Author Topic: before bmx what did you ride..... (Read 5436 times)

DIRTBIKER250F · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:50 PM »

Silver Boxer, me an our kid built a short bmx course at Hutton Sessay caravan Park that finished in the outdoor pool. We even had a step up

We were untouchable on that track

should have stayed and made our own world series

Paul

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #26 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:06 PM »

red raleigh grifter, i did make that bike look rad

ghostriderx · « **Reply #27 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:08 PM »

grifter for me too

priv · « **Reply #28 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:30 PM »

Quote from: monkeybiscuits! on February 28, 2007, 10:58 AM

A Raleigh Commando !

me too mate,but with a grifter seat and a spoke in the 3 speed,i couldn't afford a toggle chain

priv

username · « **Reply #29 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:33 PM »

I had a Raleigh Commando too!

SteveG · « **Reply #30 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:35 PM »

I had an old seconhand Grifter with a bent steerer tube. Brilliant fun untill you turned a tight corner and the forks locked up. I also had the optional slipping gear between 2nd and 3rd.

bmxgirl · « **Reply #31 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:45 PM »

I was into bmx before i could even ride without stabilisers

I had a Raleigh Husky and after watching what i now know was bmx beat i'd go and try out stunts on it! It was great due to the stabilisers it never fell over whilst i stood all over it

I then had shopper style bikes as i wasnt allowed a bmx

: a Raleigh Fourteen , a green one, a brown one and FINALLY when i was about 13 i got my California Star bmx

Oh i also used to have a Pavemaster , which is what Andy Ruffell used to have to , as it says in his book

DIRTBIKER250F · « **Reply #32 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:53 PM »

stories are my favorite thing on this site

so many old bike memories and even recent ones

am gonna dig out some of my old pics and post em on here, terry nappies n sh1t

PAUL

kdw712 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:55 PM »

Thinking back
i had a chipper then a chopper both yellow
a raleigh jeep with cow horns and knobbly tyres
and then bmx arrived so i got a piranha instead

macmark · « **Reply #34 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:03 PM »

First bike I had was a baby blue Raleigh Budgie which my mum ran over in her car and then I got a green Raleigh Striker when I recovered from the ass whooping I got for leaving the budgie on the drive behind her car.

The Budgie was a total wheelie machine, crap for the jumps we used to make out of milk crates though!

Mark

poolysheriff · « **Reply #35 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:05 PM »

A red Tomahawk ,and later a metallic blue grifter

SteveG · « **Reply #36 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:16 PM »

This should make you all chuckle.

lmmrst · « **Reply #37 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:37 PM »

I had a red grifter!!! Husband: HAWK SCORCHER

WHAT A BEAUTY AND HE STILL HAS IT!!!

Rombloke · « **Reply #38 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:40 PM »

grifter...same as stevey g's

mettalic red

then i really stepped up to the plate with a puch murray 340

Dave

lazychubs · « **Reply #39 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:46 PM »

tomahawk then me red grifter

priv · « **Reply #40 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:59 PM »

was raleigh the biggest bike manufacturer or what?

i took a hammer to my commando when i got a bmx and i couldn't break it

,i was only 11 though

priv

Dingobmxer · « **Reply #41 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:32 PM »

Blue Grifter, straightened the forks to look like the BMX ones I had seen in BMXA

put a normal seatpost and Mongoose padded saddle on it too

DINGO

OH and we called it "Scrambling" back then

SteveG · « **Reply #42 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:48 PM »

After the Grifter I got a £69 BMX from a company called Tensor (I think). They used to advertise in the Exchange and Mart. Wasn't the best bike but still remember getting it out of the box and building it.

It had cotter pin cranks on it, used to ride round with a spanner and couple of spares in case they sheared off.

MartyC · « **Reply #43 on:** February 28, 2007, 08:55 PM »

Quote from: harris on February 28, 2007, 10:11 AM

what was your bike before the bmx hit town.
did it have cow horn bars wheelie monsters
and best trick possibly no handers

Yes

But was a skater so never rode the bike much

spesh · « **Reply #44 on:** February 28, 2007, 09:06 PM »

raleigh olympus with the bars spun upwards so you pushed on the brake levers to stop
wheelied good tho

then put cowhorns on it!

got given a schwinn stingray(didnt know it was a stingray until i saw joe kid)which i learnt to bunnyhop on
then bought a burner off my sisters catalogue that she ran

davepike · « **Reply #45 on:** February 28, 2007, 09:28 PM »

A Hawk rascal with pedal back,then a tomahawk,raleigh striker then a grifter and various other crap that i dont even want to remember!

fuzzynod · « **Reply #46 on:** March 01, 2007, 01:18 AM »

I had various old full size bikes done up including womens frames all with cowhorn handlebars and shorty mudguards tried to make em look like Scramble bikes (MOTO X) rode em up the woods broke lots of parts including cranks n spindles, pedals, frames all from landing from jumps the frames used to fold up especially the womens with no top tube!But they were better when the cranks broke( no tube to hit your knackers on).
We used to race on mostly downhill tracks and called it tracking.
Seems a long time ago now!

Probably cause it was!

Trev · « **Reply #47 on:** March 01, 2007, 02:00 AM »

Quote from: kdw712 on February 28, 2007, 04:55 PM

Thinking back
i had a chipper then a chopper both yellow
a raleigh jeep with cow horns and knobbly tyres
and then bmx arrived so i got a piranha instead

that is spooky kev. my first bike was a chipper, then a chopper. then my first bmx was a piranha.

after that a skyway, then a falcon racer (don't ask!), then another skyway, then a mountain bike, then a dyno, then another skyway, then a proper, then a haro...

Flaz · « **Reply #48 on:** March 01, 2007, 09:31 AM »

i had a racer with the handle bars pulled up for wheelies

it was white apart from that ? fook knows

Frosty · « **Reply #49 on:** March 01, 2007, 09:57 AM »

My ol' man would get "gimick" bikes like the grifters, tomahawks etc

So I had a rebuilt hand painted white balloon tyred piece of sh*te as a 1st bike, then a raleigh Spider (a 3 speed yellow junior version of a modern day urban bike), then a 10 speed BSA racer (can't remeber what it was, but yellow again), then bmx!!

Login my younger brother had the BSA Bullit, little 5 speed royal blue racer if I remeber correctly!!

Author Topic: before bmx what did you ride..... (Read 5436 times)

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lmmrst

spesh

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Trev

Flaz

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