{"id":12555,"date":"2019-04-04T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/?p=12555"},"modified":"2019-03-24T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T14:34:57","slug":"throwback-thursday-222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/throwback-thursday-222\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wing span of an eagle, crikey. Circa the summer of 1984 I was still in my Redline stage having been co-sponsored by them in the previous year as a cruiser rider. I wanted to be RL Osborn and he rode Redline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>So, I got the first Redline freestyle bike, the RL20 I. This was before double top tubes. White all around and all kinds of brakes, here I am doing a no handed footjam endo. Yes, that was considered &#8220;rad&#8221; in 1984. Rock on during the golden age of BMX in NJ.<\/p>\n<p>For more BMX and brittle crazines pick up my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Average-BMXer-Brett-Middaugh-ebook\/dp\/B00FN8G5A8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Average BMXer\u201d available on Kindle<\/a>,\u00a0and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/ebook\/product-21264201.html\">Lulu.com<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/ebook\/product-21264201.html\">e-pub<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/brett-middaugh\/the-average-bmxer\/hardcover\/product-21223024.html\">Hardcover<\/a> form.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-996x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-156x160.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo-194x200.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/no-hand-endo.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wing span of an eagle, crikey. Circa the summer of 1984 I was still in my Redline stage having been co-sponsored by them in the previous year as a cruiser rider. I wanted to be RL Osborn and he rode Redline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,54],"tags":[120,80],"class_list":["post-12555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-britty-blog","category-featured","category-the-average-bmxer","tag-brett-middaugh","tag-the-average-bmxer-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12560,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions\/12560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middaugh.org\/mwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}