug addicts after i told them “the truth about life”.
but hey, its better to burn out than to fade away. (old Neil Diamond rule)
#herh!
#helicopterherh
speaking of “fade away”…
now this makes me down and depressively again. typical Adolf Noise, thinking of Germany Europe the world itself again.
man, how fooked up is everything please? yea here on bmxyawn world seems to be rather ok. i even have the impression rich daddies and mums come here asking stupid questions about the bikes they just bought for 1 k sqid for their sissie kid. fook off – fantasy wörld.
now just go by down the streets. not talking about england but germany.
wtf has just become of this country? so rich, but doesnt care for the poor. its a disaster. angela merkel (kind of new maggie) totally ruins this country.
listen: 10% of the german ppl own 60% of the money! the rest suffers!
now is this the country british media hypes? (i read this in english newspapers and just shaked my head.)
Deutschland is more neoliberal than ever. rich become richer, poor starving more day after day. fook i have unemployed buddies who have to live from less than 6 gbp a day. once or twice a week i welcome them to have a warm dinner and two beers. solidarity!
Shame on Deutschland!
but hey in 95 when the ABA grands was everything was better.
we had clinton. neocons helmut kohl, and maggie? respectively fooking john major.
apart from bill these arseholes left us immense damage, immense debts we still suffer from. they lead wars and produced weapons, but screwed the ppl.
(man i´m so happy that this sucker Helmut Kol is a terminal case. He deserved it- Pure hate)
happy at least yankees showed dignity voted the oman yesterday night.
Anyway, fook i cant do a bmx race anymore, spending hhundreds of fuel fees food etc, when my friends dont have enough food, cant lead a dignified life.
Shite neoliberalism, shite capitalism.
Adolf Noise will strike back!