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Welcome! => Welcome => Topic started by: Fevster on May 23, 2011, 09:25 PM

Title: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Fevster on May 23, 2011, 09:25 PM: Hi guys, quick intro, name is Chris, live in Essex and I'm 38. That makes me proper old school, and oh, how I miss those days! Heroes back then, Bob Haro, Eddie Fiola, Glyn Lewis etc, remember it all so well! Sold my dream bike for £40 in the early nineties, a mk2 DP Firebird Freestyler and have kicked myself ever since. It was my 12th birthday present in 1985 and I really cant believe I sold it so that I could buy a new motor for my tamiya rc car! I desperately want to build one again to the same spec, with white tuffs etc. Has anybody out there got a frame set, or just a frame they wish to part with? I would be prepared to buy a complete bike if I had to, but a frame set would suit me better as I could build my own bike rather than strip someone elses. Don't care if its rusty, bent, dented, I will be restoring it anyway. Come on guys, help me get back to my BMX roots before my body gives up, I reckon I've got a few framestands left in me! Cheers!
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: bobafett on May 23, 2011, 09:31 PM: Welcome to RAD mate - you've come to the right place :daumenhoch:

Keep trawling ebay and keep putting posts up in the wanted section on here ;)

Good luck !
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: sweetbeats on May 24, 2011, 03:43 PM: Welcome 8)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: brettypeeps on May 24, 2011, 10:04 PM: Welcome to the Site Chris I have just finished my Firebird Freestyler
(http://i1030.photobucket.com/albums/y370/brettypeeps/DP%20GL%20Plus%20Build/84fa1b29.jpg)

Good luck with your build and take your time :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Mattdub on May 25, 2011, 11:15 AM: Welcome to RAD :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Fevster on May 26, 2011, 07:52 PM: Thanks very much for the warm welcome, and Brettypeeps, that is a beautiful bike. Looking at that, I was 12 years old all over again! Nearly chewed half my fist off wanting my bike back!
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: rollin72 on May 26, 2011, 09:40 PM: welcome to rad, you'll find a lot of firebird lovers on here, have a good look on the museum for some cracking builds, good luck in finding 1, here's mine
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/pp287/rollin72/Video1000000-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: curtispro on June 07, 2011, 02:25 PM: Welcome to Rad :daumenhoch: and good luck with finding a DP

This is mine that I purchased for Â£40.00 a few months back and its a GL Plus :4_17_5: very lucky find but they are out there.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx207/curtispro1/05472e05.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx207/curtispro1/b8ee37d6.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx207/curtispro1/179a8e53.jpg)

Regards

Jon :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Pooch on June 08, 2011, 10:30 AM: Welcome to rad mate!! :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: The VW Doc on June 08, 2011, 03:56 PM: Hey Chris - Welcome ro RAD
DP is a good choice of bike, as others have said, there are a few of us out here who have & ride them
My first BMX (at 35) Is a Mk2 DP Firebird

(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/226934_10150184134026927_602616926_7498690_6143455_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Deano on June 08, 2011, 07:49 PM: Welcome ;) 8) taste in bmx's :daumenhoch:
How much do you want to pay???? :D
Mine
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/o423/hactoff/wintersonbmxs010.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: Robbo on June 13, 2011, 10:20 AM: Welcome to Rad Chris, where abouts in Essex are you?

We love a DP on here mate!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h50/the_robster/P72600222.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: ED209 on June 13, 2011, 10:35 AM: ahhh... they're all coming out now :angel: good luck with finding a cheap deal Chris... getting increasingly rare with framesets going for Â£250/Â£350 on t'bay... they are still out there though... mine was in my brother-in-laws basement >:D the resto is the fun bit :smitten:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i63/209ed/BMX/CIMG2503.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i63/209ed/BMX/P1000787.jpg)
Title: Re: Newbie saying hello, and wants his old bike back!!
Post by: essenem on June 23, 2011, 05:42 PM: alright there bud. i know the feeling of selling a bike and regretting it but theres always a way, luckily i was able to by the bike i sold back about 5 years later through some strange voodoo chance encounter. it can happen!