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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: mike pardon on November 14, 2005, 11:19 AM
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Check this GARDEN GATE out!!!! what where they thinking.....Its all history though... brings a tear to my japs eye looking at it...
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lol
I think they is rad!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v290/orb200181/brakedancer.gif)
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Mr Irwin is that you???
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that bike is so heavy in that pic that it fought against him flipping due to counter balance and he was up there for six hours :D
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Thats a wives tale, he is still there now.
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didnt AP ride one of them on a factory deal?
my mate had one too. it was very heavy.
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Those bikes where a forerunner of the traditional garden gate. Made from wrought iron and chissled to perfection to weigh at least 100kgs.. They did try and sponsor me.. You might be right AP might have had a factory (metalwork deal) cant remember
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Worse even than the Meteorlite and Freeway!!
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Yep that's a stinker. Makes my old Team Murray look rad. What are the mags on it anyone?
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they are acorn freestyle wheels
uk's finest ;)
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mr preston rode one at holeshot 85 ;)
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mr preston rode one at holeshot 86 ;)
I have some very shady pics of holeshot 86. i went deep undercover to expose the goings on in the freestyle world. Colin Kefford has a lot to answer for.....One day i wil tell
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Colin Kefford the shady school teacher from Edenbridge, how the f- - - - did his son get so much sponsorship ? ?
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Yeah, Colin Kefford looks so professional on BMX Beat as he checks over the bikes to make sure they`re safe, fooking numpty :D
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nah my first bike was worst than this a" mud cruncher" i will have to go to me ma's to get a pic of it :-\
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shame colin can't reply to this thread. R.I.P colin
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Colin's dead?! :o
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Gott in Himmel, nein Colin, God rest his soul.... Iam sure he is organising some freestlye competitions in heaven with a wee blackboard... No offence but people like him where the death of Bmx for me. Its when it all got a bit pear shaped.. School teachers.. in on the act . We would have got the cane and detention for doing rollbacks if it carried on ;D
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Okay no sorry this has to take some beating.. Keep em coming
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wow. i didn't know Colin was dead either. Mind you, he was about 65 even back then. and as for those jogging bottoms.. well.
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mr preston rode one at holeshot 86 ;)
85
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he was announced as "the rave from the grave"
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has anyone noticed it has two back brakes it was called the brakedancer the wheels on the white frame are ukais i paid twenty quid for a complete scorpion "race" bike years back i still run the front wheel on my new school ride the rest? i think i know where the back wheel is i want it back
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Mr Irwin is that you???
Yes Pike thats me riding along minding my own business when mike Pardon pushed a stick through my wheels for some interview i did in a mag lol .
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Mr Irwin is that you???
Yes Pike thats me riding along minding my own business when mike Pardon pushed a stick through my wheels for some interview i did in a mag lol .And I was testing that bike for that mag but for some reason i couldnt stay on it (nothing new there then)
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what about them rocket things.i herd the bottom bracket just fell of them lol.
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yup, happened to me, just fell off, crank, pedals, chainwheel, the whole shebang right in the middle of the high street.
Was a very nice frame to ride tho.
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This has to be up there...I had this about 3 years ago and sold it..the guy I sold it to was trying to flog it for £300 this year!!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v614/retrogeezer1/Aug09175.jpg)
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This has to be up there...I had this about 3 years ago and sold it..the guy I sold it to was trying to flog it for £300 this year!!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v614/retrogeezer1/Aug09175.jpg)
Now thats a solid looking bike?
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That is terrible :2funny:
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i think that is fantastic , i really like that , now that is early 80,s bmx as i remember it :2funny:
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This has to be up there...I had this about 3 years ago and sold it..the guy I sold it to was trying to flog it for £300 this year!!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v614/retrogeezer1/Aug09175.jpg)
iron horse dirt burner, quite strong really, crank was very high from the floor, you used to knee yourself in the face when pedaling, the mags had more flex than z rims, it also came in blue....mk1
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that bottom bracket is MEGA high, the downtube & the chainstays are nearly the same angle LOL ;D
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i seem to remember some bmx bikes that were made by a company called tensor or tenser.they were absolute sh-t.mail order only i think.mid 80s.
O YES AND LETS NOT FORGET ALL BURNERS! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Yep - Tensor cycles sold the BMX Magnum mail order and I bought one :idiot2:
It had a cotterpin crank!
Stuntmaster has a red one.
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Yep,i remember those my bro got one for crimbo outa the ad in the daily paper,pure crap! weighed a tonne,no two tonnes,he swapped it for a skateboard with kryptonics on it ,by boxing day! ;D
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I delivered those free papers as a kid 1p a paper jobs and I won paper boy of the year i.e I didn't skip them every week,n i won a bike of my choic e from a bike factory.Mind going mad as a kid what bike to have, Imagine my joy as we rolled up to the tensor factory.It was in Darlington I think what a let down
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they were the same company, iron horse,tensor etc... thay were actually made in leeds if i remember rightly by a company in birstall & distibuted by a company down south under 6 different names...
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i remember a bad one called xm1000 they were really cheap, the forks didn't like it if you did wheelies. ouch
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I had one of thos4e, but in black with yellow components. It was by a company called "Pedler" I think, model; Stingray. It even had little yellow mudgaurds. It was exactly the same as that thing.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y43/aditup2004/Creat0045.jpg)
Never did have any money, nowt changed there, then :'( Ad
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if i remember correctly Iron horse was made in hull by a company called Kingston leisure products...
i used to ride for BMX weekly and they sorted sponsorship off them for me :-[ i'd had the chance of sponsorship from DBack, Kuwara and mongoose .... but fooked it up cos of my Stinking bad teenage attitude ;D .... aaaah well ..... never mind :'(
i picked the iron horse bikes up from Hull with Alan woods ... but packed in riding a week later :uglystupid2:
i'd discovered i liked Boobies more :LolLolLolLol:
DISCLAIMER... please note, IF anything in the above post is Wrong...... the author reserves the right to stick two fingers up to the complainant...... as the author has had many hard blows to the head over the last 20 odd yrs :daumenhoch:
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there was alot of shite about back then (same as now really).
Marlboro spring to mind, I can't imagine their race team were actually using the proddie bikes!!
I also never liked the look of the Yes bikes, not really keen on gold laquer and naff graphics!
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Surely a 'Saltafos' has to be there somewhere?
The first BMX I ever did see and was so heavy it took 4 of us to hold it and stop it from falling over.
Anyone remember them??
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I delivered those free papers as a kid 1p a paper jobs and I won paper boy of the year i.e I didn't skip them every week,n i won a bike of my choic e from a bike factory.Mind going mad as a kid what bike to have, Imagine my joy as we rolled up to the tensor factory.It was in Darlington I think what a let down
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i rode for scorpion on the breackdancer in 85 ahd it was a great bike yes heavy from what i can remember but great i also tested the acorn freeway a tad later that year and was on a little road trip with mason smith and friends and stripped forks 10 mins after ridding it cheap piece of you no what it was sent back never got it backgood job.
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I remember writing to Acorn with a list of tricks that i could "perform" asking them if they would sponsor me. haha. In a bit like a good CV, I couldn't actually do most of them. The ariel was a bit of a exaggeration. More like pathetic ramp 180 ( or often 150) would be more apt. Could do the endo's almost 100% of the time though. Wonder how many Freeway's they would have sold if they had me on their trick team ;D
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Did you get any reply?
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i seem to remember some bmx bikes that were made by a company called tensor or tenser.they were absolute sh-t.mail order only i think.mid 80s.
:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: I got a tensor drophandle of my mum for christmas, she thought it could replace my second hand eddy merx. Parents bless em.
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Worst bike i can remember was ironhorse, you could only get them from out of the catalogue. And when it arrived you found out why :'(. My mate also snapped 2 of the frames, what a pile of crud they were :'( :-[ :(
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Did you get any reply?
Actually yes I did. Although i don't have the letter, basically it said.
"Dear ross. Thankyou for you interest in Acorn.
Unfortunately, we do not have any vacancies in our trick team at the moment" blah blah blah etc.
I'm sure they didn't even have a trick team, so thats why i wrote to them. Thought it would be a bit more realistic than writing to Haro or Skyway.
I was crap on a bike anyway.
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I tested the breakdancer for a bmx magazine (I foget the name) and it was the worst bike I have ever been on thats why I did the scura flip on it , it was about all I could do on it . I could do two more tricks on my GT lol.
Andy
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How about a torker with a 2.25 front knobbly and a rear shopping bike white wall tyre, for racing on dirt. Redditch late last century.
I think the bike did very well considering. LOL
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That was the three sisters you jelly head .... Put a fan on and blow that smoke away.
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YEAH I HAD A MUDCRUNCHER, WEIGHED MARE THAN A CEMENT MIXER, THATS GOTTA BE A WORSE BIKE, :LolLolLolLol:
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Hi all
there was alot of shite about back then (same as now really).
Marlboro spring to mind, I can't imagine their race team were actually using the proddie bikes!!
Just found a very nice yellow one - pics to follow (on tech section), strange as it is, it has stunning Lester Mags and is not in reality very heavy...
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nah my first bike was worst than this a" mud cruncher" i will have to go to me ma's to get a pic of it :-\
love to see pics of the mud cruncher that was my first bmx it had steel rims cotter pin cranks, but mine had normal bottom bracket height as some had really high ones