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***We were Rad*** Official Book submission/chat thread ***

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oldschoolace:
Gonna be a pamphlet at best at this rate!
Come on lads, surely you would like to be immortalised forever in the greatest bmx book ever produced  ???

paulb113:
if you decide to go down the Facebook route my group has almost 3000 people in it, may get some decent pics out if it?

Andyboy77:
My little story is from 1996 and actually not cool at all, but maybe worth sharing here.

About 1983/1984 (I was 6 or 7 years of age) my older brother finally managed it somehow to destroy his BMX 2000 - deliberately of course, because all his friends had either skyways, haros and all the other famous bikes.
My brother was the only guy who only had a bike from a department store and felt pretty uncool. 
Our father immediately decided to buy my brother a new bike as his birthday was ahead anyway. So we went to a local shop that was the address back then if you wanted some propper stuff.
It was the shop from Dieter Klein - who later became quite famous for his MTB's and Roadbikes. About '83/'84 KLEIN started to sell high qualtity BMX frame and fork sets. If these were manufactured in his backyard or made by a particular factory - I really don't know. Any tries to find out more one these frames came to nothing up until now. The only thing they could tell me for sure was, that only 3 to 5 of these were made.

Howerver these bikes were full chromoly frame and forks of the highest quality. I can't remember all the details but it has had oval tubing for the top and down tube. The forks had oval tubing too. Furthermore, the bike was equipped with GT bars and lay back seat post - all chrome finish. Regarding all the other parts you could either go for red, white or black parts. My brother went for the chrome-red colour scheme. So the bike came with ODI Mushrooms, Kashimax seat, MX-1000 brakes and MX levers, ACS-Z-Rims with shimano hubs, a stem that looks like the pro necks,  silver powedisc (don't remember the make), Shimano chain ring - all red. Besides that it had a chrome opc and silver Shimano DX-pedals.

For years I was drooling over that bike until '88 when we moved down to the south of Germany, and my brother quited riding. Shortly after that he gave the bike to me as a birthday gift. I rode it until 1990 when I bought my '85 Performer (used). Because we didn't have enough room in our garage for two bikes I had to disassamble the KLEIN and stored it in the tiny loft above the garage. As the bike was still very dear to me I unpacked it once or twice a year and gave it a real good cleaning/polish, and also took care of all the bearings (hubs and bottom bracket).
I used to repeat this whole procedure until 1995 - at that time I left my parents house. In spring of 1996 I went to my parents to pick the KLEIN up. But I couldn't find it anymore. My mum told me then that our stepfather asked my brother to find a better place for the bike because he needed the room in the loft. It turned out that my brother gave the lovely bike away ( or that old piece of crap - as he called it) for a crate of beer to some young bloke who lived in the same village. I managed it to find out who it was and was about to claim my bike back. So I went there instantly.

This is the part in this story, that is hard to grasp if you never experienced that kind of heartbreaking event. As soon as I touched the garden door I thought "Wow, interesting tubing!" I asked the guy that was in the garden about the bike and he pointed to the garden door and said " Oh, do you mean this? ....long story short the bike (frame) turned into a garden door and all the parts had already disappeared too.  :'(

Up until today I'm still struggeling with that experience. Last year when I came back into BMX, I couldn't resist to hand over a list to my brother with all the e-bay prices of the parts he gave away for a crate of beer. Just as a little return  :nuts: at least he turned ashen faced.

This story is maybe not as cool as the others above, but it is the only real BMX story I can tell that is older than a year. 

dancetothedrummersbeat:
Cool story  :)
I think most of us can relate to your story in many ways. My bike had been promised to a younger friend of mine by my Auntie. I didn't want to give it away, but couldn't really say no as i didn't use it very much - i was 16 at the time. Sadly the bike is long gone, and was probably hardly used by my friend  :'(

Andyboy77:

--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on March 19, 2017, 01:14 AM ---Cool story  :)
I think most of us can relate to your story in many ways. My bike had been promised to a younger friend of mine by my Auntie. I didn't want to give it away, but couldn't really say no as i didn't use it very much - i was 16 at the time. Sadly the bike is long gone, and was probably hardly used by my friend  :'(

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Which is really sad too.  :'(  Did your Auntie ask you before she gave it away?

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