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snoopy72:
I rode a standard mongoose motomag BITD, my friend and I had raleigh boxers , he progressed to a grifter where as i was lucky enough to get a mongoose motomag.
The only reason I ended up with a mongoose and not a grifter was because my dad had a motorcycle shop and mongoose were looking for dealers in the UK.
He had a total of 4 mongoose's in the shop, they were not great sellers here at the time because they were expensive compared to say a burner.
He sold 2 bikes, and the other 2 stayed in the shop collecting dust for over a year, when I turned 9yrs old my dad brought one of them home with him, my cousin had the other which he snapped the frame through misuse soon after he got it.

Because I looked after mine 3 years later my dad had the nickel frame and forks chromed for me, then in December 1984 he took me to whitehawks where he let me choose some really nice parts for it (what a Christmas and birthday present rolled into one that was) :daumenhoch: , gt pro bars, pro neck II stem, pro neck chain ring, tuf neck power disc, mx hinge clamp, odi mushroom grips, tech 3's and mx1000's, hutch layback, viscount aero seat, comp III's, shimano DX pedals, araya zx with shimano dx hubs and some black california lite pads.
I remember it all coming to around £400 back then which was a lot of money.

I rode it until I was 17, when i started driving and dating the ladies I lost interest in bmx, one of my other cousin's kept on to me that he wanted it so I gave him the lot, sadly the bike ended up at the recycling centre in the late nineties  :'(
I still remember the serial number CJO 341407, i know it's sad but for some reason i've never forgotten the number.

Well that bike helped me learn to do some impressively long wheelies.

After a 22yr break from bmx I decided to build a 1980 motomag with some trick bits, then before i got chance to even ride it a 1980 supergoose frame and forks came up in Chicago so I bought it, I managed to sell the motomag frame and forks for the purchase price of the supergoose (straight swap).

I built the supergoose and rode it, I can still pull those impressive wheelies even though i am now 41.
The reason I built the bike is like Terry said to take me back to my youth and great memories but i can't believe the price of the parts !! ,  £1500 for a cooks bros slant stem  ? ? Crazy

Mat:
Pure 80's nostalgia for me.

Love a bit of 80's nostalgia

OrgasmDonor:

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absofookinlutitwattingbastardly :4_17_5:

mid and ns bikes are where its at for full enjoyment

john4130:
been riding bmx for 32 years now and never got tired of it, i still look forward to going to the skatepark every week to ride with mates. i,ve always loved messing with bikes from a young age too, making things fit and repairing and building. now all the young lads down the local skatepark get me to build their wheels for them or true them. i,ve already built 4 wheels this year for a couple of them when they got new hubs for xmas, and i never ask them for a penny. i just enjoy doing it and helping them out. i've never bothered about era correct parts when i build old one's either, as everything would change on my bike over the years as parts wore out or broke and get replaced with new bits, so when i build a bike there could be 10 years difference in the age of parts but as long as i like the look of it i'm happy.

vestanpance:
This vid sums up BMX to me having a laugh with your mates.   :daumenhoch:

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