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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: pickle on May 11, 2016, 07:27 AM
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Who rode on them BITD? Looking at Andy's TA with black tuffs and white walls they scream early 80's to me as we all rode on them at some point. Not sure if it was due to the only local bike shop being a Raleigh dealer and therefore having lots of shopper tyres ;D but we all rode on them round my way at some point, they were cheap and rolled real smooth.
I can remember Mason Smith coming to Bowes in the early 80's on his Gen1 and i'm sure he rode them with black Tuffs as well, i think they look well cool on black tuffs :smitten:
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I've got some on my aero reflex purely because I thought they were cool bitd.
I remember how in my estate we all switched from snakebellies to coloured comp 3s and then we were freestyle mad so we all got whitewalls .. I think they looked cool with tuffs and arayas :4_17_5:
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That was exactly our Tyre timeline as well Ant, snakebellies (GS Standard) then comp IIIs then whitewalls :daumenhoch:
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Mainly due to all the bike shops at the time selling white wall shopper tyres :daumenhoch:
Pickle your theory is correct ;)
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Yep , white walls were a good cheep freestyle tyre , non of us could ever afford comp's or haro tyres back then :daumenhoch:
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Thanks for starting this one Rob :daumenhoch:
For those who didn't see my post in the London ride thread, these are the features/pics where i first saw white walls. Thought they looked really cool then, and i still like them now. Had to put them on my first BMX build (Skyway T/A), when i got back into it.
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/P1080174_zpse8d0ifx2.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/P1080174_zpse8d0ifx2.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0005%20Large_zpssgdhcug6.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0005%20Large_zpssgdhcug6.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0007%20Large_zpsx6p9hkq6.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0007%20Large_zpsx6p9hkq6.jpg.html)
And
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/P1080175_zpsancqxmxm.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/P1080175_zpsancqxmxm.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0008%20Large_zpspl3ven4g.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0008%20Large_zpspl3ven4g.jpg.html)
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how dope is that Ripper .. and what an iconic move / pic fistblump
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couldn't find any pictures of Mason with them but I'm sure he did use them.
Found this picture though fistblump
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how dope is that Ripper .. and what an iconic move / pic fistblump
Thanks for starting this one Rob :daumenhoch:
For those who didn't see my post in the London ride thread, these are the features/pics where i first saw white walls. Thought they looked really cool then, and i still like them now. Had to put them on my first BMX build (Skyway T/A), when i got back into it.
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/P1080174_zpse8d0ifx2.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/P1080174_zpse8d0ifx2.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0005%20Large_zpssgdhcug6.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0005%20Large_zpssgdhcug6.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0007%20Large_zpsx6p9hkq6.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0007%20Large_zpsx6p9hkq6.jpg.html)
And
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/P1080175_zpsancqxmxm.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/P1080175_zpsancqxmxm.jpg.html)
(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af3/dancetothedrummersbeat/scan0008%20Large_zpspl3ven4g.jpg) (http://s988.photobucket.com/user/dancetothedrummersbeat/media/scan0008%20Large_zpspl3ven4g.jpg.html)
Andy and I have often talked about that particular picture of the Ripper... It's ace isn't it Ed!!!
I agree that there were as close as we could get to comp st s and panaracers ...
Tempted to do a white/black ripper next ?
There was s similar looking Ripper for sale in Afflecks Palace in the the very early 90s
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Just received my latest f&f from 1984 and plan on getting hold of some
Haro 20 x 1.85 Multi surface 3 for it , as close to a nice set of white walls ,
should look ok ...
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I had them on a few bikes as a kid but found them to be totally useless in wet weather, I agree they did look good with both tuffs and spokes.
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First time I remember whitewalls on bmx's was Picketts Lock in about 83? Racing indoors on wooden ramps.
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Next weekend at Rom everyone was riding with em!
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:daumenhoch:
Yep I had Michelin white walls
Similar tread to panaracer
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Having seen the guys tearing round at Earls Court 81/82 I was hook on Michelin white walls on my street hack :daumenhoch:
(http://i684.photobucket.com/albums/vv209/steve69-pics/planet-x/09-09-19004.jpg) (http://s684.photobucket.com/user/steve69-pics/media/planet-x/09-09-19004.jpg.html)
Picture taken at Rom Skate park circa 1983
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Is that you Steve? Fantastic pic :4_17_5:
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Is that you Steve? Fantastic pic :4_17_5:
Yes, I'm not sure I ever did grow into that cap :LolLolLolLol:
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We built up a lot of freestyle bikes with Michelin white walls when I was at Heff's but they didn't really float my boat and I preferred Comp ST's or Panaracer in black/skinwall. Having said that I could have done with them at Earls Court as that was slippy as on Snakebellies!
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Yeah I used them
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Black tuff`s with white is the dogs dangly bits..
Done this to my GT ..
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t119/adyseries/gt%20pro%20world%20tour%201985%20new%20pics%202015/DSC00757.jpg) (http://s158.photobucket.com/user/adyseries/media/gt%20pro%20world%20tour%201985%20new%20pics%202015/DSC00757.jpg.html)
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That looks the fooking nuts!!!
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Prefer Gum Wall but those White Wall go really well on Black Tuffs :)
Mmm I may go for that look on one of mine :-\
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Front right Dilybum aka Mark rocking a gen 1 with white walls
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/aa130/CUINHELLJAYMZ/feda50e48a83d0e20862282351c60607_zps9cb3pevw.jpg)
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White walls were the closest thing you could get to 'freestyle tyres' for cheap
Here's me and my mate back in the day ... for the life of me I can't remember his name :-[
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Wot's his names jumper matches his burner... well cool. :teef:
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Wot's his names jumper matches his burner... well cool. :teef:
And just above his head near the red mini discribes what the burners was like Bitd ..
Shite :LolLolLolLol:
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White walls were the closest thing you could get to 'freestyle tyres' for cheap
Here's me and my mate back in the day ... for the life of me I can't remember his name :-[
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I used to have a mate with a 2" d**K - we called him Just in.
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What bike are you riding there Ed?
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and those Jeans with the piping down the side, we all had those on in 1980 :daumenhoch:
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I've got 'em on my Reflex .. Defo going on my next rider build for shit !!
Wots with all this burner bashing at the mo' ::) :LolLolLolLol:
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You all bollocked me when I went to put em on the vinny, fickle coonts 😁😁😁.
Was coloured comp 3's or shopper tyres for me bitd too.
Don't think I ever saw a proper set of freestyle tyres
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