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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: brass monkey! on July 06, 2012, 07:34 AM
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I reckon there are a few real OLD OLD school collectors on here, would be interested to know when;
You bought your first OS BMX
What was it / how much
How did you get back into Old School
I'll get the ball rolling;
Rediscovered OS BMX back end of 2004
Bought a US made Trickstar end 2004 (for £105)
mate of mine from BITD had just bought a Raceinc (for £35! complete), so I started looking around ebay.... discovered RAD a short while later - the rest is history :)
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I think around the early part of 04, ebay first, then discovered Rad 8)
The first F&F I brought was a Nos 86 Green Master from Stuntmaster for £180 I think, this was when you could get Nos 85 Masters everywhere for £200, I also brought off US eBay GT Profile crank arms for $15 Nos, but just the arms :shocked:
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Around 1998 I think, I was clearing my folks shed out and for some reason decided to take the old Ripper out for a blast ^"^ a couple of weeks later I had another one which if I remember I paid £80 for :shocked:
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Bought a street eat off eBay in about 2003. Didn't find rad till a few years later. Maybe 2006?
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i got back into it around 2001/3 i think ??? always been into MTB's in a big way and wondered about having an old BMX........Typed Skyway into ebay and found a green (yes you guessed it) Street Beat frame, forks, bars and disgusting green braced layback post all for the price of about £70 :shocked: i drove all the way up north to pick her up and i think it was off Dordy ???
along the bottom of the auction were the dreaded words www.radbmx.co.uk and the rest of my life was never the same!! :LolLolLolLol:
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Never did Bmx till I found this place last summer, worst bunch of cnunts I have ever met.......proper mentals
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bought this off ebay in about 2005 after see'ing my old original redline at my mates house....
(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z393/quattro2011/Picture.jpg)
about 18months later i found you loonies....
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Never did Bmx till I found this place last summer, worst bunch of cnunts I have ever met.......proper mentals
;D
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2001 for me, bought a white haro master from Biagio, still in me loft now and the addiction started! Was part of the original "blue" radbmx site before it switched to here, prices were amazing back then... :)
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Hootski found his old Chromo Burner in our dad's shed and his bird at the time was a Voltswagon nut and asked him to build it up. I said how cool it was and wished I'd still got my BMX from BITD as we'd spent the years in between on MTB's and I still bunnyhopped everything......
So he scoured a couple of old bikeshops he knew and found unbelievably a boxed Ammaco 202 and built it up for my 30th birthday present. I was 43 this week and even though it's a POS I will never sell it as it's identical to the very first BMX I had in '82 and was again when I got back into BMX in '99.
Found eBay in 2003 and you lot in May 2007. Regretted every day since then you bunch of retards...... ;-)
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about 2000 when prices were clown money n stuff on USebay were so cheap it was unbelievable and you were getting about $2.54 to the pound n customs couldnt give a fook, them were the days :daumenhoch:, funny as fook now laughing at the stupid prices your all paying now
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first f/f back into it was a GHP for £50 off rockchick! told you it was stooopid money, daft c*nt never had a clue back then :LolLolLolLol:
next was a complete 84 haro sport in the box £175
streetbeat f/f n bars in the box £79
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2001 bought a Diamond Back Silverstreak for £85 ;)
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Picked up a badly listed collection only complete Reflex loaded with really nice nos bits, was on a job down south & it tied in nicely with pickin it up, cost nowt, about 60 squid, prob 2007.
Found this place, bought a mint white quad F&F off Del & just swapped all these top parts off the Reflex. Voilą, dream bike from BITD.
Problem is I'm a serial hoarder who finds it hard to part wi stuff, so its become a bit of a storage issue!
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Start of 2010 - and straight back into racing.
Not currently doing any buying but I'll always be an Old Skool BMXer.
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November 2011 ish when I took my step son up to Summer Hill, Hartlepool . Him on a Reebok BMX made of lead and me on a mountain bike I have had since 1997! We went up to do some bonding ! Lol. Met up with some old lads I used to ride with in the 80's ! Since then first built an SE Assasin got the lad a Delux Team 2 ! We go up the track about 2 times a week but more if Donna let's us ! Second build was a Freeagent Limo !
The lad (Conor) and I have both raced in the North reginals ! He has moved on to and Intence Pro, second hand , which I built up for him !
We both love building and riding BMX!
Just got a Hyper F/F 21.75 ish TT build in progress and an also putting together a bit of a mid/new school race bike. Going to double up at Hartlepool in September !
Thanks to Daz, Bren, Gish, Russ, Phil, and Paul etc for theier help and friendship .
This site rocks wether you ride or collect or both !
Cheers Nick
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Got an NOS Aero Reflex Christmas 2009 from Biaggio after getting my eldest Son his first BMX and was instantly hooked. I try to forget the memories of my crappy old Super Burner from BITD by buying only the high end and rare stuff now. :D I found this place and made some some quality mates in 2010, love doing the London rides and MK rocks. :daumenhoch:
Adam
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2009 when a mate i used to race against brought his Survivor GT for me to look at .. First time back on a bike in 28 years and i did a 360 :coolsmiley:
Started my search for a Robinson the day after .. the illness continues :daumenhoch:
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After packing up racing for the second time in 1999, I still had the BMX itch. Kept up to date with the race results etc and had the odd ride out now and again. Had a little search on ebay one day and saw a few old BMX's I' wanted when I raced the first time round. Told my wife about it and she said you need a hobby, so why not get into OS BMX. That was it. Hooked. And with the wife's permission :daumenhoch:
2010 found RAD, bought a TA and the rest is history. :)
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2004/5 when I was living in Los Angeles a few of the dudes turned up for beers near Venice Beach on OS Performers. Once the hard on had gone semi enough to walk, I was hooked like it was 1983.
Cheers, AL.
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Nearly always had a BMX except for a few years gap in my 20's and then in my late 30's but always had parts lol,couldnt throw them out :daumenhoch:Never really been back to OS, just got stuck in mid school ;)Would like an OS but prices are silly now.Would have to be a shed/garage find now ::)
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always been into bmx and always wanted another trickstar again after seeing one at playstation in london back in 1999 and started looking for one but no joy with hot wheels or shiner as some american`s had bought the lot ::) .
kept looking and then sourced a chrome trickstar complete bike from oregon usa fon usa ebay for about 300 postage and was worried as never bought anything that amount on ebay and let alone from outside uk .
got it and was well chuffed and got my own computer back in 2000 and joined vintage bmx and the rest is history .
back then there was only 5 pages of bmx on ebay
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august 2008 properly although id had a passing interest in it for the previous two years,i started with a nos haro group 1.it was a chance conversation with a mate of mine that triggered off my memories of bmx.he had a 1950's bike to fook about on and i said in passing id love to have an old school bmx,he said look on ebay theres loads on there and away i went.im now in a mental home :uglystupid2:
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It was a Thursday a cool breeze was blowing from the south west, a blackbird was singing a sweet song sat on the Magnolia tree branch and the Mrs was cooking a pie for me, think it was steak and kidney :daumenhoch:
I typed in " Middle aged men into Monkey Porn and vertically challenged gay tartd's into kids bikes with nothing better to waste there money on" and found RAD :smitten:
As you can see....I search the web to satisfy my special needs 8)
Lately I've been hitting the swinging sites more and more :-\
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Around 1998 when i started going to VW shows and saw everyone riding o.s bikes.
I thought it was a great excuse to ride mine again so dug it out of the shed :)
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It was a Thursday a cool breeze was blowing from the south west, a blackbird was singing a sweet song sat on the Magnolia tree branch and the Mrs was cooking a pie for me, think it was steak and kidney :daumenhoch:
I typed in " Middle aged men into Monkey Porn and vertically challenged gay tartd's into kids bikes with nothing better to waste there money on" and found RAD :smitten:
As you can see....I search the web to satisfy my special needs 8)
Lately I've been hitting the swinging sites more and more :-\
ffs!! :LolLolLolLol:
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I was always on the look out to find bits for my old bike since the early 90's,couldnt find anything :(
Got some bits from Alan's in 2001,so i guess 2001 :)
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My first post on RAD was on: December 09, 2007, 03:22 pm so that'll be the day then.
I was on football forums so i googled to see if there were any BMX forums for sad old men and up came RAD.
I had checked Ebay previous to this for an old GJS which was my old racebike but nothing ever came up. I eventually bought a Freeagent Limo as my first build off of Daz Bmx off of here, i still have the bike aswell.
Thankfully my building has stopped for a while as my MK bike is finished and next season's build is stored away for a rainy day.
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Thankfully my building has stopped for a while as my MK bike is finished and next season's build is stored away for a rainy day.
its raining now tho ;D
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bought a Firebird Freestyler off my eldest sons mate in about 1996/97 for £20 and it sat in my shed until 2008, then found this place :crazy2:
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Bought my son a bmx in August 2007 he wanted to go to a skatepark, i took him and watched
A week later i bought a green 85 Haro Master complete off ebay for £250
I knew nothing about new school at the time, soon realised the haro was crap ;D
Found this place after meeting a bunch of old reprobates at the local skatepark.... i shouldn't have listened to em :LolLolLolLol:
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About 3 years ago for me. A mate of mine started me off again when I saw his restorations. Missed out on the cheap 'glory years' but found this place and my wallet emptied almost immediately. Been out of it since about 87/88 so missed the entire mid school and then end of old school really, which is weird as half my bikes are classed as part of this period, but I love the geometry of em.
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I started out in about 82...since then,i have ALWAYS owned at least one bmx bike,so never really stopped.
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got my red ripper 2000/2001 from Alans old shop when he was selling records , found this place 2006 ... and now i have my last f+f ill ever build :D
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got my first bmx back in 81/82 just a cheap jobbie but loved it . stopped rideing when we moved over here to ireland in 1986 . but still kept all the bikes that i had got between 81/86 .ecept 1 i gave away my first bike to a mate whos dad built a side hack out of it . move onto 2009 and i started to think about restoreing some of them . got talking to an old school mate jim wiseman on facebook who told me about RAD i registerd on here . but out of the blue life took a turn for the worse and bmx went out the window .anyway 2 years ago i got 2 of my old frames sandblasted but that was all i got done till this year . i rediscoverd RAD started buying parts and in febuary i bought myself a new school stolen and i try and ride it for at least half an hour every day. i have 2 of my old school bikes restored and i am currently buying more parts to do 3 more . i have 11 bikes that i had bitd plus i have bought 3 more since :idiot2: .we never learn :2funny:
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Jan 2011, saw a picture of a White goose on the net, thought "fook that's my street!" realised it was dan x600se over the road!
Can't stand the bloke now ,ruined my life! :LolLolLolLol:
Garage full, pockets empty,addiction to some sh!TTY website called radbmx(so the missus says ;))
Best year for ages , trying to ride again and loving it :2gunsfiring_v1:
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Never really got back into OS as apart from a break 92-93 I never stopped riding.Sort of stumbled across what was the OS thing when there was an event at the old Sankey Bridge track in the early OOs.Was good to see a few bikes/faces that hadn`t been around for a while.
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Early 2004,bought a Gt pro performer off eBay,turned out to be Pete quad ,it's all his fault the shuffle Munster
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Jan 2011, saw a picture of a White goose on the net, thought "fook that's my street!" realised it was dan x600se over the road!
Can't stand the bloke now ,ruined my life! :LolLolLolLol:
Garage full, pockets empty,addiction to some sh!TTY website called radbmx(so the missus says ;))
Best year for ages , trying to ride again and loving it :2gunsfiring_v1:
I was trying to groom someone into buying all my crap I needed to offload and not have to worry about shipping :LolLolLolLol:
My cousin kicked it off for me back in 08 when he bought a retro Mag Burner and I decided I needed a Cali frame :P 4 years down the line and every last penny spent or invested in BMX, wouldnt have it any other way though ;)
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I never really got that far away from BMX as I raced road bikes and mountain bikes after bmx and still hung out at Heff's Bike Shop from time to time until it closed but what really go me into collecting and hooking up with a lot of old mates was a chance encounter with a member here (Stuntmaster) who turned up to do a warranty repair on me new cooker way back in 2002/2003 (I can't quite remember) and we got chatting about old school skating (I was wearing a Powell t-shirt) and BMX. I mooched around the old site for a while, got myself a GT24 and started riding, joined BMXTalk and found out that TonyDaButcher lived across the road from me which was pretty funny at the time. Then bit the bullet in 2005, joined up on the new site and bought myself an 85 Master from Skatepool and a load of parts from the badger and away I went!
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When I got back into BMX 2003, my first build was a 83 PK Ripper which I pulled out of a skip. It turned out that the bike was mine back in the day !!!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz135/scorchermick/DSC00303.jpg)
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2004 I think it was :D Cost me a bloody fortune since :2funny:
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2004/5 for me . typed in old bmx on ebay and it went tats up for a few years , building all sorts . obsessed
had a clear out in 2008+2012
just got the one now, that will do i guess :LolLolLolLol:
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Late November 2010 for me , a mate of mine asked if i'd ever typed old school BMX in the eBay search box :shocked: it brought so many memories back so i bid on 2 just incase i lost one i ended up winning both ::) one of the sellers told me about this place :LolLolLolLol: then the spending started :LolLolLolLol:
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Early 2002 for me.. EBay did its thing.
Started on vintage bmx then when rad started came here the first night,
funny as there was only about 4-5 logged on
First bike was a silverstreak off radman. Paid around £90
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july 2008
had a look in halfords,and for some reason gt performer went off in me head
looked on ebay,bought a TA
then spent some more :crazy2:
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one of the sellers told me about this place :LolLolLolLol:
Who was it ?
I'll fookin chin him :knuppel2:
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Dordies fault I am here :LolLolLolLol: bought green muchies off him on the bay and there was a note in bag saying check out radbmx :2funny:
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Got back into Bmx around about 2002, like others started on Vintage first of all, then came over here not long after the forum started I think! Don't post much and lost my password for a while hence the low post count :LolLolLolLol:
First bikes I bought were a Reflex f & f for about £30, street beat f & f £40 in the ultra rare green colour ::), diamond back cool streak complete for $40.
First time I paid big money was a trip to Coopers Cycles in Portsmouth when I paid £500 for a '86 master with ukais!
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Hi all, new member.
Got into old school september 2011.
My mum got out some old photos of me from the 80's, pics of me on my old bikes.
Raleigh chrome burner, Rickman freestyler, GT Pro Performer and my last bike a Skyway TA.
That was it, i needed to get back on a proper BMX again, so im in the process of building a 1986 GT Pro World Tour
and a 1986 Haro master. ;D