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griff:
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factory pilot:

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Thanks Griff  :4_17_5:..... this is more a short/sweet section focused on the above questions  :daumenhoch: but feel free to add stories/pictures in either thread lads fistblump

dancetothedrummersbeat:
Thanks for starting this thread Ant, and thanks to those who have replied so far. Please keep your stories coming  :daumenhoch:

Mikku:
I’ve already supplied some stories to Clint, but my answers to those 4 questions are as follows:-

1.Like Spen, my route into BMX was the iconic tank that is the Raleigh Grifter, a metallic blue one of which I rode around on in the late 70s. But my first BMX was an old Cycle Pro frameset with a mish-mash of secondhand if not thirdhand parts.
2.I bought the Cycle Pro in or around 1981/2 from a guy who lived near me. Thereafter was the familiar story of constant swapping and upgrading of first parts, then later on frames, as and when they broke and/or paper round money allowed.
3.My dream bike was a Kuwahara Laserlite. It took me over 30 years to finally get one and I still love (and ride) it now!!
4.My idols were Tim March and Andy Ruffell. I can’t remember now who was my favourite back then but in their very different ways, they were both BMX Gods to me. :daumenhoch:

dancetothedrummersbeat:
My first and only BMX bitd was a Falcon Pro Kappa. It was bought for my 7th birthday, but i got it exactly a month before on 28th April 1984. I’d been aware of BMX for about a year before. I loved the blue/yellow colour scheme, and wanted a blue Raleigh Tuff burner, but they were £125 in my local bike shop (CMA cycles, St Helens), and my Dad wouldn’t pay more than £100. He saw the Falcon Pro in the shop, pointed out the colours, and that was that. £99.95, and i instantly fell in love with it. I can remember that it was a Saturday afternoon, and the number 1 single in the UK charts was Lionel Richie’s Hello. It was playing on the radio as my dad was paying for the bike, and it’s the song i associate the most with OS BMX. The bike came with chang star two finger tech 2 style levers but i couldn’t pull them, so my dad swapped them with generic levers in black (similar style to mk1 burner levers). The photo below shows myself with my Nan, minutes after we got the bike home. I hadn’t tried to ride it at this point, so the original levers are still fitted. A few years ago, fellow radster BigBadSam had a CMA cycles bike shop sticker on a frame that he was selling. I asked if i could have it, and got Del to make me some reproductions that are the finishing touch to a few of my bikes. My dream bike bitd was a Skyway T/A, but knew i would never be able to get one back then. It was the first BMX i bought when i got back into it in 2009. Like most others, Andy Ruffell was my BMX hero bitd, but I liked Mike Pardon & Andy Preston too, and used to watch their trick tips on Saturday mornings on the Wide Awake Club.

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