The curse of captioning strikes again. That doesn’t look like Birmingham to me. But maybe my eyesight is failing!
This page marks the end of the monster coverage of the Powell Tour of 1988. Looking back on it, I think we went over the top: there’s 11 pages of it. That was huge amount in the days when the magazine was only 56 pages thick. But we were into this kind of thing. It was exciting. It was an event in the days before there were any stadium-type skate events in Britain.
It also involved getting out on the road and sharing in the atmosphere at a whole load of different places. That was very much more a R.a.D mag type of thing than any big centralised competition.
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Vallely on Vert, Mountain in ‘Birmingham’ and Guerrero Where?
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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 03 Oct 2008 5 Comments
John H responded on 04 Jan 2009 at 2:29 am #
Guerrero Where? – I would guess Romford, on the hip near the pool……the concrete looks very damp, I’d be happy just to skate like that on dry day!!
Tonytone responded on 19 Feb 2010 at 10:45 am #
I was there when the powell boys came to Brum and that dont look like Birmingham wheels circa late 80′s
Skater responded on 11 Jun 2010 at 2:36 pm #
I was also at Birmingham wheels that day, back in the day, and that picture’s not from Birmingham.
Scruff responded on 11 Jun 2010 at 2:55 pm #
If that was the first big Powell Demo, then the Bones brigade split up, only Lance and Cab came to Birmingham Wheels. I can still remember Cabs stalefish grabs, so sweet.
Those vert pics are from the ramp in That London under the flyover, cant remember its name.
Skater responded on 11 Jun 2010 at 3:51 pm #
Was it Latimer road or something?