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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: clonerz on January 15, 2007, 07:14 PM
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I have just bought this out of storage and gave it a quick spruce up. I t makes me wonder why they are not collected too much, i was looking at it and thought how nice the later GT's really are. OK, so its not a early eighties performer, but judging by the quality of the welds and finish they are made as well, if not better. I just cant understand why they arent really collected by anyone, as they really are very nice bikes. I know there not incredibly valuable, but they really deserve to be collected a lot more than they are .(I even took it for a quick spin, nice!)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/f352/crucial33/VINTAGE%20BMX/gtaggressor.jpg)
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Mid skool is getting more and more collectable.. and these mint bashguard's are gonna be worth some good money.
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trust me, its time will come.
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nice bike
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i been trying to get a decal set for my one of them, keep getting out bid, last set was over $90, have only seen a few of them about
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Yeah the quality is good on those I had one and sold it on the bay for peanuts :'(, the 80's originals will always be the most collectable but dosent mean they wont be worth a few bob in 100 yrs or so ... :LolLolLolLol:
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The frame no. on it indicates it being an 89 model, does this sound about right? If so , is it classed as new or mid school? From what im hearing here its classed as mid school, but i want to be sure .
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I always say that anything with an A-head, 1 1/8th setup is too new to be "Mid", making "mid" to be from the very late 80s to the mid 90s (96/97 was when A-head got going on BMX). Your GT deff aint "new", its early "mid" ... almost late "old", ha ha.
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My MCS has a 1 1/8th headset and it's dated around 91! :-\
The MCS History page says it came out in 89! but i'm sure A-head wasn't actually out then?? it has no serial number either to help date it though......but the History page on the MCS site says it was only made for a couple of years........as Toya would say, It'sh a mishtory :-\
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my standard lengthy is a 95 with 1 1/8
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Lets not start the "when did A-head come out" thing again, I meant that it was in about 96/97 that most companies changed over to 1 1/8th "Dia Compe A-head" that MTBs had been using for a while. Some were sooner (I think standard were the first to get production "A-head" frames out) but there were also some companies that did their own "Clamp on" systems before the "Dia Comp A-head" system. The earliest I know of was the Cook Bros design ..... in 1980!!!
http://www.23mag.com/com/cookbros/cookbros.htm
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i will get me coat ;)
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In my opinion, they will never be as popular as the early performer's. Even though there's probably less of them left in one piece.
Its just that they are so god damm ugly!
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i will get me coat ;)
Come on Dan, Im sure you knew about that Cooks Bros Clamp on system .... Youve probably GOT ONE!
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:LolLolLolLol: i was playing bro :angel:
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old 80's and before
mid 90's
mid school is a meaningless phrase anyway. it's all old. some is 80's some is 90's