Somebody sent me a link to a picture showing Tony Hawk at a 2008 Retro-contest, complete with a R.a.D sticker on the ramp and Mike Manzoori filming in the background. But I can’t find it now. Most strange.
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R.a.D Sticker Rides Again
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 10 Jan 2009 2 Comments
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Owen responded on 18 Jan 2009 at 9:50 pm #
I have a waste paper bin at my paren’t house that still has a R.a.D sticker on it.
timlb responded on 18 Jan 2009 at 11:22 pm #
There was a house on the main road between Streatham and Norbury (near deVer Cycles) which had a R.a.d sticker in the window for decades. It was there until recently but finally disappeared a few years ago.