I had a Diamond Back, Cant remember the actual name, got the magazine every month. Had a "Garage Job" for my paper round so as not to wreck the DB, bit like the weekend car thing !
Got some stick off other kids for the garage job, they didnt beleive I had the Diamond Back, got in a punch up about it !

T boned a lads Huffy with an MOT failure Raleigh chopper, chopper undamaged, Huffy was Banana shaped, served him right for being older and very mean to me (Dont get mad get even)

 

My little bro was dead chuffed when my dad got my old Raleigh Strika and painted it white and adorned it with BMX stickers, at least till he got some stick for it !

 

Had lots of BMX's and lots of differing parts....as I used to work in cycle shop...damn wish i still had some of those bikes.......

hmmmmm maybe I could sell the mountain bikes and get another BMX

 

used to have an ammaco freestyle pro with blue pads and the crome frame. god i loved that bike it was soooooo light.... at least it seemed that way compaired to my Grifter

mike

 

Lol Andy Ruffel did a display at my school and he fell off bunnyhopping bikes.

Talking of cool pushbikes I still have a chopper which is in good nick and think that they are worth a few quid now.

The bendy wheels were ACS Z Rims

[Edited by co55ie - 3/18/2003 10:22:11 PM]

 

I had a piranha too-the later one with the Aero Zytec wheels...aah..memories..

 

i know its not a bmx but what a good bike the Grifter was for its time , with its smaller brother the Boxer .. i personally had a budgie and then a chopper.... i can remeber getting a clothes peg and pegging a bit of card against the spokes to make that motorbike noise

 

It went Boxer Striker Grifter Commando
Budgie Chipper tomahawk chopper
I think

 

I had a Diamond Back Pacer 500. Mushroom grips (with the metal c poking through, from smashing it on the floor when I went in for tea!) with black finger brakes and beartrap pedals (still got the shin scars!). That bike was "The Don" bike in my street! The old days eh? Sorry almost forgot the obligatory front trick nuts for your mates and the removal of all padding to show how hard you were at age 10.

 

If i find the cash this weekend, i'm going to get an original Haro master in green with green coaster tuffs. I've got a fiola movie.. click here www.urquattro.co.uk/bmx/eddiefiola.wmv

 

it about 10meg though so non broadband you'll have a bit of a wait...

 

I used to race a TORKER, bet there arent many people remember them, 1985 i was 3rd in the national championships - down south somewhere, think it was christchurch, i was 7 years old....

happy days.

gaz

 

great vid Urquart, that guy could certainly do some tricks.

 

I had an Ultra Burner and a Mongoose something or other.

They rocked

 

Ahhh great topic!!

I had a Skyway TA frame, Tuff2 wheels, Uni seat (all-in-one thing )

Does anybody remember CW handlebars?

Dan

 

Name from the past -

Haro Freestyler!!!

Dan

just been looking on EBay for one - nostalgia has REALLY kicked in!!

 

ignore me, just making it clicky so i can "save as"

www.urquattro.co.uk/bmx/eddiefiola.wmv

 

ooo bmx's hehehehehehe

i graduated like so many from the grifter onto a raleigh burner (blue and yellow one with skyway wheels..... early tuff burner i think...) then onto one of the muddy fox bikes which was the nuts by comparison and soooooooooooo much lighter, was the bike to beat for race and freestyle on my estate then some lads from the local council estate use to come over and try and i once had it nicked by four of them, got it back tho

when i moved to the south of england and started work, one of the other trainee chefs with me was a guy called stuart ....whittaker i think it was, and i remembered seeing him as a privateer that was on the old kellogs uk vs usa bmx races and he did rather well, he was sponsored by Kuwahara after that (stunning bikes, stunningly expensive!) complete with redline + shaped crank and all sorts of expensive parts, but as bmx died shortly after it was still sitting in his garage only raced for 6 months and in mint condition! I was in awe after moving down from near glasgow hehehehe.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh !!! Skyway TA , never new anyone with one of those ! They were the Ferrari of BMX's back in the day.
Love some of the old bike names that are cropping up ! Who remembers the skyway streetbeat , used to be available in loads of mad colours like lavender & stuff , sadly they were mega expensive aswell!!

 

Afternoon hotpants !! check out the southern meet, its going well. !!

 

Did anyone have one of the bikes fitted with a "Sturmey Archer" (I think) gear drum on the back wheel? Every one I had broke after about 2 weeks and the bike would be stuck permanantly in one gear, usually third. I had a Grifter, which got nicked, then a Raleigh Super Burner. I jumped off a ramp with it once and knocked myself unconscious. I suppose Imprezas/Evos etc are just BMXs for grown-ups. Heh!

 

I got an immaculate Mongoose California BMX in my mums loft
Complete with the "Pro-Class" wheels (with the holes between the spokes)

Probably worth a few bob to a collector..

 

I got a Kuwarah after watching the ET film, nice maroon and white colours. After that I got Mac Trax, Tange cro mo frame, with a suntour groupset (including quick release brakes) and Araya rims.

I was gutted when I found out that trick nuts wouldn't fit.

Phil

 

Remember Mushroom handlebar grips and those lethal Hutch beartrap pedals.

 

What a fantastic thread, haven't reminised like that for a long time. Diamond Backs, PK Rippers, etc

Anyone remember the Pro Star, chrome bike with a star symbyol in between the cross bar and the down tube.

i never a actually acheived owning a bmx, although i did ask for one for Xmas once, and what did a get???

A Griffter XL! Well isuppose it did have a pad on the handle bars!

Parents, don't you just love'em.

Ali

 

One thing I have begun to notice from this thread is how many mums & dads have got old BMX's in their lofts ! I tell you now though , once you dare to re-discover the old bikes it's so tempting to get into the old restoration & then starts the 'have a look at E Bay , just to look , then before you know it ! Fierce I've now got 3 old BMX's !!!! Where did they spring from ? P.S gotta go I'm just off to do something Radical!!!!!!

 

Does anyone remember 'BMX Beat' which was on in the summer holidays? It was hosted, I think, by Pat Sharp. There was a guy called Pepe Winder (Stuart 'Pepe' Winder I think??) who always won!

It was a freestyle competition.

 

YEAH I remember BMX Beat, best programme during the hols. and for the avid Bmx'r, you have to have Dave Mirra on the PS2, you can do really stupid tricks n jumps on that. Its still a big thing in the US of A, x-sports channel still show loads of comps and the x-games of course.(on sky)

gadgets - BMX GEAR Coooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllll

 

Skyway are still in business...

http://www.skywaytuffwheels.com/2002/

Sorry if that doesn't come out as a link. I don't know how to do it.

 

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