Subject : Amos Burke
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Location : -, UK
Date : November 2004

Bio: Rob Harrison
I don't know Amos so well, in fact compared to somepeople you could say i don't know him at all, but there remains a lot that i could say about him. The fact that is that it's a bloody ages since i saw much of him, but in the time before he made a significant impact on the way i thought about riding and about bmx.

There are a couple of things that i remember pretty vividly:

There was nothing on his birthday that made him as happy as the bottle of Jack Daniels that MikeyD bought for him. So happy that he drank on the bus ride home, all of it. He was also the best dressed guy from Glasgow when we pushed him down the main shopping street in Leeds in wheelie bin.

I think it was either him or chris and i that broke into what was then Wakefield sk8park and had to work our way down to the rear door in the dark to open the shutters. Either way it was definately Amos who put the window through.

His 1p donation as i paid the bond for the house that we had to leave three months later was appreciated but not what i had in mind.

It was a pretty sad day when he left Leeds for Hastings, but i'd never seen anyone leave everything behind and take only a small rucksack when they moved, for that i had endless respect.

He was also pretty good at stealing cheese.

Here are some of the better times: