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Found my very first BMX....
gregster:
--- Quote from: Astrodamus on March 17, 2006, 06:10 AM ---Hate to be the Simon Cowell :Aresehole: of this thread, but that's no Mongoose mate.
(sorry :-\ )
It appears to be some kind of copy, most likely Akisu judging by the drops.
Orb and Graeme must not have had the heart to tell you :D
It's still cool to find your old bikes. Now go give your dad a good razzing for going cheap!
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It's definately a Goose Astrodamus. I had it brand new when I was 9 or 10. Have pictures at home with me on it on xmas morning. Mongoose plate, pads and everything.
I know it was one of the cheaper gooses without the looptail .etc but it's defo a goose.
;)
theRuler:
it was definately a "goose"
but i think it was only for the UK market, and was basically an ammaco frame.
cool find!!!
now lets see the xmas pics mofo
gregster:
--- Quote from: theŽuler on March 17, 2006, 02:14 PM ---now lets see the xmas pics mofo
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Will get them next time I go see the folks. I've got my Halfords helmet and goggles on with my pyjamas :LolLolLolLol:
Also got some pics of the Rickman when I'd finished building it. It was pute white, Skyways, CW bars, Uni Pro. God knows where all that stuff went. I even had White Mike Buff Z-Rims on it at one point but they've disappeared too. arse!
daz bmx it!:
what bars? if you know please :daumenhoch:
Astrodamus:
--- Quote from: gregster on March 17, 2006, 01:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: Astrodamus on March 17, 2006, 06:10 AM ---Hate to be the Simon Cowell :Aresehole: of this thread, but that's no Mongoose mate.
(sorry :-\ )
It appears to be some kind of copy, most likely Akisu judging by the drops.
Orb and Graeme must not have had the heart to tell you :D
It's still cool to find your old bikes. Now go give your dad a good razzing for going cheap!
--- End quote ---
It's definately a Goose Astrodamus. I had it brand new when I was 9 or 10. Have pictures at home with me on it on xmas morning. Mongoose plate, pads and everything.
I know it was one of the cheaper gooses without the looptail .etc but it's defo a goose.
;)
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You can call it whatever you like, but you cannot (correctly) call it a mongoose.
"UK goose" does not cut it. Ammaco was merely the UK distributor. But BMX Products Inc. did not manufacture that frame, therefore it is not a mongoose. If BMX Products gave Ammaco a license to procure cheap copies and sticker it up as mongoose, that does not make it a mongoose product, and I sincerely doubt mongoose gave permission as they would also be stuck with liability. All sorts of shenannigans ocurred with UK distributors (see: SE PK Rippers stickered as Race Inc. etc..) so this appears to be in league with that.
I'm trying my hardest to preserve the great heritage of BMX Products '75 through '82 by painstakingly building tribute bicycles true to their original specs, and correcting misinformation whenever I see it, and so when you guys try to call this booger-weld bike a mongoose, it rubs me the wrong way.
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