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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: HEYWOOD BMX on August 08, 2008, 09:01 PM
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http://www.bmxtalk.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17915&sid=eb37002c1d7f01eab452f8e228afa28c
What do you reckon?
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Not my cup of tea, all looks so wrong, but what do i know about anything after'86
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That really is a fooking ugly bike.
Still if Shanaze wins on it then who cares.
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That really is a fooking ugly bike.
Still if Shanaze wins on it then who cares.
its not the ugliest bike she has raced by a long shot :LolLolLolLol:
some of the "bitza" builds that people donated stuff to were pretty fugly but she still ripped on them :2gunsfiring_v1:
Go Shinny, do YOURSELF proud girl
:) DINGO :)
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Nice stem :daumenhoch:
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She could have bought that stem from me. :LolLolLolLol:
She didn't though I sold it to JT71 instead. :2funny:
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Shinny ROCKS no matter what she rides :daumenhoch:
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Don't mind the bike, but love the sentiment behind the sticker!
Hope she gets gold and stuffs it up everyone else!
Not bad for riding a kiddies bicylcle....
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I like it , she is going to rock , is anybody stopping up to watch it ;)
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:) Think I`ll have a late night and watch the BMX.
LANCER WITH YOUR ZANCER
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That bike looks absolutely awful but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what bike Shanaze rides cos she's gonna rock it to first place.
Redline should know better though. They've been around long enough to come up with something way better than that. Heck, their Flight Series bikes look better than that straight outta the box.
BCF are allegedly developing their own BMX bike for future Olympians. If they design BMX bikes like they run the sport it'll be a right fooking pigs ear.
[Edit: those forks were supposedly designed by BC - I rest my case :D )
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I quite like the paint job, just the design of the forks makes it look wrong, looks old school with bars forward and forks raked. But if you look at the bars they are actually angled back slightly.
Mike think it's probably just a Redline frame, just BC forks and paintjob. Stems nice but not with that bike, should have got a white one and copied the frame paintjob. IMO
Or just blinged it gold to match the medal :daumenhoch:
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what i wanna no is why the hell aint the stuntman in china? he has well earnt it!
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Cos I`m shite Pat ::)
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are you hell bro i can only get to the 4th jump at the NAM
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Mike think it's probably just a Redline frame, just BC forks and paintjob. Stems nice but not with that bike, should have got a white one and copied the frame paintjob.
I know Gary. It's just the forks that are a BC abortion at the moment.
I think the bike as a whole looks ghastly though. Which is a shame cos I think Redlines are the best off the shelf race bikes around at the moment so it's a bit ironic they put their No.1 Pro on something that looks worse than their stock bikes.
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I've been out of racing for many, many years... and even i think that bike just is WRONG!!
I dunno... i'm probably just fat and old.... but she could be on BETTER!!
Bmx in the Olympics for the 1st time... give the girl the world's best race bike!!!!!
A lot of Great racers here on RAD.... wot's your expert opinion... wot Olympic bike set up would you suggest ??
I do wish Shanaze all the very best!! :daumenhoch: We're all still backing you!!!!! :Great_Britain:
:4_17_5: all the way!!! :daumenhoch:
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that bike is mint!!
id love one of them :smitten:
how can you say its ugly!!
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The forks look like a beefed up version of the redline mini forks, that all the mini dads are raving about. 8) 8)
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cant say i like it but who cares if its gonna get her a gold medal :4_17_5:
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its a hell of a lot better than when she first started on that old blue thing with red stickers . god how far has she come . unreal . do it for bmx shazza :4_17_5:
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Wish she was riding a ripper ::) it would bring a tear to my japs eye :D
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hahahahahahahahahah a ripper , dave you crack me up
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A lot of Great racers here on RAD.... wot's your expert opinion... wot Olympic bike set up would you suggest ??
Those Redline frames are very good race frames. It's just the forks, saddle, chainring and paintjob on Shanaze's bike that make it look wack.
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Those Redline frames are very good race frames. It's just the forks, saddle, chainring and paintjob on Shanaze's bike that make it look wack.
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The forks are not BC forks they were developed by F1 Technolgies at a cost of £15000 a pair and shinnie has got the only 2 pair in the world and the spray job was done by Terry Dolan as regards the frame it is made by Redline but with Shinnies own required geometry, and the whole thing weighs 8kg :2gunsfiring_v1:
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OOOOOOOO !! that's that sorted then :Great_Britain: :daumenhoch:
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Those Redline frames are very good race frames. It's just the forks, saddle, chainring and paintjob on Shanaze's bike that make it look wack.
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The forks are not BC forks they were developed by F1 Technolgies at a cost of £15000 a pair and shinnie has got the only 2 pair in the world and the spray job was done by Terry Dolan as regards the frame it is made by Redline but with Shinnies own required geometry, and the whole thing weighs 8kg :2gunsfiring_v1:
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Money well spent then ::)
This is BMX not F1.
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This is the Olympics, not Hersden. :LolLolLolLol:
If she wins the Gold think how much money that will generate for BMX in this country. Not just the clubs but also the small one man band companies. Money well spent I think. ;)
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She should have been on a Dialled :Great_Britain:
:) DINGO :)
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If she get's 3 or 4 thousand kids accross the country into BMX then eventually some of them will be riding a dialled. :daumenhoch:
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Does anyone know when she is racing??
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fook the bmx - she is pretty fit - id fook her :daumenhoch:
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i sorta have a soft spot for that bike. it looks the nuts i think, lets hope shanaze wins :daumenhoch:
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fook the bmx - she is pretty fit - id fook her :daumenhoch:
:LolLolLolLol:
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This is the Olympics, not Hersden. :LolLolLolLol:
If she wins the Gold think how much money that will generate for BMX in this country. Not just the clubs but also the small one man band companies. Money well spent I think. ;)
At last - someone see's sense!
Who cares what she's riding - as long as she's at one with the thing and she wins the Gold for the UK, it really doesn't bloody matter, does it?!
This could finally put BMX on the map in ths country - no more "kiddies bikes" - and you guys are arguing about what kinda bike it is and whether or not it looks good...???!!!
Are you f@ckin insane??!!
I'm a bloody freestyler for gawds sake, and even I can see what this will mean for "our" sport!
I'll be rootin' for her, she's won everything else she's gone for, so let's all keep our fingers crossed that history repeats itself.
Go girl.....
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be better if she was on a aero reflex :daumenhoch:
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be better if she was on a aero reflex :daumenhoch:
Now you really are havin' a laugh...! :LolLolLolLol:
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Does anyone know when she is racing??
20/21 Aug. Full details here:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/CB_2008-08-20.shtml (http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/CB_2008-08-20.shtml)
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agree with Zippy, and BMX4ever.... coverage ,and fingers crossed, a gold should see not only more people wanting to get into/back into BMX, but should also get more and more councils looking forward to 2012 with possible grants etc for more tracks and facilities.... can only live in hope.
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Shanaze rocks.
The bike's alright, but the forks are a waste of money and the saddle looks like a sex toy. I don't hate it, I guess I'm just a little disappointed that a rootsy company like Redline (a company I have a lot of respect/admiration of) couldn't come up with something better for an Olympic champion to be.
Anyone who thinks spending 30k to develop a set of BMX forks is "money well spent" or "will put BMX on the map in this country" need their heads checked.
Shanaze winning gold in Beijing may help the sport grow in the UK, but what bike she is on and how expensive her forks are is completely irrelevant to the sport growing.
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Shanaze rocks.
The bike's alright, but the forks are a waste of money and the saddle looks like a sex toy. I don't hate it, I guess I'm just a little disappointed that a rootsy company like Redline (a company I have a lot of respect/admiration of) couldn't come up with something better for an Olympic champion to be.
Anyone who thinks spending 30k to develop a set of BMX forks is "money well spent" or "will put BMX on the map in this country" need their heads checked.
Shanaze winning gold in Beijing may help the sport grow in the UK, but what bike she is on and how expensive her forks are is completely irrelevant to the sport growing.
Well said :daumenhoch:
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Anyone who thinks spending 30k to develop a set of BMX forks is "money well spent" or "will put BMX on the map in this country" need their heads checked.
Shanaze winning gold in Beijing may help the sport grow in the UK, but what bike she is on and how expensive her forks are is completely irrelevant to the sport growing.
If she feels it helps her and gives her an advantage to win Gold then it's money well spent if she does win that Gold medal for the UK. Obviously 30K spent on two sets of fors is not money well spent in itself but seen in the full context of what she's trying to do it's a drop in the ocean.
The upside is that BMX is now an Olympic sport and even without her winning she'll have a huge impact on the sport not just to those that already know of her but also to those that don't. BMX will be the huge winner in the country and my only hope is that the BCF don't bugger it up.
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Anyone who thinks spending 30k to develop a set of BMX forks is "money well spent" or "will put BMX on the map in this country" need their heads checked.
Shanaze winning gold in Beijing may help the sport grow in the UK, but what bike she is on and how expensive her forks are is completely irrelevant to the sport growing.
If she feels it helps her and gives her an advantage to win Gold then it's money well spent if she does win that Gold medal for the UK. Obviously 30K spent on two sets of fors is not money well spent in itself but seen in the full context of what she's trying to do it's a drop in the ocean.
The upside is that BMX is now an Olympic sport and even without her winning she'll have a huge impact on the sport not just to those that already know of her but also to those that don't. BMX will be the huge winner in the country and my only hope is that the BCF don't bugger it up.
I doubt very much she feels/thinks she needs those forks to win as she's a very determined/strong willed young woman. The people who designed/made them might be telling her that though ::)
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Shanaze rocks.
The bike's alright, but the forks are a waste of money and the saddle looks like a sex toy. I don't hate it, I guess I'm just a little disappointed that a rootsy company like Redline (a company I have a lot of respect/admiration of) couldn't come up with something better for an Olympic champion to be.
Anyone who thinks spending 30k to develop a set of BMX forks is "money well spent" or "will put BMX on the map in this country" need their heads checked.
Shanaze winning gold in Beijing may help the sport grow in the UK, but what bike she is on and how expensive her forks are is completely irrelevant to the sport growing.
Agree with you there - on the face of it, I don't think it's money well spent either, and a set of expensive forks aren't gonna put 'bmx on the map' - but I think there's more to it than that. If she thinks it gives her an advantage, then it will give her an advantage. So much of high end sport is in the head - the will to win and the belief that you can. If it 'only' costs 30k to get a gold, THEN it IS money well spent! The Americans have spent $500,000 replicating the Olympic track ffs!
Anyway, I wasn't talking about the forks in the first place!
Have to say though, if there is one piece of 'Olympic' sports equipment that a kids gonna want for Xmas this year, guess what it'll be....... (say it... B M X!)
On another tangent - first Gold of the Games for Team GB today in the Womens Road Race. Caught the last few laps of it - brilliant effort in atrocious conditions. Another few Golds to come for the GB cycling team?
Let's hope so.
G
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The Americans have spent $500,000 replicating the Olympic track ffs!
Now you're heading down the right path :daumenhoch:
Team USA spent their money preparing for the Games in the best possible way. Team GB spent their money flying riders and "officials" to a phoney Olympic trial in Switzerland and bought 2 sets of carbon forks for 1 rider.
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so has liam not been given a set of those forks seen as he is representing great britain?
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so has liam not been given a set of those forks seen as he is representing great britain?
Yeah - good point - Shinny can only ride one set at a time! :LolLolLolLol:
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In my opinion it is great to see investment in the sport to try and move it on, bikes will always evolve whether we like it or not. Surely that investment can only be good for the sport. It shouldnt always be about money though, remember Obrees washing machine bike that blew everyone away!! That was a weird looking foocker and his riding style looked very odd if not damn uncomfortable....
....What I am saying is so long as there is a real benefit and push to improve the bike then who cares about the cost or if the parts come from a household appliance!.
Never been 100% sure on carbon fibre though and my roots are firmly planted in the 80's so the bike does look and feel a bit odd to me.
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Yeah, it's great to see investment. Hopefully it'll be long term investment that reaches the grass roots, not just the elite. The sport got raped in the mid-90s when mountain bike companies like Gary Fisher, Trek, Bontrager, Marin, Kona, etc brought out bikes, took the money and ran. Let's hope the track/roady companies who are sticking their noses in BMX now it's in the Olympics don't have the same business plan.
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Yeah, it's great to see investment. Hopefully it'll be long term investment that reaches the grass roots, not just the elite. The sport got raped in the mid-90s when mountain bike companies like Gary Fisher, Trek, Bontrager, Marin, Kona, etc brought out bikes, took the money and ran. Let's hope the track/roady companies who are sticking their noses in BMX now it's in the Olympics don't have the same business plan.
We'll find out soon enough by the reception the racing gets next week, and hopefully we'll have a medal too!
Investors like winners.....!
On a side note, how much would it cost to develop and build a bike like this Mike?
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Don`t Team GB design the velodrome bikes as well, I have to say they don`t do a bad job there, and I like the bike anyway :daumenhoch:
Well done to the women road racer who got gold today, lets hope it`s the first of many :daumenhoch:
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On a side note, how much would it cost to develop and build a bike like this Mike?
On Shanaze's bike it's only the saddle and forks that seem to be non-standard items and everything else could probably be bought off the shelf.
It could cost anything from a couple of grand to hundreds of grand to design everything from the gound up depending how much a company wants to overegg it and how much money they want (rather than need) to spend.
It's ironic that the rider who needs it least has the most hyped bike and it'll be interesting to see if any of the male riders have any special equipment at the Games (e.g. will Mike Day ride the much hyped carbon GT Ultrabox 2 or will he ride the "lesser model" Ultrabox 1?).