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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: brakedancer on July 17, 2012, 12:49 PM

Title: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: brakedancer on July 17, 2012, 12:49 PM
would it be so wrong to run compIII on a trickstar....looking through some of my old mag's ive seen some freestyle bike's with them on.....??
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: Gnarlyscoots on July 17, 2012, 12:51 PM
Your bike bro, your rules!! Run what you like as you are riding it  ;)
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: pickle on July 17, 2012, 12:54 PM
only ever ran comp III's and white walls BITD

As said........do what you feel is right.....be right fooking boring if we all did the same  ;D
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: dordymush on July 17, 2012, 01:52 PM
dont forget mike D on the cover of action bike mag running blue comp 3's  :daumenhoch:.
i kinda like to see em.
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: theRuler on July 17, 2012, 05:15 PM
A lot of people run Comp 3 type tyres in the 80's.

TBH you would use whatever wasn't fooked half the time.
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: deeman on July 17, 2012, 11:32 PM
Yep,you did see alot of comp 3's being used in freestyle early on cos there werent really any alternatives in 82ish.I seem to remember Craig Campbell running them on his t/a when he was on Skyway.I personally hate to see knobbly tyres on a freestyle bike,just doesn't look right imo.By the time the Trick Star came out in 84 there were comp st's and the like! :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on July 17, 2012, 11:37 PM


1983 white walls was cool
Title: Re: tyre's!!!!!
Post by: SteveG on July 18, 2012, 12:08 AM
Comp 3's (or that style) were about all you could get and it was only when people started looking for freestyle tyres that anyone made anything more specific.
I started out with all black Michelin street tyres, then shopers of the same make or Kenda and then I think GT brought out their tyre. Not sure if they were supposed to be a freestyle tyre but I found them better for some tricks.
When I dug my bike out years later it still had the GT tyres on it but the sidewalls were a bit perished, back to shopper tyres for now !
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