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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: meticulous on December 29, 2008, 07:37 PM
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when i was 9 or 10 a lad came to live here in england with his gran', he was from canada, and he brought with him his bmx, it was about 1977-78, it looked like a motorbike with a pretend petrol tank and shockers at the front that worked, and big springs under the chopper style back seat that also worked, it wieghed a ton and bounced around everywhere, it looked awesome and peeps at first glance thought it was a motorbike, i cannot remember the name of the bike, and he went to live back in canada..
i can still remember his name 'Peter frank andrews', ruddy hell were did that come from.... i cant remember yesterday, yet i can remember 30odd years ago :idiot2: His sister was fit too..... Hmmmm!!!!
anyway back on track, does anyone else remember this type of bmx? ;)
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I saw a clip on TV when I was about 12 where someone was riding a BMX in a skatepark, he was wheeling, then went up a little ramp & when he got to the top, he done a 180, it was the coolest thing I had ever seen :shocked:
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never under-estimate the power of a childs mind... :daumenhoch:
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http://bmxmuseum.com/image/83091087_4c0fb97fcd_b_lg.jpg :LolLolLolLol:
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I went up to the local sweet shop to but some lemon bonbons with my grandad and on the shelf was a magazing called BMX Action Bike !
I think it featured the manx tt for some reason on the front...........................the rest was history !
Strange how BMX gets in your blood eh ;)
Nick
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Reading my uncles old bmx mags whilst listening to the fame theme tune on 7" when was a kid. Old Bmx mags got me hooked.
Without a shadow of a doubt the red and yellow burner also sticks in my mind.
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i was about 12 and went to visit my cousin in portchester (across the road from where i live now and he still lives there)
and his dad had bought him a mongoose motomag (1979) back from a business trip in the usa,was the first bmx i ever saw and couldnt beleive they did mag wheels for push bikes as id only ever seen mags on motorbikes
he gave me his old bike which i learnt to bunny hop on ( it had 20" wheels and a wierd frame, i later found out after joining on here was a genuine schwinn stingray :tickedoff:)
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My first memory is of a gleaming Supergoose hanging in a local bike shop window that I dreamt about, this was very quickly followed by the BMX scenes in ET on a pirate video (everyone I know saw ET first on a pirate VHS or Betamax - how did it make any money?) - this led me to customise my Striker BMX style...
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I went up to the local sweet shop to but some lemon bonbons with my grandad and on the shelf was a magazing called BMX Action Bike !
I think it featured the manx tt for some reason on the front...........................the rest was history !
Strange how BMX gets in your blood eh ;)
Nick
That was the issue when my mates 'Mad' Malc Stapleton & 'junkyard' Jim Martin did an article about downhill speed runs & put on motorcycle road race bars & footpegs instead of pedals!! WTF???????
Wierd article or what! ;) ;)
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i remember that artical had a pic of them with the drop handlebars
here a modern version complete with gpz fairing :LolLolLolLol:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g279/spesh1967/83091087_4c0fb97fcd_b_lg.jpg)
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My first memory is of a gleaming Supergoose hanging in a local bike shop window that I dreamt about, this was very quickly followed by the BMX scenes in ET on a pirate video (everyone I know saw ET first on a pirate VHS or Betamax - how did it make any money?) - this led me to customise my Striker BMX style...
:LolLolLolLol:me too ,saw it on beetamax pirate!!!my first bmx memory is 1981 on a saturday afternoon late summer,we'd moved across town and went back to our old neighborhood to pay a visit to good friends of the parents,their son who had everything before anyone,grifter etc etc had a team murray i think,first time id ever seen or heard of bmx,was another 2 years till i got my first!
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reckon this could be it ,,,1980 butlins skegness
what the freak do i look like ,,,,no idea what bike it was ,,,soon after getting home from this holiday ,got myself an early burner ,for my first bmx
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v716/glenbett/IMG_0002.jpg)
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I'd seen them in Skating mags in about 78/79 but the first one's I saw in the flesh were Cav Strutt and Andy Ruffell's Mongooses at Harrow Skatepark during the summer of 79 and I knew immediately that I had to have a BMX bike ;D. Both of them let me have a go on their bikes and it just felt so natural to me; completely lost the ability now though :D.
Here's a pic I found and scanned in, it's me on the bike and my mate Darren Norman on the deck at a little track we made in a field over the road from our homes in Sipson alongside the M4 Spur. gotta love the glasses and the parka ;D.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/scan0001-1.jpg)
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Its a bit vague but I had a Grifter that I put these strange 'bmx' forks on it.The steerer tube was about 10" long ! We used to ride normal bikes with cowhorn bars on and bmx bike sort of appeared.Kids rode these- Huffy-which had square bars ,Puch and a chrome thing called a 'rustler' (or hustler).It had yellow plastic mags with real thin spokes and the bottom bracket was really high up.Anyone got a pic of one? Then Burners came along and it seemed like everyone had one.My dad made the frame for my first bmx.I was a Torker copy - white with acs z wheels on.It got stolen from outside Halfords while I was shoplifting inside (!). After that 'proper' bmx bikes was all I had.
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them scorpion exploders looked awesome bitd, the yellow skyways were never heard of, and was 2 years ahead of the burners that came with them, it was the look of these bikes that got into your blood first, before even riding one...
now they all look the same, and tbh, dont 'look' anything special...
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this is the first bmx i saw.... :smitten: :smitten:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/dirtmaster_lg.jpg)
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or may have been this...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/73side9_lg.jpg)
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^^^^^WOW! that is sooo cool.Love to see it out O/S racing.
My first experience was when my motomag was delivered by santa. Everyone else has strikers and choppers and they preceded to take the pish outa my strange looking bike.Now who's laughin.... :Aresehole:'s
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I had a Striker - prob around 79.
I lived in the village called Kirklevington (where the Kirk nightclub used to be). There were these woods down the end of a street called Ash Grove where the big kids had made trails. Tracker bikes were all the rage then. Racer frames with cow horn handlebars.
One of the kids whose dad was well heeled had a bmx with silver mag wheels. Puch sticks in my mind.
He let me have a go on these trails and I remember pulling a jump and nealy knocking this kids head off with my front wheel. It seemed to generate some respect and I was hooked from there.
I got a blue and yellow Tuff Burner for Christmas - the best Christmas ever bar none!!
B.t.w - how many of you see kids building ramps these days. When I was a kid it was all planks and bricks - whatever we could find. Then it was 'how many parking space widths can you wheely'. I just don't see this any more, which is a shame because they were the best days.
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My first blast on a bmx was around 1980 a lad in my nana's street called egg head got a silver bmx called a velo shauff german i think it was..it had black mag wheels on with drum brakes and I always remember the welding was like someone had spat on the bike..bits of slaver all over the gussett and that.
Here's one from BMX Museum.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ll418/jasonscottpics/bh_gary_fisher_tensor_renegade_027_.jpg)
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Hey Dex it was Strika for me then a tuff burner for xmas as well, happy days. :D
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My first BMX was sometime in 1980,called a WMX.Had a looptail,double gusset with an arrow cutout & gold anodised rims/brakes,black frame with yellow parts.I had no idea what it was & it got pinched 2 weeks later...Do recall one of the stickers said supplied by Wellington Motocross?
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are you sure that wasnt womens motorcross (WMX) james.... :buck2:
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I went up to the local sweet shop to but some lemon bonbons with my grandad and on the shelf was a magazing called BMX Action Bike !
I think it featured the manx tt for some reason on the front...........................the rest was history !
Strange how BMX gets in your blood eh ;)
Nick
has anyone got a scan of that mag ? Front cover - Im sure I had it but can't find it :daumenhoch:
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I had a striker too. ;)
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What i remember is being desperate for a BMX to replace my Sriker which i was using for jumping etc so a bmx seemed to fit the bill.
One day my parents took me out for the day we headed to newcastleton in the borders I assumed we were just going for a walk to some boring place, we drove up this dirt track and it hit me we were going to a bmx event but my parents hadn't told me, i will never forget it we past loadsa bmxers on the dirt track on mainly gooses, its funny how things stick in your mind but i remember several of them had additional chain rings on there grips.
After the drive up the dirt track all i could see was a huge bmx track, bikes everywhere,team vans, tents, stalls, i had arrived on the planet bmx.
I recall spending most time by the tabletop as this is where the jumps were going down inbetween races, i also recall buying my first newspaper type bmx weekly.
I also remember my dad asking various people about the bikes and them saying a good one is 300 pounds which didnt go down well with him.
Anyway on my next birthday i was the proud owner of a metal magged coaster braked team murray.
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the first bmx i had i have hardly any memory of, but it was chrome and had black tyres just like the mongoose ones, and that's it. Then in 82 for my 8th birthday i got a mk1 tuff burner. didn't really know much about bmx. most of the other lads still had grifters and racers. i have no memory of going to any good bmx shops, would have loved to have seen all the frames hanging up. then i remember some of the bigger boys having some nice bikes but i didn't really know them. i remember being aloud to go around the block for the first time, i was amazed that i could go all the way around without crossing the road, :)
around 84 got a second hand dp freestyler for £40 off a glue sniffer ;D
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i used to live round the corner from poole bmx track and remember one sunday seeing a lot of cars,vans etc going there.
went to investigate with my dad and saw a makeshift track and kids on bmxs which i had never seen before.the one that stuck in my mind was a gleaming mongoose motomag and a blue and yellow team murray.
this meeting was not where the poole track was eventually built but further over on the other side of the common.i reckon around 1980/81.
at the time i had a strange grifter copy bike called a vindec scrambler which had the sturmy archer 3 speed gears and a double top tube!
after seeing the bmxs i pestered my parents who eventually got me a wmx.
seem to remember it was black with hideous 12 or 16 spoke yellow mag wheels but unlike heywood it had a burner style gusset and i dont remember it having a looptail but could be wrong.
i hated the bike but it was all my parents could afford at the time.the bike quickly became fooked up and parts broke etc and i bought a super tuff burner without the tuffs off a mate from school for £15 of saved pocket money.
my dad was a car sprayer and sprayed it white which was the envy of the hood as no one had white bikes at the time.next xmas 83 i think santa got me white aero zytecs with blue tyres from strongs bmx bmth.
all i did then was buy second hand parts from the poole race meets and swop parts around with mates,i could never afford new bits and always bought and swapped used.
then around 84 my parents pushed the boat out and i got a chrome rickman freestyler f+f for my birthday and all the parts from the burner went on it and more upgrading and swapping with the locals ensued until it was quite a well specced bike.
it then got nicked around 86 along with my mates dp freestyler in bmth town centre after we locked it with one of those crap combination locks of that time.
great days....... :)