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

so how many of you guys started riding again?

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cymruambyth:
bought a new school bike last september to ride to work on. retired in 91, rode a bit during 96 and 97. found this site, went down rom, been about 8 times since then. its hard work trying to get back into it' every time i go to rom i feel like giving up again! still, its a laugh i suppose. no one to ride with during the week so i ride about once a month. i must admit for me its a real pisser not being able to do stuff i could in the old days!

greentoad:
Hi  :)

I sold all my BMX's in the late 80's. However I had motorcycles, mountain bikes (until they where sold or stolen), then when my daughter came along, rode her small bike. I then rode her scooter, and progressed onto her small mountain bike. All of this time I kept doing tricks, wheelies etc (I used to get some strange looks - ridding a pink 16" girls bike....  ;D), and got my first old school BMX about 6 months ago.

It is quite easy to pick up the tricks again, but I have trouble remembering them, and as I ride on my own in the street, you carn't watch others or bounce tricks off. However it is a great when you remember and pull it off, it's like being a kid again.

However, I went out and rode my old race track and slammed down pretty hard whilst doing a rollback off a berm, it hurts a lot more than the old days, and ached for over a week (I still can not sleep on my left shoulder  :'()

The tracks are also a lot harder now adays, and you carn't do any jumping  >:(, but it is still fun ridding. I raced and did freestyle back in the day, and must say that for me - freestyle is it, I'm loving it, and ride now even if it is down the village shop, doing tricks all the way.....

Ricky:
thanks guys im feeling even more inspired than ever now have to get meeself a bike.....

theRuler:
i stopped riding in 1989 when i turned sixteen and got a motorbike, car etc

got back into it in 1996 when i saw a redline rl240 in a car spares shop and bought it!!!

Ricky:
Good find!, im speaking to a lad who rode Livi years ago about getting his old pro burner from him as a restoration project and i have a mate in London who has a brand new unused prolite frame and forks but he's proving a tough nut to crack!.

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