One of my all-time favorite BMX pics.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:10 pm
This is one of my favorite pictures I have in my collection, here's the story behind it.
This is my good friend Todd Campbell laying down a sick "Crews" over the step jump at Riverview BMX (Twin Peaks) in 1983. Some of you old timers might remember him riding for Ricks Bikes during this period & being a pretty fast dude. Even though he mostly rode a black PK Ripper, he's riding a BOSS in this pic.
So I was out taking pics that day at the track & even though I hardly knew him I kept asking him for "one more shot". I was taking high school photography at the time & mostly shot black & white. So he retires from racing this summer & I hardly see him until a few years later when I bought a sportbike & his buds & my buds all met up seeing alot of each other on State Street cruising on the weekends. I kept telling him I had this killer shot of him jumping at the BMX track & would get it to him. Well fast forward to about the mid-90's when we all got rid of our motorcycles & started meeting up at house parties. We really became pretty good friends around this time & one day I came across this pic so I got some copies made & framed one of them. Next time I saw him I put it on his coffee table & he was blown away. He STILL has that pic in his living room & it's a good conversation piece.
He now has a 3 year old boy that might try his hand at BMX sooner than later.
This picture to me captures the style that was BMX during this time & is still classic 27 years later.
This is my good friend Todd Campbell laying down a sick "Crews" over the step jump at Riverview BMX (Twin Peaks) in 1983. Some of you old timers might remember him riding for Ricks Bikes during this period & being a pretty fast dude. Even though he mostly rode a black PK Ripper, he's riding a BOSS in this pic.
So I was out taking pics that day at the track & even though I hardly knew him I kept asking him for "one more shot". I was taking high school photography at the time & mostly shot black & white. So he retires from racing this summer & I hardly see him until a few years later when I bought a sportbike & his buds & my buds all met up seeing alot of each other on State Street cruising on the weekends. I kept telling him I had this killer shot of him jumping at the BMX track & would get it to him. Well fast forward to about the mid-90's when we all got rid of our motorcycles & started meeting up at house parties. We really became pretty good friends around this time & one day I came across this pic so I got some copies made & framed one of them. Next time I saw him I put it on his coffee table & he was blown away. He STILL has that pic in his living room & it's a good conversation piece.
He now has a 3 year old boy that might try his hand at BMX sooner than later.
This picture to me captures the style that was BMX during this time & is still classic 27 years later.