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BMX your first inroduction into brand snobbery??

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dwain dibbly:
while ive been scouring the t'nternet for just the right
parts for my next build it occurred to me the amount of
snobbery in bmx  ::) and i think its always been like that.

as a small child i had no concept whats so ever about marketing
or branding until i got into bmx in about 82 then all of a sudden
you had to have a certain f+f or the "right" parts fitted to your
bike to be considered "cool".
if for some reason you turned up at the track with a catalogue bike
you were ridiculed and embarrassed.
our local track was no means a hot bed for top bikes
i only ever remember seeing a couple of rippers haro's skways.
the majority were burners but even among these there was a snobbery
the kids with super tuffs were cooler than the kids on the standard red burners :( :(
my point is bmx changed my view on thing. from then on i was more aware
that i needed that Nike jacket and  Adidas samba trainers that everyone else
was wearing :2funny:

was it just me? or is this hobby most peoples first taste of branding?? ?? ??

DIRTBIKER250F:
MMM Has to be close with football shirts for me  ??? dunno what was first ?? I remember the first Torker i saw though, it really was fookin lush. I had a Ultra and me bruv had a chromo, my sisters mate's bruv had it  :LolLolLolLol: shit am still fooked i think  :P

Paul :Great_Britain:

Lazarou:
I think you're right Dwain i'll wear any old tat and usually get mistaken for a homeless dude but I am a collossal snob when it comes to bikes and parts!

snav69:
In the village i live in most of us had Redlines , Burners  :-[ , Haro's and the like , Then one day one of our mates turned up on a PK Ripper (in 1984) and we all thought he was a tw*t and fooked him off  :knuppel2: so the snobbery works both ways really as he thought he was gonna be coolest kid on the block but instead he was left with no mates  :2funny:  :2funny:  :2funny:

 :coolsmiley:

highrisedrifter:

--- Quote from: dwain dibbly on January 01, 2008, 03:50 PM ---
was it just me? or is this hobby most peoples first taste of branding?? ?? ??

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I have to admit I never considered that before. My first BMX was a Super Tuff Burner. Although this afforded me a certain level of 'coolness' because of the wheels, it wasn't until I got my T/A that I was allowed to hang with the 'cool kids'. That was the point when my friends started to get Pro Performers, Quads, Haros etc.

I think my little group got better BMXes round about the same time and this elevated us somewhat. No longer were we ridiculed at the local park / track.

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