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Comment by Nick Stuart on October 30, 2010 at 8:46

haha is the suit covering his face?

Comment by Sakamoto on October 30, 2010 at 8:57

This was the age of advancement, exploration and experimentation for all the gravity disciplines at that time. Drag, wind resistance, material reaction to winds....all this was new, and guys like Roger Hickey, etc, would try a miriad of ideas to improve every aspect of riding/racing. If it wasn't for guys like Roger, Jarret Ewanek, Marcus Reitema, etc, pushing it, gravity sports would NOT be what it is today.

Premium Member Comment by Jacko on October 30, 2010 at 9:00

this is a sick photo, ive seen so many old skool vids and pics of crew going for that faster speed with crazy aero helmets and skin-tight speeds suits, when all they had to do was tuck in that back knee! wow how times have changed...

Comment by Nick Stuart on October 30, 2010 at 9:21

thats pretty sick. just looked through all these pics, roger owned the scene

Comment by Roger Hickey - worldofhickey@aol on October 30, 2010 at 12:06

all you have to do is tuck in the back knee, LOL, I invented that back knee in tuck tuck in about 1991,,,, before that we all did our versions of the Hut tuck, from John Hutson. I discovered it by tracing my shadow on a wall in my tuck and tried to cut down on frontal area,,, but you can't get as low that way, so through turns I would drop down with the knee coming out to get a lowercenter of gravity,,,, remember, we weren't drifters back then, we just rode it and tried to make it stick

Comment by Roger Hickey - worldofhickey@aol on November 1, 2010 at 14:19

the suit is covering my face for two reasons, one being the obvious, ugly, and two, because spandex is faster than skin and we didn't wear areo full faces back then. The full face I designed with Jarrett came after I broke my jaw in 4 places.

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