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factory pilot:

--- Quote from: DazA on November 04, 2018, 05:10 PM ---Your welcome to use any of my intro I wrote.  :daumenhoch:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,191647.0.html

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Wow ... totally awesome mate .. fantastic stuff .. love this dude!  :4_17_5: :smitten: :daumenhoch:

Spen69:
After what felt like years of riding a Grifter, in late '82 the local rich-kid upgraded to a gusset chrome Supergoose for his birthday and his old white & red Ammaco 202 was mine for I think about £40. This kid also had a black Cycle-pro with yellow OGKs on and my brother got that one practically the same day.

We rode the shit out of them and just over a year later Christmas lists were being written and £100 was our limit. I had spent the afternoon at Two Wheels in Stourbridge and decided a frame and forks was the way forwards, with a Curtis or Mongoose as top of the list for the budget. My brother had picked the "Chrome Burner" complete bike as his OGKs were fooked  :-\

Christmas eve saw me and my dad stripping my old Ammaco down ready to build up onto the Mongoose f&f I was hoping for the next day. What arrived the next morning though was a moment I will never forget, as somehow my parents had bust the bank and bought me a complete Mongoose Califronian and my brother had a complete Tange-built Chromo Burner...... which the lucky bigger still has sat in his house over in Australia  :smitten:

We lived and breathed BMX every day and the adventures, accidents and scrapes we got into for a couple of years because of those bikes will be with me as memories till the day I shuffle off this mortal coil. For me it wasn't about anything other than freedom and adventure and the thrill was only replaced years later with girls. Once they arrived, my BMX got sold and I spent it on a holiday :2funny:

deeman:
Ant/ Clint / Andy...i am happy to contribute in any way i can if my story is worth printing!
To answer the 4 questions...
1. A Dragon freestyler (heavy twin tt Tai freestyler) although i was learning BMX tricks on my Strika before that!
2. the fella my mum was seeing after my parents split bought it for me from LBS in Dunstable, was a custom build but I only had a choice of 2 freestyle frames ...Dragon and Meteor lite! It was that or a Burner!! i picked the Dragon! nice parts OGK mags, ACS Stoker stem...thing was HEAVY though...was defo some time in 84. It was soon superceded by my PR styler...which i really count as my first BMX and have stories about building that
3. i would have given my left ball for a white Skyway T/a just like Craig Campbell rode in 83/4
4. i had a few idols...mainly Craig Campbell.  cos my dad met him at the GT World tour in 85 and was asking him advice about a bike for me as the Dragon was too heavy...he came away impressed and reckoned he was a nice lad which was high praise indeed from my dad!...i guess Jess Dyrenforth, Carlo Griggs and Ron wilkerson

give me a shout if you want/ need anything...
Damo  :daumenhoch:

factory pilot:
Cheers to both Spen and Damo... top stories and info ..... love this ... exactly what we need  :smitten:

oldschoolace:
great stories guys  :daumenhoch:
we have some awesome pics but not as much in the way of text content, these are perfect!

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