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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: markyp on July 20, 2012, 04:59 PM
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i saw a similar thread over on the museum recently and it got me thinking. forget what you know now about various brands,prices,which are more collectable,how much they are worth now etc etc,put yourself back to the begining of your bmx days when you first wanted a bmx,which bmx would have put the biggest smile on your face if youd walked out of the shop with it?? my earliest memories are based around diamondback,mongoose,kuwahara and redline so im guessing quite possibly a diamond back of some description probably a silver streak as they were all the rage then would have made me the happiest kid in the world back in the summer of 83,what about you?? ::)
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Kuwahara Laserlite :smitten:
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PK Ripper or Quadangle was my dream :shocked: Yes I know ::)
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My first BMX and I still have it now. PK Ripper :smitten: . I remember reading and hearing all about them and nagging my Dad for ages about getting one but he always said " sorry but we can't afford one". One day out the blue he said" I've seen a bike for sale, Raleigh something, let's go and take a look". Reluctant to go we head off to the lads house and in the front room was the bike.....a burnished Ripper..I nearly pissed myself with excitement ;D
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My first bike was a moto 1 but i always yearned for a HLT :smitten: :smitten:
I got bought a DB senior Pro as my first proper race bike but always felt cheated as i got the cheaper option :idiot2: I didn't realise that they were exactly the same frames just one was smoked.
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PK Ripper or Quadangle was my dream :shocked: Yes I know ::)
thats the beauty of this thread steve,its all about the innocence before we became brainwashed :daumenhoch:
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Blue and yellow mk1 tuff burner as that's what my mates had, but to be honest I was just as stoked with my GS I got for Christmas 82 :daumenhoch:
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DP Firebird for me, I had a gusset goose which I had blinged up but I loved the Dp's twin tubes and its low slung sleek appearance! :smitten:
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Diamond Back, Redline MX or a MotoMag
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White Skyway TA.. :daumenhoch:. A guy round my way had one and It used to blow my mind everytime I saw it. I eventually got an Aero burner that I rattle canned white and put TA stickers on. That was as near as I ever got ;D.
Si.
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i wanted one of these so much, well before i had heard of any other bmx brands, i used to pedal up-town just to stare at it through halfords shop window when i was only 11 or 12, if my parents knew where i was they would have gone crazy....
the one on the left...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/575082_10150918112699184_28669212_n1.jpg)
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A bloke a few years older than me had a Chrome GT Pro and he instantly became my hero.....................until I raced at Tolworth track and saw two brothers (can't remember their names) racing Quadangles. My dream bike and one that helped me get back into this.
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Kuwahara Laserlite :smitten:
What he said.
My iconic bike for sure
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The first BMX's I saw were Murray's but if we are talking the first bike you yearned for
for me in 1981 I would have give anything for a Supergoose that was THE utimate ,, to me :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
(http://www.jpdeane.com/bmx/mybikes/1982supergoose/1982supergoose_bobafett01.jpg)
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i wanted one of these so much, well before i had heard of any other bmx brands, i used to pedal up-town just to stare at it through halfords shop window when i was only 11 or 12, if my parents knew where i was they would have gone crazy....
the one on the left...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/575082_10150918112699184_28669212_n1.jpg)
exactly my dreams as well!!
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Has to be a Torker 280x, a older guy in town had a chrome and Yellow one, he was a celebrity to us kids. I remember him pulling up to meet my older brother in the local cemetery, i can still remember the bike like it was a week ago :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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I wanted a burner in team colours, , be it a Andy Ruff rep or a team aero pro. [I ended up with a second hand mkll super burner] Funnily enough I still havent restored or owned one yet
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i wanted one of these so much, well before i had heard of any other bmx brands, i used to pedal up-town just to stare at it through halfords shop window when i was only 11 or 12, if my parents knew where i was they would have gone crazy....
Sam, I've seen you pedaling up town just to stare through La Senza's shop window. ;D
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mk1 tuff burner for me.
if i was gonna build another old school bike it would be one of them.
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diamond back turbo lite.. i loved the stickers and the whole thing to look at! :4_17_5:
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i wanted one of these so much, well before i had heard of any other bmx brands, i used to pedal up-town just to stare at it through halfords shop window when i was only 11 or 12, if my parents knew where i was they would have gone crazy....
Sam, I've seen you pedaling up town just to stare through La Senza's shop window. ;D
Steve I remember you said he rushes straight back home to the Rocky Horror show too :shocked: :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Massive fan of Stompin' Stu - so obsessed about Redlines - the local bike shop had an MXIII in the window for ages. Every Saturday I went to look at it. Never could afford it and it was sold after a couple of months. Building one now though.... ;D
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TA, Neil's orange Beat, Team Burner, Eddie's Performer :daumenhoch:
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Has to be the quadrangle, never seen anything like.....and I don't own one now, but that's gonna change
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Has to be the quadrangle, never seen anything like.....and I don't own one now, but that's gonna change
You going all "loopy" again Pedro ;)
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Has to be the quadrangle, never seen anything like.....and I don't own one now, but that's gonna change
You going all "loopy" again Pedro ;)
No mate just want another quad,,blue frame brown forks camo pads, just like my old one, remember Sid salisburys bitd, met him earlier this year and he said he painted his forks brown bitd
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Has to be the quadrangle, never seen anything like.....and I don't own one now, but that's gonna change
You going all "loopy" again Pedro ;)
No mate just want another quad,,blue frame brown forks camo pads, just like my old one, remember Sid salisburys bitd, met him earlier this year and he said he painted his forks brown bitd
Cool :coolsmiley:
Sid was 8) and his bike was sweet as :smitten:
In action :4_17_5:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n249/citypets2/106.jpg)
Do you know summat Pete I know someone with some camo Quad pads for sale :LolLolLolLol:
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Raleigh Pro Burner for me :4_17_5: Had a Super burner to start with and stripped that gold straight off, yellow skyway on the rear, gold araya on the front, CW bars, gold suntour stem and Shimano SX levers :smitten: Ended up getting a Pro burner frame from the Raleigh shop in Bognor Regis. Jim, the owner said it came from the Raleigh Team, had a cracked gusset so they didn't want it anymore :idiot2: Their loss, my gain until my mate got his Torker :knuppel2: I was smitten with that and pestered the living daylights out of him for it. He caved in '83 and it was mine ;D
Built my replica to it last year :smitten:
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no, thats when i was going banging your misses.... :coolsmiley:
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I remember wanting a gusset Supergoose when we very first saw a BMX where we lived, but in the summer of '83 I saw the new Mongooses in the flesh at a big bike shop in Stourbridge, about 5 miles from where we lived. However, hanging in the window at the top of the 'Goose display was a smoked chrome ProClass which was so expensive my parents wouldn't even let me touch it....... :shocked: :shocked:
6 months later my parents bust a gut and sold their souls to buy me a Mongoose Cali and I loved every second I spent on that bike for years..... but I never, ever forgot that day I saw my first and only ProClass :smitten: :smitten: