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OLD SCHOOL Vs MID SCHOOL Vs NEW SCHOOL
Trev:
the reason old school looks good is because of the individuality of the frames. you look at any 80's pics and 9 times out of 10 you would be able to tell straight away what frame they were riding. there were lots of different bright colour combos. having mag wheels gave a distinctive bmx look, which normal road bikes didn't have.
now days, if you stripped a bike of its decals, at a quick glance how often would you be able to tell what it was? for a lot of people even more than a glance, you still wouldn't be able to tell.
new school bikes are obviously gonna ride better. technology has moved on. different things have been tried and tested. you may think bikes now are sorted. but i bet in 10 years time, people will look back at the frames today and think "how the hell did i manage to ride on that". when skyway or haro brought out their frames, all the reviews stated that this was the perfect frame.
don't forget, they weren't exactly made out of plastercine. how many people (who can actually air properly) would feel comfortable airing 6ft out on a street beat? i'm not just talking about us overweight oldies, but kids too. not many, yet Carlo would get 14/15ft on his. if they were that bad, they would have been breaking all the time. okay, tricks are bigger now, but a 6ft air is still a 6ft air.
all that said, i will have to agree, old school for show and new school for riding.
DIRTBIKER250F:
Couldnt of said it better Trev
Paul :Great_Britain:
Moose:
I'n not sure if you'd class this as mid or new (I'd say mid), but I think it's the coolest looking machine I've built
WARDY:
Old school deffo for looks , got more individual character.(not very strong though) Mid school still got some looks and better strength. New school not bad looking bikes ,but all look the same ,but strong as fook and better braking , etc. I think they call this evolution.
Me mind isnt made up yet now that ive got it whether its stunning or ugly , looks pretty strong though
the_cyclops:
--- Quote from: Trev on November 15, 2007, 01:00 AM ---
new school bikes are obviously gonna ride better. technology has moved on. different things have been tried and tested. you may think bikes now are sorted. but i bet in 10 years time, people will look back at the frames today and think "how the hell did i manage to ride on that". when skyway or haro brought out their frames, all the reviews stated that this was the perfect frame.
don't forget, they weren't exactly made out of plastercine. how many people (who can actually air properly) would feel comfortable airing 6ft out on a street beat? i'm not just talking about us overweight oldies, but kids too. not many, yet Carlo would get 14/15ft on his. if they were that bad, they would have been breaking all the time. okay, tricks are bigger now, but a 6ft air is still a 6ft air.
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The only OS bike I owned that I didnt break was an 85 GT performer. Ive snapped a midschool PK Ripper in Half. The headtube off a Skyway TA, Bent a Gen2 Master like a banana, Snapped the forks off a '91 Master, Broke a pair of Peregrine Q Bars in two........should I go on?
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