monkeyseemonkeydo Posted August 1, 2014 Report Share Posted August 1, 2014 I think MBUK musst use the TF tape measure... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrialsMan Dan Posted August 16, 2014 Report Share Posted August 16, 2014 Nice post Ross, keep them coming. I pretty much stopped buying MBUK when it got it's facelift and removed anything to do with trials. I remember a good article where Martyn Ashton and Grant Fielder swapped roles but adapted their own bikes to suit (Martyn going dirt jumping, Grant doing trials). Pretty sure there's an issue which featured an interview with a young Mr Travis... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Cheers Dan. Ill need to get on with uploading some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) I havent seen one of these yet that i dont own haha. If you have 20odd then i've got like three years worth. Still to this day got a2 size MBUK poster of ashton riding on the this cliff edge somewhere in gemany, a mint sauce a2 poster and an akrigg A4 of him on the giants causeway, probs from that feature scanned ^^. Its what I wake up to on the way outta me room in a mornin'. I think i've the issue from the MBUK 'lets build a FO ramp next to a lake' feature, where Martyn broke his back the first time learning backflips. I'd speculate, using what I know about motorcycle road racers with spine injuries (part of the TT marshals course), that this previous trauma may be (part of) the reason he now can't feel his feet... Edited August 18, 2014 by CC12345678910 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 I think i've the issue from the MBUK 'lets build a FO ramp next to a lake' feature, where Martyn broke his back the first time learning backflips. I'd speculate, using what I know about motorcycle road racers with spine injuries (part of the TT marshals course), that this previous trauma may be (part of) the reason he now can't feel his feet... He broke his back first time at a skatepark, not at a lake jump. He also broke his back for the second time in a totally different way, at a different point. From the reports of what happened to him afterwards I think he'd probably have ended up fairly screwed past injury or not. As he said, he's lucky to be alive so I don't think the previous injury at Newport was going to have had much of a bearing on things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 He broke his back first time at a skatepark, not at a lake jump. He also broke his back for the second time in a totally different way, at a different point. From the reports of what happened to him afterwards I think he'd probably have ended up fairly screwed past injury or not. As he said, he's lucky to be alive so I don't think the previous injury at Newport was going to have had much of a bearing on things. So in that case the lake jump might have been the 2nd time. I swear I'm not making that up but now you've made me doubt myself. I didn't know about the 1st one int skatepark. And yeah, the people with spine injury that ive met, and unfortunately in racing it happens too often, take the attitude of being in a wheelchair is not the end of the world, where as not breathing any longer is. And then your family then have to suffer with that - but thats a different conversation entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 I havent seen one of these yet that i dont own haha. If you have 20odd then i've got like three years worth. Still to this day got a2 size MBUK poster of ashton riding on the this cliff edge somewhere in gemany, a mint sauce a2 poster and an akrigg A4 of him on the giants causeway, probs from that feature scanned ^^. Its what I wake up to on the way outta me room in a mornin'. I think i've the issue from the MBUK 'lets build a FO ramp next to a lake' feature, where Martyn broke his back the first time learning backflips. I'd speculate, using what I know about motorcycle road racers with spine injuries (part of the TT marshals course), that this previous trauma may be (part of) the reason he now can't feel his feet... Yea, I used to have the same until I bit the bullet and chucked them out. These ones I have now were donated to me by a friend of a friend. If you have the magazine where Martyn shows off the first Ashton Justice, could you post some pictures of that? I think I need to up my game and post some more. Ill probably try using my DSLR instead of my phone next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brettoll Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 The 2nd was mid-demo at Silverstone with the Animal tour not lake jumping.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 Silverstone was the event that paralized him, according to mark's timeline that would make a third time... Ross- id have to check. Got any idea what year that would be? Then I can look what the earliest one i've got is. Ciaran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 I haven't set any kind of timeline - I just know he messed up a vertebrae in Newport, and then had his accident at Silverstone. You're the only one who's made any mention of him doing it another time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 (edited) Oh. mabye I should reread topics occasionally... Meanwhiles im gonna leave this thread alone till i've something more useful to contribute I think. EDIT: taken that last bit out cos it didn't read the way i meant it to Edited August 21, 2014 by CC12345678910 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 Ross- id have to check. Got any idea what year that would be? Then I can look what the earliest one i've got is. Ooohh, at a guess, 2004? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 (edited) I will get on it tommorow, or er, later as it's after midnight - whoops Time to go bedwards i think. Edited August 22, 2014 by CC12345678910 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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