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Title: who started riding bmx first? what year?
Post by: theRuler on January 17, 2007, 02:35 AM: well it wasn't me - i got a bmx in xmas 83.

who on here got a bmx first?
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Post by: Trev on January 17, 2007, 03:09 AM: weren't me. bill, dan, twobobrob etc all stopped before i started.... :-\
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Post by: electobooty on January 17, 2007, 03:30 AM: 'sall in defition . I was certainly Bicycle Moto riding in the 70's and got my first BMX in 82

Go figure

That was my first what I would now call real BMX, I went through a few Huffy's and Murrays

Still would like to know the murray i had, tried a thread on the old site to no joy maybe now there are some team murray buffs LMK

In 83 i got my DP :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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Post by: gt0733 on January 17, 2007, 05:41 AM: i started pretending on a modified dragster around 1977 and getting my first real cro-mo frame in early 1979. it was an aussie quicksilver ( i got some pics in the other topic) then in february 1982 i got the best (in my eyes) a redline prolineII f/f set which i built up in different guises over a few years and stopped in 1984 when cars and tits became important.
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Post by: Flaz on January 17, 2007, 06:11 AM: got my first "BMX" 1980 mongoose, I was aged 11 yrs / actually got bike for my 11th birthday :4_17_5: it used to sleep in my bedroom with me for months ;D
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Post by: ghostriderx on January 17, 2007, 06:23 AM: late 1979 on mi team murray 346 so it can't be me :P
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Post by: Dingobmxer on January 17, 2007, 06:29 AM: Rode amodified Grifter first after seeing BMXA in John Menzies then my brother bought me my first BMX for Xmas, he was 16 which makes it 1980 I think?
:) DINGO :)
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Post by: harris on January 17, 2007, 07:38 AM: 1979 for me basildon rubbish bike but had it around 3 years till i moved then cant remember its downfall.
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Post by: zed4130 on January 17, 2007, 07:50 AM: I rode my first bmx in 1979 a mongoose ? had a coaster brake ' although i had a grifter ' but i didnt get my own till 82 a mag burner :daumenhoch:
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Post by: oberonspacefruit on January 17, 2007, 07:52 AM: second hand burner. cant remember when.early 80's.
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Post by: MartyC on January 17, 2007, 09:24 AM: I can't remember if it was 1979 or 1980, I do know two weeks after I got it I raced at Chatham on the wooden ramps and then a few weeks later at Chatham again in the pouring rain but on the proper track, remember my mum freaking out at how dirty the bike was :daumenhoch:
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Post by: piper on January 17, 2007, 09:25 AM: 1978..on a mates Webco,he brought it over from the states.... :)
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Post by: RATTY on January 17, 2007, 09:26 AM: Christmas 1980, a mongoose from rolf hagen the motor cycle shop. But I was building them up in a bike shop 6 months before that
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Post by: sadowdgit on January 17, 2007, 09:40 AM: october 1979 for me...... i remember it well :daumenhoch:
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Post by: bmxmatt1974 on January 17, 2007, 09:41 AM: xmas 81 had my first bike
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Post by: priv on January 17, 2007, 09:44 AM: 1980 for me,i was riding a raleigh comando with a gaffa taped grifter seat, a bodged 3 speed{an old spoke shoved in,instead of a gear chain}& loose cotterpins on my cranks,i'll never forget that bike.

sacked my paper round off when i got my BMX so i could ride as soon as i got out of school,thoughs were the days :smitten:

priv
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Post by: db-oldskool on January 18, 2007, 09:10 AM: My first was this,only not so nice looking.I got it in either 78 or 79,kinda big for me then.
This is reilley1's by the way but it's exactly the same as mine was.
It's one heavy SOB too. ;D
Mine didn't have decals on it so I never knew what it was called,that headtube decal kills me,looks like it says "As seen on TV". :2funny:

(http://images.vintagebmx.com/web_pages/sidehackguy/STRO1.jpg)
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Post by: jimwise68 on January 18, 2007, 10:46 AM: I was trying jumps when I was about 6 (1974) still got the scar on my chin where I went over the bars and had to have stitches. I had a poxy little gold bike with white wheels it was called a Golden Arrow. Still remember it. I was trying to copy Evel Knievel.

Then got a Tomahawk Formula One, gold with grey mag wheels and 3 gears. Used to do jumps on that too and it used to wheelie really easily (sit right back on the rear higher part of the seat and away you went.

Got a grifter about 1978ish and started stand up wheelies and jumps.

Then got my Mk1 Burner in 1981...
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Post by: stidds on January 18, 2007, 10:58 AM: I got my 1st real BMX in 1980 when I lived in the USA.
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Post by: Geth on January 18, 2007, 02:25 PM: Always rode dirt and made up tracks in the old Brickyard from as long ago as I can remember.
I'm guessing early to mid 70's on modified road bikes with cowhorns and nobbly tyres.
We called it "scrambling" then! How we rode them I don't know. They must have been massive!
Grifter was the start of the 20" wheels for me mid 70's and a Team Murray BMX came to me Xmas '79 (I think. Pretty sure I had it before we moved house in '80)
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Post by: Jazzchimp on January 18, 2007, 03:40 PM: 79 I think with a Murray 340
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Post by: Rombloke on January 18, 2007, 03:46 PM: Quote from: Jazzchimp on January 18, 2007, 03:40 PM
79 I think with a Murray 340

same as that...lol...three post in a row on murray 340's with lesters and coaster brake....

does anyone have a copy of the team murray catalogue....i used to drool at that every evening pestering the fook out of my dad for one.

Dave
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Post by: DR VINOAH on January 18, 2007, 03:56 PM: 79 for me also

but a heavy as fook motomag

with a pedalback brake :)
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Post by: Jazzchimp on January 18, 2007, 04:15 PM: I've got one dave, I'll copy it and post one to you - already sent one to retro si
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Post by: Rombloke on January 18, 2007, 04:24 PM: excellent carl, thanks mate.

i cant believe i asked for somthing that i thought noone would have and you got it....cool

Dave
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Post by: jimmyp on January 18, 2007, 04:33 PM: xmas 82 for me :-\ :-\
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Post by: Jazzchimp on January 18, 2007, 04:41 PM: It's even got the shop prices of all the range on it in biro... well cool!!
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Post by: Rombloke on January 18, 2007, 05:07 PM: get it scanned you slag

Dave
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Post by: sawzall on January 18, 2007, 07:47 PM: 79 on my mates murray then soon after got a mud cruncher :shocked: would love to find one and restore it to its former shiteyness ;)
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Post by: theRuler on January 18, 2007, 08:00 PM: mud cruncher, lol
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Post by: Superkav on January 18, 2007, 08:18 PM: 84/85 MkII Raleigh Super Burner I was only 10 but I remember it like yesterday.
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Post by: andy619 on January 18, 2007, 10:11 PM: 83 for me on a mini Robinson. 83-84 bmx racing. 84-91 ramps and skateparks.
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Post by: billstup on January 18, 2007, 10:46 PM: 1979 on a Mongoose wire wheel, I saved up from my Saturday job at a butchers and my Mum chipped in too so that I could go over to my local bike shop, Holdsworths`in Welling, and pick up the bike that I`d been drooling over for months that was in the window :smitten:

I remember riding it down the high st and nearly going over the handle bars as the coaster brake kicked in :wtf:
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Post by: rudhallrascal on January 19, 2007, 02:14 AM: 82 for me on a mk1 burner that lasted 12months then upgraded to a dp firebird 8)
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Post by: Pooch on April 20, 2014, 08:08 PM: 79 on my team Murray.. :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Jono on April 20, 2014, 08:17 PM: swapped my racer witha neighbour for a schwinn moto cross in 79, then my team murray for xmas 1980
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Post by: Pooch on April 20, 2014, 08:21 PM: Quote from: Jono on April 20, 2014, 08:17 PM
swapped my racer witha neighbour for a schwinn moto cross in 79, then my team murray for xmas 1980
Did you snap the Murray? Most did, near the seat tube..
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Post by: Jaan on April 20, 2014, 08:28 PM: 77, a Motomag - I started pretty young as I'm the youngest of 4 boys so a lot of my interest was born from their influence...
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Post by: steve69 on April 21, 2014, 09:11 AM: 79 for me with a Redline MXII :smitten:
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Post by: QUADROPHENIA on April 21, 2014, 09:37 AM: Never ridden them just go on the forums
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Post by: ED209 on April 21, 2014, 09:43 AM: did Marty McFly bring this thread back?
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Post by: CustardLips on April 21, 2014, 09:46 AM: Xmas 81 Raleigh Burner crew. :D
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Post by: Jono on April 21, 2014, 10:46 AM: Quote from: Pooch on April 20, 2014, 08:21 PM
Quote from: Jono on April 20, 2014, 08:17 PM
swapped my racer witha neighbour for a schwinn moto cross in 79, then my team murray for xmas 1980
Did you snap the Murray? Most did, near the seat tube..

I did snap it exactly where you said, but took it back to shop n got a new chrome frame, didn't go with my blue bars yellow pad set n lester mags :LolLolLolLol: