Thursday 23 September 2010

Happy 40th Birthday Bill Nitschke!!


It's Bill's 40th birthday, for all of you that don't know, Bill invented the whopper! And could throw down in park also!
Happy 40th Birthday Bill from BMX Freestyler on Vimeo.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

so did bill invent the whopper and the cliffhanger?, not a bad legacy is it, any recent footage, i know hes still riding

A said...

He didn't invent the Cliffhanger ,yeah the whopper but everyone knows that .

flatmatters said...

He invented the whopper, and a few other things along the way, the whopper was definitely his claim to fame. He didn't invent the cliffhanger tho, Bill Freeman did.

A said...

Also just a side note Bill was one of the original founders of Standard Byke Company in 92alongside Kurt Schmidt and Rick Moliterno still rides for Wonder Wheels Trick Team ,loads of footage about i've seen .You'd be suprised how many riders today think a whopper is a new trick and not from 1990 it's only re surfaced again in recent years ,think Cliffhanger is a late 80's move Bill Freeman is credited with inventing it.

http://www.23mag.com/tricks/flat.htm

Brian said...

Bill did whoppers on 45 lb standards!