This weeks OSS, Chase Gouin fresh in our minds from the thought provoking “Memes to an end” editorial in ART Magazine this week. 2nd place Flatland Pro at the World Championships Limoges, France, 1993. This was my first pro contest competing against the likes of Chase, Albert Retey, daunting to say the least!
Chase at a great Worlds 🙂
2nd place?
yeah Albert Retey got first ,his run was dab free Effraim was in here i believe it was Effraims first pro comp .
Yep as I said in the text for OSS, this was my first pro contest. Albert Retey was the world champion this year! He had an incredible one touch run, im sure if you ask anyone who was there. They will say the same thing, one of the best runs I ever saw!
no doubt Albert kicked my ass that year as well as the year before in Budapest (although i wrongly got first place there in 92). Not that i would have beat him anyways, but i wasn’t even riding my own bike in worlds 93 Limoges because it got lost on the plane, never to be found again. I proceeded to stay in France and hooked up with Oliver Mathews from England and we did a tour for ST. Micheal cookies in the North of France. Somehow i scraped together enough parts form the back of a truck and made a bike that worked. Traveling around in a camper and picking up two hitchiking girls along the way. Leaving France a couple months later i flew out of Paris, where i had lugged this heavy suitcase with no wheels around Paris and got completely wasted with these people i met on the streets. they somehow got me in a taxi to the airport where i passed out in the terminal. woke up hungover and got my flight to Canada. Arrived in Toronto and refused to go home so i tried to bus it across to the states but was stopped and turned back. leaving me on the side of the rode with my suitcase. Somehow i walked to a hotel, stayed there and ended up going back home.