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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: meticulous on July 16, 2009, 06:39 PM
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I have now built up this massive (to me) collection of bikes only to be disheartened that they are now done and locked away, its like 'what now'.... i get a buzz out of building up another colour scheme, but when its finished and put to one side, it just stays there collecting dust, i seems its a shame that they have no other use, sort of understand how munners feels getting rid of everything, as he has done what he set out to do.... nothing seems to be selling for much these days and would have to take a massive loss to sell them, so seem to be stuck with them, for the time being at least, so i cannot even pass on to someone who will appreciate them and the time taken to get them to this standard, and tbh the thought of going to the post office 20 times to sell one bike doesnt impress me :(
its a bit like me selling off all my cars and junk to go with it, i am now down to my last one which i am breaking (audi UR quattro), and i just want rid of the lot, and peeps say 'all i want is the left bolt that goes next to the drive shaft next to the bearing'.... :idiot2:
so its going to take me 2hrs to get this item off, then i am stuck with a suspension leg that is dismantled, all for a tenner, dont peeps realise it isnt worth my time....
all i want is £1500 for the lot, not £1 less, the fookin log book must be worth £1500...
what the fook am i going on about i dont know, just had a drink and needed to air something.... :crazy2:
sam
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i'll take one of the bikes :daumenhoch: ,,,,, i'll hug it and squeeze it and call it george,,, :LolLolLolLol:, i know what you mean about the bolt thing though ,," NO its that fookin much if ya don't want the rest of it f*** **f" and when you come back f*** **f again!
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Im in the same position mate, I have three bikes fully complete and while its a relief not to have to search ebay or the for sale ads every 5 minutes, it does seem a shame that they are locked away never to see the light of day.
I know what people are thinking. 'Get out and ride them'... But I never 'rode' BITD, and if I do go out on a bike nowadays its either my road or mtb.
Thing is, as much as I love looking at them, now im not having to source parts, or constantly strip and build them to change a minor part the fun has gone somewhat.
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I was going to post a virtually exact topic a while back, e.g.... What now for your bikes, but never got round to it. :-[
For the time being mine are in my sons bedroom, well at least some are, another is under the stairs as it's only half built and we have an old school cruiser in the attic. Now most of them are sort of built i don't really have an idea of what to do with them.
I do have one option at the moment for people to enjoy these builds but i need to speak to the owners a bit more soon.
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FFS Sam :shocked:
Have another drink :LolLolLolLol:
You do need to be buying and selling and restoring though , that's the best bit
The current bikes I've got now are keepers hopefully 6 in total not too many , I've enough space for these and I don't see them as owing me money
well except for the last 2 ongoing builds ::)
I've got a few bits of 80's sportsgear , old 70's toys and even though I don't see them on display
, every now and then I can see em and I have enjoyment knowing that I own them , not just looking at pics on the net
The same will be with the bikes eventually :)
I hope to be into BMX for as long as physically possible , there's a few riders who are 50 plus now :shocked: still loving it
Good on em , I say and I hope to be doing the same
The BMX world championships are in Birmingham 2012 too , I hope a load of us on here are still into BMX still then and get down :)
Basically Sam , get buying and selling some more ;)
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Sell them all, and buy a Pro Performer, put a 1 inch flex fighter on it and a lay back and i promise that is all you need. I have built over 20 myself at one time n another have a cpl of f&f lying around but of all the bikes nothing comes close to the GT's usability. My only bike's i will ever build from now on are riders, i been there to Sam, once you have won the chase and fook em then there aint nothing left but memories :LolLolLolLol:, good ornaments but at 1k+ for each one its fooking expensive.
Just read your post Dubber do, and your wrong :2funny:
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I feel exactly the same the fun is in sourcing the parts and the longer it takes the better really. Now the bikes are just sat there they are pointless large ornaments just gathering dust.
I can't help the thinking the money that has gone into them could be more use spent on other things. I'm finding it hard to justify keeping them to be honest.
I keep thinking sell them all but like you say it's such a hassle and takes too long to keep posting bits out all the time.
bodamus :( :-\
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:LolLolLolLol:
I'm always wrong ;D ;D ;D
Don't listen to me , I'm a fookin loon :crazy2:
But I've wasted lot less money on this hobby, than on Volkswagens ;)
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last september the missus says what do you want for xmas? i replys not realy bothherd whatever you want? obviously not good enough,, ;) so thought about it and i went for Evil Kneivil stunt cycle and Rock Em Sock Em Robots :daumenhoch:, she says no be seriuos , i replys i am, needless to say santa deliverd, i'd completly forgot about the conversation in september,, Evil Kenevil was just like the one i used to have ,a used but mint origonal, must o payed a load for it, and Rock Em Sock Em, i never had,, thats a repro but fookin brill she says your like a big kidd,, i know brillo,,, there now back in the boxes but see the light of day every now and then. Not realy relavant but some things are worth keeping, just for the grin on ya face when you use it :daumenhoch:
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its probably more satisfing having 3 or 4 100% perfect builds, than 20 98% perfect builds...
i'm not on my own then? :-[
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what you need is a rider!
go out to the shop, find a track,ride around youll feel much better!
riding them is fun!! :D
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sam strip the lot, build a few 100%'s and sell the rest of your gear..clear some space and buy some of it back...
you selling up will destabilise the market for a few weeks anyway, so you can buy it all back again for the same or probably less....
i just want a cruiser..thats my goal at the minute...
am moving closer towards one as well...
just inching my way in, bit by bit...
:D
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i have 2 riders....
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/bmxpickies345.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/bmxpickies323.jpg)
still... 1 too many
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What we need is a gathering, say, once a year. Where people can get together and ride/talk/check out other peoples bikes/drink beer etc
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:LolLolLolLol:
all the car clubs have monthly area meets, that is whats needed to keep the enthuisiasm up.... ;)
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What we need is a gathering, say, once a year. Where people can get together and ride/talk/check out other peoples bikes/drink beer etc
;)
Say somewhere in the central Uk region, and maybe make it over two days so you can drink and sleep it off, maybe even have a bmx track close by for those who still ride ???
I can see the possibilitys
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think he was being sarcastic paul.... :D
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think he was being sarcastic paul.... :D
Come on Sam even im not that slow :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
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:LolLolLolLol:, well i feel better already just for reading and contributing to this thread
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For those reasons I've decided to build bikes I rode, spec'd the same as what I can remember or what I can see in those grainy, out of focus pics either my OM or friends took. In many ways it's become much more of a challenge than just putting together bikes with the best minty/NOS bits I can find or afford. That way when I look at 'em they mean a great deal more to me and the hunt is even sweeter.
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im fairly lucky to have my bike from bitd and a load of parts too.
all my builds have at least one part of mine from bitd. a little part of my past on each one thats why i love all my builds :smitten:
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think he was being sarcastic paul.... :D
Come on Sam even im not that slow :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
i was.... :LolLolLolLol:
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:LolLolLolLol:
all the car clubs have monthly area meets, that is whats needed to keep the enthuisiasm up.... ;)
That's what happens when we do racing Sam , or there's a skatepark meet on
Most of the time people go to sit there arses on bikes and chinwag , not 10' flipwhips
ask Flatcap Daz :-X
Awaiting deaththreat from Mr Whitfield ;)
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or you sneak off to a skate park late one night 2 weeks ago, and dont tell anyone..... :crazy2:
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If I'd have known it was a BMX night I wouldn;t have bothered :yahoo_silent:
Diggler promised me it was Blackpool Dogginfestjam 09 for steers and queers and said DB paul was gimpin' it up in his cage :yahoo_silent:
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I'm now totally focusing my efforts on Haro, after all, that's what got me into building in the 1st place as the master was my ultimate bike. So i'm getting some together for show and also to ride, then riding them will really make this hobby more real instead of me looking at them all the time in my office :daumenhoch:
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For those reasons I've decided to build bikes I rode, spec'd the same as what I can remember or what I can see in those grainy, out of focus pics either my OM or friends took. In many ways it's become much more of a challenge than just putting together bikes with the best minty/NOS bits I can find or afford. That way when I look at 'em they mean a great deal more to me and the hunt is even sweeter.
Its a downward slope after you have built that bike though. Nothing else will get close to it and you start to wonder why you are bothering building anything else
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If I'd have known it was a BMX night I wouldn;t have bothered :yahoo_silent:
Diggler promised me it was Blackpool Dogginfestjam 09 for steers and queers and said DB paul was gimpin' it up in his cage :yahoo_silent:
just teasing.... :LolLolLolLol:
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There is a lot of negativity and confusion on this site at the mo :(
Not between members , thank fook , but for what direction to go ,,
Last year I had time time out from September till around January ,, it did me good :) :) :)
I felt all BMX'ed up and had put too many other important things on the burner
( Burner,,, get it ?? ,,nevermind )
I came back interested and eager to get back into the fold and be part of the scene again :smitten:
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Maybe a mass swap for you mate,get a new F+F and off you go again.
Ive been steadily building my stash over the lest 5 years,with no real direction as ive never built a show pony up so never new what I needed.All I built was riders and loved it,but never touched all my NOS stuff.I bought my dream F+F last year (JMC DY) and put it straight in the loft.I was going to make it my show piece so to speak but then thought I never rode one BITD so whats the point in building a bike I would never ride.
Now I have emmigrated so the bloody stuff is just sat there doing nothing.All I have left built up is my Tange Rhino,the rest will be there when im next living in the UK.
Anyhow im off to the pool,its climbing into the 40's and its our weekend,see lifes not all that bad. :daumenhoch:
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i only got back in to this game last july after a 23 year lay off from bmx.i built 3 bikes in the first 9 months and when the third one was finished(which was gonna be my last)the fun was gone,it seems like all the fun is in the building and sourcing parts.the "what am i gonna do now" thing was driving me up the wall,im not a rider these days and my bikes are show ponies on display around my house so the only thing to do was to build another!!im quickly relising that until youve had enough of this game totally then you just keep on building.id like to think that when im done and bmx no longer interests me that my bikes will be put up in the loft and never ever sold so that on the odd occasion that i go up in the loft(christmas to get the trimmings)the bikes will at least put a big smile on my face and make me relise that all the money and time spent on them was indeed worth it and that i have something special from my child hood still with me.
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I know there are guys on here who have been collecting for many years more than me... I've been buying and restoring for the past 5 years.
Only once can I think of a time when I have though... stuff all this!!! and that was more down to a particular idiot on another site rather than falling out of love with BMX.
The sourcing, restoring and building is obviously a thrill... as is the presentation of the finished bikes on here and at various events throughout the country.
I've let bikes go that I loved, just in order to finance something either better or different..
I have loved this hobby since stumbling back into it after a long break from owning a BMX... add to that my new found love of racing OLD SKOOL and I couldn't be happier.
I am just happy to be involved in some small way in the sport of BMX... long may it continue.
BMX!! BMX!! BMX!!
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Its was a great hobby for me. Was expensive when I got into it but it was worth every penny when I was collecting.
I wasnt one of the lucky ones who bought cheap 5 years ago. Ive lost a few thousand selling stuff at a loss but shit happens. Post office trips drove me around the bend.
Sam Meticus sums it up in the first post. Its a shame when they just sit there gathering dust and how many builds actually mean something? How many bikes did I build just to have one of each make! Madness considering they were 1k a piece on average.
I decided to keep just the one bike but I have decided to sell that too now. Why i dont know? Maybe the love has gone. For me anyway.
I wish I started collecting now though as the prices are cheap and its fill ya boots time if you can afford it. ;)
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If I'd have known it was a BMX night I wouldn;t have bothered :yahoo_silent:
Diggler promised me it was Blackpool Dogginfestjam 09 for steers and queers and said DB paul was gimpin' it up in his cage :yahoo_silent:
I wondered why you had PMd me about sleeping in my tent Dubber Do, have to warn you though there's only one way in and no way out :-*
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If I'd have known it was a BMX night I wouldn;t have bothered :yahoo_silent:
Diggler promised me it was Blackpool Dogginfestjam 09 for steers and queers and said DB paul was gimpin' it up in his cage :yahoo_silent:
I wondered why you had PMd me about sleeping in my tent Dubber Do, have to warn you though there's only one way in and no way out :-*
that moustache is fooling no one...and neither is that smile.
plenty of lube boys...Buzz is in town.
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:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
You only shied away cos i promised you a real game of naked kung foo, get in yer speed machine Sun ya jesse
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am busy, and its raining.
if it stops raining, i'll set off on tuesday in the delorean.
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Maybe the love has gone. For me anyway.
Are you on a negative post crusade , Nick :D
Right we all get the message , I don't get it though , :-\
you lost all interest supposedly ,
glad to be out of it all ,
realised now that you're so much better off that you've got rid of your builds as they're a waste of time and money , etc , etc
but you are still on here everyday and actively posting , why :idiot2:
Seems a bit hypocritical , you still need your fix and will probably be back buying again ::)
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Maybe the love has gone. For me anyway.
Are you on a negative post crusade , Nick :D
Right we all get the message , I don't get it though , :-\
you lost all interest supposedly ,
glad to be out of it all ,
realised now that you're so much better off that you've got rid of your builds as they're a waste of time and money , etc , etc
but you are still on here everyday and actively posting , why :idiot2:
Seems a bit hypocritical , you still need your fix and will probably be back buying again ::)
I was never a rider just a collector.
Now i dont collect doesnt mean that I dont have any interest in os bmx. Thats why i post and visit the site.
Now that i dont collect doesnt mean that i wont start collecting again one day.
All i am saying is that i lost interest in collecting as it was addictive and took up all of my time.
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Wow, this is such a familiar feeling...... and I heard it a lot at MK this weekend as well.
I've built everything (except for a GT Pro Performer - hand your over DB250F!) that I wanted, really enjoyed doing it but rode every bike as I rode back in the day. I got over-confident and had a fall which made me realise I'm not 13 anymore, but I still got back on my bike and rode. I'm also lucky that my brother still enjoys riding his bikes and so we try and go for a spin every now and then to blast the cobwebs away.
I now have just 6 bikes left and in them I have my ultimate favourite bike I always wanted from BITD in my Pro-Class and haven't ridden it yet but I will do. I've built a matching Pro-Class styled Minigoose for my daughter for when she's big enough and then we will both ride them, so they're both show-bikes until then. Everything else I ride - my Haros when I fancy a few tricks and my Team Mongoose when I fancy riding round a track. My Ammaco is a bit too short to ride really but my mate's kids ride it and it was a birthday present so is not ever for sale. So nothing is wasted and I can justify to myself keeping the final six bikes.
I just hope we all meet up next year at MK and enjoy ourselves again as it's not something serious, I just enjoy riding BMX. :daumenhoch:
Spen
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I only have 3 now and 1 of those is for sale. Sold the rest of my bikes and boxes of parts over the last 6 months as they did not really do anything for me. I don't miss any of them and i'm £13000 richer :)
The Green GT and my missus's Dyno Compe will never get sold though.
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Wow, this is such a familiar feeling...... and I heard it a lot at MK this weekend as well.
I've built everything (except for a GT Pro Performer - hand your over DB250F!) that I wanted, really enjoyed doing it but rode every bike as I rode back in the day. I got over-confident and had a fall which made me realise I'm not 13 anymore, but I still got back on my bike and rode. I'm also lucky that my brother still enjoys riding his bikes and so we try and go for a spin every now and then to blast the cobwebs away.
I now have just 6 bikes left and in them I have my ultimate favourite bike I always wanted from BITD in my Pro-Class and haven't ridden it yet but I will do. I've built a matching Pro-Class styled Minigoose for my daughter for when she's big enough and then we will both ride them, so they're both show-bikes until then. Everything else I ride - my Haros when I fancy a few tricks and my Team Mongoose when I fancy riding round a track. My Ammaco is a bit too short to ride really but my mate's kids ride it and it was a birthday present so is not ever for sale. So nothing is wasted and I can justify to myself keeping the final six bikes.
I just hope we all meet up next year at MK and enjoy ourselves again as it's not something serious, I just enjoy riding BMX. :daumenhoch:
Spen
well balanced look at it...
just bought a new gaff, so will have more room to display and fiddle with my bikes, am thinking about stripping 4 of the 8 i have and redoing them, for the craic, and then getting myself a cruiser...
daft habit to have really, hard to explain, but i dont want to give it up just yet...
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heres my take again lol
If simply having a nice bike is not enough then eventually your going to get bored , as its impossible to keep chasing the buzz in constantly buying parts
if your bored then have time out let collecting old bmx become something you do not something that does you
I do notice a quick gratification style of collecting is never sustainable and parts that are hard to get take time to source. If a bike takes years to get,so what ? you got the rest of your life lol
Rich
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good time to start searching for bits and bobs over the pond again as well...
exchange rates are getting bearable again :daumenhoch:
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heres my take again lol
If simply having a nice bike is not enough then eventually your going to get bored , as its impossible to keep chasing the buzz in constantly buying parts
if your bored then have time out let collecting old bmx become something you do not something that does you
I do notice a quick gratification style of collecting is never sustainable and parts that are hard to get take time to source. If a bike takes years to get,so what ? you got the rest of your life lol
Rich
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