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BSD BMX Jam - Unit 23 - 3rd August 2003
On Sunday the 3rd August, Unit 23 held its first
Jam/comp affair, as organised by the big-wig fat cats over at BSD
Headquarters.
At six o’clock, all the skaters were
unceremoniously booted (or fruit-booted) out and
the Jam began. Actually that’s wrong. Everyone
was chucked out and were treated to a display, put on by a local
motorbiker, of crazy, motorized stunts. Apparently he teaches people
to do such tricks for a living, which can’t be bad, and he
kept on hurting his bike until it broke - which we always like.
When we got back inside the Jam began. The
turnout was really good with most of team Sano in attendance as
well as a load of riders
from Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Even our Rosie managed
to pry herself away from her new call centre job long enough to
throw down some nice perfume-enriched pedal stalls on the big quarter.
There were two categories - A and B. The winners
of each group were supposed to be derived from a mass vote, but
at the last minute, everyone realised that that would be really
complicated, so a group of the wisened BMXers picked the winners.
Stand-out moments from the night were Keith
(5th place, Group B) absolutely killing himself
on everything, but sticking at it. Chaz (3rd place Group B) pulled
some really nice tables about 5 feet out of the big quarter. Rory,
as usual, was nearly decapitated by the rafters as he went so high
it beggars belief. We were also super impressed
by the young lad riding the mad-looking blue bike with no brakes
- he was throwing himself at absolutely everything, trying hand
plants and bar spins to no-hander landers and even 540s.
Neil Keddie, the 'Hair Farmer from Fife',
pulled the trick of the night when he fufanu’d the
subrail on the spine. From the moment it was built,
it was obvious that someone would eventually do it - and did it
he did. Keddie basically owned the spine with over toothpick
and back on spine coping, barspins, nosepick tailwhips - just everything.
Some bloke even bought him a crate of beer for pulling the fufanu
(but he couldn’t drink it ‘cos he was driving).
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