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Some Raleigh BMX history
Trev:
Can I ask a question about geometry?
Did anyone really know anything about it bitd? Was it something that helped you decide what bike you rode?
I know it didn't make the slightest bit of difference to me. To me, my only reason for buying a Skyway was because Neil Ruffell rode one. No other reason. Just like Bob Haro / Ron Wilkerson fans bought Haro's and Fiola fans bought GTs.
RATTY:
Trev, maybe I was lucky with the company I kept back then, but I knew the Pl20 was a great race bike as soon as it was over here, we knew the kuwis were great but a bit on the small side, that the supergoose was a very stable bike, and that the torkers flexed like crazy. You only had to look at the burner and the height of the bottom bracket ment no thought was ever put into the design, it wouldnt suprise me if they had a jig laying about for a grifter and used that cos they couldnt be bothered to build a new one
Trev:
So good you're still riding one now... :LolLolLolLol:
The thing is when i got my first skyway, i didn't know any other riders who had decent freestyle bikes, so couldn't really try out any different frames. i couldn't really do any tricks either, so wouldn't have known what was good and what wasn't anyway. once i bought my first skyway, i got really used to that and stuck with them until i stopped riding.
theRuler:
--- Quote from: Trev on July 25, 2007, 10:12 AM ---Can I ask a question about geometry?
Did anyone really know anything about it bitd? Was it something that helped you decide what bike you rode?
I know it didn't make the slightest bit of difference to me. To me, my only reason for buying a Skyway was because Neil Ruffell rode one. No other reason. Just like Bob Haro / Ron Wilkerson fans bought Haro's and Fiola fans bought GTs.
--- End quote ---
we didn't really know about geometry persay
but we knew that a diamond back viper rode a million times better than a burner
priv:
a very intersting thread,i had a team burner i bought it i liked the colour,i had mates who had quads,redlines,db's,rippers etc,we bought them 'cos we liked how they looked not 'cos so and so was sponsored by them,the riding we did was mucking about on the streets or riding to the nearest track,the only rider who took it seriously was nosnod who raced to a good standard.
to me a bmx was just a cool looking bike to fcuk about with my mates on
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