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theRuler:

--- Quote from: Stodgy on January 04, 2008, 01:23 PM ---Perhaps we just call it 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, etc...??? Who the feck knows, the argument will go on forever.

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that's the best idea

anything over 10 years old is "old school" now
i don't think you can put a definative date on it

if old school ends at 85, then a skyway streetstyler is mid school?

gt0733:

--- Quote from: V. Noah on January 03, 2008, 05:22 PM ---im only interested in the golden era of 79 to 84



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yep.........everything else was shit  :10_2_12:

oh, hang on, i've got a 1978 team goose and a 1990 redline 700  :-[   ;D

greentoad:
Hi all,

It's been a while since I've been about...I hope that you are all well.

This old chestnut again  :D

It is all about the money - sales and marketing!

For me, BMX came from the States, evolved and died by the end of 86 (this date can never change) - the cut off is when BMX died and sales fell (and sales did stop as we all know - because in the UK, Shiners had all those great parts AND BIKES for years and years which they could not shift, which we have seen surface over the last few years - Mason told me a while ago they had quality frames (Hutch etc) jamming windows closed for many years  :'().

I would also say the cut off was when most manufacturers had their Frames made overseas etc, so for me - 70's to mid 80's is the Old School / Vintage BMX era, the quality was not as good, and the Big Manufactures and Riders got out.

I do not remember seeing many bikes being ridden after that time, magazines on shop shelves, friends talking about riding, or seeing it on the televison, so I'd class this as the Mid (Dark Period). I do not remember the Skyway Streetsyler at all or the Chrome and Coloured Haro's), bashguards etc - I was well out of the scene by then.

To define Old and Mid - I think a good example is the classic T/A. If this bike can not sell and has to be re-badged as a Dirt Brothers with more modern and diferent components (as Skyway is no longer a big name and they sold on their old stock), there has to be a reason - BMX was over!

When did Mid end and New start, I have no idea, that's not my era.

PS - Trev I'd class you as being a very very late Old Schooler ;) Pity you missed the early years.

A Happy New Year to you all.

J.

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