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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: generallee on July 25, 2008, 06:48 PM
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Been thinking how cool it is that lots of people seem to be getting back on board bmx bikes after a long gap... but im wondering how manypeople on here have never given up bmx since they started it in the 80's?
I started around 83, had two older brothers who got me into it, and ive never stopped since, even if i only get to ride once a month, i still consider myself a bmx'er - bmx has dominated my life for 25 years!
So.. who else, like me, is a 'lifer' ?
steve
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Me 1981 -
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me 79 ..on had other hobbies but always and still have my bike from btd
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'lifer'
There's a good song called Lifer.....
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....look out for me on guitar....
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me - 85
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laz ..phil it was in covenrty that i saw my first bmx magazine
brought back from florida by my cousin. I :smitten: COV
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myself, sadly i'm no lifer, wish i was though.
82- 89.......2007- ????
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In a way we're all lifers, just with big breaks in the middle.
I guess originally it was '80 - '88 and then late 2003 - now.
Have to admit though that I'm more into it now than I ever was bitd ;D.
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christmas '84 for me-would love to ride more now than i do ,but work ,house ,wife etc keep getting in the way -plus building those damm '80s bikes :idiot2: :2funny:
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me-82
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got my first bmx in 82 and been non stop since then.
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love to hear your stories... keep em coming guys... what were your first bikes?
Mine was a hand me down peugeot from my brother, shortly followed by a California Star. I had to wait a good 20yrs to get the one i wanted though.. a pk ripper!
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my first bike was a kinda mish mash mongoose moto mag ,rode it when i lived in wickford essex
then moved back to basildon from the area i first popped into this land ,rode the same bike for years
went to rom for the first time in the start of the 80s and alot of skateboarders about but still nice bmxs
i cracked my back wheel in the bullet tube gutted that thing was heavy..after this post started today
i went on facebook looking for the lad i got took to rom with every other week by his dad and found him :)
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!982-1986
1994-1996
2004-Now, but I don't ride anymore :-\
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I started in 1980 and packed in around 1986 when I left school and all my mates stopped riding (rode for 6 months on my own and it was no fun).
Unfortunately, I didn't touch a BMX or read a BMX mag again until December 1990 when I went home from Uni for Xmas and stumbled upon a copy of Invert which re-lit my fire.
Between 1990 to 2005 I was more of a mountain biker than a BMX'er (but I rode BMX a lot more between 1995 and 1997 until I broke my collarbone at Chesterfield track), but when I started racing again in 2006 I haven't done much mountain biking at all apart from a week in the Alps every year.
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love to hear your stories... keep em coming guys... what were your first bikes?
Mine was a hand me down peugeot from my brother, shortly followed by a California Star. I had to wait a good 20yrs to get the one i wanted though.. a pk ripper!
Ive probably told you before but mine was also a California Star , which i still own. Ive always rode a BMX I never wanted a mountain bike when they were all the rage!
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louise are you going to MK?
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:) Have to admit I gave up BMX 91-94.Work,wife and skateboards/music all took over.Don`t regret it for a second.I`m back and lovin`it!......
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started 82, Raleigh tough burner, quickly replaced with a Goose Californian, year later changed to a JMC....too small about xmas 84? got a TA, gave up in '86, left school got a motorbike...never went Mountain bike route, thought that was the demise of BMX,
Got a Halfords appollo a couple of years ago to ride in the park wit my lad. First race back a couple of months ago, had to borrow a couple of new school bikes, cos snapped the lug off my crank that holds the chainwheel. Got a redline 600a did one meeting ... too small, borrowed a Haro RS1 did two meets, rode great, (thanks sonic) now have a Hyper Metro, just awaiting the ok from missus for a couple of hours free time to track test it, ready for next meeting in August.......Cant wait!!!!
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1982 till now.
I never gave up but having 2 kids made me cut down for a while
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in my mind a lifer always, it will never die,
for me started in 79/80 rode full on till 85/86 raced for a team at many big comps and won a few nice trophys in my time
and was even in the first freestyle comp at pickets lock if my memorys right ;D
where andy ruffle won the tv ;D
then after, freestyle all the way, new this is what i loved, going big at rom with all the old skoolers was the best
time i had and with all the best from bitd,
then the massive gap :-[ done loads in my life but every now and the the old bmx
would pop up in my head, remenissing about this or that, even took my old scrap book
to one of my clubs that i run and showed the other doorman my pics ;D
started back for me taking my boy to rom 5 years ago and giving him a cheap bmx, just watching him roll around
brought back all the memories and are now involved bigger then ever,
these last two years have seen me in germany twice, countless trips up and down the country to differant skateparks,
more comps then i can remember, not for me but for my boy,
been interviewed on tv as well as billy, started painting some old skool bikes then going off big time, probs 200 plus
bikes now and being the proudest dad ever being with my boy watching him be ten times better then i ever was :daumenhoch:
the best sport ever :4_17_5:
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and you fugged your leg SOFT LAD ........!!!!!!!!!!111111
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and you fugged your leg SOFT LAD ........!!!!!!!!!!111111
;D ;D keep that one quiet pat :-[ ;D
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1981 - 1987
1992 - 1999
2001 - 2003
2005 - Present
Not a lifer but a fair majority of years.
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the only thing to stop me riding every couple of days has been an injury or a holiday abroad.
since xmas 82.
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louise are you going to MK?
No, not going.
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i had a firebird back in the 80's and then a skyway and gt performer,after breaking both hands i sort of gave up the bmx cos it took so long to recover.
fast foward 20 yrs or so and i,m now 37 and i brought a gt performer old skool 88 last year which for some strange reason i sold,i,m now in the market for a skyway which i,m 90% i,ve got,just waiting on a reply.
will i eva grow out of it no chance-will i eva grow up no chance.
GET OLDER LIVE YOUNGER
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I have always considered myself to be a bmxer... always!! even when i didn't have a bmx!! ???
started in 1981 as a child... rode until 1994/5... when i had a bad slam so didnt ride much at all...
then in 1999... bought a GT rode for only a few months... 2000 came and i watched the Gravity games
on bbc 2... I was itching to ride then... so bought a Haro Mirra 540 air ( which weighed heavier than me ) ;D
but only rode a few months again as i had nowhere to ride & no-one to ride with.....
It wasn't until 2006 that i decided to ride properly again...... BEST decision i ever made!!!
I completely regret stopping... it was always there in me... and i always wanted to ride again...
now i tell all the younger lads to never, NEVER give up... because they WILL regret it!!!
Have the upmost respect for all of those who have always rode... since the beginning!!!
I think thats AMAZING!!! :daumenhoch:
( Great thread.... Great read!!! ) :daumenhoch:
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I had a raleigh ultra burner in the 80's a hand me down from my sister, that got pinched then I got a night burner that came new with white mags, loved that bike everyone thought I put the mags on myself but I didn't. I rode with the older kids in my neighbourhood who would dare me to jump off things ,pull the front brake and do eskimo rolls, basically a frontflip where your head hits the floor, and all your fingers get crushed under the grips :LolLolLolLol: I quit for some years and discovered bmx again around 91, through my mates at school ,Boyley, gary and steve who were bmxers and wanted me to get a bike and come street riding, great times jumping tesco trolleys and running away from irate security guards ensued. Switched up from a donated POS to a bully piston to an s&m dirtbike which I loved. I rode regularly (everyday)getting into dirt jumping and a bit of ramp always with the same crew all of us best mates ,riding together till around 97, I never conciously stopped riding but realized that I only ever rode about once a month after a while, mates an I got into different social circles/activities , moved etc. At some point I gave my bike away, some time later realized I didn't like not having a bmx got a macneil mirron and hated it/sold it. then the old bmx started calling again a few years ago. I got a firebird freestyler first coz I've always loved them, had one in the 90's too for a bit but never set it up. Then I managed to set up my old dirtbike (all off rad and ebay)coz I didn't trust the new school bikes and was anti aheadset, now I've come over all protective over my dirtbike so I'm gonna have to get an L.A.F so that's where I am now. I never considered myself a non bmxer just hindered by different circumstances. I do have kids etc now so it's hard to ride as much as I'd like to but this site is a good way of keeping connected.
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81 - 88
Acid house
92 - 99
Mates started racing motorbikes and Cars, not for me
2007 - Why did I leave it so long/
Always felt I was a BMXer , even when I wasn't riding, you just look at stairs, walls , rails different to everyone else.
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79-89 -gap to race road bikes etc, then bmxfrom 99, but always had a bmx around through the 90's :daumenhoch:
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100% LIFER :daumenhoch:
never gave up, never will.
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86 to 92 were my off years, i could have put a a Silver streak together with all the bits i had in me dads garage though but i was to busy getting high ::)
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only ever stopped because of injuries, so started 84 and still going :daumenhoch:
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stopped about 86 - 95 and started skating but did have a couple of bmx's in that time and would still buy the odd magazine.
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Always felt I was a BMXer , even when I wasn't riding, you just look at stairs, walls , rails different to everyone else.
So true... i'd be walking past some where and be like... 'yeahh, bank to wall ride over there'...
ppl you were with would be like ' wot the fooks he talkin about' ? ???
;D