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Title: The one
Post by: Devilock on December 03, 2014, 10:04 AM
No collection just one bike, what would you choose...?

You could have a full-on exotic build comprised of NOS components but you need to consider if that would truly mean something to you.

I think I would choose a completely NOS Super Tuff.

Title: Re: The one
Post by: Spen69 on December 03, 2014, 11:02 AM
That's easy Rich, my Park Retrogoose. Old school looks but newschool tech - best bike I've ever owned and ridden and will be the very last item to leave my cave when I'm old and can't ride anymore :coolsmiley:

My 1978 Team Mongoose if it had to be one of those old crappy things...... the mk1 Goose is iconic and reminds me of the very first BMX I ever saw even to this day - they always looked like they'd been welded in a shed made from bits of tube and plate and box-sections found lying around :daumenhoch:

I should probably put loads of expensive 70's parts on it, but that's not my bag baby so I'm just glad it's hanging on the wall and it brings a smile to my face when I go into my man-cave. Obviously I brush past it to reach for my Retrogoose, but hey-ho, I still ride and I'm not gonna do it on an antique now am I >:D
Title: Re: The one
Post by: Monk_Wally_Honk on December 03, 2014, 11:20 AM
I'd love to have a Looptail PK Ripper. Never owned or even ridden one but drooled oven them back then and still do.

Feel free to send me one.
Title: Re: The one
Post by: brummie on December 03, 2014, 11:42 AM
my bike from back in the day without question
sold it in my teens for 50 quid  :'(
wasnt owt special in fact i have no idea who made it but it was red & chrome and had ambrosio rims
i remember the evening my parents surprised me with it
i had had a nasty fall off the back of my raleigh boxer and had hurt the back of my head, my parents bought me a halfords helmet and it was sitting on the kitchen table, they then said you might as well have a bmx to go with it and led me too it!!!

my lovely Dad upgraded parts for me through pestering, mx1000's ame grips, sm mushies and the like. I remember halfords on corporation street brum having a big closing down sale and comin home on the 50 bus armed with sr cranks, hubs, stem

Lost my Dad a couple of years back and to think that he spent the time to choose and buy this bike for me would make still owning it now even more special !!
shame i dont and a big regret but hey hoh

Thanks Dad, miss you mate x

PS Thanks Rich
was actually nice to remeniss
bought a big smile to my face when I recalled the night I got my lovely BMX

Forever Hooked  :smitten:


Title: Re: The one
Post by: oldtired on December 03, 2014, 11:44 AM
Team Murray , blue one , lester mags , my first bmx ,  still get the xmas morning butterflies when i see one ,  would have to be a nos one in a box not a resto though ,  (i know no chance  ;D)  , was the first bike i was left alone to fix and repair myself , and buy parts for , the old man was a roadie rider and showed  me a few bits before but was uninterested in doing anything with a bmx as he thought it was a fad and would be binned in six months ,   took me ages to convince him to get me it , £96 was a lot back then and it was in the house built in the spare room from sep '80 waiting for xmas day  , 

never had the desire to want the "best of the best" millon quid bike, even back then , never had the brass, and we hardly ever saw top end stuff round our way.

 Like most on here  i started riding bmx as the "craze" took off and having a bike you could launch of a bit wood without the forks folding up when you landed was the best thing ever, hacking round the woods on knobbly tires getting covered in mud n shite ,

 later on it became a way of getting out of the house as the old man was a bit of a coont most of the time, so bmx was always a way to remove myself from that  , and it all started with a pos heavy as fook funny looking bike ,   that means a lot to me i suppose,
 
Title: Re: The one
Post by: griff on December 03, 2014, 11:45 AM
I thought that this would be an easy choice, as my OS 'collection' only amounts to 2 bikes

Always thought that it would be the Silverfox, as that what I had BITD but if push came to shove I think I'd keep the Ripper, the amount of time I spent over every bit of the build and the way it rides makes it very special.

If I could somehow get hold of my original, actual Silverfox though, that would be the one - complete with GT layback, black Z rims, Sharp grips and Suntour seat clamp and headlock.
Title: Re: The one
Post by: WINI on December 03, 2014, 11:59 AM
Gott be the BITD bike for me too.  I remember chosing an Ammaco freestyle King after seeing one in Watson Cairns bike shop in Leeds, but later found them cheaper over in Manchester and after adding some pocket money of my own, managed to get the Pro instead.  Found the box under a bed in my Grans house before Xmas and almost pi55ed myself.  I can still remember the shiny Pro Class hoops at the end of the box when I sneaked a look.

So, 1985 Ammaco Pro Class in Chrome if push came to shove, with the exact spec it had (apart from a cheap stem which I snapped very quickly and got a GT mallet instead)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: CustardLips on December 03, 2014, 12:02 PM
My bitd GT Pro.  :smitten:
I'll build it one day.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: The one
Post by: NORTY40 on December 03, 2014, 12:16 PM
Easy for me , my first BMX from bitd MT Silverfox ...... still got it and it will be the one that never goes  :)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: bodamus on December 03, 2014, 12:34 PM
Easy one for me my Kuwahara Exhibitionist wont part with it everything else has come and gone including a Nomura, Slingshot Hutch's and many more but this one has always stayed with me :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: The one
Post by: MartyC on December 03, 2014, 01:57 PM
Easy for me, ACE Racing pro with red Uni hammerhead, Race Inc bars, chrome Arayas, Mongoose skinwalls, DC 890, Oakley IIs,  Sugino 1 piece crank, MKS BM7 pedals...

It wouldn't be left outside under my mates kitchen window this time around.
Title: Re: The one
Post by: Jaan on December 03, 2014, 01:59 PM
DeCoster... If I was living in Florida again...
Title: Re: The one
Post by: 58 delray on December 03, 2014, 03:16 PM
my ACE, one day i will finish it  ;)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: chubby on December 03, 2014, 03:22 PM
I'm lucky enough to still have my freestyler from bitd & it's going nowhere  :yahoo_silent:
Title: Re: The one
Post by: Mat on December 03, 2014, 03:35 PM
Same as most people, me bike from BITD

83 Piranha in black & yella
Title: Re: The one
Post by: southern andy on December 03, 2014, 04:08 PM
One bike i could keep out of MY bikes, it would be my Profile Champ Pro.

The rest of my completes are tosh compared to this. ^^^
Title: Re: The one
Post by: sawzall on December 03, 2014, 04:58 PM
that's an easy one my sre pro team model:Great_Britain:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y77/sawzall717/IMG_3647_zpsb2b75e4d.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/sawzall717/media/IMG_3647_zpsb2b75e4d.jpg.html)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: bigfatolly on December 03, 2014, 06:33 PM
My Rickman Freestyler that was nicked in 86.
I built a replica of it but I always dreamt of seeing someone riding it so I could get it back.
Replica I still love though....
Title: Re: The one
Post by: Betty on December 03, 2014, 07:16 PM
My new school S&M it's the only bike I own now, and the only one I want to keep
Title: Re: The one
Post by: Pooch on December 03, 2014, 08:05 PM
My puch invader.. Building one at the mo.. Remember when my mum presented it to me and She thought I didn't like it. I just new she was skint and that made me sad.. Loved that bike..
Title: Re: The one
Post by: pickle on December 03, 2014, 09:20 PM
Like Spent, it would have to be the knight Goose  :smitten:
Title: Re: The one
Post by: wdjg38 on December 04, 2014, 06:55 AM
Watson Cairns bike shop in Leeds,  that brings back memories would have to say my teal haro invert the first brand new bike I ever got begged for that bike and was ordered in for me special order
Title: Re: The one
Post by: ED209 on December 04, 2014, 11:40 AM
the one I can win MK with  :buck2:
Title: Re: The one
Post by: MartyC on December 04, 2014, 02:36 PM
my ACE, one day i will finish it  ;)

You know where it needs to go to be finished  ;)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: 58 delray on December 04, 2014, 03:03 PM
my ACE, one day i will finish it  ;)

You know where it needs to go to be finished  ;)
still cant find the tyres i need mate  :(
Title: Re: The one
Post by: MartyC on December 04, 2014, 03:11 PM
my ACE, one day i will finish it  ;)

You know where it needs to go to be finished  ;)
still cant find the tyres i need mate  :(

What tyres are you after Andy?
Title: Re: The one
Post by: region11 on December 05, 2014, 10:13 PM
My 84 Skyway ta....nothing out of the ordinary about it other than I've owned it since christmas 1984 :)
Title: Re: The one
Post by: bmxband1t77 on December 07, 2014, 09:43 PM
It would have to be a torker chrome haro master fully fitted out with graphite coaster and vector bars. Never had one ever....sniff


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Title: Re: The one
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on December 07, 2014, 09:53 PM
FBM autopilot
Title: Re: The one
Post by: eddie kidd on December 07, 2014, 10:45 PM
Can I expand...

Race...
Raleigh Aero Pro...

Freestyle...
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