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What is old school bmx?

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darkersomeday:
i just love bmx.

couldnt give a fook for all the rest of it :daumenhoch:

raidergtt:
I'm new around here so my opinions might not count - I don't really care though. As a kid in the early 80's like many I had a grifter & was happy with that, then I saw an item on one of the (2) saturday morning kids TV programmes about the new 'craze' from America. From then on it was BMX all the way for me & my mates, Burner's, Puch's, Mongoose up to a T/A I sold for pennies when I was about eighteen. If we were not riding we were either sleeping or eating, (the only T.V we would come in for in the holidays was BMX beat). Our only thoughts were on the latest parts & how we could get our hands on them, when the next issue of action bike was out or how to wheeley/jump further/do more backhops than each other. None of us had rich parents (I bought my T/A second hand). We all made do with CW copies etc, if we were lucky we would get some DX's but drempt of Hutch beartraps. BMX was our lives. I can't remember where I was the day of the twin towers but I could take you to the exact spot where I first saw a P.K. Ripper on the streets. Today, I have 2 kids, a morgage, the usual bills etc but I like to see something for my efforts at work after I've paid most of my earnings out, I am currently amassing parts for a T/A I have bought (thanks Mark.j) &  the P.K. Ripper I never had, these will have the bits on I didn't have BITD such as flight cranks, Hutch beartraps etc. If I have to pay £350 for the pedals & they take 6 months to find then so what, its not a case of 'look what i've got' its me living the dreams of my childhood nothing more, nothing less. In any hobby you will always have the cheque book heros but do whats right for you & remember its for you NOT them. :daumenhoch:

Rombloke:

--- Quote from: darkersomeday on May 04, 2008, 09:36 AM ---i just love bmx.

couldnt give a fook for all the rest of it :daumenhoch:

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best answer yet.

however ad, you do see where i am coming from with my question in the other thread, which is good, the site seems to be trying to take a turn, pushed by a little bickering, but, this site aint for turning.....and i for one would love to see a little of the old banter that used to be on here, and the old forum.
but with so many new members, its very hard, as the written word is hard to interpret, you get used to a few members style of writing, and know when they are joking or serious....

the expensive builds thing.....each to their own i suppose, ive always cut deals, shopped about and waited till the prices suit me when buying parts, so have always built my os bikes pretty cheap, ask radman, he will tell you ive never paid more than a £100 for flight cranks...
but to me its not just about the builds anyways, its whats locked in here   :uglystupid2: from (for me) late 79 to late 84....that and getting together, with others that did the same bitd (i hate the term bitd)....to chat, have a few giggles, have a nibble at a bit of riding, have a few beers, and chill.....ffs we are nearly all in our 40's now, lets just have a good time eh?

ta

Dave

Broggie:
Ad...dont delete your account..I'll get annoyed if you do   :knuppel2:>:D

Old School BMX, erm actually I havent a clue why I started collecting them, didn't ride them BITD, didn't dream of them, didnt want them...

....Now I have a T/A and 84 Master, a mid Group1, and 4 retros I'm still scratching my head and wondering WTF is going on.  Yes they've cost me a bit of wedge, but doesnt everything you really want.  For me it was never about the money (but fook me, part of me curses that bmx collecting basted inside who nicks all me money  :'( >:D).

I like the bikes, dunno why, just do...got to be better than collecting cabbage patch dolls I guess.  :daumenhoch:



Ray.

aditup 2234:

--- Quote from: dannywhiteley on May 04, 2008, 08:07 AM ---Soneones gonna wake up with a sore head this morning...

Do what you wanna do, if you dont ride and just collect, so what, give a shit...?

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You make the pressumption I was pissed last nite?
Thank you, stranger, for judging me.
My point exactly!
I could judge you with your poor effort to contribute something constructive, but I shall refrain.
 :-X

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