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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: Orange777 on June 21, 2012, 07:44 PM
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Evening all,
I am down some serious cash (to me) after literally only a few months! Some is pure stupidity where I have paid about ten times what something is worth to c***s on eBay. Some is due to me forgetting I have two of something and buying a 3rd as its still being shipped from over the pond........and some is due to having no idea what stuff is worth!
One thing for sure though, when I eventually finish my first two builds which will be an 85 Pro Performer and an 88 Performer hybrid, I will be as happy as a pig in $hit. Can't see me ever wanting to sell them, nor would I recover my outlay - but who knows!!
This got me thinking..............
What did stuff actually used to cost?
My Mum bought be a Puch in the 80s that I hated and it was heavier than our Triumph.
Similar acceptance speech to Simon receiving the Yellow car in The Inbetweeners.......and yes I feel pretty f'cking bad about how I relayed that speech on Christmas day even now 30 years on!
This was upgraded to a Diamond Back something something 500 a few years later ......Think it cost her over £200 and I loved it.... I later sold it in 1991 to buy some purple om's on a night Sasha was playing The Palais in Sheffield
Always wanted either a yellow or white GT Pro Performer or a Skyway TA - never had the money. So...........my question is.......How much were they back then?
My rich cousin had a Hutch (one of many rides he had) - how much would that have been?
What was the most expensive bike / brand in the 80s?
Be interested if anyone knew?
PS........ How much was an 85 GT Pro Performer in I assume 85?
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Skyway Ta framesets sold for about £160-70, Hutch Pro Racer around £150, they actually weren't any dearer than most of the higher end frames available, a Pro Performer was about £165-70 when they came out.
Most bikes were just sold as frames and forks so they could be built up as cheaply/expensively as your parents could afford, most expensive completes were the Redline Carrera, Mongoose Pro Class, Harry Leary Turbo which were all in the £350-400 range.
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Looptail PK Ripper,Skyways,Sugino Maxy Cross crank,Suntour stem,seatclamp,Rental bars,Shimano DX pedals,DC MX1000's etc cost me £300 in 1982
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The only new complete BMX I ever had was my Falcon Pro that we got cheap somewhere, might have been about £100. The only brand new F&F I ever got was my Curtis Pro that I got for about £75 in 1986, that was half price in a closing down sale, so does fit with the prices suggested above. New Skool bikes are relatively cheaper now than Old Skool bikes are now and were then.
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My GT Pro performer double bend down tube frame and forks cost £330 in 1987
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For a GT bikes price-check, why not check out an old FAZE7 advert if you can find one?
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A bike I built up for christmas 83 from new bits I'd bought though out the year came to £360 Exactly this spec (except it had an Addicks chainring)
About a third of today prices ,,, well more ,, those were brand new as opposed to todays used parts
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/PICT0017.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u24/hunterdubber/PICT0020.jpg)
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The price of a well spec'd Hutch Pro in around '84 was about $700.
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Oh & a Kashi aero was about $9...!!!!!! ;D
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DP Ladder Bars for £15 makes me laugh ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i63/209ed/BMX/bars-1.jpg)
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All well and good quoting prices but why not work out what wages your parents were on to buy them back then?
I'd argue that my parents saved all year to buy my £180 complete Mongoose Cali and my brother's £180 Chromo Burner for Christmas 1983 and they both worked. That's only £30 a month but it was a hell of a lot of money to try and save.
Index link it and I bet o/s is cheaper now (unless it's a Rabbit House), even when it's NOS. We don't know how lucky we are guys.......
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My 83 mongoose wire wheel cost £150 which as already stated was a lot of cash back then. I know it was this price as my old man tells me whenever I speak to him.
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I think my DB Silver Streak cost my parents £225 in 1983 and my Aero Pro Team Burner cost them £250 in 1985 which was a whopping amount of money.
I remember drooling over a harry leary turbo in the window of Alec Greens bike shop in Birkenhead in 1983 and it was £350.
I have seen a rough calculation that £1000 in 1983 is now worth about £4000 - so would I spend £900 on a BMX for my sons today? Oww. :shocked:
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All well and good quoting prices but why not work out what wages your parents were on to buy them back then?
I'd argue that my parents saved all year to buy my £180 complete Mongoose Cali and my brother's £180 Chromo Burner for Christmas 1983 and they both worked. That's only £30 a month but it was a hell of a lot of money to try and save.
Index link it and I bet o/s is cheaper now (unless it's a Rabbit House), even when it's NOS. We don't know how lucky we are guys.......
you don't half talk some boll*cks Frodo ;D
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html
£15 pound Ladder bars would cost £39 now... not fekkin £140 :P
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Really good answer as usual and very interesting! I know Mum had to save for that Puch and that she saved a fortune for my Diamond Back (compared to what a single Mum earns).
Now starting to think is it worth buying any top line new gear and keeping NOS in mint condition in a loft. Then in 20 years selling it all!
As long term collectors, you guys seen anyone buying Mid School and selling it on?
Cost of that Hutch at $700 is a fortune!! How much are guys spending now to do a fully tricked out Hutch rebuild?
Annoying that I have spent enough on GT parts to have bought several full bikes back in the day!!
CHEERS!!!
:daumenhoch:
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1978 Torker complete bike $295 fookin bargain :) got the picture somewhere. My first Ripper cost £120 for the bike in 82 and still have it :smitten:
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Bet you had a top night at the Sasha gig though circa 91'!
The raves then were better than any kids bike! ;D
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Most flight cranks were about £130 early 80,s,new Profiles will cost you about £150ish for a set with bb,so relatively expensive back then :shocked:
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Bet you had a top night at the Sasha gig though circa 91'!
The raves then were better than any kids bike! ;D
Haha, it was a good night - but that whole time frame 1990 to 2000 is very hazy! Found a video at my Mums from Sasha at The Eclipse in Coventry. For some bizarre reason The Hitman and Her were there and I can be seen raving on top of a speaker in a blue and white stripped Benetton jumper..... Good times!
Wish could buy my old Diamond Back back off the guy though! :)
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Seems the smart money is in flight cranks which have trebled / quadrupled in value! :)
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Now starting to think is it worth buying any top line new gear and keeping NOS in mint condition in a loft. Then in 20 years selling it all!
IMO I can't see that happening... can't see anyone being nostalgic about this decade ::)
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Now starting to think is it worth buying any top line new gear and keeping NOS in mint condition in a loft. Then in 20 years selling it all!
IMO I can't see that happening... can't see anyone being nostalgic about this decade ::)
Good point - well made! :)
Bearing in mind the world ends in December (According to the Mayans), I might need to re think that money making scheme!!
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I've got quite a lot of new school bits, although I'm just keeping them so I have something cheap to ride about when I'm a little older or if I want to build by old bike up when I'm the same age as most of you, I'm just looking forward to the day old school bits get cheap again
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cant remember what this cost me back in the day, remember the frame cost me about 60 quid :LolLolLolLol: and the levers/crank/rear brake were off my aero pro, would like to know how much it cost to build if anybodys got any old price lists, still have all of it too 8)
oh ye took me a year to build, earning 10 quid a week for my saturday job ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n477/stevencosta/Image068-1.jpg)
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cant remember what this cost me back in the day, remember the frame cost me about 60 quid :LolLolLolLol: and the levers/crank/rear brake were off my aero pro, would like to know how much it cost to build if anybodys got any old price lists, still have all of it too 8)
oh ye took me a year to build, earning 10 quid a week for my saturday job ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n477/stevencosta/Image068-1.jpg)
Are you selling that seat of it Steve ? ;D
Mum just reminded me that I have boxes of old BMX magazines from the 80s at her house. I shall have a look through them for price guides!!
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I remember buying Jason Hoad"s used white street beat frameset from Raff (of no softies cycles and skates in Gillingham) for £50 in 1986. A skyway hot seat cost me £8. Haro tyres a tenner or thereabouts....
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My gt performer cost me 500.00 complete in 87 from ashton bmx Blue and white loved it :daumenhoch:
I had a DP freestyler f=f from ashton bmx in 86 cost 70.00 new :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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My gt performer cost me 500.00 complete in 87 from ashton bmx Blue and white loved it :daumenhoch:
I had a DP freestyler f=f from ashton bmx in 86 cost 70.00 new :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
£500 in 87, wow! That was more what I was expecting pre this thread! :)
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Did gt and haro completes get more expensive in the late 80's or something?
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My gt performer cost me 500.00 complete in 87 from ashton bmx Blue and white loved it :daumenhoch:
I had a DP freestyler f=f from ashton bmx in 86 cost 70.00 new :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
£500 in 87, wow! That was more what I was expecting pre this thread! :)
yes i had looked at f+f sit in that shop for about 12 months so when i got paid out for my bike being nicked i had phill build me that gt up with all the parts on that i wanted
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My 1st bmx was a Raleigh Super Burner that my parents bought for me for Christmas 1981 & I think it cost them £110 which at the time was a lot of money & back then, neither my parents or many of my friends parents for that matter had much money to spare. Most of the kids back then had various burners, mostly standard burners that I think were around £95, a few of us had super burners which at the time we thought were the dogs bollox, one lad did have an ultra burner which were around £140, the rest had a mixture of team murrays from halfords, halfords turbo's as well I seem to remember were quite popular but nobody had the high end stuff. Then for my 13th birthday in 1983, my parents bought me a firebird freestyler frame & forks from county racing in Pontypridd, South Wales. The frame & forks complete with a tange headset cost £65! I thought it was ace right up until it snapped at the headtube, for those of you not in the know, the 1st generation DP freestylers had a top tube that was about 9 feet long & this caused the frames to break at the headtube. DP soon realised this & anyone who broke their 1st gen DP freestylers had them replaced free of charge for the gen 2 with the altered frame geometry. One other thing that I find quite ironic is the fact that the price of a pair of Skyway mags has hardly changed in over 30 years, back in the early 80's they cost £60 a pair, pretty much the same as they do today! Ah, happy days, brilliant memories & part of my life I will always cherish. :)
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Which is why you can never buy a TA as a RIDER. Mine snapped underneath the headtube, I found this out whilst I was riding it due to the back end swaying from side to side. My metalwork teacher said it was no trouble to weld and fix. He returned it to me with a welded gusset underneath!!! AaAaAAAAAArrRrGhhhhh!!!!
lol
:wtf:
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cant remember what this cost me back in the day, remember the frame cost me about 60 quid :LolLolLolLol: and the levers/crank/rear brake were off my aero pro, would like to know how much it cost to build if anybodys got any old price lists, still have all of it too 8)
oh ye took me a year to build, earning 10 quid a week for my saturday job ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n477/stevencosta/Image068-1.jpg)
Are you selling that seat of it Steve ? ;D
Mum just reminded me that I have boxes of old BMX magazines from the 80s at her house. I shall have a look through them for price guides!!
Don't do it 4 fooks sake it will scare u stupid :2funny:
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Check out the following link for a list of what things cost back in 1984:
http://www.gamesroom-online.co.uk/bmx/bmx_prices_in_1984.htm
Interesting!!
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Check out the following link for a list of what things cost back in 1984:
http://www.gamesroom-online.co.uk/bmx/bmx_prices_in_1984.htm
Interesting!!
Thanks for posting this, been looking for it for quite a while! :daumenhoch:
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Amazing find!!!!
That was what I had too a pacer 500!
Cheers!!! :)
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1/2 of lager £0.70 and i was anybody`s
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1/2 of lager £0.70 and i was anybody`s
In my mum's pub in 1986 a pint of Carlsberg was £1.02 :daumenhoch:
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1/2 of lager £0.70 and i was anybody`s
1/2 pint of lager today = £2.00 and I'm still anybody's. :D
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cant remember what this cost me back in the day, remember the frame cost me about 60 quid :LolLolLolLol: and the levers/crank/rear brake were off my aero pro, would like to know how much it cost to build if anybodys got any old price lists, still have all of it too 8)
oh ye took me a year to build, earning 10 quid a week for my saturday job ;D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n477/stevencosta/Image068-1.jpg)
When i bought my FF f&f it was about £60 -70,that was 1983 :(.And a pint of lager or cider was about 75p when i started going in the boozer :)
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Just found a picture of me achieving "NO AIR" status after watching Kick Start on my Puch - does anyone know what this weighty beast was called? I am looking to see if I have a better photo....
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n640/77orange/20110529124140_00068A.jpg)
Then ignoring the matching LFC kits (I am on the left after lending my cousin the home kit) - tight short central........................ This is the Pacer 500 (think) that Mum upgraded me to!! That was sold for narcotics..................My take on being Zammo from Grange Hill!
No idea what my cousin is riding, although just spotted I am sporting my much loved "Patrick Liverpool" trainers..........and yes that is Mum's Triumph in the background...OUCH - no wonder I declined lifts!!
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n640/77orange/20110529140734_00008A.jpg)
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Best thing about Rad these old photos, quality!
Patrick trainers! Loved my Patrick Stabil.
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Found it!!!
Name that Puch!
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n640/77orange/20110529193059_00057A.jpg)
(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n640/77orange/20110529193059_00054A.jpg)
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Best thing about Rad these old photos, quality!
Patrick trainers! Loved my Patrick Stabil.
Agreed!! I could spend all day on here looking at this stuff!!
The legendary Stabil's!!! Fine choice of footwear!! :)