{"id":245,"date":"2006-07-28T12:13:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/28\/steve-douglas-frontside-rocknroll-madrid-1989\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:15:24","slug":"steve-douglas-frontside-rocknroll-madrid-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/28\/steve-douglas-frontside-rocknroll-madrid-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Douglas, Frontside Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll Madrid 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/rad82_63.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/thumb-rad82_63.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Steve Douglas Madrid 1989\" title=\"Steve Douglas Madrid 1989\"  \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an interesting insight into Tim Payne&#8217;s ramp building techniques on this page: build it in sections on the ground so that you can have several teams working at the same time without the need for ladders. This was at a time when ideas like that were not common knowledge. Only a few years earlier none of us had any idea what the Americans were on about when they talked about using &#8216;Masonite&#8217; to cover (indoor) ramps. Finally someone came back with the news, &#8220;Masonite is hardboard&#8221;. It always reminded me of the line &#8220;Soylent Green is people&#8221; from the end of the science fiction film.<br \/>\nCaption: Think of your own Steve Douglas caption.<br \/>\nThe photographs of the ramp building are by Nick Ajose, not Mike John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting insight into Tim Payne&#8217;s ramp building techniques on this page: build it in sections on the ground so that you can have several teams working at the same time without the need for ladders. This was at a time when ideas like that were not common knowledge. Only a few years earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-82-december-1989","category-skateboard-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}