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The death of the all purpose BMX ?
Bob_Acid:
We've got a kid at the heath that does jumps on a KHE flat lander and you only have to look as far as the average race day at hersden to see kids racing on bikes ment for other things so i don't think anything's changed in that respect Dave. it's all BMX innit? 8)
Just now they have more options to choose from but at the end of the day it's just gimps like us lot that can afford seperate race-park-flatland-whatevers.
OrgasmDonor:
a true old school build would incorperate the best of both and not just built strictly for one purpose, a lot of the builds you see now are as they should be but not as they were, ive said all this before, each to their own, i think im mellowing in my old age. STOP BUILDING BIKES CORRECTLY and give us a taste of the true old school. :D
stoke bloke:
i ride a Standard 125. I think that the Standard race team ride them , or they used to race them a couple of years ago. Pretty much lost touch of what is happening in the modern day bmx world.
Rick Moliterno used to ride one on ramps .don't know whether he still does. So i guess you could class it as a dual bike .
i would guess that a lot of modern day race bikes could stand up to a bit of ramp riding. That downhill /supercross stuff is really gnarly so I would imagine that the frames have got to be solid .
Add to this the fact that all of the nu schoolers are very weight conscious about their bikes i just wonder if the 2 types of bike will meet in a few years, don't know .
so i would say that a lot of race bikes , particularly crmo ones could be classed as all rounders .
I would agree though that the door only swings one way. don't think that true ramp street bikes would make good racers. Well not when you are old and fat like me ;D
hope that this makes sense , I have my doubts
showtime:
i can remember being called a "freestyle w@nker" when i put a front brake on my bike back in about 82!
after about a month everybody was running one anyway as we spent most of our time hanging round the ramps and halfpipe coz thats where the girls were ::)
kids ::)
TwoBobRob:
Yip. I remember getting grief because I didn't race ::)
In my eyes the only true all purpose bike there ever was (can only be oldschool) was the Skyway TA. Everyone loved 'em, they did everything and turned out to be strong as fook...
Jeez, Sir Gerry of Galley was still riding one in the 90's and ripping ;D
A few years on and the S & M Dirtbike was a popular all rounder, but not super popular as a racer (bit heavy).
After that - dunno really.... :-[
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