freakin3zing
Squid
Any of you guys ride BMX still?
Anyone else collect Old-Midschool BMX?
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fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
The closest thing I have to a BMX these days is my pump track bike.
I had a kmart/target special when I was a kid. All the subsequent jumping I did bent the shitty one piece cranks. I never had a fancy BMX.
I'm here for the BMX-porn as who doesn't still have a soft spot for mint classic BMX bikes.
I had a kmart/target special when I was a kid. All the subsequent jumping I did bent the shitty one piece cranks. I never had a fancy BMX.
I'm here for the BMX-porn as who doesn't still have a soft spot for mint classic BMX bikes.
freakin3zing
Squid
I got back into them a couple of years ago, great to cruise on! but have now decided to get back into MTB after 10 years off.... had a Kona Stinky years and yeas ago that im going to try and replicate + get a more modern machine, would love to try a pump track but I'm almost 52 so not sure i could handle that
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
This thread gives me shame for always putting off the restoration of my old school Mongoose. Sigh.....
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
I thought he be here already! I could see his work from the track and they never turned the lights off last night
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Been reading but mine were all pre 1985.
I still have an original 1982 Quadangle frame with the Landing Gear forks here. I bought it from the USA, at arrived and smelled of fresh paint when I unwrapped the bubble wrap... hmmm strange, something not right. Took it to a large glass bead blaster that I had access too at the time and started removing the paint... dirty MoFo had dinged the top tube, probably back in the early 80's, bogged the ding up and painted it for the eBay pictures.
Then lied through his teeth to PayPal saying it was perfect when it left him and that I had damaged it. That was my 1st experience with PayPal being spineless chunts.
I was so disgusted, I hung up the stripped bare frame and forks and over the past 18yrs its got a rusty patina over it.
In 2007 I had 2 x boys at 1 & 2 yrs old, was getting a dad-bod so decided to pull a restored 1984(?) 24" Floval Flyer out and ride it up a local hill, got about 500m up the gentle hill and tapped out, came back sweating and said to the missus, I need a MTB with gears... hadn't had a MTB since I used to ride them back in the early 1990's.
She said ' well you better get rid of some of those BMX as we have no room'
Bought a 2008 Specialized Enduro a few days later and the next day, started listing approximately 18-20 old school BMX's on eBay, shipping most of them to the UK and back to the USA where most of the came from in the first place. Floval Flyer, ET Kuwahara, 2 x PK Rippers, 2 x Hutch, 2 Mongoose Motomags/Supergoose/Pro Class/Californian a 1 off chrome Quadangle with decals straight from Scott Breihaupt's (the guy who started SE Racing) personal collection and lots more.
I made decent money selling the bikes but there is no way it made up for the 6yrs collecting parts, 1000's of hours scouring the internet for parts, taking stuff to chromers, powdercoaters, posting stuff I didnt need on eBay and swapping parts with other collectors.
I wished I had kept some, though the price of them post corona may have made me part with them. Most complete bikes sold for $1500-$2000 back in 2008ish, lucky if you could buy some of them now for $7000+. I had no shed space back then either, I had a 3 x 3m shed that I couldn't even walk in to with a floor built about 1200mm off the ground and up to 25 BMX bikes and frames in different stages of build, lined up in a staggered 2 lines. I used to have them in the spare room that somehow disappeared when we had 2 kids.
I regret restoring some of them from the original condition, losing the old school survivor look. Another regret was my lack of photos, I had many bikes over those years that I didnt even take a photo of. The Floval below had a set of NOS brown vinyl pads when I sold it, no idea where those photos went. I should have documented every frame/bike/parts when bought and when restored.
Was good to relive my childhood and own the bikes I always wanted back then. The best BMX I had as a kid was a Raleigh Super Tuff Burner... before that, a load of shitters.
Here's a few pics. Would have liked to still have that ET (pictured) as a survivor and not restored as there only was about 3000 ever released after the movie, they were later released as cheap re-run bikes by Wal-Mart, maybe the looptail PK Ripper (pictured) or Harry Leary Turbo (no pic).
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
safreek
*******
I'm getting closer to 60 and managed to ride 2 laps around the block. I'm proud of myself