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Anarchic Adjustment Not an Advert and Clan + Mach Adverts from 1988
“To Remain Underground and Exclusive is to Resist the Mainstream Therefore This is Not an Anarchic Adjustment Advert” It may seem unfair to place so much emphasis on the Anarchic Adjustment advert here when there are also ads from Glasgow stalwarts, Clan and Mach in Edinburgh, but I saw Nick last month for the first…
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When Freestyle BMX started to get real: Greg Guillotte and Tim Ruck’s Invert Series
Everything here looks the same as before when you study the details in that overview picture. But I have a feeling things were beginning to change. Skateboarding was taking off again and BMX was about to undergo another transformation. This was the start of something different. In retrospect, I wish we had found more space…
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Ride if You Want to How You Want To
Nick Philip wrote this article of the “First Invert Series Bike Ramp Jam” at Chingford. Something’s Happening, Bro’. It started at Crawley and it’s building up speed. The bike riders of this country are getting clued in. They’ve stopped expecting somebody else to organise their lives and they’ve started doing something for themselves. The Invert…
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Paul Wright, Todd Swank and other Luminaries in the Limelight
All manner of celebrities names are dropped in this glimpse of how things were when the notion of skaters as VIPs outside of the skate world was a novelty. Interesting to see that Nick Philip took some of the pictures. This must have been just before he left for California. John Chennels supplied the Sean…