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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: markyp on September 25, 2011, 06:10 PM
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i can remember being 8 years old,its a september saturday afternoon in 1981 and weve gone to visit family friends across town where we used to live.their son was spoiled rotten and was always the first to have everything i.e grifter,big track,crazy golf in his back garden ,you get the picture,anyways when we get there his dad says 'come and have a look at michaels new bike,its a bmx' a what i thought,never heard of it!! i think it was a team murray or something like that,i was made under protest to take it out for a spin,i wasnt interested in it all as it was too big and i was desperate for a raleigh strika!! when i got back i was asked my opinion and didnt say much,i couldnt have given a monkeys about this bmx thing,what little did i know!!! :D
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November 1984, I'd been happily terrorising the neighbourhood on my 3 Raleigh Tomahawks for a couple of years, I had three because my dad bought them at an auction, red, blue and puke yellow, for some reason I only ever rode the red one at weekends!! Any way On my birthday I was handed this, my first response was, but its not red!!! I was the first kid amongst my friends to get a bmx, an I soon recognised the enormous jumping potential of them and starting taking my dads wood from the shed to build ramps
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/67482_482212041941_668306941_6700856_2197428_n.jpg)
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A lad round the corner from me used to race on a Team Murray back in 1981, so that was the first BMX I saw.
Then came ET.
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i dont think i can actually pinpoint it,which is a shame really
remember doing jumps on me raleigh commando,looking,mooching in halfords,and some of the older lads getting them 1st,as they had paper rounds,and were self sufficient
especially the lad who raced for birmingham wheels,steve grice,fook me,he was good on a bike
suppose thats what started it all for me,a culmination of things
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Well I'd known about them since I was about 6 and my bother had one, but I only heard about skateparks and high end bikes when I was about 12, now it's my favourite thing to do
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November 1984, I'd been happily terrorising the neighbourhood on my 3 Raleigh Tomahawks for a couple of years, I had three because my dad bought them at an auction, red, blue and puke yellow, for some reason I only ever rode the red one at weekends!! Any way On my birthday I was handed this, my first response was, but its not red!!! I was the first kid amongst my friends to get a bmx, an I soon recognised the enormous jumping potential of them and starting taking my dads wood from the shed to build ramps
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/67482_482212041941_668306941_6700856_2197428_n.jpg)
jaymz i had tomahawks too,i had 2 of them before my strika!!
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November 1984, I'd been happily terrorising the neighbourhood on my 3 Raleigh Tomahawks for a couple of years, I had three because my dad bought them at an auction, red, blue and puke yellow, for some reason I only ever rode the red one at weekends!! Any way On my birthday I was handed this, my first response was, but its not red!!! I was the first kid amongst my friends to get a bmx, an I soon recognised the enormous jumping potential of them and starting taking my dads wood from the shed to build ramps
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/67482_482212041941_668306941_6700856_2197428_n.jpg)
jaymz i had tomahawks too,i had 2 of them before my strika!!
Whats even funnier is as a kid I always thought they were choppers, it wasnt until i posted an old pic on me on one recently that a member said thats not a chopper its a tomahawk
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My grandad bought me my first Bmx, black team murray and it didn't have bar across the handle bars!!! So that would have been an early one, I should think??? Tried to look it up but can't find it.. Then saw a guy around my cousins way and he was on an old pirranah!! It was red with blue pads and had metal mags on it.. They had about 4 straight spokes on them and I've looked for that one to and can't it!! Hooked :)
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i see jamez choice in jumpers hasnt changed at all!! :LolLolLolLol: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny:
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i see jamez choice in jumpers hasnt changed at all!! :LolLolLolLol: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny: :2funny:
Great taste in jumpers me!!!!!!!
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I was in the same class at school as Andy Ruffell, I saw the grifter conversions just before the mongoose invasion of late 1980 :daumenhoch:
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First bmx i ever saw was my cousins.He was a couple of years older than me and was one of thos ekids who had everything when it came out!it was a mk1 mag burner blue and yellow with skyways and black handlebars.i thought it was cool but didnt exactly want one,I had a raleigh STRIKA at the time.I can remember my cousin telling my dad about if you bend a SKYWAY mag you can put it in the freezer and it would straighten itself,and my dad not believing a word of it!I guess i was a bit too young,i didnt get into BMX til the second wave.
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1979 at Harrow Skatepark, I used to skate there all the time (one of the original Harrow Boys) and used to see Andy Ruffell, Cav Strutt and a few others on their Mongooses. Got to know them all a fair bit and had a ride and was hooked, I never looked back; within a few months I had saved enough to go halves with my mum and step-dad to buy my own Scorpion TX and off I went.
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In the summer of '81 me and Hootski were tearing about at the "bomb-hole" which was a big empty balancing pond for the newly constructed housing estate. I had my Grifter and he had his Halfords Tracker (or Trackstar?) which was a 24" racer with straight bars. My schoolmate Daz arrived one afternoon on an already secondhand red Mongoose Motomag with red coaster Tuffs and proceeded to jump twice as high and twice as far off our ramps as I could on my Grifter and that was it. Clear as day I remember that bike as the coaster was fooked and used to slip but it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen! Can't remember how he'd got it now, but it had come from the US I'm sure and I think his dad had been there working and found it?
Spent the next 6months regretting the Grifter choice from the previous christmas until some local rich-kid got brand new Supergoose for christmas 1981 and his parents sold me & Hootski his TWO (did I mention rich-kid?) old BMX's, an Ammaco 202 and a black Cycle-Pro with yellow OGK's... The rest is a history of stupidity, inuries and probably the best days of our lives (well, up until girls, parties and booze of course!)
And it's been in my blood ever since and still is now!
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Are we all mad!! :LolLolLolLol:
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Are we all mad!! :LolLolLolLol:
There's a fine line between madness and genius! ;D
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2010 its only just hit donny but we are a bit behind up north sta press and y cardigans
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can't remember when I first heard about about BMX (think it was something on the news on TV), but way before i got my first one I used to pore over the magazines that my newsagent got in
I had already 'modified' my second 2nd-hand chopper with grifter grips, a knobbly back tyre and mudguard removal ;D as I wasn't able to get the grifter I so badly wanted at the time. I just rode that over whatever jumps I could find.
13th birthday came along in october 1983 and i was the first kid in my area not to have a burner, got my silverfox which I loved to bits - remember the ad in BMX Action and thinking how lucky I was to have a 'real' BMX (because it had been in an american magazine! ;D)
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Early 80's, my mate turned out to play on a piranha.. :shocked: then my other mate turned up on a piranha ??? whilst I was on some home made contraption? Anyway lot's of kid's p*ss take later and an eventual snapped frame, Dad got me a Baracuda BMX from our LBS which was a spoked wheel version of the.....yep piranha.....anyway I loved it until I cracked the frame an realised that it was sh*te and drooled over the ammaco freestyler which was in our price range. I never bought that bike as the diamond back took my eye on the day and that was that, sold on BMX!
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This should have been a good thread... :daumenhoch:
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i can remember being 8 years old,its a september saturday afternoon in 1981 and weve gone to visit family friends across town where we used to live.their son was spoiled rotten and was always the first to have everything i.e grifter,big track,crazy golf in his back garden ,you get the picture,anyways when we get there his dad says 'come and have a look at michaels new bike,its a bmx' a what i thought,never heard of it!! i think it was a team murray or something like that,i was made under protest to take it out for a spin,i wasnt interested in it all as it was too big and i was desperate for a raleigh strika!! when i got back i was asked my opinion and didnt say much,i couldnt have given a monkeys about this bmx thing,what little did i know!!! :D
suprised a Team murray didn't scar you for life :LolLolLolLol:
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'80/'81 I think, I can still clearly remember my mate Terry wheeling his new Diamondback across the playground one morning at school. Chrome and black and decals glinting in the sun. That's where it began for me
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i cant remember what happened last week :crazy2:
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I borrowed a BMX in 1983 from Christopher Biggins.
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Winter time 1977-78, I msde friends with a Canadian guy that came over to stay with his aunt (Peter frank Andrews) and he brought over his bike, looked like a motorbike (front and rest suspension) without an engine, that's the first time i Heard of Bmx, was 3 years later when all the tin murrays landed....
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I borrowed a BMX in 1983 from Christopher Biggins.
sounds about right.. ^"^
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Summer of 81. Visited a friend who'd spent the summer in the US and came back with a Team Murray. That was it, I was hooked and after much pestering of the parents got my first BMX by Christmas 81 - Black and Yellow Iron Horse ;D but loved it to bits.
33 years on, many bikes past, but still loving it :smitten:
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This should have been a good thread... :daumenhoch:
Nice rescue :daumenhoch:
I borrowed a BMX in 1983 from Christopher Biggins.
That explains a lot :teef:
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Yep, definitely a good thread resurrection!! :daumenhoch:
My memory's fairly sketchy on this but I had a Grifter when BMX first started hitting our shores, or at least Dorset's shores! A few of the older kids in my town got the first ones and I ended up buying a 2ndhand (probably 3rd/4th-hand) Cycle Pro frameset with an assortment of parts from one of them. That must have been before seeing ET because that got me onto the Kuwahara bandwagon and the lust for a Laserlite, which was finally satisfied last year! :bow:
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In '79, my mum took us on holiday to Skegness. We hired a couple of bike, one of which turned out to be a Mongoose, Skyways and all, with a damn coaster brake on it.......well strange, for me.
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Think it was summer of 79, Andy Ruffell and Cav Strutt used to come over to Harrow Skatepark; I was hooked!
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Sorry Rich.. Honestly pressed the wrong icon.. :10_2_12:
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Sorry Rich.. Honestly pressed the wrong icon.. :10_2_12:
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I remember the first up market Bmx I ever saw.. I lived in Balham, so it must of been stolen..
Diamond Back silver streak.. Chrome with yellow companants, yellow snake belly tyres and so on.. Looked bloody awsome..
I was on a team Murray, so anything would have looked great..😞
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First bmx I saw was a team murray one of the guys at school had for Christmas 1979, maybe 1980. Orange and black, loved it. The second was from a rich kid at school whose dad worked in America part time and kept coming back with new parts for his nickel mongoose - one part was a set of z rims and all the guys at school couldn't believe you could have a wheel that could bend?!! It was the first taste of urban fantasy I'd experienced!!
The first bmx action I saw was outside a chip shop in Becontree Essex. I was in the front passenger seat of my dads car and I watched this guy pull an endo against the chip shop window into a roll back 180. Blew me away.............I occasionally drive past and every time I do I still think of that moment.
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The first bmx action I saw was outside a chip shop in Becontree Essex. I was in the front passenger seat of my dads car and I watched this guy pull an endo against the chip shop window into a roll back 180. Blew me away.............I occasionally drive past and every time I do I still think of that moment.
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First BMX i saw was a Mongoose moto mag. I'd say it was the late 70's in a wee DIY come bike shop in Annan owned by a guy called Davy mckinna. I had i Grifter at the time and my Dad wouldn't let me have a BMX for Christmas as they only had one gear. After getting a boring racing bike from santa that year having traded in the grifter, the following year i wore my Dad down and traded in the five speed for a Huffy Pro 4. Fook i was over the moon. Blue and yellow, weighed a ton. 8)
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Everyone had Grifters or Choppers...
There was a Puch Motorbike shop on the Beersbridge Road that me and my mate Glen Molloy called into on the way home from school...
They were promoting 'BMX' bikes...
'What the hell are they' we said...
We went in and had a look...
I took the Brochure home and showed my Gran it...
Christmas came and with it a Brand New Trak Pro...
Molloy wanted one , but had to wait a year until he got a California from Dave Kane's Bike Shop...So he was made up...
A couple of years later I traded for an Aero Pro and Glen traded for a Pro Class...
We entered every race we could on them bikes...