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underrated brands - why?
ron burgundy:
--- Quote from: MartyC on February 01, 2014, 02:22 AM ---Main problem for Powerlite and Dyno was Seattle Bike Co who bought them as part of the GT purchase, they became pretty much low end, cheap and heavy/nasty bikes. Prior to the purchase they were pretty good bikes, early Powerlites especially and the first gen Dyno Freestylers were awesome. Titan made fantastic race bikes but broke a lot, MCS have always been a solid performer but nothing really outstanding, they survived by making stuff for everyone else as far as I can tell. Torker went bust and SBC (again) bought the rights along with Redline; turned both into low end brands although Redline seems to be on the up again.
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Redline make the best out of the box race bikes available, and have done for a number of years. The were also the first major player to bring out a full carbon, modern race frame. Haro, GT, Supercross all followed...
Same as in the 70s & 80s ;)
OrgasmDonor:
--- Quote from: Dannywhac on February 01, 2014, 10:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jaymz on February 01, 2014, 09:44 PM ---Two threads posted today within two minutes of each other
MCS 1 reply in 5.5 hours (probably the only one in uk, and only a couple on bmxmuseum)
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,171020.msg1717716.html#new
SE 8 replies in 5.5 hours for yet another ripper (no offence meant to the owner or rippers it is a lovely bike)
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,171021.0.html
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One's in the Old School Race section and the others in BMX Chat - more through traffic in the Chat section. You'd get more replys in BMX Chat, but obv. better place to put it's in the OS Race.
I'm guilty of not checking any of the OS sections myself.
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this is a prob with the separate chat set up, when there was only 1 bmx chat bikes were posted from different sections that encouraged peeps to look further than their interest base. interesting stuff is being posted in separate sections but a lot of it goes unnoticed. anyway, back on topic........
IMO GT pro frames are grossly underatted, they look better, ride better than skyways n SEs (aint really rode a hutch, so cant compare) but I bet they are made better than the horrendously overatted hutchs, deffo on par with the better JMCs and there seems to be nowhere near the numbers of them than the usual suspect big hitters everyone lusts over. A GT BITD was a fookin nice thing, wha'appened? ???
vestanpance:
The last Powerlites before GT went pop were pretty cool machines. 8)
griff:
The sections do need clearing up, but personally they're mostly irrelevant because I tend to just click on 'view all unread posts' and read everything
I tell the mrs it's in the interests of moderation but actually it's how I've spent the last few years on here :teef: you never know when something interesting or funny is going to pop up or a thread get diverted
Retrodan72:
--- Quote from: griff on February 02, 2014, 02:35 PM ---The sections do need clearing up, but personally they're mostly irrelevant because I tend to just click on 'view all unread posts' and read everything
I tell the mrs it's in the interests of moderation but actually it's how I've spent the last few years on here :teef: you never know when something interesting or funny is going to pop up or a thread get diverted
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Ditto.
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