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Did you ride in the 70's?

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Bob_Acid:
When i was riding about doing jumps on my 24" racer with cow horns the only kids around me that were on BMX were either on a Murray or a piranha (no Burners yet). These were, i guess, the only entry level bikes that were available at that time in the South east London/ North east Kent suburb that i lived in.

Now that winter I was loaned a second hand Murray by a fellow jumper, mark,  and the same Christmas i was given my first real bmx, a pro-star, by my parents. I still hang out and get drunk with my school friends, we meet a couple of times a year for various reasons and i've asked them about it and from memory and the feedback from them i think in all honesty it must have been the winter of 1982 going into 83. I went to secondary school in 81 and the first year to me was all about booze and birds, regular coming of age stuff, going from a kid to a teenager. Madness, Bad Manners and the Specials. So it wasn't Christmas 81 and must have been 82 but more like 83 when i really took the bait.

Give it a few months of riding and i'd hooked up with the older crowd of bmxers that were on their redlines, gooses, rippers and torkers. We rode that next winter of 83/4 doing street in Bexleyheath hassling the police and the security staff of the new Broadway shopping centre (By then the Burner had popped up). These guys taught me how to ride and showed me the ropes people like the Taylor brothers and Steve Monk who were big names in jnr moto cross at the time so it stands to reason these people got it before the masses did but were they they riding in 79? that would have put them 4 years ahead of me.

I know people were riding bmx here then, Billy being the prime example of those who did it and made it and kev DW and being an example of those who did it but didn't.

i do think though that there is a bit of a legend status about it, It's like Seeing the Pistols at the lesser trade centre or going to Shoom at the fitness centre.

Anyway that's just my view, what's yours?

stidds:
I rode my 1st BMX in 1979, but I was living in the states at the time, so that is probably why.  We came back to the UK in 1981 and BMX was just starting in the Bristol area.

stuntmaster:
no but my dad did that how i came out about ;D

Bob_Acid:
LOL

OrgasmDonor:
same as you mr zapper but i progressed to a raliegh bomber, man those forks where made of butter :LolLolLolLol:

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