BMX General > BMX Chat
Cost of things "back in the day"
J69:
My 1st bmx was a Raleigh Super Burner that my parents bought for me for Christmas 1981 & I think it cost them £110 which at the time was a lot of money & back then, neither my parents or many of my friends parents for that matter had much money to spare. Most of the kids back then had various burners, mostly standard burners that I think were around £95, a few of us had super burners which at the time we thought were the dogs bollox, one lad did have an ultra burner which were around £140, the rest had a mixture of team murrays from halfords, halfords turbo's as well I seem to remember were quite popular but nobody had the high end stuff. Then for my 13th birthday in 1983, my parents bought me a firebird freestyler frame & forks from county racing in Pontypridd, South Wales. The frame & forks complete with a tange headset cost £65! I thought it was ace right up until it snapped at the headtube, for those of you not in the know, the 1st generation DP freestylers had a top tube that was about 9 feet long & this caused the frames to break at the headtube. DP soon realised this & anyone who broke their 1st gen DP freestylers had them replaced free of charge for the gen 2 with the altered frame geometry. One other thing that I find quite ironic is the fact that the price of a pair of Skyway mags has hardly changed in over 30 years, back in the early 80's they cost £60 a pair, pretty much the same as they do today! Ah, happy days, brilliant memories & part of my life I will always cherish. :)
nosher70:
Which is why you can never buy a TA as a RIDER. Mine snapped underneath the headtube, I found this out whilst I was riding it due to the back end swaying from side to side. My metalwork teacher said it was no trouble to weld and fix. He returned it to me with a welded gusset underneath!!! AaAaAAAAAArrRrGhhhhh!!!!
lol
:wtf:
animal:
--- Quote from: Orange777 on June 22, 2012, 06:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: GTNUMBER1 on June 22, 2012, 05:28 PM ---cant remember what this cost me back in the day, remember the frame cost me about 60 quid :LolLolLolLol: and the levers/crank/rear brake were off my aero pro, would like to know how much it cost to build if anybodys got any old price lists, still have all of it too 8)
oh ye took me a year to build, earning 10 quid a week for my saturday job ;D
--- End quote ---
Are you selling that seat of it Steve ? ;D
Mum just reminded me that I have boxes of old BMX magazines from the 80s at her house. I shall have a look through them for price guides!!
--- End quote ---
Don't do it 4 fooks sake it will scare u stupid :2funny:
alst:
Check out the following link for a list of what things cost back in 1984:
http://www.gamesroom-online.co.uk/bmx/bmx_prices_in_1984.htm
Interesting!!
lk_97:
--- Quote from: alst on June 27, 2012, 01:35 PM ---Check out the following link for a list of what things cost back in 1984:
http://www.gamesroom-online.co.uk/bmx/bmx_prices_in_1984.htm
Interesting!!
--- End quote ---
Thanks for posting this, been looking for it for quite a while! :daumenhoch:
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version