Back in the Day BMX
This Yahoo Club is a pretty lively message board with mostly old school riders (including some more well-known old schoolers like Eddie Roman and Maurice Meyer). The trivia photo can can be pretty hard, even for real old-timers.

Back in the Day
Not to be confused with the Yahoo Club of the same name, this site has lots of good old school stuff: Bob Haro, BMX Action trick team, a Plywood Hoods article from Freestylin', and a funny article on the crappy bikes of old. (There were a couple other pages I wanted to check out, but got broken links...not sure if it's a Geocities error or what.) It also has a good set of links if you're looking for even more stuff like this.

Not Freestylin'
With a name like Not Freestylin', you can guess that this webzine has some stuff based on the old days (though there's current-day coverage as well). Some of the "old" stuff includes a recent interview with Andy Jenkins, a history of riding (from the July '89 issue of Freestylin'), a Vander eulogy, and the BM-X Files (a "where are they now" article).

The Flatlander old school flicks
TheFlatlander.com has a bunch of old flatland videos in RealVideo format that are pretty interesting to watch. Watch 1987-era flatland runs from guys like RL Osborn, and Kevin Jones. You youngsters may be amazed to see what Rick Moliterno did before riding mini ramp, and you older guys will be impressed at how well Rick was doing hang-5s on the pedal back in '87.

BMX Old School at BMX Non Stop
BMX Non Stop has an old school section that has a bunch of photos of old bikes and frames, magazine covers, and other stuff.

Freestylin' Covers
A bunch of Freestylin' magazine covers from 1987-1989.

ROOST
ROOST (Revival Of Old School Technology) is about as old school as you can get: mid-70's through early 80's. The only names I recognized on this site were Greg Hill, Scott Clark, Steve Giberson, Harry Leary and Scot Breithaupt. This site's only for the really old...

Plinko

Plinko is a combination design portfolio and music mini-webzine. The site is well-designed and pretty easy to navigate; I ran into several broken links, which was annoying. The Graphic Design section of the site shows the site creators' design portfolio.

The Music section was most interesting to me. For the most part it's a lot of photos and short bios of musicians, mostly rappers (Public Enemy, Jurassic 5) and DJs (Cut Chemist, Fatboy Slim), but also rock musicians — both large (Nirvana, Green Day) and small (Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse). The bios aren't always the most informative or eye-opening, but they're not bad, and the photos are all good.

There's also a Stories section which is a collection of urban legends, some well-known ("The Surprise Party"), others a bit more obscure ("The Lying Snowboarders"). They're pretty entertaining, and often bring back memories of kids in grade school swearing that the story is true. There's also a couple pages of Unfortunate Accidents, which may have partially been pooled from the Darwin Awards.

The copyright date says "1997-1999", so I'm not sure if it's still being updated (though the home page says "0500", leading me to believe it's been updated this past May). But what's up there now is worth a look, even if that's all that's there.

Cool Homepages

This is a pretty basic idea for a site, and something that's been done before — a list of links to cool web sites. However, Cool Homepages ("The only known cure for Designer's Block") is the best-organized list of sites I've seen, not to mention the best quality links as well. And it's a fantastic way to quickly get ideas and inspiration when doing your own designs.

The sites are grouped into categories such as Very Clean, Futuristic, Ezines, Flash, Rollovers, and Retro. Clicking any of these brings you to the first page of sites that fit that category. You're shown a small screenshot and a link to the site (which conveniently opens a new browser window when clicked). That's pretty much all there is to it, but it's an invaluable resource for web designers.

On the other side of the spectrum, Cool Homepages also lists some of the worst sites as well, which are pretty entertaining. (Tip: If your own site looks like any of these, you're probably due for a redesign...)

Finally, the site also has pages dedicated to web resources for Flash, fonts, and design resources; the latter section is a great compilation of links on topics link web development and user interface design.