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Welcome! => Welcome => Topic started by: wildoliver on April 22, 2014, 05:29 PM

Title: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: wildoliver on April 22, 2014, 05:29 PM: Hi guys,

Found this site by random to be honest, back in the day I had a couple of diamond backs and a Scorpion, all pretty mundane stuff by the standards of this site, but I had a friend who spent far too much of his pocket money on Haro and S+M frames, always put mine to shame!

Now of course I'm in my 30s, a lot less fit and when I do get out on a bike it tends to be a road bike, but I still have a soft spot for BMXs and look wistfully after them as I see the local kids bunny hopping off kerbs, god I miss those days of no worries!

I do a lot of bike restos as I run a business restoring classic cars alongside my sensible day job, it used to be my main income but I decided to take the reliable money rather then the sporadic self employed income of the classics, can't leave it behind though and restore 3-4 cars a year, inbetween I do a couple of bike builds either keeping them for myself or selling them on, I fell really lucky last year and found a new old stock Raleigh Pro race, my childhood race bike, absolutely awesome to see it again, my next mission is to find a scorpion, so I will be watching the classifieds very closely! I had a lovely (heavy as anything but I loved it) Scorpion in white with the twin top tubes, one piece crank, spoked wheels with black rims, that frame took some hammer over the years, I ended up fitting a 5 speed rear block and mech and it stayed on for years, to be honest it transformed the bike, it was heavy anyway so a bit extra weight didn't matter, but made riding the bike pleasurable I did hundreds of miles on it as a teenager. Once I extended the seatpost too far and coming down after a jump it broke the seat tube top off, a very uncomfortable ride home with no saddle to learn how to braize with my dad watching over me and it was good as new though.

Happy days!
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: That Swan Guy on April 22, 2014, 05:39 PM: :welcome

Where in East Yorkshire?

Lots of us from South of the River ;)

Cleethorpes Old School Ride July 12th, get it in your diary. Over 120 Old School bikes :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: wildoliver on April 22, 2014, 05:57 PM: Oh excellent that sounds fun, not far either, currently live in Driffield, but used to live in a village called Skipsea, hence the gears on bmx I had to ride everywhere, used to ride across the cliffs and beach to Bridlington on summer hols every day and ride round there.
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: That Swan Guy on April 22, 2014, 06:05 PM: http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,169889.0.html
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: wildoliver on April 22, 2014, 06:08 PM: Brilliant thanks!
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: BMX1973 on April 22, 2014, 08:08 PM: :welcome to :radbmxsmilie: :daumenhoch:

Get some pics up of your Raleigh. :)

Wouldnt mind seeing a few old car pics also. Can do a thread in non bmx. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: gary4130 on April 28, 2014, 11:30 PM: welcome mate ,i live up the road in sunny bridlington 8)
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: wildoliver on April 29, 2014, 06:18 PM: Thanks guys, I'll get some pics up when I get chance, probably won't be in a hurry to be honest!
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: Hurricane1 on May 31, 2014, 02:05 PM: Hello and welcome mate :daumenhoch:
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Post by: CustardLips on June 01, 2014, 08:38 AM: :welcome to Rad. :daumenhoch:
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Post by: griff on June 01, 2014, 08:42 AM: Welcome to Rad :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
Post by: Bru on June 03, 2014, 09:53 PM: Welcome.. Enjoy the site :4_17_5:

Bru :daumenhoch: