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

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spicybob:
My Cousins came back from the States with them.
My parents refused to buy me a BMX even though they took me to OT's in Dartford to look at all the bikes. :'(
They said I had to make do with the Grifter they had bought me some years previously. :'(
This never detered me and a friend who had had a Mongoose Motor Mag shipped over from the States sold me some of its original parts which I fitted to the Grifter. Wheels pads etc.
I then saved my pocket money to buy the real deal.
My heart was set on a redline but I bought the first bike my savings amounted to. Appro £85 A Burner!!!! :'(
Fortunately for me it was stolen and the insurance money went towards a GT!!
And I lived happily ever after.

Geth:
Always wanted to ride MX. We had the racers turned "scramblers" with knobbly tyres, "cowhorn" bars that we used to ride down in the abandoned brickyard near to home.
Then Grifters came along and we thought they were the dogs nads. 20" wheels with knobbly tires, padded bars and MX style grips. We were there!
Me and a friend ended up swapping our Grifters for a RM125 not even thinking that it was probably stolen! My mum found out and went ballistic and made us swap back our bikes.
Still dreaming of MX, we used to buy "Motorcross & Trials Weekly" (I think thats what it was called). One week there was a pull out section on "Bicycle Motocross"
HUH?!
Whats that then?
Talked my mum to put some aside each week up until Xmas when I got my brand new Team Murray 340 from Halfords.
Thanks mum! :smitten:

Ended up hand painting it matt black with blackboard paint!

Zippy:
The first BMX I saw was an ET Kuwi. We all took the micky out of the lad who had it because it wasn't geared like our grifters.

About a year later and I was desperate for a bmx. I was coming back from a PGL holiday and we stopped at a bike shop. It was full of burners. My mum asked what I thought of the red one and I explained that it was crap and that Haro or Redline made proper bmx's.

Anyway I got home and walked into my bedroom and there at the end of the bed was a red burner. I was as chuffed as anything and rode the wheels off it for about 2 years.

macmark:
I saw something on a Saturday morning t.v. show Swapshop or Tiswas or one of those in the Summer of 78, about the next big craze from America. BMX!! Well that was it for me, I'd always wanted a MX bike but wasn't allowed one because there was nowhere for me to ride it. I remember running upstairs to my mum and dads room and they'd been out the night before so were still in bed. I can still remember jumping around pretending to be on a bike and making a hell of a racket asking if I could get one for christmas. I think they said yes just to shut me up so they could go back to sleep. I didn't forget, or shut up about it though and kept on and on. Eventually just before christmas they took me to a bike shop in East London called Bates and I chose a Mongoose Motomag with blue pads. Oh and I was only allowed to get it if I got a blue bombhead helmet that I had to promise to wear (yeah right!). The bike was then picked up a couple of days before christmas and kept at my aunts. We lived in 3 storey town house and I remember hearing my dad half cut trying to carry it up the stairs and put it in the living room. I sneaked a peak over the bannisters and saw it and don't think I've ever felt so excited as I did that night. I didn't sleep a wink and think I woke everyone up every 15 minutes to see if we could go and open our presents yet. Great days.

:smitten:

Mark

felix:
Similar to a lot of guys here.  All kids rode bikes all the time in those days, played every day in the woods.  Made 'tracker' bikes with little knobbly tyres and stupidly long cowhorns.  Got my Grifter around '78 IIRC, learnt wheelies etc.  First sight of BMX was something on the TV and some of the first Mongooses in the local bike shop - Motomags and those matt black swan neck stems.  Remember (still treasure) the first copy of OBMX (?) later, BMX Action Bike with I think Cav Strutt and others and the Grifter conversion.  Must have read that issue, as scanned here a hundred times...

http://www.bmxtalk.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2891&highlight=cav&sid=0f3e070d132d7f059bcc98efc22754f9

Did mine - straight forks, rings welded on the flared headtube by that Leyton bike shop.  Fitted Sugino blue alloy chainset etc.  Met two guys in the local woods who went to the US every summer - Jason Dawes and Dave Curry.  Progressed from there, got my first BMX, a Silverstreak - learnt a lot on that and so on.  The 'Bike SHow' at Earls Court with Ruffell, Stu Thomson and others and the wooden ramps - the excitement in those days is hard to convey - did anything to get a glimpse of new bikes, magazines or parts.  Tube to Masons in Snaresbrook, riding Hollow Ponds, hanging around Superbike in Ilford.  Best days of my life!

 :)

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