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BITD BMX Promo Competitions
richiebozza:
Evening all!
I am happy to say that I was one of the lucky people to win one of the Ready Brek bikes!
It was a Mongoose Wirewheel, 200 were available :)
At the time I was riding a catalogue BMX, it was called a 'CX88' and my parents had bought it for me, for which I was grateful. But I was BMX mad, and it was quite heavy and I really wanted a better bike...it was then I saw the TV adverts advertising the Ready Brek BMX competition and I knew that I needed to give it a go. Trouble was I HATED that type of cereal, but that wasn't going to stop me! I casually asked my mum to start getting Ready Brek...she thought it was a strange request until she saw the packet and realised why! So for weeks and weeks I forced the stuff down me in order to enter the competition (you had to collect tokens from the packet I believe, then come up with a cool slogan to their question). Just looking at the shiny Mongoose on the Ready Brek packet filled me with excitement and hope as I ate each bowl full!
Fast forward a few months later, and one morning I received a letter...my bleary eyes had to read it about 5 times before I suddenly realised that all my luck had come together and I really had won a Mongoose! I couldn't believe it! I was so excited and remember it vividly!
The wait for the bike to come was agonising, every day at school all I thought about was getting home to see if it had arrived, and every day I ran home from the bus to see if it was there.
It eventually did, and boy was it worth waiting for...the difference between the Mongoose and my 'CX88' was night and day! At last I had a proper BMX! fistblump :D
You might be wondering what happened to the bike?
I still have the bike to this day!! fistblump
I would never sell it, and in fact it's in use, it went on holiday with me to France recently :)
It does look different to how it originally came, as I kid I upgraded various bits, such as Skyway Tuff IIs, Haro freestyle bars, Shimano DX etc ...but the frame & forks is still pretty shiney and all original stickers are intact.
I also still have the full helmet & kit that came with it, and somewhere I still have the congratulations letter too.
Oh yeah, I actually grew to love Ready Brek, and still do to this day!
I wonder how many of the 200 original bikes are still alive?
CustardLips:
Ready Brek... what dreams are made of. :LolLolLolLol:
Lucky boy... great that you still have it. :daumenhoch:
oldschoolace:
Amazing Richie! :4_17_5:
would you fancy submitting that for the we were rad book? A couple of pics of it then and now would be ace if you have them :daumenhoch:
DazA:
Pics pics pics pics please.
Excellent story.
Retrodan72:
Nice one Richie, brilliant story. :4_17_5:
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