The 70’s

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Launching the Kawi BMXer off our back porch
Lycoming2
My bro at Lycoming in PA
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Also Lycoming, just a little less muddy
Roband JeffMoto
My bro and I 
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My parents bought one just like this for 3 of us to share. Poor thing got destroyed
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The start of it all in my family
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Throwing this in there for everyone that says that ScrewU is the big downhill/uphill and NOT what is now called Gravity Cavity. 

 

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Kenny Banyan
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mumbles wrote:
I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

1976 Roger DeCoster Standard

I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

That is a classic 70’s BMX’r !😎

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Kenny Banyan
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Shredder wrote:
  

 

RetroAirBungaBMX.jpg?VersionId=itDwefxY
Launching the Kawi BMXer off our back porch
Lycoming2
My bro at Lycoming in PA
Lycoming1.jpg?VersionId=lHcOS1zBjS4mHfXZm
Also Lycoming, just a little less muddy
Roband JeffMoto
My bro and I 
SMV.jpg?VersionId=jGTDRNdZKY
My parents bought one just like this for 3 of us to share. Poor thing got destroyed
Ruppster.jpg?VersionId=FoNlw
The start of it all in my family
ScrewU.jpg?VersionId=ha1uxPjxzNds QdICLmR.nwagfYdvE
Throwing this in there for everyone that says that ScrewU is the big downhill/uphill and NOT what is now called Gravity Cavity. 

 

Great pics! I had a red SL 70 too!

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10/1/2026 8:32pm Edited Date/Time 10/1/2026 8:37pm
R66 wrote:
Evel stayed at the Radisson Hotel near my house a lot. I rode my bike down there and hung out in the lobby and met him...


Evel stayed at the Radisson Hotel near my house a lot. I rode my bike down there and hung out in the lobby and met him when I was about 10 years old.   

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He was one of my heroes growing up. 

I wonder how many of us had the 'Cycle Jumpers' book with Evel and Gary Wells...?

Incredibly, I still have it. Cover is missing, but here it is in all it's glory.

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1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:

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Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:

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After a ride, open face, rubber boots, jeans and a flannel shirt jacket...that's pretty old school (International Scout, my school driver):

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Kenny Banyan
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DJS721 wrote:
1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:After a ride, open...

1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:

20260924 130044 0.jpg?VersionId=Zy9qpS3STLrsF.i7Fjsgjs2nq

Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:

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After a ride, open face, rubber boots, jeans and a flannel shirt jacket...that's pretty old school (International Scout, my school driver):

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Thanks for sharing those DJ.

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mumbles wrote:
I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

1976 Roger DeCoster Standard

I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode down to the grocery store loading docks . They dropped off about 6 feet onto concrete and it took us about an hour to break those Mag wheels. We took them back and got some new ones!

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karsmakers wrote:
When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode...

When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode down to the grocery store loading docks . They dropped off about 6 feet onto concrete and it took us about an hour to break those Mag wheels. We took them back and got some new ones!

Didn’t Pierre have a house in Mission Viejo at one point?

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This bike has all the parts from my Stingray bmx’er swapped over to the Webco frame I got for Christmas.  I remember these tuff wheels flexed way too much. Looking at this pic I can remember how it felt  

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Built this bike from a banana seat bike.  Before there were available BMX bikes!

 

bmx old

 

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Hasletjoe wrote:
Stay in line!  

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Really cool pic. Back then you removed the lights and maybe put on some  knobbies and number plates and loaded her up!😎

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