Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)

what got you started..???

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mike pardon:
Okay for me it was sitting watching magpie one day and they had some footage of a new sport called BMX and Tinker Juarez riding a skatepark in the states..He did 360s out of the bowl !!! Well i just died,,,that was it . I couldnt believe what my eyes where seeing. Then i heard Halfords had these Puch Murrays in and a mate from school was getting one for chrimbo..I had a £100 in the bank. I asked my Dad could i put it to buying one. I think they retailed for £130. He said "no chance" I spat the dummy..Then my mates discovered Alans and we used to nip there on our lunch and drool. He really had some exotic machines..Mongoose skyway. supergoose, etc

I couldnt understand why my Dad wouldnt let me buy one..So xmas morning comes i open up all my presents..I got a black and white portable TV!!! plus a pair of gloves and a race shirt..The penny still hadnt dropped..I distinctly remember looking out of the window and seeing about 4 of my mates fly down the street on gleaming new bmx bikes.. Gutted.
So he says just get my coat for us..I open the door and there it is,, a gleaming new mongoose skyway..

so began my journey into the dark side.. ha ha can ya beat that????

harris:
my first memory was at my cousins in coventry ,i found a magazine he had i had never even herd of bmx
it looked great then forgot about it.a lad up my road pulled out on a space ship to me a raleigh tuff burner
wow i couldnt stop looking at the yellow wheels i wanted one but my parents were never gonna get me one.
then one day at school a lad had this bmx he had made up from bits it was the best i was ever going to get
my bum near so i told my dad and he said we could go look ,£20 he wanted it was a black thing with moto mag
wheels and mongoose stickers generic thing well heavy ,so dad got it for me but gave me loads of work to do
for him to pay it of.cheers dad you are a star.... :daumenhoch:

theRuler:
i'd seen ET but the whole bmx thing didnt really register - i mean we had always used our bikes for "scrambling" and skids and wheelies etc (remember turning the handlebars upwards on a racer for extra wheelie power?)

wasnt until my older brother got a bmx action bike magazine - that was july 1983. we read it cover to cover the whole summer holiday

had to wait until xmas to get bmx's though. and from then it was on.

DR VINOAH:
"magpie" what great program that was

wasnt just the one thing for me

but seeing a bmx on "chips" got me 1st,a bit later on, the ruffell and co on blue peter

 a mate had a "motobacane" with suspension around 78/79,it was kawasaki green

he then got a supergoose and i got a motomag,i could do bigger jumps and not bend the forks

as i had done on me "panther" ,this was a chopper lookalike

also some issues of bmxa brought back from the US by me aunt in 79

im sure "tommorows world" did a feature on bmx around 1980,or maybe it was

"whickers world"

thats all folks :daumenhoch:

Del:
One by one my mates started getting BMX's at around '83, so after a lot of nagging and having a glowing report from school that summer, my dad takes me to the bike shop. I already told him they were about £100ish, so I figured I'd end up with something basic. So we get there and there's a gorgeous DB Silver Streak which I'm drooling over. Anyway he says "Well if you're going to get one you might as well get the one you really want!" So we walk out with a Silver Streak and I think I slept with it that night!

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