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Did you ride in the 70's?

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theRuler:
in the 70's i had a hand-me-down falcon with solid tyres and rod brake. if you stopped pedalling the bike stopped. didn't get a bmx until 1983. got a motorbike for my 7th birthday in 1980 though

shivadread:
In Jersey I had my first Mongoose in 1978/79, there was a shop called Action Leisure which started selling mainly mongooses and ammaco's then.  I think he was importing them in from USA

kdw712:
bob
heres my short bmx history circa 80 - 82

I can remb riding a raleigh jeep 24" skinny knobblies and cow horns over local woods
barnhurst bostal and abbey that woud of been pre 1980
bent so many sets of bars on that

then a couple of us moved onto bmx i got a piranha poss dec 80 birthda or xmas
my mate saw a murray for sale in a car show room for £50 and had that.
next two both got pro stars and dumped their grifters
by now must of been late 81

i remb the taylor bros and their gang used to hassle us a lot
mainly in barnhurst woods their local turf but we would also go up the old dave taylor trail park
as a couple of me mates rode Mx bikes too and we would ride in the woods their too

i can remb riding with huge gang inc jason malony up bostal woods
he was mongoose then full factory DB
remb he turned up one day in full factory bling - he was like a god from then on  :LolLolLolLol:

used to go to OTs and then the heath most saturdays
saw tim and andy do a mongoose demo at OT's wish i had some pics of that now  :(

other than the woods we rode street but mainly endos bunny hoping the small kids (feck me that was mad looking back)
kerb jumping and wheelie comps  and circus style stuff, all bit sad looking mirra today

used to go the car park next to the library in bexleyheath on sundays as it was empty and we'd race around that

it was all burners redlines kuwaharas mongoose DB's and of course piranha and murreys

by late 82 i was out of the scene , girls happened and bikes didn't matter

fast fwd to 2003 it started all over again and is even better  :daumenhoch:

dan-dare:
Hey Bob!

these pics are of my older brother. The KZ1 in the picture came new f/f only from surrey bmx. I remember the day it arrived and we reckon 1980. Prior to the KZ1 he rode a team murray 330. As for me riding in the 70's, yeah my raleigh striker (green BTW)!!!! ;D

OrgasmDonor:
jeeeeeezus dan! that looks just like you except he's got his endo's dialed :LolLolLolLol:

is that before you lived in beverly hills?

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