{"id":21,"date":"2005-12-06T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=21"},"modified":"2007-04-22T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T13:31:11","slug":"58_16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/12\/06\/58_16\/","title":{"rendered":"BMX History R.a.D Issue 58 Mike Canning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/rad58_16.jpg\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/thumb-rad58_16.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Mike Canning R.a.D Issue 58\" title=\"Mike Canning R.a.D Issue 58\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNick Philip interviewed Mike Canning for the BMX interview in this issue, conducted at a time when the balance between skating and BMX freestyle was at a very difficult stage. At this point BMX riding seemed to be more about quarter pipes than halfpipes. Twiglets&#8230;  Ramps like Mon&#8217;s had always had both types of users, but at other places there was more tension, even if riders like Mike Canning would get respect from anyone who was not blind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/rad58_18.jpg\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/thumb-rad58_18.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Mike Canning. Indian Air. R.a.D Issue 58\" title=\"Mike Canning. Indian Air. R.a.D Issue 58\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a telling reference to Farnborough: &#8220;Ian Cocking let me ride that&#8221;. Other key UK riders of the era get a name check: Laidlaw, Dave Young, Terry Jenkins, Eric Steele, Andy Brown and Lee Reynolds, alongside the usual American suspects. The pictures were shot on a dismal day in Crawley.<a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/rad58_19.jpg\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/58\/thumb-rad58_19.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Mike Canning Interview R.a.D Issue 58 1987\" title=\"Mike Canning Interview R.a.D Issue 58 1987\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Philip interviewed Mike Canning for the BMX interview in this issue, conducted at a time when the balance between skating and BMX freestyle was at a very difficult stage. At this point BMX riding seemed to be more about quarter pipes than halfpipes. Twiglets&#8230; Ramps like Mon&#8217;s had always had both types of users, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-58-november-1987"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}