OTG - November, 1976.

So, my dad was in "Minicycle/BMX Action" magazine in 1976. He sent in some photos of himself going over stack of 11 tires. Once successfully and once, well not as much. They published both the photos on the back page of their magazine with a small caption. I scanned the page. Here it is.

The thing is, he "photoshoped" the photos. They're fakes. They were shot on film, but they were staged. He climbed up a ladder, tied his bike to a tree, and then sat on his bike while his friend snapped the shutter on a camera he had mounted on a tripod. The rope is tied around the seat post and is hidden in both photos, behind his body.

Clever. He tricked them pretty good. So good, it got published.