Thursday, October 3, 2024

Maurice Meyer local TV segment featuring NorCal freestyle ams from 1986


This TV segment featuring Skyway pro and Curb Dog legend, Maurice Meyer, was shot in late June or July 1986.  I love this for a bunch of reasons.  First of all, Curb Dog visionary leader, Dave Vanderspek got most of the coverage back then, being a really charismatic guy in general.  So it's really cool they focused on Maurice, aka Drob, in this TV segment.  Another cool thing is that part of this footage was actually shot at Golden Gate Park, where riders from around the S.F. Bay Area would get together every weekend.  

Another cool aspect is that several of us ams from that scene then got a little cameo as well.  You can see Karl Rothe at 4:22 (later editor at BMX Plus!), Mike Perkins at 4:26, Chris Rothe at 4:34(Big in Ebikes off road riding now),  Mark McKee at 4:43 and 5:04 (later skateboard deck designer/art director at World Industries Skateboards), and me at 5:07 chasing my bike, an Idaho parade riding trick.  If you look really close, you can see Tim Treacy doing a backyard for a second, a year before that trick really took off in freestyle.  

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