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Title: Where did you get your first BMX
Post by: RATTY on March 08, 2010, 10:02 AM: what shop, dealer, catalogue etc did you get your first bmx from?

Mine was from Hagon speedway shop in Leyton
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Post by: part time on March 08, 2010, 10:05 AM: Kays catalogue.... :-[
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Post by: martylaa on March 08, 2010, 10:08 AM: Freemans or Kays catalogue, xmas time, page left open on mam and dads bed with bike circled with " this one " on the page :LolLolLolLol:
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Post by: pickle on March 08, 2010, 10:13 AM: yep....freemans cat, Burner GS :smitten:
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Post by: BUBBS on March 08, 2010, 10:15 AM: My local bike shop in Chesham for my Ultra Burner and Surrey Skate Boards for my VDC Changa frame and forks still got the receipt
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Post by: dialledbikes on March 08, 2010, 10:16 AM: JE James, Bramhall Lane, Sheffield.

I've had about 8 or 9 bikes from there over the years and the shop is still there.
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Post by: part time on March 08, 2010, 10:16 AM: ^^^ Yep, thats the one! Burner GS.
Always a toss up between the bike pages and the ladies underwear section.....
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Post by: stevochb on March 08, 2010, 10:59 AM: Local bike shop. Jos Conways, South Shields, blue and yellow team murray.
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Post by: phantom photon on March 08, 2010, 11:07 AM: Dales Cycles in Glasgow.
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Post by: Tim38 on March 08, 2010, 11:20 AM: burner from catalogue one xmas then the following xmas off to the local bike shop to get a mongoose,the shop is still there
http://www.everndencycles.co.uk/
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Post by: wildon on March 08, 2010, 11:42 AM: Trickstar when i was 12 (86) from Mason at Custom Riders
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Post by: fugazi on March 08, 2010, 11:43 AM: Supertuff Burner from a local bike shop, can't remember the name & it's been gone nearly 20 years now I think. Got a DP Firebird f/f a couple of months later from there as well.
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Post by: NORTY40 on March 08, 2010, 11:52 AM: Sale cycles in Chorlton , Manchester :daumenhoch:

Had the choice between a Diamond back Viper/ SS , Mongoose Cali or MT Silverfox , went for the latter as I wanted something different to what all the lads had round our way . ( Looking at values now it probably wasn't the best choice :D ).

Still got it too :4_17_5: :smitten:
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Post by: Bob_Acid on March 08, 2010, 01:51 PM: OT
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Post by: Macmania on March 08, 2010, 02:10 PM: Small one man band bike shop in Smallthorne (Stoke-on-Trent). Remember it like yesterday, wooden floor, rows of bikes and the smell of rubber.......arrrhhhh takes me back :smitten: Shop was knocked down years ago :'(
Remember going in with my dad wanting a Raleigh Extra Burner (about £60 if I remember right). My dad took one look at Burner and said there was no way he was buying that - so I ended up with an MT Racing Silverfox (about £150 :shocked: lot of money bitd) - still have it to this day and its a minter :smitten: To say I was chuffed would be an understatement. Thanks dad :daumenhoch:

Any excuse for a pic ::)
(http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af181/MTracing/IMG_3398.jpg)
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Post by: bodamus on March 08, 2010, 04:17 PM: OT Cycles :)
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Post by: xGoose on March 08, 2010, 04:20 PM: Raleigh Mag Burner back in 85 from Clark's in Kingsbury. Havnt got it anymore but wish I did (fair play for hanging on to your first BMX Jon! ;)

Second was a Mongoose Wirewheel which I still have (not the same bike but an exact OG survivor copy of it! ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt134/botophuket/MongooseII-1.jpg)
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Post by: Broggie on March 08, 2010, 04:38 PM: My first BMX was off Ebay...seriously I only started 3-4 years ago.

Ray.
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Post by: MartyC on March 08, 2010, 04:42 PM: Bought my Scorpion TX from TLB at Alpine Sports in Notting Hill Gate, late 79 - November as it was for my birthday. Cost a hundred and twenty quid, plus 15 quid for the Mongoose Gold stem and better grips (Grab-ons) IIRC.
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Post by: bmxgirl on March 08, 2010, 05:10 PM: Scout jumble sale ;D when i was about 12/13. Still own it :shocked: ......

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d100/bvmwx/Cs2.jpg)

Never had a brand new BMX!
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Post by: tigerbrown on March 08, 2010, 05:11 PM: db senior pro christmas 82 from Jos Conways south shields...

theres a few north east lads who will have have got their first bikes from this legendary shop :daumenhoch:
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Post by: PK6061 on March 08, 2010, 05:27 PM: issac hendesons in washington :daumenhoch:way better than them conways boys :LolLolLolLol:
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Post by: dj_benice on March 08, 2010, 05:31 PM: super burner from catalogue, then an MT Silverfox from the classifieds of BMX Action, then the lovely Geoff Barraclough gave me a GT jnr cause me feet barely touched floor on the fox n burner!!!!! Pretty sure I'm adopted, my bro got a new HL Turbo when I got the fox and my sis got a fully loaded thruster :wtf:
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Post by: tigerbrown on March 08, 2010, 05:38 PM: Quote from: PK gary on March 08, 2010, 05:27 PM
issac hendesons in washington :daumenhoch:way better than them conways boys :LolLolLolLol:

no way!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: southern andy on March 08, 2010, 06:22 PM: Strongs cycles down in Boscombe Nr Bournemouth.
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Post by: bmxboy70 on March 08, 2010, 06:34 PM: Parts I picked up from mates etc! My Mum and Dad would have never bought me a BMX. I had a racer, because its all a fad and it will not last and you will get board of it, mmmmmm. I'm 40 this year and yesterday I drove for nearly 6 hours just to race around a dirt track :daumenhoch: They were'nt always right?
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Post by: oldsnow on March 08, 2010, 06:55 PM: Quote from: stevochb on March 08, 2010, 10:59 AM
Local bike shop. Jos Conways, South Shields, blue and yellow team murray.
[same shop and same bike for me too !]
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Post by: trasher on March 08, 2010, 07:05 PM: ultra burner from super cycle discount in nottingham

then everything else after that from bunny,s bikes in nottingham
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Post by: richboy on March 08, 2010, 07:07 PM: my 1st bike,team murray. red with yellow mags, bloody heavy :LolLolLolLol: was brought home 1 evening by me dad for a supprise. 1st one i rem buying, (well me mum did for me bless her) was a silverstreak from sixa in upminster, year later bought a goose from the shop in pound lane pitsea. can still smell the shop now all theese years later :LolLolLolLol: sadly most of my bikes got wrecked being lobbed into the back of canvey roadrunners transit on race days :'(
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Post by: Gary72 on March 08, 2010, 07:15 PM: Puch Rapier from Mike Vicker's cycle's in Barking. Then had a Torker Magnum 200 from the same shop.
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Post by: steve69 on March 08, 2010, 07:33 PM: Redline MX-II, from Modelsports in Croydon (1979).
The next weekend i got on a train to Victoria Station and rode it up to Kennsington to Alpine Sports to get a pad set :D
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Post by: stu27 on March 08, 2010, 08:00 PM: mine was a no name bike from a newsagents in Ac0cks Green,Bimingham,all me parents could afford,but i loved it,best christmas i ever had
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Post by: animal on March 08, 2010, 08:41 PM: Dads uncles Bike shop in Wolverhampton , and its still there , the shop that is , bike died years ago I killed it ;D
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Post by: markyp on March 08, 2010, 08:56 PM: bloody halfords,bloody viceroy,bloody hell :'(
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Post by: moanjam on March 08, 2010, 08:58 PM: hendersons motorbike shop in washington xmas 1980 blue mongoose with blue tuffs there wasn't many places around the north east selling bmx's then
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss15/moanjam1/n665678061_918395_9905.jpg)
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Post by: dct on March 08, 2010, 09:03 PM: my first bmx was a second hand piranha out of the paper in june 83
then christmas 83 a Diamond back Silver streak from mick ives cycles in Coventry
like this one my only bmx now sadly that has pride of place in my spare room

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y98/dannytee/db-1.jpg)
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Post by: QUADROPHENIA on March 08, 2010, 09:05 PM: mate them feet need to be deformed the way you put pedals on
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Post by: Wadz on March 08, 2010, 09:06 PM: secondhand out the paper, went to look at a racer for my older brother, i sat in the car while my mum dad and brother went to check out the bike for him , my dad came back after 10 mins saying the guy was also selling another bike and would i like it , so i got out the car to have a look , it was the best thing ive ever seen (at the time) mk1 black/gold ultra burner as new,
think they paid £80 in 82/83, and it wasnt even my birthday . ;D
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Post by: dct on March 08, 2010, 09:22 PM: Quote from: QUADROPHENIA on March 08, 2010, 09:05 PM

mate them feet need to be deformed the way you put pedals on

mate my feet are fooked - i dance in circles
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Post by: sweetbeats on March 08, 2010, 09:28 PM: Quote from: moanjam on March 08, 2010, 08:58 PM
hendersons motorbike shop in washington xmas 1980 blue mongoose with blue tuffs there wasn't many places around the north east selling bmx's then
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss15/moanjam1/n665678061_918395_9905.jpg)

Cool Pic Fella :4_17_5:
Mine was a tuff burner from fenwicks,year after an aero pro Tomm's Cycles Byker.
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Post by: cheese2222001 on March 09, 2010, 09:17 AM: Mine was a Halford's Turbo from er Halfords in Bletchley!
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Post by: moley on March 09, 2010, 09:23 AM: Argos - Falcon Pro Theta :daumenhoch:
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Post by: SOUTHBANK BOY on March 09, 2010, 09:49 AM: Some little bike shop in upton park east London in 1979 in was a WMX not bmx red with red mags it was shit did not last long ???
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Post by: safc1 on March 09, 2010, 11:47 AM: team murray 360 from bob bartrams in spennymoor :)
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Post by: Rombloke on March 09, 2010, 05:16 PM: bates for bikes, barking rd, puch murray 340 christmas '79

Dave
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Post by: magna13 on March 09, 2010, 05:22 PM: Magna Acid from Halfords in 2003, was a peice of shit but i loved the thing to peices, good memories on it too :daumenhoch:
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Post by: christhejob on March 09, 2010, 06:18 PM: Quote from: ANIMAL on March 08, 2010, 08:41 PM
Dads uncles Bike shop in Wolverhampton , and its still there , the shop that is , bike died years ago I killed it ;D

Fred williams? or hateleys?
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Post by: ED209 on March 09, 2010, 06:31 PM: Junction Cycles in Mellis, Suffolk... Blue and Yellow Puch Invader... Christmas 82? 83? dunno

I was in heaven :angel:

(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs256.snc1/10327_1240903350264_1459731745_681928_7271498_n.jpg)
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Post by: meticulous on March 09, 2010, 08:01 PM: from this very shop window.... nothing has changed from bitd....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/bmxpickies297.jpg)
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Post by: billstup on March 09, 2010, 08:27 PM: Holdsworth Cycles in Welling, it`s still there but called Welling cycles now and still run by the same family :daumenhoch:
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Post by: priv on March 10, 2010, 11:15 AM: watson and cairns leeds,i got a peugeot,brother got a burner
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Post by: dikk1970 on March 10, 2010, 11:18 AM: halfords turbo from halfords for my first bike
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Post by: telelogic on March 10, 2010, 12:17 PM: Faze 7 in Waltham cross
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Post by: Rooonga on March 10, 2010, 02:13 PM: I remember going to Mike Vickers in Barking, and looking around the shop. Even back then I knew we were pretty poor so picked the best fully chromo bike that was cheap. They had Mongooses, supergoose etc etc.

I picked a Peugeot Black lion - pukka bike! Fully chromo, with class components too. I still remember my mum signing the credit agrement thing cos it was on HP, and her asking me if I was sure this is the one I want - god bless!

Writing this has just reeminded me how I used to go into Halfords, and mike Vickers just to look the the bikes. Do you guys remember the feeling looking at the bikes as a kid?

I still get that feeling when I look at Old Mongoose brochures, or ads in the old magazines.

Happy days.
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Post by: priv on March 10, 2010, 03:03 PM: Quote from: Rooonga on March 10, 2010, 02:13 PM
Do you guys remember the feeling looking at the bikes as a kid?

ohhh yesss,pulling the brakes levers ;D
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Post by: nomad on March 11, 2010, 04:55 PM: First BMX was off a local rich kid who got a more expensive one for xmas, deal was done and he bought it round xmas day, used all my xmas money for it, was about £80 iirc, in 1993ish, was a purple Mongoose Villain. I loved that bike, steadily upgraded it mostly by swapping / fixing and painting other kids bikes and taking parts as payments. Bent the back in the end :(
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Post by: monkian on March 11, 2010, 07:44 PM: No idea where it came from but with some help from Gax managed to work out what it was:
Cycle Pro Blitz / Super Macho ;D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i99/poolysheriff/007-1.jpg)

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s155/woody1215/hd-1.jpg)

It might have been Dentons in Didcot or more likely from that catalogue ::)
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Post by: mr hoppy on March 12, 2010, 07:32 AM: huffy pro 4 from hot wheels in bournemouth, when they had their shop in a petrol station, xmas 1980. Which led to my first after school job assembling bikes there :) happy days
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Post by: James Nada on March 12, 2010, 08:15 AM: Arragon's Cycles in Penrith - a basic black Mark II Burner.

Loved it until I raced it a few times - then my parents bought me a second hand Mongoose Cali.
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Post by: R Al on March 12, 2010, 03:47 PM: A Tuff Burner from Winstanleys, took it back at least 4 times having snapped the frame for replacements under warranty, gave up after a year and got a BMX :-X
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Post by: russ j on March 13, 2010, 07:50 PM: First i had a Burner GS in 83' bought second hand from 'Compton Cycles' on Compton road,Leeds (the shop is no longer a second hand shop) and then in 84' a Mk 2 Supertuff from Watson & Cairns in Leeds (Lower Briggate) the best bike shop in Leeds at the time,its now the Hoghead pub :daumenhoch:
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Post by: trickydeno on March 13, 2010, 08:58 PM: super burner in 1983 from leedhams raleigh dealers in leicester

i loved it :smitten:
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Post by: bbmac on March 13, 2010, 11:49 PM: Blue & Yellow Pro Star form Faze 7 Waltham Cross
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Post by: gossa on March 14, 2010, 07:14 AM: Unsurprisingly I got my first BMX from Edwardes of Camberwell, July 81 and it was a Team Murray 340 blue and yellow with Lester mags, coaster brake etc. Broke that bike about ten times and eventually got a 'real' BMX, a Diamond back Senior Pro.
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Post by: Bigplinky on March 14, 2010, 10:08 AM: Parnaby's Toy and Bike Shop (Raleigh Dealer) in Sunderland, Ultra Burner.
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Post by: subversion on March 14, 2010, 08:16 PM: Falcon Pro Theta from Trinder Bros Cycles in Banbury

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/MeonFalconProTheta.jpg)

the shop I now work in :D
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Post by: bert4142 on March 16, 2010, 03:35 PM: RAD City in benfleet, essex. Brilliant place in its time.
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Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on March 16, 2010, 03:50 PM: :) My dad bought one back from Germany,August 81.Was called a WMX,had an arrow in the gusset,looptail,gold anno parts and yellow tyres.Didn`t really know what it was until about a year later.Had it a fortnight before it was nicked :(