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Jaan:
I'd always see the odd Mongoose or Schwinn in the states every summer but it was really in 99 when I was in Oz for the millennium that I got the bug back, albeit only very slightly... Near where I had parked my camper for the night was a skate park. In the morning I staggered down there to walk off a hangover and bumped into some lads on OS BMX, we got talking and sharing stories. I promptly got on a Haro (I think) and face planted with such incredible vigour I expected my face to be on the back of my head... 

The story often got brought up at piss ups (because of my misfortune) but it always made me think of the bikes... Then about 7 years ago I was doing some Photoshop work for a photographer buddy of mine who i'd known since a kid and we started talking about his 280 and how he'd like to build another one, and that was it...

Almost 4 years ago now I found RAD and it wasn't long before I realised I had a lot of bad habits! I didn't even realise you could get a crank puller - i had been resting my cranks on a breadboard and using a hammer!  What I also remember about first coming on here was thinking "whats bump and PM?" I couldn't for the life of me make an association with BMX and I was too embarrassed to ask  :LolLolLolLol:

Kinda reminds me of when I first came across the term NOS, obviously there was no such thing BITD it was just NS  :LolLolLolLol:

john4130:
i never left it, 32 years going strong and still love it as much as when i started.  :slayer:

snoopy72:
Mongoose was the bike for me BITD , in 2008 I bought a gt pro series 24 that was mint to ride around to get a bit of exercise, I liked to wheelie most places pre car ownership and wanted to see if I could still do it.
The gt was USELESS for wheelies , the frame geometry was spacious but all wrong even with slightly taller bars and with a tooth larger freewheel.
I sold it 4 years later in the same condition,meet the guy at the station, he bought it for his 7 year old to ride   :idiot2: .
Then with money burning a hole in my pocket  I was going through ebay and found a 1980 mongoose motomag frame/forks in Michigan USA..
built it up with some nice parts of the era then was offered a supergoose frame/forks in Chicago and always wanted one, I snapped it up and sold the motomag f/f.
Still wheelies like I remember  :daumenhoch:

BMX1973:
nice playroom  :daumenhoch:


--- Quote from: nitrohopper on May 01, 2014, 08:01 PM ---I suppose for me it was a quiet day at work and a browse on google when I put in pk ripper and ended up at the original rad forum and pk radmans pictures of his awsome collection of warranty carded se rippers and quads his gt's and profiles a absolutely stunning collection of truly stunning ild school bmx , then I went and bought my quad 24 then the ripper then the gt then the c w mini then the falcon prostyler then resto on whitehawk before moving on to the haros, team sport then sport then c w freestyler then my 20 quad and  84 master  up to my air uni  and now the 85 fst , its been a whirlwind couple of years and I have lovee every minute pf it and meet some really great people

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deeman:
I was at Bug Jam 3 years ago and saw loads of people riding OS BMX's. I was more interested in the bikes than the cars there! Straight on ebay when I got back looking at all kinds of OS BMX. 3 months later I found the frame and forks I had as a kid (PR Styler) and it carried on from there.....been skint ever since!  :daumenhoch:

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