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Title: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: brummie on June 14, 2011, 09:29 PM
just curious. i collect freestylers but do have a race bike or 2
given the choice what do you prefer? for me its a freestyler all day long   :smitten:
have a vote and post in thread please. just a bit of fun  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: Robbo on June 14, 2011, 09:30 PM
Freestyler  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: Jaymz on June 14, 2011, 09:31 PM
I started with toys r us bikes and im working my way up, got a really nice goose race bike at the moment, that i fell out of love with, then rode it at blackpool and loved it all over again, and recently ive scored a freestyler, and to be honest thats about me done, I have a freestyler, a race bike, a new school, and a couple of toys r us / woolworths specials and i think thats me done [he says] Ive got a bit of everything, and all riders
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: rick1970 on June 14, 2011, 09:32 PM
Freestylers for me too but have both just in case  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: southern andy on June 14, 2011, 09:32 PM
Race by a country mile.  :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: Gnarlyscoots on June 14, 2011, 09:33 PM
There is only one true BMX type of bike and thats the Freestyler  :daumenhoch:  :coolsmiley:

Race bikes race, Freestylers do it all  :coolsmiley: Take the Torker, freestyler but also race bike  :daumenhoch:

Nuff said  :-*
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: brettypeeps on June 14, 2011, 09:33 PM
Freestyle for me :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: race or freestyle?
Post by: Robbo on June 14, 2011, 09:34 PM
Stick a poll up Brummie  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Jon The Bassist on June 14, 2011, 10:31 PM
BMX is racing >:D
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Julian347 on June 14, 2011, 10:43 PM
Always been a race bike for me.  :smitten:  Raced in 80's and 90's so it's in my blood.

There are a few freestyle builds on the the wish list though.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: stu27 on June 14, 2011, 10:49 PM
There is only one true BMX type of bike and thats the Freestyler  :daumenhoch:  :coolsmiley:

Race bikes race, Freestylers do it all  :coolsmiley: Take the Torker, freestyler but also race bike  :daumenhoch:

Nuff said  :-*
what about a skyway TA,it's a race bike that can freestyle
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Pooch on June 14, 2011, 10:53 PM
Race!!! All day long!! :daumenhoch:
Best looking freestyle has got be the Hutch trick star2 ;D
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Betty on June 14, 2011, 10:56 PM
Don't have a preference so haven't voted

Race or freestyle it's all bmx...  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Gish on June 14, 2011, 11:00 PM
Race bmx for me
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: rollin72 on June 14, 2011, 11:02 PM
racestyler for me, them pkskyburners are ace :D
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Pooch on June 14, 2011, 11:05 PM
See what you've started Brummie!!!  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: NORTY40 on June 14, 2011, 11:05 PM
Love'em both, like Betty said "it's all BMX"  ........ but if i had to choose I would go race   :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: brummie on June 14, 2011, 11:08 PM
See what you've started Brummie!!!  :LolLolLolLol:

i know  :idiot2:
78 views and only 13 votes. so took the time to read but couldnt be arsed to click a box  :P
was just curious tbh as i like all bmx but prefer freestyle types
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: stu27 on June 14, 2011, 11:11 PM
As iconic as some freestylers are,I would say it's race for me,but it's all in the name BMX,bicycle moto cross
I will always think of racing as the first step
thing is though whichever way the vote goes,it will probably fook up BOTM,if you get me drift
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: brummie on June 14, 2011, 11:14 PM
As iconic as some freestylers are,I would say it's race for me,but it's all in the name BMX,bicycle moto cross
I will always think of racing as the first step
thing is though whichever way the vote goes,it will probably fook up BOTM,if you get me drift

tbh stu, no i dont get your drift at all  :LolLolLolLol:
wtf has it got to do with botm ya loon
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: john4130 on June 14, 2011, 11:14 PM
freestyler for me, i,ve been riding freestyle for nearly 30 years and have 2 new school riders. i've never raced but i've got 2 pk rippers an ammaco 202 and i'm currently building a race inc ra7. bitd i would use any bike for freestyle as long as it was cheap enough. it would normally be a second hand race bike was all i could get my hands on.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: dordymush on June 14, 2011, 11:16 PM
race bikes for me now although  my first proper builds years ago were streetbeats.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: stu27 on June 14, 2011, 11:28 PM
Dave,here's me drift,with all that happened in the last BOTM,whichever way the vote goes,may make some people,with a non winning category bike,think they won't win because it's a race/freestyler
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: Spen69 on June 14, 2011, 11:59 PM
Can't vote Dave - love riding my freestylers, love looking at my race biks :daumenhoch:

Put a "love them both" tick box and that's where most of us will be. except for that fookin' loon Costa :uglystupid2: :uglystupid2: :2funny: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: brummie on June 15, 2011, 12:10 AM
gonna forget this as some of you lot can turn the simplest things into right dramas so i just cant be arsed
was just curious as i PREFER freestylers and was looking to see who else felt the same. i love everything bmx and have allsorts in my collection
still cant see what this would have to do with botm
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: kungfunky on June 15, 2011, 08:10 AM
Race for me, I raced bitd and could'nt pull any stunts worth talking about on my pals Haro, was s5it at freestyle then and I'm probably a 1,000 times worse now.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: curtispro on June 15, 2011, 09:25 AM
Both for me as its all BMX, its nice to have an old school racer to ride and a freestyler, whatever I decide to take out of the shed on the day  :LolLolLolLol: gotta be  :Great_Britain: though  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: AKGOFF on June 15, 2011, 10:09 AM
I prefer freestyle but some race bikes do float my boat aswell, as long as it's not just a boring round top and bottom tubes then I'm interested.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: GTnumber1 on June 15, 2011, 10:20 AM
this site should be changed to WWW.RACEBMX.CO.UK


i prefer race bikes  :fart:


freestyle bikes are harder to build trying to source the right parts, race bike stuff is 10 to a penny all of them near enough have all the same parts apart from different frames and bars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! end of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :yahoo_silent:

why the fook is there NO freestyle bike of the month for us people that dont like watching paint dry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dont get me wrong i do like some race bikes but i do love a quadangle thoe  :smitten:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Andy68 on June 15, 2011, 10:28 AM
Race for me, love 'em. For me, sexier looking.   :smitten:  (Can I write that about a bike???  :crazy2:)  Perhaps cos none of us had freestyle bikes BITD.  ???
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: wildon on June 15, 2011, 10:33 AM
Difficult question, my top bikes are freestyle but then most other freestyle bikes are quite ugly... when i started this hobby i didnt think i'd ever build a race bike but i seem to have moved over to only race bikes now.  I grew up with freestyle and we all hit the track on our bikes.. something you cant really do the other way round .. race bikes aint no good for freestyle.

... i cant choose  :-\
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Pooch on June 15, 2011, 12:59 PM
I'm with Brummie!!! Just a bit of fun!!! :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: ED209 on June 15, 2011, 01:00 PM
can't vote? whatagawn...

Freestyle everytime  :4_17_5:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes? vote and post in thread. cheers
Post by: GTnumber1 on June 15, 2011, 02:16 PM
gonna forget this as some of you lot can turn the simplest things into right dramas so i just cant be arsed
was just curious as i PREFER freestylers and was looking to see who else felt the same. i love everything bmx and have allsorts in my collection
still cant see what this would have to do with botm


pointless thread realy........................... you already know the answer from bike of the month  ;)
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: brummie on June 15, 2011, 02:31 PM
not really steve as i can see who i might be able to help out/gain advice from freestyle builds wise etc and as previously stated just a bit of fun and at least bmx related

this thread has nowt to do with bike of the month but sheer curiosity mate, i prefer building freestylers and it was freestylers i wanted back then. this dont mean i dont like racebikes cos i own a few of them to. i voted for terrys jmc in botm but next up for me would have been the 78 robbo with the dp my 3rd choice. its all down to preference on the day when i look at the pics prior to casting a vote. out of the literally hundreds of members on here only a very few vote in botm anyway which is a shame
so your freestyle builds not winning could be down to couldnt be bothered to vote as much as anything else. so stop being paranoid  :coolsmiley:

i have voted for em in the past and they are great bikes  :4_17_5:

i build bikes for me, i dont need upteen pats on the back to tell me i like them cos if i didnt i wouldnt build em  :daumenhoch:

peace out  :-*

Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: boofy44 on June 15, 2011, 02:43 PM
race bikes look far better for me.all this pink and orange shiiiiiiiite doesn't float
my boat but i do like some freestylers.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: GTnumber1 on June 15, 2011, 06:31 PM
not really steve as i can see who i might be able to help out/gain advice from freestyle builds wise etc and as previously stated just a bit of fun and at least bmx related

this thread has nowt to do with bike of the month but sheer curiosity mate, i prefer building freestylers and it was freestylers i wanted back then. this dont mean i dont like racebikes cos i own a few of them to. i voted for terrys jmc in botm but next up for me would have been the 78 robbo with the dp my 3rd choice. its all down to preference on the day when i look at the pics prior to casting a vote. out of the literally hundreds of members on here only a very few vote in botm anyway which is a shame
so your freestyle builds not winning could be down to couldnt be bothered to vote as much as anything else. so stop being paranoid  :coolsmiley:

i have voted for em in the past and they are great bikes  :4_17_5:

i build bikes for me, i dont need upteen pats on the back to tell me i like them cos if i didnt i wouldnt build em  :daumenhoch:

peace out  :-*




i make you right but i just dont see the point in having freestyle bikes in bike of the month when 90% of the users are into race bikes,  a freestyle bike that you have bled to the bone restoring will  allways loose, fair enuff but its when your beat by a burner is the fooking anoying thing and yet everyone hates burners......work that out.................................... its a loosing battle.........


anyway my theory is

freestyle = SPARTAN WARIORS

race= knitting class


end of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :yahoo_silent:



 ;D
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Spen69 on June 15, 2011, 07:04 PM
Costa, stop sitting on the fence and say what you mean! ;-)
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: AKGOFF on June 15, 2011, 08:30 PM
I'm with Brummie!!! Just a bit of fun!!! :daumenhoch:

Brummie, Brummie, i love you Brummie :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: hunterdubber on June 15, 2011, 08:46 PM
Freestyle bikes have won BOTM before though Stevie  ;)

just not yours  :D ,, but that's down to who the voters are voting for some months  :)

As for getting beat by a Burner ,,, Burners have won on a number of occassions

A Burner won and  put my race bike into 2nd place in this years  BOTY  :LolLolLolLol: It does belong to Craig Schofield and he won the World championships on it so ,, I did  get over it  :LolLolLolLol:

Don't forget the Raleigh  MK1 Pro, Aero pro, Team Aero Ruffell replicas are

 all very nice japanese made with good geometry and good components  :)


I did more tricks than tracks  as a kid ,,we had a halfpipe and dirt jumps   , but  I rode anything from Ammaco, Falcon, GT Nora, Kuwi Nova, DP freestyler and  I had Ukais Arayas CMC OGK and TuffII's  so basically just street bikes, no specific race or trick set up


I do have a Gen 1 Haro and did an 87 Performer  sometime ago but have tended to stick to the main  icon  brand bikes that were in BMX action bike pre 85  :smitten:

So all race then  :LolLolLolLol:

But I do like  all BMX  and I mean any brand too really  , deffo no brand snobbery here

As  long as it's built right and proper thought has gone into it  ;)

Old , Mid and  New,, race or trick it's all good in my book :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: moochalargo on June 15, 2011, 08:46 PM
Race just race for me all the way.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Swivel on June 15, 2011, 09:21 PM
Freestylers all day, but I do love a national pro but its Haro freestylers all the way   :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: trickydeno on June 15, 2011, 10:18 PM
freestyle 2 the max everytime  8)
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Darren KAP on June 15, 2011, 10:36 PM

   Freestylers for me , but i do own a number of race bikes  in my collection  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: megsy on June 16, 2011, 09:57 AM
Freestylers for me also. Do really like redline 500a that I have and one day will get a mongoose proclass.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: hunterdubber on June 16, 2011, 07:46 PM
Brummie you should've let the poll run for longer

,, Costa would've been  proven wrong , but been  happy as it looks like most have said they like freestyle   :)
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Glynnyboy on June 16, 2011, 07:49 PM
I would have voted race if i could. Love freestyle too though.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Discostu on June 16, 2011, 07:53 PM
Freestylers all the way for me.
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: In2 bmx on June 16, 2011, 08:11 PM

Race bikes all the way ... Fast and furious .  :daumenhoch:

Freestyle might pull the chicks ,Cos they like the sick pastel colours  ...    :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: WINI on June 16, 2011, 08:32 PM
Freestyle for me too, but again thats down to my background as a kid - no tracks anywhere near me so I grew up on improv ramps and trying to pull cherrypickers and miami hoppers.

Def not got any firm fave or hate any, its all great to see.  And even though most my bikes are freestylers, the number one as a kid for me was the TA.  Lucky enough to get one last year, and turning it into a freestyler as we speak.... :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Mattdub on June 22, 2011, 10:00 AM

I raced bitd so would've voted race  :daumenhoch: .

Only one freestyler here ( my GJS ) and only because it's kinda funky & there's not loads about ( like "different" things ... lol ) , had two 84 RL20's and sold em both .
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Spen69 on June 22, 2011, 10:31 AM
Ha ha, you can have a mix of both you know - let's see what poeple think in the BoTM this month then :coolsmiley:

A race-bred freestyler with freestyle parts but racing Araya 7X's on freestyle tyres...... >:D :shocked:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa149/Spen69/IMG_4234.jpg)
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: pickle on June 22, 2011, 11:55 AM
no option for just like em both the same, so can't vote  :-\
Title: Re: what do you prefer race or freestyle bikes?
Post by: Wadz on June 22, 2011, 09:26 PM
Freestyle  :smitten:
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