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Found my very first BMX....
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--- 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.
;)
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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.
:angrysoapbox:
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Thanks for ruining my childhood :Aresehole:
There's me thinking I had a Mongoose for my first BMX then low and behold you come along some 20 years later and shatter my dreams.
Who called the fricking BMX police anyway? :police: I was just sharing my old bikes with some likeminded people.
To be honest I don't really care if it's not a 'proper Mongoose' as you say, old school bmx is not about being anal for me, this was my first bmx and has real sentimantal value.
:LolLolLolLol:
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fooking hell ;D thats funny but i do agree with ya ,i cant stop laughing :2funny:
spesh:
fook!!!!!
ive just read this and my 87 cali that i was all enthusiastic about building is as appealing as a fart in a space suit
thanx astroturf im now pissed off at my "mongoose" coz it was built in taiwan and has pigeon shit welds
anyone want to swap for a mk1 burner any condition considered
at least the burner is a genuine icon of my childhood or is it an "Emelle" built in oxford and not nottingham?
astroturf you really know how to ruin a 40yr old mans memories of childhood :Aresehole:
nosepickben:
--- Quote from: spesh on October 15, 2008, 10:09 PM ---
astroturf you really know how to ruin a 40yr old mans memories of childhood :Aresehole:
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:(
don't be too upset... a turdstrand like astro who comes on a friendly board and goes off like a cnut about what's technically "this, that (and the fooking other)" shouldn't affect your memories and love for bmx. Do the mongoose btw, burners were vile. ;D
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