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Title: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: RyanPartridge on December 05, 2007, 10:38 PM
Here's a few Mental Jimmy's ads from Ride Magazine. I figured maybe a couple of you would get some amusement from these.

December 1992

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v200/Gobotts/MentalJimmysDec92-1.jpg)


February 1993

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v200/Gobotts/MentalJimmysFeb93-1.jpg)


December 1993

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v200/Gobotts/MentalJimmysDec93-1.jpg)


June 1994

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v200/Gobotts/MentalJimmysJun94-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: dj_benice on December 05, 2007, 10:43 PM
Loving point 6 on the first ad  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 10:49 PM
I remember the last ad   :)
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 10:50 PM
you dont see adds like that any more!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 10:57 PM
Shame innit?
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:08 PM
I had a few Mental Jimmy's stickers but I lost/used them.  :'(
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:13 PM
I think I have got some Mental Jimmys stickers still.

There was an HLP Video that came with some free Mental Jimmys stickers in the box. I bought the Video of someone at Southsea KOC. Im not sure who it was but they had a very thick Irish or scotish accent and I could bearly understand a word they said. Anyway, I think my Video has still got the stickers in the box! Now that is SAD!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:16 PM
I bought that vid! Wasn't it Will Smyth? Think I got mine from Will, also bought some stuff from Mental Jimmy's and got some free stickers.
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:27 PM
I think the Vid that came with the stickers was "the smile on my face is splitin me in half". It was one of Will Smyths Vids and on the box it was called a "jive" video. I dont think it was Will who sold it to me, but I remember the " .... something something something ... Mental Jimmys ... something something something ... Jail Cell Recipies ..." sale pitch that won me over.

Also, the back cover of the Video has a picture of our very own Clive Gossling doing a lookdown at Brixton skatepark.


Oh, I just went to look, my stickers aint still in the video box! haha.
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:28 PM
I bought that vid! Wasn't it Will Smyth? Think I got mine from Will.

Laz, have we been one step behind each other for the last 20 years? How come I had never met you till this year?!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:32 PM
I bought that vid! Wasn't it Will Smyth? Think I got mine from Will.

Laz, have we been one step behind each other for the last 20 years? How come I had never met you till this year?!



Crazy i know! We existed all that time in the same small community! I did have the Jive vid, but didn't they put out a Holy Land Pros vid too?
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 11:35 PM
It's Laz.  He's a stealth bomber I reckon.  I've had the self same conversation with him in the last year. We must have stood shoulder to shoulder at a load of jams and stuff, but never knowingly met him till Epic the other month.

We all know you Alex, coz you is like famous and stuff!!!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:37 PM
Yeah, I was expecting to find an HLP Vid but I couldnt see it.
Maybe THATS the one with the stickers still in it.


We all know you Alex, coz you is like famous and stuff!!!

ya, if Laz had a dopy hair cut or wore long socks we would all know him too!!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:40 PM
Yeah, I was expecting to find an HLP Vid but I couldnt see it.
Maybe THATS the one with the stickers still in it.


We all know you Alex, coz you is like famous and stuff!!!

ya, if Laz had a dopy hair cut or wore long socks we would all know him too!!



Well I never wore long socks in the 90s but the hair was pretty dopey!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:43 PM
Im sure one day I will see a photo of Laz riding from the 90s, or a background shot of him at a comp and I will say "oh HIM, I remember THAT guy". The thing I am worried about is that if I see the photo and I say "oh HER, I remember that GIRL .... didnt we ....?"   :shocked::2funny:
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:46 PM
Im sure one day I will see a photo of Laz riding from the 90s, or a background shot of him at a comp and I will say "oh HIM, I remember THAT guy". The thing I am worried about is that if I see the photo and I say "oh HER, I remember that GIRL .... didnt we ....?"   :shocked::2funny:


 :shocked: i did have long hair but I wasn't pretty! I did show up in an astonishing amount of mags! Loitering!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 11:48 PM
So Laz, you must be in the crowd in that Backyard photo of Hoffman doing the no hander on a very very dull wet day. Featured in his book too. You there?
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:49 PM
i did have long hair but I wasn't pretty! I did show up in an astonishing amount of mags! Loitering!

Get scanning! We can have a "background" thread. It could be like wheres Wally and we have to spot whoever posted their background pic
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:50 PM
So Laz, you must be in the crowd in that Backyard photo of Hoffman doing the no hander on a very very dull wet day. Featured in his book too. You there?

I was on the deck!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 11:52 PM
Cheeky scamp  ;)
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 05, 2007, 11:53 PM
I was a notorious 'Deck Monkey' !
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:55 PM
I was on the roof of a mini bus with about 20 other guys, including Yoda.
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: bsdforever on December 05, 2007, 11:56 PM
So Laz, you must be in the crowd in that Backyard photo of Hoffman doing the no hander on a very very dull wet day. Featured in his book too. You there?

I was on the deck!

so was I

also I visited Mental Jimmys in 1993 - it was in McGoos garage in Huntington Beach
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 05, 2007, 11:57 PM
I only got special priviledges (sp)  at KOC.  I was a peasant everywhere else  :(


Alex, Did that minibus have a roofrack on it?  If so, I think I remember you lot bouncing that minibus to hell and back...  And the Inbred gang had a sofa on the roof of their Tranny.
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 05, 2007, 11:59 PM
I bought a TNT stem, set of chrome peregrine rims and some spokes from Mental Jimmys in 1994 (JP took me into the garage to get them). I built my first PE front hub with the the rim and spokes.
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: RyanPartridge on December 06, 2007, 12:00 AM
I visited Mental Jimmys in 1993 - it was in McGoos garage in Huntington Beach

Me too. That's where I got my red first gen Prince Alberts! I think some t-shirts too...
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: TwoBobRob on December 06, 2007, 12:02 AM
Sorry for another hijack of this thread   :-[,  but can someone tell me the whole McGoo story?  I never really picked it up...
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: Lazarou on December 06, 2007, 12:03 AM
Sorry for another hijack of this thread   :-[,  but can someone tell me the whole McGoo story?  I never really picked it up...


That would be a long (but interesting) story!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: SaMAlex on December 06, 2007, 12:03 AM

Alex, Did that minibus have a roofrack on it?  If so, I think I remember you lot bouncing that minibus to hell and back....

That might have been us

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/trips/hastingscrew.jpg)


Right, now keep this thread about MJs!
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: bsdforever on December 06, 2007, 12:04 AM
I think I got a TNT stem, some profiles and GT tyres from there

also a t-shirt that read

'if you want good parts go to Mental Jimmys, if you want something different masturbate with your left hand'
Title: Re: Mental Jimmy's Mailorder!
Post by: teamsano on December 06, 2007, 07:32 PM
that shirt was the best! yellow with brown print, i pestered jp for one but he wouldnt even sell one to me.. i bought profiles from mj and snapped them after a few months, every time ive spoke to jp since, i remind him of this fact and ask for a refund.
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