photos of lea valley before Olympic development

[luka]

Zimmerframe

 

[luka]

When was it?

The time span is 2001-2006

 

[version]

I was ten in 2001.

 

[luka]

RM1s Romford.

I'll save the rest for tomorrow

 

[luka]

I was ten in 2001.

You're getting on. Not young anymore. How many years have been posting here? 3?

 

[version]

Join Date 23-01-2018

 

[sufi]

ZZzzzt I'm still on p14 of this journey sorry to be late

compare time-sandwich effects with the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London's 120 images of condemned buildings in 1875

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socie...ics_of_Old_London#/media/File:Oxford_Arms.jpg

 

[sufi]

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[craner]

I do get Theroux a lot :crylarf:

 

[luka]

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Actually Glasgow.

 

[luka]

I do get Theroux a lot :crylarf:

You deserve better

 

[yyaldrin]

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where is this? that tree looks tropical.

 

[luka]

The tree is tropical but I think it's a bit stunted and sickly cos it is in London

 

[yyaldrin]

i like all of the mountainbikes in the picture. people posing on them, action shots of people driving them off the hill. bikes thrown in the grass and having a little rest. bicycles changed a lot. the mountainbike is a simple design but they came in so many colour variations. they are cheerful and they have imbedded in them action and adventure. now people drive electric bicycles that look like ufo's or those ultra thin ones that don't even have a break and actually don't make sense.

 

[luka]

Bikes go through a lot of trends. These bikes were mountain bikes and hybrid bikes which you can do anything with. Then post olympics and Bradley Wiggins everyone started riding road bikes which are much more limited. Nowadays all the young people ride bikes designed to wheely on. High handlebars and saddle low to the back tyre like a trials bike. When I was a child it was BMXs.

 

[luka]

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You need natural light to photograph these really

This mountain bike Craner is riding he had as a 14 year old which was probably around the start of the mountain bike craze. I think it was steel and it squeaked and creaked a lot.

 

[shiels]

Nowadays all the young people ride bikes designed to wheely on. High handlebars and saddle low to the back tyre like a trials bike. When I was a child it was BMXs.

I love this, hilarious, peak show off. Through central london rush hour, along the footpaths even, tyre a foot away from your head with nonchalant stare chewing gum

 

[luka]

We love it so much we've got a thread about it

https://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=14640&highlight=Wheelies

 

[shiels]

they all seem to be born cycling on one wheel, insouciant, nerveless, in complete control.

laughed at that. and they can't be seen to be enjoying it too much either, no this is just what they do, how they get about, what are you old cunts looking at?

 

[shiels]

There's a certain fuck-it-all yeeeeooo confidence in that period from about 11-15 when you start to get some of your own autonomy and develop interests but the pressures of sex and achievement and money have yet to kick in