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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: reilley1 on June 14, 2010, 05:06 PM

Title: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: reilley1 on June 14, 2010, 05:06 PM

I had the pleasure of building this beauty for Monster Robot.

A & A was a northern California company that was involved heavily into motorcycles in the 70s.

The story (according to Bob Freitas who worked at Tiger Cycle at the time) was that one of the Yamaha reps was in the warehouse at the time they were rolling around on a early/prototype version.  The rep took pics and so on of the bike and went back to Japan.  

Given Yamaha's huge finances they tooled up and had the Yamaha bikes ready for market within months before A & A had a chance to fully implement their program.

A few early ads.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/A-A-September74-pg14BMXNewsLarge.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/AA-SwingarmMXLarge.jpg)

It was a long term project for sure but with the help of Tony Montalbano who did an amazing job at the decals, it was ready for Bellflower

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/OSshow0605101Large.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/OSshow0605103Large.jpg)


I found the "right" shocks days before Bellflower and I was stoked as heck.  
The bike was in rough shape when I picked it up from Adam Cox but with the help of A & J powder coating in El Cajon who matched the paint that was in the bottom bracket, the help from Alpha bikes in Vista,and Victor's Upholstery (who managed to save what was left of the seat) the bike is finished.


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/OSshow0605104Large.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/OSshow0605106Large.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/w303/reilley1/A-A%20BMX/Pic0605001Large.jpg)

Bike is on it's way to Michael right now via Dennis Dain who offered to ship it to him. Hopefully Michael will take better pictures that do the bike more justice

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: nic968 on June 16, 2010, 04:12 PM

 Another fine Historic build Rick.. :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: ron burgundy on June 17, 2010, 09:46 PM

That's lovely :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: OrgasmDonor on June 17, 2010, 09:50 PM

coolio  :daumenhoch: nice one rick  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: billstup on June 17, 2010, 10:25 PM

Another cracker Rick  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: hunterdubber on June 17, 2010, 10:31 PM

Rick , dude  :4_17_5:

You get all the best builds  :smitten:

Real cool bike , in a real cool colour  :coolsmiley:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: pickle on June 18, 2010, 07:47 AM

superb job!   :coolsmiley:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: moley on June 18, 2010, 08:37 AM

I like that a lot!!  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: Mattdub on June 18, 2010, 08:54 AM

That's awesome Rick  :daumenhoch: , great history & info .

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: baldbmxer on June 18, 2010, 09:36 AM

Another great 70's ride, no one can match Mr Reilley when it come to the 70's  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: Bigplinky on June 18, 2010, 05:12 PM

Really nice that you should write a book on all the early stuff you have had through your garage  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: A & A. Early Boinger
Post by: MartyC on June 19, 2010, 06:09 AM

Awesome 70's build  :4_17_5: