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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: Voodoocars on April 26, 2008, 07:18 AM
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As the question says really - what did you do with your bmx all those years ago? My last bike was a gen 1 haro freestyler with black tuffs and all the top gear.Worth a lot of money back then. I swopped it for a CB radio in 1984 :'( What a sap. ::)
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82 mag burner, blew up the back simplex :LolLolLolLol: and told my mum the whole bike was broke ;) next got a TA sold that to buy a second hand ripper :smitten: got stolen , blooming council estate kids ;) next my best mates dp firebird kept that till 1990 as was still riding till then, but by now was realy into mtb's >:D so gave it away to a friends nephew, his bike was stole ,
paul
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We did keep most of mine thankfully.....
Got rid of a couple tho :'(
CW Mini Cruiser
Titan Pro Cruiser
Looptail Ripper
GT Aluminium 24"
GT Aluminium 20"
GT Chrome 20"
Redline Factory Bike (dont mind this 1 it was a piece of shite)
DB Turbo Lite
My dad sold my Hutch beartraps and all the spare cages and all :-\
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My first mongoose 2 I snapped :-\
Replaced with a supergoose that got stolen
Then my beloved ACE snapped, rebuilt then sold :Aresehole:
Diamond back silver streak, returned to sponsor
Race inc, snapped then given away, sponsor wasnt happy (sorry Jane :()
mcs SPIDER??
Then Redline PL20 :smitten: :smitten: :smitten: I sold it for £20 when I did my knee in :-[ :idiot2:
I have forgotten something as well :-\
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mine last bmx was a white quad in 1984 with profile cranks on, sold it to a lad called JJ from shaw, (is he on here) for £180, and bought a membership at a local gym :idiot2: i never looked at another bmx until 2 years ago ???
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Pirahna.........................knicked!
Raleigh Burner...............Knicked!
Skyway TA (same as my white one in museum).....................had it until 1997 when my silly younger brother took it to his mates. Guess what..................................Knicked!
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Mag burner in yellow, nicked from my yard...
found in second hand shop a week later stripped of its valuable parts....cough :P
so upset I just left it there to rot..
should have got the police involved to be honest..
instead I got a new bike... (I do miss Amanda) :LolLolLolLol:
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funny how many of our bikes were knicked, when i see kids now leaving ther bikes out side the newsagents i cringe :-\ but then i suppose we was the same, since the 80's ive had 1 bike stolen, i generaly dont leave bikes anywere that i cant see them now , ;)
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Haha... good thread.
Burner - once into cars, left it in my garage (no big deal)
Ammaco freestyler - snapped
Haro Master - mum sold it for pennies :-[
Various parts (nos wheels, tuf neck stems etc..) mum sold them also for pennies :-[
Such is life.... :LolLolLolLol:
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i had a MKI Burner GS from freemans catalogue........looking back it was pants with a capital P......but boy i loved that bike!! it was the first ever new bike i'd had as having an older brother i always got his cast offs :-\
but the Burner was all i ever had.......it changed colour from silver (Ultra Burner) to dayglo green......i was the only person in our area to have Z rims! and yes everyone wanted to copy the advert on them....meening lots of new spokes needed! >:( in the end i swapped em for a set of blue coaster tuffs :daumenhoch:
It stayed in my dads garage for years till i gave it to one of my old girlfriends little brothers
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you did the flexing move rob ;) my mate loved doing that with his z,rims :4_17_5:
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peugeot{no idea what model}took to tip
team burner{skipped :'( see above
haro, took hacksaw to toptube,same as above.
priv
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Gave my Mongoose Pro class to the poor kid next door some fooker beat the shit out of him and nicked it >:(
Then my dad (God Bless Him) took a grinder to a VDC frame that was stuck in the back of the shed as his mate needed some tubing :wtf:
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Gave my Mongoose Pro class to the poor kid next door some fooker beat the shit out of him and nicked it >:(
Then my dad (God Bless Him) took a grinder to a VDC frame that was stuck in the back of the shed as his mate needed some tubing :wtf:
Lee i have to say that made me laugh! :LolLolLolLol:
not as much as Pete though yesterday with his Tailwhip to gearchange! :2funny: :2funny:
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i had a torker 280xl skyways,flites ,uni seat etc....gave it away to my mates little brother when i went to live in israel in 89
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Gave my Mongoose Pro class to the poor kid next door some fooker beat the shit out of him and nicked it >:(
Then my dad (God Bless Him) took a grinder to a VDC frame that was stuck in the back of the shed as his mate needed some tubing :wtf:
Jesus Lee, that's way worse than my Dad selling my Hutch pedals, do you still talk to your old man :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
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I've never not had a BMX in the last 28 years! But I did sell my chrome Prolite CC with white coaster tuffs and 401s for £55 to fund a GT S-bend Performer. :D
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Gave my Mongoose Pro class to the poor kid next door some fooker beat the shit out of him and nicked it >:(
Then my dad (God Bless Him) took a grinder to a VDC frame that was stuck in the back of the shed as his mate needed some tubing :wtf:
Jesus Lee, that's way worse than my Dad selling my Hutch pedals, do you still talk to your old man :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
doubt it ::)
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ask my dad :knuppel2: 3 kids fully GT kitted out, new padset every other week sister runnin cook's all runnin high end lightest parts etc same place me scalectrix and snooker table went and no I don't talk to the crispy ducker >:( Unlike the murphy's I am bitter :LolLolLolLol:
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ask my dad :knuppel2: 3 kids fully GT kitted out, new padset every other week sister runnin cook's all runnin high end lightest parts etc same place me scalectrix and snooker table went and no I don't talk to the crispy ducker >:( Unlike the murphy's I am bitter :LolLolLolLol:
dont worry pete, i didnt talk to mine for 16 years , then met him, now i havnt seen him in 3 years, no loss, hes a prize plum :LolLolLolLol:
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Gen 1 haro freestyler, gave up riding in 85 kept it till 1990 when a mate of my brothers persuaded me to sell it.....
40 quid for the full bike.... :wtf:
It was a night out on the piss (with change) back then... :D
The one ive got now owes me a bit more than 40 quid... ;D
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Puch Rapier, not sure what happened to that one, I remember the forks bending and having to turn the bars round and riding into a wall to straighten them. Then had a Torker Magnum 200, NICKED :tickedoff:
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Sad topic this one...
My GJS race bike with 400 flights and JMC DY bars (the one in my avatar) was sold in 91 to fund buying a house.
My Diamond Back senior pro was given to my brother who sold it for a fiver and i had a Firebird Freestyler that i did my paper round which just evaporated, i really cant remember what i did with it.
Also had a Mongoose and a Moto 1 which died and were dumped.
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Heres my list,
Mongoose 2, after much upgrading - given to cousin
Haro Gen 1 Freestyler- again upgraded with 401's, hadley bb, various tuffs, vector bars, sold frame and forks to Marvin Brown for £15.
Skyway TA WHITE- Again fully loaded with all the right bits, had it custom painted red with matching red vdc woody bars, sold complete bike inc 401s and hadley bb, PRO NECK, ARAYA aeros, MX1000S for £50!!!
Skyway TA XL all the bits 401's hadley bb, tuffs. swapped for very early GT Performer - which i swapped for a drum machine
Hutch TrickStar us built, loaded like no other, sold this for £200 in 1987.
Race inc (alloy) sold frame and forks for some silly figure, bmx-796 now owns it along with my old cooks bros cranks.
Race inc (cro-mo) ex Kevin Rivere race bike, sold complete bike with hutch stem and cooks bros cranks, pro class rims with bullseye hubs for £150 i think
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my kuwey freestlyer twin top and bottom tubed one
i left in the garage had green tuffs tuff neck stem mx1000's
maxy cranks i think and monkey bars
me bro sold it for a fiver to his mate
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Falcon Pro Theta with Tange Forks. The originals were fooked when I went head to head with a car and lost. Flogged it for £40.
Quadangle F+F bought of a dodgy bloke and then built up, ridden for an year and then sold to another dodgy bloke for a ZX Spectrum + Games.
That must have been early/mid 1985.
Not had a BMX until late last year when I bought a Quad Freestyler.
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My list starts with a Burner (rah!) - An Ultra Burner in Silver n Blue. Bent the 7x's within a week, but fortunately it got stolen.
Got £135 insurance for it, bought a Panasonic ghetto blaster. tried to breakdance but realised I was crap at it.
Burner was found by Police, so i got that back...and kept insurance money >:D
Saved up £55 (1 kidney in old money) to buy some blue Tuffs (still got them)
Sold the whole lot (less wheels) to buy a Tamiya RC car....what a mug!
Got back into BMX a year or so ago....now broke, reading rad late at night and alienating my girlfriend in the process...
but loving every minute of it :smitten:
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my mk1 super tuff was my first bmx and i still have that.
i then hada torker 280x with tuffs etc sold that for £60 to insure my yamaha rd50mx.WTF
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The day I sold my Kuwie ET for a fiver I think !
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/gashead69/?action=view¤t=Kuwi1984-1.jpg
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/Kuwi1984-1.jpg)
I was a sad little chap that day :'( :'( :'( :'(
I did sell it to buy my Curtis though ??? However I sold the full bike in 87 for £35 :uglystupid2:
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The day I sold my Kuwie ET for a fiver I think !
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/gashead69/?action=view¤t=Kuwi1984-1.jpg
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/Kuwi1984-1.jpg)
I was a sad little chap that day :'( :'( :'( :'(
I did sell it to buy my Curtis though ??? However I sold the full bike in 87 for £35 :uglystupid2:
Made me think of that cher song where she sits on the big gun in the video ooooeerrrrr
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Why ?
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The day I sold my Kuwie ET for a fiver I think !
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/gashead69/?action=view¤t=Kuwi1984-1.jpg
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/Kuwi1984-1.jpg)
I was a sad little chap that day :'( :'( :'( :'(
I did sell it to buy my Curtis though ??? However I sold the full bike in 87 for £35 :uglystupid2:
wow!! look at nick bitd!! :shocked:
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I was young once Zak !
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/gashead69/?action=view¤t=Nickpics004.jpg
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/Nickpics004.jpg)
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/gashead69/?action=view¤t=Nickpics003.jpg
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g243/gashead69/Nickpics003.jpg)
And rad :LolLolLolLol:
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Only had 1 bike between 82-87....Halfords Turbo!! (but I did put on some CWs, shimano DXs, mushies, aeroyal, whitewalls).
Me dad took that and my Raleigh chopper to his workplace so the lads could get around the car factory :crazy2:
I must admit I wasn't fussed at the time, I thought I was too grown up to be riding kiddies bikes at 17!!
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Gave my Mongoose Pro class to the poor kid next door some fooker beat the shit out of him and nicked it >:(
Then my dad (God Bless Him) took a grinder to a VDC frame that was stuck in the back of the shed as his mate needed some tubing :wtf:
Jesus Lee, that's way worse than my Dad selling my Hutch pedals, do you still talk to your old man :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
What part of God Bless Him :angel: did ya not get nic
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I had a Silver Fox, can't remember what happened to that :-\
Then I brought a DP Freestyler, swopped it for a PK Ripper Frame & brought some LGs
Then I swapped the PK for a Haro Freestyler at Rom, now I really can't remember what I done with this, when I got a Skyway TA off Chris Young, which I built up just like this......
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b366/claire169/SkywayTA002.jpg)
Then swapped it for a Sony Walkman when I stopped riding :'(
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I had a mark one blue burner (non tuffs) which i got christmas eve from Halfords with an insurance cheque from my grifter being stolen. Wanted the tuff version, but were sold out.
had that 2 years, before it got nicked, By that time it was sprayed gold with all black bits.
Then had a team burner in summer of 1985, the Andy Ruffell team special version, wanted the Team pro but parents couldn't afford it.
Made it look like the team pro at first, then customised it a bit.
Sold it for £50 to buy a pair of "Levi 501's in black" in the summer of 1987. ;D
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Cro-Mo Burner - gave to my sister then sold around 15 years ago for £30
Last true OS rider was a MRD, checked up my mum's shed last time I was there... need to get it back up and running.
Schwinn XS-1 - left at the tip
Hoffman Flash XL - sold for £50
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My first BMX
Jan 82 Ammaco sport swapped all the nice bits on it :-[ ( Ewood bikes, Blackburn )
Christmas 82 Falcon with decent bits swapped all the decent bits and rattle can sprayed it :-[ ( Bikers ,KD racing Darwen )
Spent most of 83 saving up spending money and buying parts from different shops when either on holiday or out
Dx's from Sale cycles
Mx1000's some bike shop in Douglas Isle of man
Tuff II's with plakky front hub from Surrey BMX this is November 83 remember alot of people think plakky hubs were late 84 to 85
GT standard Nora frame and forks Surrey BMX
Built the GT up for Xmas 83
Swapped all the best bits I'd saved all year for eventually by 85 :-[
Then snapped the forks and swapped frame for Kuwahara Nova frame and forks :-[
Then 85 to 86 swapped for Firebird freestyler in white and lavender tuffs
which I sold complete bike for £15 to my cousin who never ever used it sometime 86/87
86 bought a Powell Lance Mountain board ,then a Danny Webster board only skated for about 12 months till I left school in 87 :)
Started going out >:D
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sold it for 80 quid,and got pissed....result :daumenhoch:
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Why ?
Dunno why/how anything happens in my head Nick it just does :LolLolLolLol:
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most of my OS bikes were bags o sh!te !
we buried my old Pro Star in the garden when it was landscaped, i thinks it's probably still applying balast to the rockery at our old house !! :D
my only decent bike: a Redline 500a, GT Pro's, DX's, Red Tuffs etc was sold for £40 in 1986 to fund booze n narcotics ! :crazy2: ;D
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My bitd virgin was a red burner for xmas....the majority remember how rubbish they were but I absolutely loved and cherished that red bike at the time and it formed a great platform from which to upgrade, lets face it, it could'nt get any worse!!
I changed every last part on that burner to include black tuffs, robo pro bars, uni turbo, DX's, I even had the f&f chromed through a local bike shop. I remember it took that long for the frame to be returned to me that the local bike shop took pity and loaned me a second hand Jag from their shop, so when I did eventually get my frame back not only was it an anti climax but it was like riding a tank. Not too long afterwards I got a brand fire new bull burnished looptail ripper which I still proudly own to this day.
God only knows what happend to that Burner frame...but hey, who really gives a cack, i've still got my bitd Looptail !!
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Traded my last bike in at whiteheads for £40 towards a shitte mountain bike!
It was a redline with 400's, xcIIs, redline, stem, bars. If only i'd worked for
an extra week for the £40 I was short and stuffed the redline in the attic!
Still gutted and will be for a while yet :yahoo_silent:
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My 85 GT got robbed from the side of my house :-\
I got a Gen 1 Master with a craked Z Rim of a mate really cheap, robbed the yellow Skyways of my little sisters Tuff Burner and painted my Haro yellow and Black. I had that for a year or so and saved up every penny I had to get an 87 GT Pro Freestyle Team.
The last time I remember riding my Haro it had a Tizer bottle strapped to the bars and the top tube and me and a load of mates were jumping it in to a canal. (we did not want to get our good bikes wet :idiot2: )
I think the GT got swapped for some magic beans and a night out at the Hacienda :idiot2: