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What bikes did you guys sport back in the day? I started out on Schwinn's had a Predator, and another Schwinn that was red with yellow Tuff 2 mags. Then I got a Redline then the freestyle days came around. I picked up a GT. Wanted a Hutch trickstar but couldn't get my parents to pull the trigger. My favs though were a PK Ripper and a Blazer which at the time were pretty rare. I also had a Mongoose in the shed that had the steal honeycomb mags. My buddy bought a Pink Trickstar off Ebay a couple years back. It hangs in his living room. Anyone remember the Quad Angle and the Torkers? Totally rad shit back in the day.
http://bmxmuseum.com/
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Looked about like this even had that same neck, broke it pretty quick also. I still have the frame, it's probably shot from jumping it into the lake.
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
I won an orange Huffy in some drug store contest in like 1975.
Beat that piece of junk for two years and then I moved on to an early '77 Cycle Pro Foiler. Wish I still had this one. It had one of those Redline prototype stems, prototype cutout dropout redline forks, round Arai 7bs, philwood hubs, center pull brake. Was the shop owner's bike.
Once that got stolen, I got a 1978 Redline MX-II and had it for so many years until a tweaker borrowed, kept it and sold it.
Restored it for my son and he won the state championship on it.
In fact all SE bikes were the SHIT when i was a kid, how bout the SE Quadrangle??
I drooled over those things...
I still have awesome dreams riding my BMX bike and my skateboard, but i can never just stop, when i do, i have to sit down, its a trip, i dont think i have ever had a dream where i was in a chair, even after all these years.
Then my Dad and I build a JMC from ground up, National # 17 by then, we were racing 3 times a week to keep me out of trouble.
My brother took this he was laying behind our jump, my old Webco. This was on Ft Rucker.
after my mom realized how good i was getting, she bought me this for my birthday:
a week later it was stolen when i rode it to get my haircut, i remember being so afraid to go home, and sad as hell at the same time..
then saved up and bought this from a kid that was amazing at riding, had a full blown six pack in his side yard in the city, but liked smoking weed better
loaded this thing up with every sick part Profile made, it was awesome
i wish i had more pics from me racing, and my ex step dad has a box full of glass trophies stuffed away from my really big wins. The only thing I have left to visually see, is some VHS recorded vids of my dad yelling at me to "pedal my ass off or im walking home" at cheri lindsey bmx in binghamton
Pit Row
I wanted a bike when I was 13, my parents said get a job. So I saved up and built a bad ass 18lb JMC short frame with a euro bottom bracket. Serial No. 144 My sisters friend was a machinist and he made me some trick one off pedals. They had Honda Works like grip to them. When I saw them I was frightened. Took one back spin to the shin and the pedal stuck in my skin. I still have that scar.
Each month I got some money I would pour it into the bike. I had a couple sets of Araya rims. A square set and a set that had a bead in them. I had 170MM crank set, I was saving up to put Flight Cranks on them. It was a sweet bike. in 1982, I broke it down, sand blasted it and took it to Jim at JMC in Azusa (just down the road) to have it powder coated black like the New Black Shadow. I put it back together, added the bullseye bottom bracket, and a few other bits, parked it in the garage, closed the garage and went to school.
Came home from school and it was gone! I was ruined. It was more than a bike. It was my freedom, it took me places, It was my outlet of anger. A few years later I found out who took it, when I tried to get it back it was moved from where I saw it and I had nothing for proof. Shortly after that incident the guy who I saw it with died in a car accident. Pursuing it with his parents just seemed wrong. I still surf Ebay looking for it.
That bike defined my teen age years.
We used to make jumps when I was in grade school (long before my PK days). We would put plywood ramps on stacked cinder blocks and jump over garbage cans. Started out flat-landing it until the Western Auto store guy who was getting rich selling us replacement axles told us to build some landing ramps.
Man, we really used to pull chicks in 5th grade doing those jumps!
found this one on craigslist just now.
better snag it boys before she's gone
http://rochester.craigslist.org/bik/2991100984.html
I also picked up a Dyno VFR cruiser in 99 so I could race more motos each day
then in late 2000, at a State Qualifier race, I won a Free Agent Raceway that was night and day better than the dyno. Steeper head angle and the fork drop outs were right under the fork leg as well, made the bike turn way better, and was insanely light
I rode that bike for 2 years before it got stolen out of my garage, while I was leading the points for both the state and the NBL western region. At that point my BMX racing days were over (I had started racing moto that same year)
In the 80's I was racing the 26' Cruiser class at the Happy Valley (serious) BMX club on a Kos Cruiser.
Sorry the pics are a bit shite:
I had the graphite Tuff 2's on my 84 Skyway TA XL,and like many of these cool bike stories,it got stolen.
Hutch Expert Frame, Redline Cranks.
Jumping over the VW bug after a race.
Jumping over a buddy on my GHP
Lake Jump.
Little after school half-pipe action
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