![]() Both movies came out in 1986, and you can find this Quicksilver scene easily on YouTube. It's over the top, and the other riders watching are cheering a lot, but that scene seemed more like "real freestyle" to me at the time, then anything in RAD, except for the credits. There's also an artistic cyclist in there. Martin Aparijo and Woody Itson are in the scene, as is then veteran bike stuntman Pat Romano. Two of the stunt riders, maybe three, are familiar names to most of you. The difference is that the guys are all riding road bikes. To every old school freestyler, it's a recognizable jam circle. There's a scene where a group of bike messengers do tricks on their bikes in an alley. Quicksilver was a bicycle messenger movie, staring Kevin Bacon. Like I said, I took things real seriously back then.Ībout the same time, the movie Quicksilver came out, and I also saw that in a theater. ![]() But the goofy storyline just made me want to throw up. Osborn, Martin Aparijo, Eddie Fiola, Ron Wilkerson, and Brian Blyther, riding quarterpipes, flatland, and even Pipeline Skatepark. The only part I really liked was the credits of the movie. But I felt the movie just made BMX freestyle look like a joke, and I was completely depressed as I walked out of the theater. That monstrous, near vertical starting hill/wall on Helltrack was insane. I had no problem with the actors in the movie, and there was some crazy riding. I wanted this movie to represent this awesome new sport I'd been into for a couple of years, and to show the world how cool it was. As I've mentioned several times, I was a really anal, uptight, dork back then, and took a lot of things way to seriously. It was the most basic movie plot in the world, and just seemed nothing like what "real" BMX freestyle was. The story was just so fucking corny and ridiculous to me. The movie began, and I spent most of it completely bummed out. Robert Peterson, a Skyway pro I rode with often at the time, went on the promotional tour for RAD, though he wasn't in it. ![]() Freestyle had been my life for two years at the time, and I was stoked beyond belief to see that movie. I didn't care, it was the first time I would see BMX freestyle on a big screen, with Dolby sound, in an actual theater. BMX freestyle was still under the radar of most people then, and there was no big name actor in the leading role. I paid the fare, and headed into the theater, where about 5 other people were seated. ![]() The much hyped movie RAD, the first theatrical movie featuring BMX in the U.S., was opening that night. On an evening in 1986, I got off from my job at Pizza Hut in San Jose, California, and drove to a nearby movie theater. ![]()
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