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who started riding bmx first? what year?
priv:
1980 for me,i was riding a raleigh comando with a gaffa taped grifter seat, a bodged 3 speed{an old spoke shoved in,instead of a gear chain}& loose cotterpins on my cranks,i'll never forget that bike.
sacked my paper round off when i got my BMX so i could ride as soon as i got out of school,thoughs were the days :smitten:
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db-oldskool:
My first was this,only not so nice looking.I got it in either 78 or 79,kinda big for me then.
This is reilley1's by the way but it's exactly the same as mine was.
It's one heavy SOB too. ;D
Mine didn't have decals on it so I never knew what it was called,that headtube decal kills me,looks like it says "As seen on TV". :2funny:
jimwise68:
I was trying jumps when I was about 6 (1974) still got the scar on my chin where I went over the bars and had to have stitches. I had a poxy little gold bike with white wheels it was called a Golden Arrow. Still remember it. I was trying to copy Evel Knievel.
Then got a Tomahawk Formula One, gold with grey mag wheels and 3 gears. Used to do jumps on that too and it used to wheelie really easily (sit right back on the rear higher part of the seat and away you went.
Got a grifter about 1978ish and started stand up wheelies and jumps.
Then got my Mk1 Burner in 1981...
stidds:
I got my 1st real BMX in 1980 when I lived in the USA.
Geth:
Always rode dirt and made up tracks in the old Brickyard from as long ago as I can remember.
I'm guessing early to mid 70's on modified road bikes with cowhorns and nobbly tyres.
We called it "scrambling" then! How we rode them I don't know. They must have been massive!
Grifter was the start of the 20" wheels for me mid 70's and a Team Murray BMX came to me Xmas '79 (I think. Pretty sure I had it before we moved house in '80)
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