Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 > Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!)
what got you started..???
P0LL0:
Dean Rush when he was thirteen getting a Foot or so out of a six foot quarter then me and him went to Horsham to watch Chris Young and Rob Bell do a show and that was that!
stevenage kid:
In 82 a few local teenagers being in mind i was 8 to 9, (pickle will know) brian gillespie, aday, ron and tony fox all lived local. i just was seeing tv coverage and just wanted a bmx. i had to wait till christmas, and me folks wern't loaded and i remember my dad putting down a 13 pound deposit on my blue burner (everyoe had red), i was stoked. we then used to all ride to moores bike shop and drool over the aero pro burner and the ultra buner. I then went to local bowes lyon skatepark for the first time with my mate nick lacey, and i saw my first gen1 haro, mr mason smith had one. I then went to a trip with the play scheme to hemel hempstead bmx track and saw my first skyway ta. I was hooked, then tony fox turned up at my park on a yellow gt perfomer. WOW. I got my first freestyle bike, in christmas 84. All my mates were sending there frames to dp to get sprayed illuminous colours, anyone remember. (ha illuminous colours were cool). and i went to moores and ron who was the DON DADDY at the time at bowes worked there and was selling his legendary skyway ta, white tuffs, mk1 ez bars, rgd stem. the lot. His bke was well respected in the area as one of the best. Fortunately, i dragged my mum in there and asked her to look at this bike, he was selling it for £175.00, and i remember my mum saying to me "i can only afford £150" next minute he walks past and says the price has dropped it £150.00. The best day of my life..................... I was dialed and i was 11 and he i am....... I then lived at bowes lyon, and in the summer lived at knebworth. Knebworth was crazy, Anyone remember the huge hill you had to ride up. how manytimes!! Oops nearly forgot the chris young skyway team demo at stevenage leisure centre, and the ron wilkerson and brian blyther demo at customs old shop. All huge inspirations..
pickle:
My god!!! i'm going all misty eyed over that! i remember Tony Fox! he used to work at Moores before Ron.......we always used to ride down the glebe shops just to look at the Redline that was hanging up over the till.
My BMX'in started back in about 82 (i think) all my mates had got them.......Ron had got a Tuff burner (yes even he had one BITD) and i loved it!!! those tuffs :smitten:
but like most of us back then, my mum and dad didn't have too much money to throw about.....and with two other kids to buy for it looked like i would never get a BMX! :'( I had to make do with my brothers hand-me-down racer......which i then systematically destroyed by jumping anything in my path!
Well Christmas came round and i'd opened all my pressies, but no BMX :'( I was then made to go to the garage to get the potatoes for dinner......i opened the door, turned on the lights and there she was!!! it was only a Burner GS from the catalogue....but it was my Burner GS (ultra burner wanna be!) and i loved it!!!
Over the following years it ended up being neon green, with blue Z's....then i swapped them (with Foxy) for some blue Tuffs :)
By this time Ron and Ryan had got there DP's which looked the dogs! but for me.....my burner (which was the first new bike i had ever had) was my baby!
I can remember cycling the length of Stevenage to spend the whole day at Bowes.....shouting "droppin in" as you flew round towards the clover......and just watching Mason and Ron ripp that park up!
Yes i can also remember that hill ride to Knebworth! but when you got there you had a blast down that snake run into the bowl :daumenhoch:
I was crap BITD...the most i could manage was jumps, kickturns and rollbacks.....oh and endo's.....but my god we knew how to have fun back then!
I remember Halfords was just over the road from Bowes and when the Extra Burner came out (just after ET i think) everyone rushed over to see it and marvel at the red and white paint job (looking back it was pants) but we were easily pleased.
Great days! :'(
Oh i also remember Rons dad helping take my tuffs apart and re-greasing all the barings.....he was such a nice bloke! always helped you if you had a problem with anything on your bike....Top bloke! and so was Ron.....If you're reading this ron get intouch mate......i'm sure you'll remember me.
weston:
i always wanted to jump bikes like evel knievel, i used to build ramps on my striker then my grifter, after watching bmx on tv for the first time & seeing magazines it was on, waited all year for my first bike the red burner & that was that
jimwise68:
Mine is pretty much like everyone else. Had a grifter late 70s used to build jumps and wheelie the thing. Saw a show on Tv about BMX and it didn't really go in. But about 2 months later saw a red and yellow bike in a local bike shop in Maldon Essex. That was it I really wanted it.
Pestered my parents for ever and they said no. So I asked if i could get one from the Littlewoods club book if I paid for it myself. Placed the order and 28 days later my life changed. I was the first person in my village to have a bmx and I felt like the king of the hill on my flashy red and yellow mk1 burner. Can still remember the excited feeling of popping on the pads, because i had to build it up before riding it.
A year later (1983) I got a Mongoose Californian for Xmas and was even happier.
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