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Title: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: oldtired on July 29, 2010, 06:01 PM
This has been done by e few radster's sort of , so here is part of the reason for my current state of mind regarding the kiddies bike problem i have  :LolLolLolLol: 

started about 1971 with this, it should have wheels on it but apperently i used to run the dog over when it was trying to sleep so the wheels had to go ,  notice the the genuine first issue Dobbin bars  :LolLolLolLol:  quality and now rare as fook

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/dobbin.jpg) 
 

1975 the real start of it proper bike Raliegh Tomahawk  :smitten:   loved this rode the thing into the ground , i remember if i couldn't take my bike i just refused to go  >:(

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/Tomahawk.jpg)

took up skating in 1977 , got my first pair of vans blue lace ups  from a well off relative who'd been in the state's and showed me a skateboard magazine he brought back, so that was on the xmas list that year, Dogtown in donni  :LolLolLolLol: Newporter pro board  :smitten:, (still got the deck  :daumenhoch: )   suade leather pad set  :daumenhoch: Adidas sports bag for school fekkin hated humping that thing about , Airfix HMS Victory,  top crimbo


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/newporter.jpg)

1979 back to the push irons silver Chopper grown up Tomahawk  :LolLolLolLol: and me old mumsy bless here

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/mumsy.jpg)

then somthing strange happend mid way through 1979 , destininy or just shear bad luck led me into Halfords on one saturday afternoon i'd gone in to get a gear toggle chain for the chopper when i saw what can only be described as revelation in the form of a TEAM MURRAY  :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:  was my reaction  :LolLolLolLol: , by september it was mine built up, sat in the front bedroom waiting for christmas, my old man had a cruel streak to him :LolLolLolLol:

Between xmas and New year 1980 , this is the point where the slow decline turned into a fekkin great landslide  :LolLolLolLol:, the seat is dirty because id been sitting on it every day since september  :LolLolLolLol: , coaster brake big blue Knobbly tires and snow , what more do you kneed

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/murry.jpg)






Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: oldtired on July 29, 2010, 06:20 PM
 the Team Murray only lasted into the summer , i snapped the head tube clean of at Steetley quarry , mumsy took it back and got the manager at Halfords in head lock and came away with a Murry x20c, foc  :daumenhoch:  , mumsy's you don't fook with em , don't have any pics of that :'(, it was well made though , possibly one of the one SE knocked back ? so to where the time line stops

1985 Akisu remember it being stickerd up as a Stratton pro  , putting it together here to flog it to raise funds for the lovely white DP Feestyler  i wanted  , again all the essentials were there Tuffs , ramp bad hair cut,,,  :daumenhoch:  :LolLolLolLol:  , the following years are full of Haro Sports after the two DP's , bigger ramps (o level metal work is the biggest i made i'll dig it out and post a pic as it takes me up to 86) and broken bones  :LolLolLolLol:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/time%20line/akisu.jpg)
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: 58 delray on July 29, 2010, 06:32 PM
cool pics  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: rollin72 on July 29, 2010, 06:33 PM
wicked pictures mate, cool story...but" mumsy" did you forget you were on here whilst typing that :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: oldtired on July 29, 2010, 06:41 PM
 :LolLolLolLol:    :-[     got  to love your old mumsy    :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: telelogic on July 29, 2010, 06:52 PM
I loved reading that mate, Cheers  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: stevochb on July 29, 2010, 07:13 PM
Class :daumenhoch: great memories came flooding back when I read that. :D
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: hotdog on July 29, 2010, 09:13 PM
In a nutshell..... Brilliant!
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: poolysheriff on July 29, 2010, 09:37 PM
Great pics  :daumenhoch:

And my mate still turns up at football every week with that exact Adidas bag  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: 20to26 on July 29, 2010, 09:43 PM
tales of wonder  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: Gashead on July 29, 2010, 09:53 PM
Top slice of the past that !
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: slurp on July 29, 2010, 10:00 PM
Enjoyed that mate, cracking, and I have the same bag up in my " mumsy and dadsy" loft.

Dave
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: brummie on July 29, 2010, 10:08 PM
nice one mate :daumenhoch: i had that bag as well for school  :)
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: meticulous on July 29, 2010, 10:21 PM
i could have your old bike....


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/011.jpg)


 :)
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: glenboy on July 29, 2010, 10:37 PM
nice one everybody remembers the raleigh chopper but until i read this post i'd forgotten all about the raleigh tomahawk  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: dan-dare on July 29, 2010, 10:43 PM
 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: sawzall on July 29, 2010, 10:55 PM
great pics and story :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: bobafett on July 30, 2010, 01:07 AM

Great  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: oldtired on July 30, 2010, 02:23 AM
been looking at that since you posted it up Meticulous :smitten: :smitten:  , mine had an SR stem and a crappy steel front brake on it i've still got the front brake i think and the lesters are hung up in the outhouse  :daumenhoch:   
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: meticulous on July 30, 2010, 07:31 AM
this also had a crappy silver front brake too, which i binned, and a crappy 4 bolt stem which have kept..... ;)


it will be at MK with me if you want to drool!!! :)
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: currio on July 30, 2010, 11:58 AM
Fookin' brilliant mate, that made my morning.
Its cool seeing the years going by and the change in toys.
I love the pic of you with the skateboard, you're beaming like a cheshire cat  :LolLolLolLol:

You gotta love the 70's decor there too, and I bet amongst the couple of bottles lurking in the background there, there was a bottle of that yellow liqueur, think it was called Warnicks, everybody bought a bottle at christmas I think, but no bastard ever drank it  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Life long obsession, time line stops in 1985
Post by: Redline on July 30, 2010, 02:08 PM
Damn I love lookin at stuff like this.... Good Times  :daumenhoch:
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