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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: DIRTBIKER250F on March 09, 2007, 10:28 PM
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What BMX is the most iconic ?
Including o/s m/s and n/s, which one stand's out from the crowd as the greatest ?
Paul :Great_Britain:
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mongoose motomag for old
can't beat a standard lengthy for mid
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In the US the PK Ripper is the most iconic :daumenhoch:
The UK a tricky one :-\
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"pk.ripper" :daumenhoch: the uk the raliegh burner ::)
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4 me i gotta go with
OS loopy PK
MS s&m holmes
NS ????????????
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ripper was the dream bike
but the gussetty goose was the "people's bike"
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The "RIPPER" was always my dream bike but i mostly remember the first time i saw a white TA in Phills bmx shop in h,pool. Amazing site at the time,
and to me the most stand out bike i saw in the day. Although the Quad was Legendary up in the North(we wer'nt used to engineering back then) ;D
PAUL :Great_Britain:
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ripper & T.A for me.
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T A :daumenhoch:
(but Curtis is better ;))
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T/A without a dout.
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The most iconic In the US has to be the PK Ripper :daumenhoch:
The UK , as much as i hate to say it, the raleigh burner...
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GT Pro Performer
Hutch Trick Star
Super Goose
Burner (did I say that)
TA
Ripper
RL20 and RL20-II
Hutch Pro Star
I know these are mainly dream bikes, but thats my list, and I decide. :)
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Should do a top 20 all time greatest list as voted by RADBMX. Be interesting to see what the list would be :4_17_5:
PAUL :Great_Britain:
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Got to be the quadrangle just so distinctive :smitten:
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explain icon and i will answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From wikipedia....
"An icon (from Greek εἰκών, eikon, "image") is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an icon is a symbol on the monitor used to signify a command, file or record; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern popular culture, in the general sense of symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities."
Torker
Haro Gen 1
PK Ripper
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ok then for me it can only be one and this IS the most underated bmx icon wise ever and it is...
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the schwinn predator p 2000
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no hutch in here ...so why the stupid prices :LolLolLolLol:......back o the net :LolLolLolLol:
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hutch was very dexirable dont get me wrong shiny and nice however i me personaly only ever saw three pro srars at the time i was in south africa at the time of appartied and sanctions however what did us kids know about that shit? nothing we just wanted to have fun blac,green and yellow it dont matter at the end of the day however i expected older people to tow bow to the pressures that be (with hind site) all usa bikes big there so was uk bikes nowt else
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Most iconic UK bike has to be, and dare I say it...
The MK1 Raleigh Tuff Burner in blue and yellow.
Not the most desirable but it sums up all that is early BMX BITD. Bright colours, mag wheels, dirt tyres.
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From the very earliest start in the uk it has to be the mongoose 2, or the supergoose. Nothing else comes close
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street beat or haro master or gt performer. after that maybe the trickstar or the ta. burners are definitely in there regardless whether you like them or not.
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i do not meen to be rude here
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Iconic to me means most desirable at the time.
To me it was a Haro Sport because I could race it and freestyle it.
Mid school didn't exist for me at the time but now would be a Hoffman Condor or Evel Kneivel
New school to me would be a Kappa PK
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Any Chance of a RAD vote, pick 3 from a list of 20 iconic rides, also i do agree on the burner thing but orange an yellow :D
Paul :Great_Britain: :Great_Britain:
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for me the most iconic uk bmx would have to be the burner ,, most of are parents who are now in there 60's and 70's if you stuck a burner in front of them and said what type of bike is this 95% of them would answer "like the one you had as a kid, is it xbm , mxb , bmx yes thats it bmx" ) shame really aint it but dont forget we where just coming out of the 70's and most of us where poor...
most desirable bikes Bitd T/A Ripper Redline Torker GT where the only bikes to have where i lived, but i did stop riding at the end of 83!!!! I cant ever remember seeing a gen 1 or any haro's come to think of it not while i was still riding
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The one bike I used to drool over in Kelly's Cycles in Sunderland was a MK1 Pro Burner (the best bike in the shop)
and through the years my own personal icons have been
1983 Patterson Long
1984 Hutch Pro Racer (black)
1985 / 86 JMC Darrell Young (candy red)
Mid school even though I rode from 92-97 I didn't take any notice of the bikes at the time I was happy as long as I had a bike to ride (85 Haro Sport and Later a 93 Haro Master both off Yoda)
New School S&M as they still manufacture in the USA or Curtis for the same reason in the UK
Oh sorry the boring selection aswell PK Ripper, Skyway TA, Haro Gen 1, Goose Mag and Hutch Pro Star
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i never liked GTs but then again i never owned one probably for the same reason
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Team Murrays from your local Halfords store, 342 red n yellow if i'm right. Looked the biz :smitten:
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Ripper seemed to be the dream bike ( prolly cus no one ever seen anyone with one )
Silver Streaks, seemed popular round here, all the other bikes were GT's Redlines, Kuwi's, Haro gen1, DP's, MRD's, Mongoose,
most didn't have a burner , or have them for long , wasn't cool to have one and you was laughed at :LolLolLolLol:
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TA :daumenhoch:
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Sorry guys you are all wrong. As much as you are listing fabulous bikes they are not the most iconic bike of OS BMX.
I'm prob gonna get banished to Burner forum for this BUT IT IS THE MK1 BLUE AND YELLOW TUFF BURNER.
If you put all the aforementioned bikes in a line and asked joe public to pick a BMX 90% would pick the Tuff Burner..
An icon is a figure that sums up an era. As I say it isn't the best bike listed but IT IS the most iconic to the great british public.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. It will overtake the Raleigh chopper as the next most iconic bike.
You can't look at this question as a BMXer. :angel:
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Surely Iconic means greatest of an era, the burner might be the most reconisable but that is just Image Jim. I would have thought this question was meant only for a BMX'r, Iconic is the Brazil team of the 70s the Audi of the early eighties, the Roses first album to the ninties ::).
What bike is most reconisable as being the best bike of a generation :daumenhoch:
Paul :Great_Britain:
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Sorry guys you are all wrong. As much as you are listing fabulous bikes they are not the most iconic bike of OS BMX.
I'm prob gonna get banished to Burner forum for this BUT IT IS THE MK1 BLUE AND YELLOW TUFF BURNER.
If you put all the aforementioned bikes in a line and asked joe public to pick a BMX 90% would pick the Tuff Burner..
An icon is a figure that sums up an era. As I say it isn't the best bike listed but IT IS the most iconic to the great british public.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. It will overtake the Raleigh chopper as the next most iconic bike.
You can't look at this question as a BMXer. :angel:
Got to agree,not the best bike but more people owned burners bitd then any other bike and everyone knows what they are...............Cheap crap... :LolLolLolLol:
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ceremonial objects and symbols, huh?
probably very different from country to country as the raleigh burner means absolutely nothing to me in terms of bmx. i reckon here in Australia it could be quite a few different bikes as long as they were American just like in the mags.
going out on a limb i would suggest any mongoose product may be above the other manufacterers with redline running up it's bum in terms of being on pedestals.
in the US it's probably schwinn or perhaps hutch, but..........um, i really couldn't care less what the yanks think :2funny:
not just bikes either, there would be quite a few "iconic" parts, tracks, magazines etc
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but the gussetty goose was the "people's bike"
Burner was the people's bike.
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Iconic ? mmmm
it would have to have tuffs ::)
so yea for the masses it has to be Jims choice of the blue , yellow Tuff Burner clearly the mos Iconic UK BMX :daumenhoch:
For anyone who was into BMX then I reckon the PK. As Icons can mean different things to different people some people would think a burner is never going to be iconic , however for me , yea the tuff burner and the PK :smitten:
but both would have to be fitted with Tuffs :daumenhoch:
Rich
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well i vote burner to but it must be a red one with yellow tuffs n pads :smitten: but the bmx my mates n i allways wanted was a mongoose
we all were skint so mum n dad didnt have enough cash to buy mongooses bitd :'( :'(
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The PK is in a different iconic class. It is like a VW Beetle or George Best. More of a legend than an icon. It is also a design classic.
I'm not denying it's iconic class, but it is not IMO the iconic BMX of the UK.
In the early days of BMX the only bikes available to the masses were the burners. You could get others but they were for the fortunate few who lived near a decent bike shop or influence.
I had never even heard of a ripper as I pawed over the pix of the tuff burner in my mum's Littlewoods catalogue. It wasn't until I had gotten fully into BMX that I learnt of RIPPERs, Gen 1s, TAs, GTs etc. All of which are indeed icons but the epitomy of a BMX icon for me is the humble Tuff Burner.
Also, not all icons need to be the greatest. Yuppies with red braces are eighties icons :LolLolLolLol:
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Isnt Paul Hogan a icon of the eighties ? :LolLolLolLol:
That's not a knife ;D
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burners weren't the only cheap shit bikes
there were dozens of other cheap bikes out there
burners were just one option. defo not the only one
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burners weren't the only cheap shit bikes
there were dozens of other cheap bikes out there
burners were just one option. defo not the only one
The first pos bike I remember seeing, before the burners was a moto 1, black and gold and weighed in just about the same as the forth bridge, what an utter waste of wheels that was >:(
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i think the word "iconic" needs to be interpreted by a few here. a dictionary will help :coolsmiley:
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i think the word "iconic" needs to be interpreted by a few here. a dictionary will help :coolsmiley:
You mean like this....
From wikipedia....
"An icon (from Greek εἰκών, eikon, "image") is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an icon is a symbol on the monitor used to signify a command, file or record; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern popular culture, in the general sense of symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities."
:LolLolLolLol:
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yep.............now go back and read some of the posts.
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yep.............now go back and read some of the posts.
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