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Title: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: bobafett on December 07, 2009, 01:51 PM: So before we got totally obsessed with era corectness and factory / rider specs, I'm sure most of us threw together some builds without as much obsession and attention to detail :D

So come on - let's see 'em :LolLolLolLol:

Here's my first 2..........

Originally I told myself I just wanted 2 geese and one of them was to ride :2funny: :LolLolLolLol:

So I originally built this to ride but it didn't last long like this :

1982 mongoose (chrome)

(http://www.jpdeane.com/bmx/mybikes/build1.jpg)

My 2nd build was constantly changed and tweeked until I was eventually happy with it and I finally finished it how I wanted it last month with more era correct parts:

LINK TO HOW IT IS NOW: http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=97382.0

But originally it had a similar look to it, but a mish-mash of parts from different eras -

I was happy at the time (how things change ! :2funny: )

1980 mongoose (nickel)

(http://www.jpdeane.com/bmx/mybikes/build2.jpg)

So come on lads show us your early builds >:D :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: stidds on December 07, 2009, 02:06 PM: This was my 1st build....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v518/stidds/skyway1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: sweetbeats on December 07, 2009, 02:17 PM: gen2 Master
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ll418/jasonscottpics/DSC00939.jpg)
Loving the Skyway Sean nice and simple/clean and the geese are always worth a gander Bobba :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: sparky on December 07, 2009, 02:19 PM: My custom Viper, first bike I put together.

(http://www.os-db.net/images/collection/Viper%20Custom1%20Archive.JPG)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Bigfrawg on December 07, 2009, 02:19 PM: here's mine

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/cc259/marley8008/CIMG4876.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Swivel on December 07, 2009, 02:32 PM: Quote from: sweetbeatsâ„¢ on December 07, 2009, 02:17 PM
gen2 Master
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ll418/jasonscottpics/DSC00939.jpg)
Loving the Skyway Sean nice and simple/clean and the geese are always worth a gander Bobba :daumenhoch:

Jas where is this beauty now :-\
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: rollin72 on December 07, 2009, 03:49 PM: dp firebird freestyler :Great_Britain: :daumenhoch:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp287/rollin72/andreaspics152.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Jamroll on December 07, 2009, 04:09 PM: 1985 Steetbeat ;)
The one that started all the madness off for me ::)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ww308/jamroll/2009_0708_080913.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: DIRTBIKER250F on December 07, 2009, 04:59 PM: Mongoose Cali, was meant to be a Diamond Back ss, as that was the last bike i ever had, but being impatient i bought the Cali f&f instead

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p88/dirtbiker250f/goose2.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p88/dirtbiker250f/goose3.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: hunterdubber on December 07, 2009, 05:24 PM: This was my first build on getting into O/S collecting :)

Was Carlo Griggs bike in 89/90 8)

I rebuilt it like this , not brilliant I know but I didn't know whats parts were really available at the time :-\
and I wasn't a member on RAD till about 8 months after I'd built it

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/SS850048.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/SS850098.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/SS850047-1.jpg)

I really liked this frameset , kept it for a couple of years , but then sold it to Cotty

Who did it real justice by going to the trouble of replicating the colour and a few choice parts that were originally on the bike Perigrinne 48's ,etc
You may have seen it at MK09 :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/P1010741.jpg)

How much better does that look :4_17_5:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: dannywhiteley on December 07, 2009, 06:48 PM: Heres mine, built nearly 2 years ago with a real mish mash of parts (most of which werent era correct). Sold it to fund my Streetbeat, that I sold to find my Quadangle, that I recently sold to Thailand.

Loved it at the time, but it was built with loads of cheap no name parts. Its got budget first build written all over it, from the mid school GT clamp, to the cheap halfords special wheels (20 quid for the pair - with tyres!!!) to the star spanngled grips.

(http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1540/dsc03516ro8.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Steve P on December 07, 2009, 06:55 PM: My original TA from 1984 which I rescued from my Dad's skip in 2002 :shocked:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_2.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_3.jpg)

AFTER

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/After_1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/GTProOvals.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: southern andy on December 07, 2009, 07:21 PM: My very first build, again a real mixture of old, Mid and new. Basically fitted things i liked from BITD and were still available.

I would never build another bike like this now, era correct from now on.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/fa2.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/fa4-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: mileyboy on December 07, 2009, 10:15 PM: I really like the free agent-that is long!
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: kdw712 on December 07, 2009, 10:40 PM: my first build
was my Cali

F&F etc no decals other than trimoly one by headtube

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/DSC_0293.jpg)

end up as
now has pro class power disk too
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/calinice.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: kdw712 on December 07, 2009, 10:50 PM: 2nd build was 79 goose though i brought a 81 super next i haven't built it yet !

as brought from the US
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/CF9174377-1979goose.jpg)

had a few phases ::)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/79motomag.jpg)

last pic - tyres need sorting and i also have ashtab goose neck and box bars fitted now oh and decals one day too
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/79mongoose.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: mark 2 on December 07, 2009, 10:53 PM: Not quite numero uno but one of them from the first 6 months I got hooked, this is the earliest build I could find. 2004 that would have been.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v213/mikamagic1/old%20bikes%20and%20ads%20etc/FST1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: neiljonarcus on December 08, 2009, 06:01 AM: wardy please keep your comments to yourself

this was my 1st build when i got back into old school bmx roundabout 15 month ago when i got my burner world bashing

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff359/neiljonarcus/black%20and%20%20white%20%20burner/P1010556.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: WARDY on December 08, 2009, 06:03 AM: .
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: neiljonarcus on December 08, 2009, 06:18 AM: Quote from: wardy on December 08, 2009, 06:03 AM
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see you even had to get a little tiny dot in :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: WARDY on December 08, 2009, 06:27 AM: . [move]
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Zippy on December 08, 2009, 09:01 AM: My first two builds.

Bought the frame by accident one night on ebay and that was it. Never looked back.

(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y80/hondadominator/DSCF0280.jpg)

Then decided I'd better do a race bike as well. :LolLolLolLol:

(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y80/hondadominator/DSCF0279.jpg)

I'd love to know what happened to my Sport though. Sold it to motomagII and he can't remember who he sold it too. :'( Not to worry, I'll get another one, one day.
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: scary_leary on December 08, 2009, 09:24 AM: My first build back when radmans only friend was "chillifeeder" think that was his name.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v605/scary_leary/CopyofPicture2601.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: firebird4130 on December 08, 2009, 10:43 AM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii227/firebird4130/firebird444444-1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: meticulous on December 08, 2009, 04:58 PM: this is what kicked off my adiction, just how i got it off ebay....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/bmxpickies341.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: fouronethreeoh! on December 09, 2009, 07:14 PM: Tioga Rhino, built in about 2005

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk42/fouronethreeoh/odds/P9110001.jpg't=1260386446)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: trasher on December 10, 2009, 12:12 AM: bought this on ebay one night ,,,had no idea what it was .......the rest is history :crazy2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v716/glenbett/bmx/9e0a_1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v716/glenbett/IMG_0107.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Deano on December 10, 2009, 03:45 PM: My 1st build that started my bmxitus, Skyway Streetbeat 1984 i think :-\
None 100% era correct but fed the flame inside :smitten:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o423/hactoff/allbmxs001.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Redline on December 10, 2009, 05:27 PM: 1980 USA Redline MXII........ NOS all the way :daumenhoch: Obsession was there from day 1 :LolLolLolLol:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m22/cheekythirtysix/DSC00068.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: bobafett on December 10, 2009, 06:01 PM: Wow that's what you call a first build :smitten:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: 20to26 on December 27, 2009, 05:05 PM: Thought I'd resurrect this thread, it's a goodie - missed it before... it's amazing what quality builds some of you started off with!

My first build done just in time for MK08. Not everyone's cup of tea but I loved the experience. Got the Haro RS1 frameset and some parts from Phippsio for a NOS Haro Sport F&F I had.

(http://gallery.mac.com/dvoutlaw/100015/IMGP2587/web.jpg'ver=12180199500001)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: adenough on December 27, 2009, 05:39 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb199/adenough/P8170039.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb199/adenough/P8170031.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: adenough on December 27, 2009, 05:43 PM: when i got it......

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb199/adenough/1-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: adam68 on December 27, 2009, 06:11 PM: First build 85 Street Beat. Changing brakes so it stops though :LolLolLolLol:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss177/adamdom68/DSC00142.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: dordymush on December 27, 2009, 07:50 PM: my first build i done.never recovered from my bmx madness since :crazy2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0212.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/5-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Bigplinky on December 28, 2009, 04:28 PM: 2004 some bits were right most were wrong ;D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v637/bigplinky/Museum/JMCHeywood.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: Gashead on December 29, 2009, 03:46 PM: This was my first build back on the scene in about 2004 I think !

All out of a box from Biaggio

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/BMXJAN07003.jpg)

It all went down hill from that day - it's all Pete's fault !
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: PHIPPSIO on December 29, 2009, 07:19 PM: I think this was my first completed effort although i did have a master on the go too at the time i think
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd272/DOMPHIPPSIO/DSCN1172.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: telelogic on December 29, 2009, 07:23 PM: My first build in 24 years! Built to ride, but built a newschool before it was finished so only ridden at the summer charity ride.
Now for sale!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/qq30/telelogic/gtfull.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: RATTY on December 29, 2009, 09:41 PM: My memories a bit haggled these days, but Im sure my first build was my Redline PL20 which I got off Sandro,
On its first outing after building her I went to Eastway BMX track.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/Tonyspics043.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i236/citypets/Tonyspics024.jpg)

Looking at that Ive changed so many bits on it now, its funny I have been racing that one longer than my first one :idiot2:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: tolaknawris on December 29, 2009, 10:30 PM: mine since 1985...

2007

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/gg306/adeginger/Picture038.jpg)

2009 final edition ... before i sold it to Daz bmx :'( :idiot2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/gg306/adeginger/AP2009086.jpg)

Ade :crazy2:
Title: Re: Show your first ever builds - before the obsession really kicked in !
Post by: mamadirt on December 30, 2009, 12:51 AM: My first couple - Curtis and Hutch Expert Racer from around Y2K - both now I think in the possession of RAD members.

(http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=y51ayh&=1&nostamp=1&quality=70)

(http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=y51ayj&=1&nostamp=1&quality=70)

Damn ebay addiction ::) . . . if only I could hang onto something for longer than a couple of weeks I'd have a cracking collection.