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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: FuNMoNsTeR on January 10, 2008, 06:24 PM

Title: Your first purchase?
Post by: FuNMoNsTeR on January 10, 2008, 06:24 PM: So.... when you discovered that the OS BMX scene was alive and kicking.... what did you buy/build first?
For me it was this GT Pro which i bought from Germany for 279 Euros.... Bargain :smitten:
It came with white Hutch mags which i quickly removed and burnt..... and the frame was black powdercoated.... the rest of the spec was as you see it.... I just stripped the frame....added front and rear NOS Blue DC MX1000s bought from Alans for Â£34.99 the pair :D A'me Tris, an Elina Flight Tech seat and Proclass wheels :coolsmiley:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0008.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0009b.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0010.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0011b.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0012.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0013.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0014.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d79/funmonster/IMAG0015.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: scary_leary on January 10, 2008, 06:37 PM: When i first found the scene i bid on an original silverstreak, but my max bid of £60
wasnt enough.. missed out on a perfectly mint streak by £2 :(
bring back 5years ago
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Andy on January 10, 2008, 06:37 PM: kuwie nova
Â£15
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v253/azusa24/nova.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: OrgasmDonor on January 10, 2008, 06:38 PM: 84 haro sport full bike in the box £175 :daumenhoch: n a GHP pro 1 f/f off biagio for £50 (that kinda deal doesnt come along very often):LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Trev on January 10, 2008, 06:40 PM: bought myself a skyway street scene to get back into riding. didn't realise there was such a thing as new school at the time. :idiot2:
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Steve P on January 10, 2008, 06:41 PM: I rebuilt my original T/A which I rescued from a skip after my old man decided to clear his garage out :shocked:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_3.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/Before_3.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a217/steve167690/Skyway%20TA/After_1.jpg)

Steve
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Waxintaxin on January 10, 2008, 06:42 PM: My first was an Aero Pro for 30 quid

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v651/waxintaxin/gooseresto099.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: MartyC on January 10, 2008, 07:03 PM: My first buy was a NOS 85 Haro Master in green, just like the one I had bitd, still haven't built it up yet though and it's sitting in a box in my loft ;D
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: mark 2 on January 10, 2008, 07:09 PM: This thread on those prices are depressing. I've been into this for just over 4 years now and I remember buying an nos gold mx1000 with tech 2 and yellow dc cable for Â£23 delivered thinking it was dear. Yellow kashimax aero for Â£16. Elina lighning bolt for Â£20. Didn't buy a camo SE pad from skatepool for Â£20 as I thought it was pricey. Got red mx1000's from cyclesport for Â£6.50 each though....anyway that's for another thread.

this master f&f was my first purchase, xmas 2003 - can't remember how much, somewhere around Â£150 - Â£175 I'm guessing, not that much of a bargain.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v213/mikamagic1/hm1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: gossa on January 10, 2008, 07:14 PM: er, still waiting for delivery of my first 'proper' project bike, a zeronine. I've been restoing bikes for mates but this will be my first bike for me.

I've got a 'last us built' floval and PK but don't count them as i've had them pretty much continually.

So Marty, those cranks are wrong on that GT fella, wanna trade for a lovely 165mm OPC?
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Muffski on January 10, 2008, 07:17 PM: Mine was a White Gt Pro Performer from Pete Quadrophenia,wasnt like the picture when i first got it :LolLolLolLol:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g294/fender911/CIMG0785.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Dingobmxer on January 10, 2008, 07:19 PM: Quote from: McNulty on January 10, 2008, 06:37 PM
kuwie nova
Â£15
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v253/azusa24/nova.jpg)

I remember that one

Mine was this:-

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/dingobmxer/cw8.jpg)

I restored it and used nos parts to build a replica vof the bike they tested in BMX Bi-weekly but left it behind the night my pshco ex stabbed me :idiot2:

:) DINGO :)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: workshyfop on January 10, 2008, 09:02 PM: green 85 master complete bike as in my avatar, about year back. then an aero reflex, orange streetbeat, rs2 and 88 sport within a couple of months. no room to store any more though, so no more in the near future.
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: munners on January 10, 2008, 09:08 PM: I bought a TA off of Fishface me old mate! ;) only a year ago this FEB!!!!!!

It was downhill form then on and the addiction has got me bad. :LolLolLolLol:

I always showed an interest from about 2004 but i got the bug after watching BMX bandits last xmas.

If you got a piccy Fish it would be appreciated as i wiped all my pm's like an idiot! :idiot2:
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: almasterb on January 10, 2008, 10:39 PM: My first purchase was an early 85 Haro Master f&f in chrome. Paid $175 u.s. for it in early 05. Traded it for an nos green 85 six months later.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h230/bigal91z/85mast_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: lazychubs on January 10, 2008, 10:46 PM: mine was a hammerite green redline rl20b of subwax
that ratty nows owns after i sold to oldsky who ebayed it to ratty lol
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Mattdub on January 10, 2008, 10:50 PM: This old heap'a junk , it'll get finished one day ::)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/GHP1.jpg)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/GHP2.jpg)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/GHP3.jpg)
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v201/Mattdub/GHP4.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: FuNMoNsTeR on January 10, 2008, 11:11 PM: That is sweeet Matt :smitten:
Some great stories :daumenhoch:
Steve P.... It must be great to still have your old bike :)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: retrogeezer on January 10, 2008, 11:38 PM: 1st one I bought was this Pro-Lite at a boot sale for Â£12....please excuse the photo, digital cameras were not that good in 1999/2000 (at least not the one I could afford)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v30/retrogeezer/smashie4.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: MartyC on January 10, 2008, 11:44 PM: Matt

I'll take it off your hands if you don't have the time to finish it :LolLolLolLol:

Quit moaning and get on with it ;D

Marty :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Rombloke on January 10, 2008, 11:48 PM: my first buy was a set of acs z mags from paul tefore on the bay.

so blame him for this site.

Dave
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: ORANGEZIPPY on January 11, 2008, 12:54 AM: bought a loop pk off ebay in summer 2003, didn't finish it as got distracted with other builds since then, just used to look at it every so often :LolLolLolLol:

thinking about it, parcelfarce nearly f*cked that up also, as took 3 months to deliver it and charged me £60 odd in custums, fines and the like :2gunsfiring_v1:

sold it to MonkeyBiscuits a couple of years ago (who bought it cheaper than i paid for it in 2003 :knuppel2:)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Bob_Acid on January 11, 2008, 03:18 AM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/a172/Bob_Acid/Skyway1.jpg)

I bought this for 80 quid :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Broggie on January 11, 2008, 07:26 AM: An 84 master...and it cost waaayyyy too much.

Ray.
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: stuntmaster on January 11, 2008, 07:42 AM: my old trickstar back in 2001 as wanted one for ages but didn`t have a computer before then as used to look at them on my dads computer . bought it from the states with hutch bars ,stem ,hutch wheels and so on ,complete bike was about 200 shipped . still use it as my daily bike ,here it next to his brother (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v607/stuntmaster/2trickstars.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: pickle on January 11, 2008, 07:48 AM: This was mine.......and i can't believe i'm the first one to post up a green beat ::) but to be honest i couldn't remember ever seeing one of these BITD and thought they would be rare (how wrong can you be) ;) but i love it! it was built on a budget and has nearly been sold a few times but Mrs Pickle wouldn't let me! only cos she knows i'd end up buying another one ;D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b339/robertbransby/beat1_edited.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b339/robertbransby/street004.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: JT71 on January 11, 2008, 09:37 AM: I aquired this free, from freecycle, it doesn't show in the pic, but there was rust under the gold coating

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/500562983_add5bf6575.jpg)

so first thing I bought was this:

(http://relimg.reliancemarine.com/30074542.jpg)

then some tyres, seat, seat post and pedals to get it rideable.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/609551601_cac948957c.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: double chevron on January 11, 2008, 11:39 AM: A 85 master F+F in need of resto. My dream bike of BITD.

(http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2452/haromaster9kd3.jpg)

Costed me around £30 3-4 years ago, still not finished, what a shame :-[
I had the time to achieve other builds though !
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Frosty on January 11, 2008, 12:34 PM: this KZ83 from Marty (MRBMX) shipped to UK from Australia in 2005, I stumbled across the laserlite on ebay by accident and then also the old Rad and other sites from a link in his auction. Then the fun began getting all other parts and other bikes bits and bobs and much lower bank balance ;D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y91/frosty_paul/Chroming/DSCF02831.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y91/frosty_paul/Chroming/8ba595c9.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y91/frosty_paul/Chroming/DSCF0280.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y91/frosty_paul/Kuwahara/DSCF0657.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: RATTY on January 11, 2008, 02:29 PM: 2 years ago I bought a Redline PL20 frame and forks from Sandro on ebay. I still race the same bike and I love it. The parts have continually changed as I break/wear them out.

I raced it last weekend in the mud at Braintree >:D

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd270/OSSSbmx1/IMG_5059.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Capt Canuck on January 11, 2008, 03:09 PM: Well I pulled My 91 master out of Storage.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/haropackage2.jpg)
Then My wife found a 92 master F/F on BMX Museum. So I built this.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/Picture014.jpg)
Then I sold My 91 Frame and fork to A fellow Radster.
Then I was looking for a Hoffman Big Daddy, But found this one late nght on Ebay.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/5bf9_3.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/shortybars.jpg)
So i built this up.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/Picture025.jpg)

then I found a Chrome Big Daddy.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/DSC00985.jpg)

then i ebayed My 92 masterframe and fork.
Bought this.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa69/bikerman_04/hoffmanBD.jpg)

So now have The Standard Shorty and 2 Big Daddy's.

the chrome One is on Ebay right now.

I'm Saving Money right now for my dream Fame and fork right now.(To be reviled wen i get it.)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: GREMLIN on January 11, 2008, 03:46 PM: First purchase... Hmmm, oh yeah. ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/f376/greml1n/Partbuild.jpg) G. :)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: phantom photon on January 11, 2008, 09:18 PM: Bought this from Gruffbmx on here :daumenhoch:

(http://www.maj.com/gallery/bodderick/Bikes/ff_1_290306.jpg)
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: jonpaul11 on January 12, 2008, 12:16 AM: Ebay was the reason I got into Old School - simply found people selling bikes from my youth.

my first purchase was a NOS 84 quad from Alan's 5 years ago. I raced NE region and only knew 2 people with Quads back in the day - Flash Gordon and Jay Parker (his was green!).
I used VintageBMX until I found RAD and the UK scene around 3 / 4 years ago...

Was back at my mum's for Xmas and checked out my old bike from BITD - I plan to restore my MRD expert this year. Still got all bits, frame in need of a polish, Araya 7L wheels need to be re-spoked
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: kdw712 on January 12, 2008, 01:16 AM: 2003 i was given a blue max from a garage clearance

after that
the first one i got as a project, was a mongoose F&F which became my Californian
from Jay knibbs ? down Croydon way, won the auction and we meet up in the highstreet outside his flat
chatted for about an hour freezing frickin cold night as well :D

£35 for complete set of MX1000's from steve at skatepool
oakley B2's NOS £12
Title: Re: Your first purchase?
Post by: Haley on January 12, 2008, 03:29 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s166/haleystones/IMG_0061.jpg)

This was mine. A TA frame with Tange ARX forks. Copped lucky with the number.