What a rad photo! Let's take a moment and examine it a bit closer.
Making the leap is one of my personal childhood heroes Mike Buff, who we all know and love from the Bicycle Motocross Action Trick Team. There is no way to positively ID if he is riding his trademark white PK Ripper in this shot, but he often ran Baby Blue Landing Gear forks with the PH frame, and obvs whatever forks he is running here are white, so who knows. I don't see any fork standers so I don't think he had switched to riding a Hutch Trick Star when this photo was taken. Another timestamp for this pic is that the bike clearly does not have the Potts Modification as the front brake cable is clearly visible. He is roosting a pretty good launch to be landing on flat ground though. Almost certain that those are white ACS Z-rims he is running.
Making the leap is one of my personal childhood heroes Mike Buff, who we all know and love from the Bicycle Motocross Action Trick Team. There is no way to positively ID if he is riding his trademark white PK Ripper in this shot, but he often ran Baby Blue Landing Gear forks with the PH frame, and obvs whatever forks he is running here are white, so who knows. I don't see any fork standers so I don't think he had switched to riding a Hutch Trick Star when this photo was taken. Another timestamp for this pic is that the bike clearly does not have the Potts Modification as the front brake cable is clearly visible. He is roosting a pretty good launch to be landing on flat ground though. Almost certain that those are white ACS Z-rims he is running.
The car is obvs a Porsche 944. Not much to say about that except that one of the riders I grew up with had one when we were in high school and I always thought t was a pretty sweet ride.
The person leaning against the car is Dana Duke, who was at the time sort of the Flavor Flav of the BMX and Motocross scene from what I remember. I'm pretty sure he was an announcer for lots of BMX trick shows, and also heavily involved in the motorcycle motocross scene. But if I remember correctly he was much more than just an announcer and did all kinds of things to help promote and generate hype for both BMX and Motocross. Unfortunately he is also remembered as being the driver in a car/train accident than killed three passengers that were with him at the time, all of them heavy hitters in the motocross scene. Last I heard The Duke is still alive and shows up at events from time to time sporting some rad vintage Oakley gear. Not sure if he is actually doing any announcing or is affiliated with marketing of hype generating though. If you know of any up to date news post in the comments.
