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OLD SCHOOL Vs MID SCHOOL Vs NEW SCHOOL
pickle:
for me i used to think that OS was where it's at and that all new school bikes were the same and dull..........i absalutley love the OS bikes.....all of them! the colours, the styles and the fact that as a kid i could never dream of owning any of them! but i do think it comes down to knowledge (and i don't mean you don't know anything about them) but i used to take my street beat to RAD meets and wonder why EVERYONE used to say to me "how the hell you can ride that thing is beyond me" i was adament that i would ride OS and never go NS........but after having a go on MeddlE's NS at Epic last year i was hooked! after that i bought myself a DK cleveland and rode it as much as my personal life would allow me too, i now have a lovely Proper Proclaimer in RAW finish waiting for me to unwrap her on christmas morning! and now i've really got into the NS stuff........and when you do you start to look at it with the same emotions as the OS stuff........i can look at a new school frame and really appreciate the lines and the colours, the build quality and it's simplicity, the coloured parts that have come back to allow bikes to have that individuality and the knowledge that when you pay £30 for a part....it's going to last! or is built to be abused! i have come full circle and now i don't even want any OS stuff anymore.....for me NS is where it's at and i love it with as much passion as i did OS BITD!!
now all i have to do is ride that dam thing more!!! :LolLolLolLol:
OrgasmDonor:
i consider my self as oldschool, was riding till 1985 then took a long break, the oldschool bikes are sweet and they were all i was interested in when i got back into this but the wealth of midschool frames with the quirky designs far upstage oldschool in my book, and oldschool for the masses from what i see in general is either SE, VDC, JMC, SKYWAY, HARO or GT, anything else just seems to get passed over as inferior or not fashionable and this i find is so wrong and frustrating, some amasing stuff gets passed over or unappreciated in favour of what appear to be the site must haves. Midschool is where its at for me now tho, the bikes are coolio and just as varied if not more so than oldshool, good solid ridable classics :daumenhoch: gossa has posted an elf up in the forsale section for peanuts, its time people started thinking outside the box, i bet youl have to pay double that next year at least. i have 2 otherwise it would be mine :daumenhoch:
newschool, is gonna be this generations oldschool, but it just doesnt rock my boat and i have no interest in it in the slightest, but each to their own
Redline:
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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?
Obviously you weren't such a smooth rider back in the day eh Si!!!! :LolLolLolLol:
John
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Redline:
Dudes... I've been reading through this thread and the more I read the madder I get :tickedoff:
Each era has a very different perspective.... it's no good slagging off old school bikes - and for many reasons!!
1. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Old School bikes!
2. BMX was essentially a racing sport in the early days, compared to now the tracks were pretty tame... so therefore bikes were designed to handle what they were used for and nothing more.... so super strength wasn't top of the list in Frame design!
3. Yes some of you may have broken or snapped many an old school bike... but back then most BMX bikes were built for racing until the crossover point of the Skyway TA / Haro Freestyler era. When I rode it wasn't just about how much air or RAD you got... it was about how smooth you rode too - so if you were smooth you weren't snappin stuff anyways!
Everyone is entitled to an opinion... we all have different memories from different eras!
Newschool riders may think us Oldschoolers look at our bikes through "rose tinted specticles" .... I disagree - you had to be there bitd to appreciate how good some of the oldschool bikes were and in my opinion still are!
So if opinions count... here's mine - oldschool bikes are smooth, slick and trick, like driving a finely tuned Ferrari maybe!
Newschool rides are hard, brutal and heavy - like driving a fookin Sherman tank!!! :LolLolLolLol:
John
Spen69:
Well, as the owner of far too many bikes no older than 1984, you can guess where my bread is buttered....
But man, these new school bikes embarras us oldies for accuracy in the air. I look so out of shape flying sideways out the top of a bowl, thanking the laws of gravity for getting me back down again, yet these kids leave me speachless with the bar-spins and bike flips at the same time as I'm just looking for terra-firma...... :D
Funny thing is, every time me and my brother roll out our Haro Freestylers, every kid in the park wants to know about them and most of them want to ride the bikes. Even funnier, ANY bloke we ride past in thier mid thirties with kids on pushbikes wants a go on them - just take your old school ride to Centreparcs for the weekend and you'll see what I mean. If we get just one person back into the sport just by restoring these beautifull icons, then the hassle of finding the bits, cleaning them and rebuilding them is worth it.
I've got a 1979 Motomag, 1982 Ammaco, 1983 Mongoose Cali, 1983 Mongoose Minigoose and a 1984 Haro Freestyler (Torker), and I ride them all when I've got the chance (except the Mini, it's still in bits being restored! :2funny:)
I wonder if our kids will feel the same in 25 years? Only time will tell......... :LolLolLolLol:
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