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5 Most Influential/Important BMX Companies
Lazarou:
--- Quote from: Munners on October 26, 2007, 01:00 PM ---Spot on mate. I would put Redline up there too, simply because of flights. The redline flight crank is probably in the top 5 iconic components on an old skool bmx.
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thats another thread!
Jt:
got to have raleigh..for all there sins they brought bmx to the masses in the uk.
indesputable fact!
(it pains me to say it as well!)
Dark Diggler:
what about apollo, magna and of course universal.
Philistines :LolLolLolLol:
SaMAlex:
I think I agree with the first post, apart from I might swap Skyway for Haro. Im with you on the Tuff wheel thing, but Haro took BMX from the race track to the skate ramps. I cant overlook that move.
OK, maybe we leave Skyway in there for the tuff wheel and Haro can bump GT off the list!
dialledbikes:
--- Quote from: S&MAlex on October 26, 2007, 01:08 PM ---I think I agree with the first post, apart from I might swap Skyway for Haro. Im with you on the Tuff wheel thing, but Haro took BMX from the race track to the skate ramps. I cant overlook that move.
OK, maybe we leave Skyway in there for the tuff wheel and Haro can bump GT off the list!
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Yeah, Haro was a hard one to leave off. I still think that squiggly/bent pipe Haro logo is one of the greatest logos ever (not just in BMX). And Bob Haro invented freestyle. But the others just mean more to me.
I wanted to leave GT off cos I was kind of anti-GT after Todd Huffman got Moeller banned/thrown out of the Grands for selling "GT Sucks" T-shirts, and also after GT robbed Dale Holmes of his bonus for winning the No.1 cruiser title (they claimed he breached contract by mentioning his new sponsor, Nirve, in his acceptance speech, so withheld about $10k/$20k) - and those were the main reasons my first new school bike was an S&M Holmes instead of a GT Fueller - but there's no denying that GT were once the biggest BMX company on the planet and the impact they had around the world. Kept the BMX fire burning during the wilderness years. Always stuck with racing too (as did Redline, Haro and Mongoose to a lesser extent).
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