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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: bmxmatt1974 on March 23, 2007, 11:03 PM

Title: how old...
Post by: bmxmatt1974 on March 23, 2007, 11:03 PM

when you first rode a bmx?

just brought a burner mini and thought about giving it to my niece, she is 3 this year. Got to be about time she started riding.

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: Tefore on March 23, 2007, 11:05 PM

i was 8 young mathew on my raliegh burner

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: lazychubs on March 23, 2007, 11:06 PM

dunno how old i was but me boy was one with staberlisers
and 18 months with out lol
get her a nice 12 inch minigoose to start off with
as a mini burner is huge to a 3 year old
and get her riding  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: Tefore on March 23, 2007, 11:06 PM

actually matt i was 10.lol

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: stidds on March 23, 2007, 11:06 PM

I was 10 (1979).  Christ I should grow up  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: spesh on March 23, 2007, 11:14 PM

heres me on my mini burner aged 4
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g279/spesh1967/100_0367.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g279/spesh1967/100_0361.jpg)




















not really its my son! :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: bmxmatt1974 on March 23, 2007, 11:18 PM

Quote from: tefore on March 23, 2007, 11:06 PM

actually matt i was 10.lol

make up your mind paul  :LolLolLolLol:

is it old age and cant remember  ;)

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: LucyLastic on March 24, 2007, 06:50 PM

I was 10 or 11ish and stopped at 14  :'(

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: zed4130 on March 24, 2007, 06:52 PM

9 when i first rode a bmx and 12 when i got my burner  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: rory on March 24, 2007, 06:58 PM

i was 6 when i got my team murray, when i was 7 the team murray was a two peice frame :)

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: highrisedrifter on March 24, 2007, 07:22 PM

I think it was 1980, so I would have been 9 then.

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: jimmyp on March 24, 2007, 07:36 PM

I was 7 nearly 8 when i got a super burner :D

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: downhill3375 on March 24, 2007, 07:45 PM

i think i was about 7 or 8 when i got my first bmx it was a falcon if i remember reet  :-\

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: bmxgirl on March 24, 2007, 09:39 PM

Dont think i got my bmx untill i was about 12 but always used to have goes on my friends one's whilst making them ride my girly shopper bikes  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: MartyC on March 24, 2007, 10:26 PM

I was 13 I think, maybe 14 it just seems so long ago!

I'm trying to get my 6yo son onto a BMX but although he likes the look of them he's not that interested at the moment in BMX but loves to ride his bike (Trek 16" Jet) he needs to get off the stabilisers this year.  I think it will take time, my 12yo daughter loves her MTB and wants to ride my BMX's but it too scared she will fall off  ::).  Confidence, time and patience - kids work at their own pace; I know I used to  :LolLolLolLol: 

Still, can;t wait for him to get on one so I can try and teach him some tricks, Beth can already jump off tree roots and stuff on her MTB  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: kdw712 on March 24, 2007, 11:36 PM

would have been 1980 so i was 13,  14 that december

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: hunterdubber on March 25, 2007, 08:23 AM

January 1982 , 11th birthday , Ammaco ,white with anno red bits  :smitten: ,man I loved that bike , bye bye Grifter

Do you know, I only needed to own one bike at a time back then  ;D  :idiot2:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: priv on March 25, 2007, 01:01 PM

11 for me, i packed in my paper round so i could ride as soon as i got home from school.

priv

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: rudhallrascal on March 25, 2007, 05:37 PM

July 1982 for me, blue & yellow mk1 burner for my 10th birthday... god i loved that bike  :2funny:

Title: Re: how old...
Post by: gt0733 on March 25, 2007, 10:59 PM

this pic is the earliest i can remember which is around 1978, i was 13. i never raced this bike but had lots of fun on it.
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e86/nak302/fe02001.jpg)

this quicksilver was my first REAL race bike which was an Aussie knock off of the super popular mongoose of the day. i'd say about 1979 when i was 14 for this one
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e86/nak302/ja10003.jpg)

this pic shows the same quicky frame but with a new paint job, just before i sold it and got my redline PL-20
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e86/nak302/sp21_004.jpg)