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Things don't change that much...

A long, long time ago (1959) when I was seventeen I'd had a big spinal operation and when I started recuperating I went out and wrecked my Raleigh sports bike on a makeshift track when I came off and someone ran over my wheel. Oh, the invulnerability of youth.

No such things as BMX bikes then. I also sailed over a parked car when I was 11, trying to see how fast I could go downhill before hitting the brakes :)

Town: dm@aimi.org.uk

Re: Skatepark

So many happy memories in extreme sports :D

Town: moshman01@hotmail.com

Re: Skatepark

I think that this site would probably fall foul of RoSPA guidelines. I looked at it with the police as a possible teen-meet site, but it was rejected as unsafe because it was too close to the main road, and a potential nuisance because it was too close to housing.

Town: c.daington@wiganmbc.gov.uk