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Title: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: MartyC on June 02, 2007, 11:44 PM

Does anyone know what happened to JT Racing, the clothing company?  BITD I had a great set of JT Race pants, jersey, gloves, still got my JT mouth guard etc but have not seen them at all and a google search brings back sweet fanny adams on them  :-\.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/JTRacingAd.jpg)

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: Happy me. on June 03, 2007, 12:11 AM

This is one of those sad but true deals,from iconic ststus to this!http://wwwjtusa.com/gate.asp, :wtf: 








Not sure how to get the link to work,heyho!.

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: MartyC on June 03, 2007, 12:18 AM

Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear, flushed down the pan then.  Like the "About Us" page which somehow manages to skip 20 odd years of motocross and bmx product into just two sentences   :shocked: but somehow not surprising  ::).

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: WizardWeb on June 03, 2007, 01:02 AM

It probably hit them hard when Axo and other newer companies got into MX and to a lesser extent BMX. Add to that freestyle going non-uniform and it all went wrong.

I guess the newer companies were seen as more trendy. Probably the same reason Haro stopped making Mode 3 pants (which IMO weren't as good as he original ones anyway), mouth traps and peaks.

Sad as both JT and Haro did some really good stuff  :'(

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: magna13 on June 03, 2007, 07:54 AM

they were big in the 80's big mx stars like David Bailey, Rick Johnson, Jonny O'Mara, Bob 'Hurricane' Hannah And Roger DeCoster all wore it and bmx, well every os bmx mag i read theres jt init... they stop doing mx/bmx stuff in the early 90's i think like 93/94 and now they just do paintball stuff...

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: Flatcap on June 03, 2007, 09:50 PM

Oh dear......that's pretty sad!

I must admit, I was wondering about this too not long back.

I used to wear JT Body Armour, especially in the bowls as it made me feel even more un-breakable!

To see where it has ended up is bad bad bad.

Daz.

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: MCSMagnum on June 16, 2007, 04:32 PM

Ohhhh I had forgotten about JT leggaitors.....

how cool are they, nice silky flares for the bottom of your trousers, perfectly desinged to catch in your chain!!!!

Anyone got a pair, cos I *NEED* some!!!!!!

Mike

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on June 16, 2007, 04:35 PM

always wanted on of them safari hats with the neck cover

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: Mattdub on June 16, 2007, 05:06 PM

I had a co'ey deal with JT in the UK around 86/87 , my ALS1 lid was lush !  ;) . I also used to wear the armour ( just the front set up ) prior to that in 85/86 .

You can just see the armour here , Coventry National 1986 .
(http://) (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/MeatCoventryNat-1.jpg)

Old pic below with lid , late 86 early 87 .
(http://) (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/MeayHunt-1.jpg)

Gutted now that I sold it when I retired , but now a happier bunny after picking this up earlier this year  :4_17_5:
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/JTALS1pic1.jpg)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/JTALS1pic2.jpg)

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: harris on June 16, 2007, 05:11 PM

nice matt  mmm
i got these a tad small for my fat arse
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d87/harris15570/armmmmmmmmms171-1.jpg)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d87/harris15570/armmmmmmmmms172.jpg)

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: MartyC on June 17, 2007, 12:40 AM

Beejeezuz, Dan if you think you've got a fat arse, what hope the rest of us  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: What happened to JT Racing the MX & BMX Clothing?
Post by: bmxmatt1974 on June 17, 2007, 12:55 AM

i got this sticker  :daumenhoch:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y43/bmxmatt1974/ebaystickers012.jpg)