Any old School BMX People Here?

[bordin34]

I saw a thread on old school bmx stuff on moparts and was curious if anybody here was into them. Myself I have a 1987 Dyno D-tour that I am riding and fixing up.

[HITMAN 149]

wow!! memories!! yea i was a huge bmx freak back in the day!!! i used to race a chrome supergoose frame w/ redline forks, GT bars, and Z rims! then all the freestyle trick stuff started!! lol

[Mike DC]

Niiice.  I always liked the GT Performers back in the day.  '87 was a good year with the bright blue & pink paint shades. 

[HITMAN 149]

yea my buddy had a lavender PK RIPPER... man we busted his chops.. but it was a hot expen$ive bike back then!!! lol

[chargerboy69]

Yep.  I raced in the mid-west area back in the mid to late 80's.  Had a bout half a dozen Hutch bikes back then.

Trying to get my hands on a Hutch cruiser now.  I just can not bring myself to spend the kind of money people are wanting for them.  Would not mind a GT or Predator cruiser either.

[Todd Wilson]

yea my buddy had a lavender PK RIPPER... man we busted his chops.. but it was a hot expen$ive bike back then!!! lol

A freiend of mine had a PK and that was the most badass bike I think I have ever road.  Another friend was always gone in the summer racing all over the place.


Todd

[HITMAN 149]

yea they were BIG buck$ back then!!!

[mikesbbody]

I got my first BMX about 1980? raced for quite a few years then got into Flatland BMX (late 80's) rode until 99 thinking about making some kind of comeback (go ahead laugh  ) anyway, I owned...2 mongoose's, 4 Haro's? 2? GT's a Dyno Pro compe (90) Hutch Trick Star, a Torker which i rode for 2 days then threw away, a Standard Shorty and a Morales were the last bike's I owned I'm sure there were others I can't remember...

[Patronus]

The Skyway is one of the nicest you will ever see! (its for sale) Yo! I've had over 300 20" 80's BMXers. Everything you can imagine.. I raced semi-pro dowhill and 4x mtn bikes for many many years. Then I started digging lines for the 26" steel hard-tail. But now I send it on a '08 CRF 450r, and have some "interesting" passes on my 450x.... check it:

[bull]

Ever see those 40+ year old guys wearing a wife-beater tank top while riding BMX bike down the wrong side of the road with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth? Don't do that.

[mikesbbody]

No, I don't smoke and I'd drive to my riding spot  btw that Skyway TA ia awesome! always wanted one but never owned one.

[greenpigs]

Niiice.  I always liked the GT Performers back in the day.  '87 was a good year with the bright blue & pink paint shades. 

   I had a GT blue Pro Performer with nearly all GT products hanging off it, cept the Skyway mags. I forget the company name but it had blue tires a similiar shade to the frame also. Some girl gave me flack about my small sprocket so I got some monster sized on for it. Sucked on longer trips but you got moving right now, just like bigger gears in a car.

[elacruze]

Ever see those 40+ year old guys wearing a wife-beater tank top while riding BMX bike down the wrong side of the road with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth? Don't do that.

We got a million of 'em around here.

BMX 'old school'? Is there such a thing? Heh. I must seem like Methuselah to some.

*This* is old school.

[Patronus]

um, I dont remember seeing anyone racing Bicycle Motocross (BMX) in corduroy 
leave it to the Beaver

[learical1]

unique 5-speed "nut-buster" Stik-Shift ^TM
Highly recommended by your local all boys choir.

[elacruze]

Well, they ramped better than Dad's Newsboy Special.

[440]

I guess I'll bring this one back to the front page to see if there's still any interest in the old BMX.

I just pretty much finished restoring a mid 90's Mongoose Solution Pro race bike, not a bike of much value but was fun to build and came out with great results. Spent more on it then the bike is really worth but oh well - It's still a nice bike and rides like new.

Ideally I'd like a Skyway T/A but that's some serious money...  

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Every now and then I break out my old BMX bike and ride... Quite a lot of fun, still. Last bike I bought, was a Haro Group 1 RS1 set and was the fastest bike, or maybe I was the fastest rider  Those were the days 

[stripedelete]

Ever see those 40+ year old guys wearing a wife-beater tank top while riding BMX bike down the wrong side of the road with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth? Don't do that.

Yep, we got'em here.  It's caused by too many dui's.  In those cases we refer to their bikes as loser cruisers.

[1970Moparmann]

That was my life as a kid until I got into mini bikes and small motorcycles.   

Wrenching every day...... 

Started out with a Schwinn 36/36, mag wheels, alloy handlebars, neck, seat stud... you name it!

[djcarguy]

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We got a million of 'em around here.

BMX 'old school'? Is there such a thing? Heh. I must seem like Methuselah to some.

*This* is old school.



  I REMEMBER ,, I HAD the lemon peeler sure was fast down hill 5th gear,and burned up afew slicks,hahaha..had lots of trick stuff on mine chrome front fender,twin mirrors,head high sissy bar and twin biker  stach bags.my dad gave it away years ago.
 SO few years ago i got the stingRAY   stealth flat black chopper wide back tire and tall front ,,kinda opposate as peeler ,cool bike in my living room with mountain bike and hundreds of hot wheels and die cast collection fills 1 whole wall.... single man whole house is my man cave,''sss

[tracpack440]

Hi. Well i still have some of my bmx bikes when i was a kid. When i was in my teens i got into dirt bikes and raced motocross up to my 30's. I have restored some of my bmx bikes and still ride the bigger cruisers. I go to a couple of bmx shows each year. And meet lots of great people every year.
Here are a couple of pics.

[tracpack440]

Here are a couple of pics from Washougal mx park, Seattle mx club, Thurston county orv sports park.

[CaptMarvel]

Back in late 70's early 80's I started off with a Panda (Charger, what else), a Powerlite (prob my fave), a PK Ripper (weird frame), a DG monoshock briefly, and later. a Patterson....my buddies rode GT's, Hutches, Redlines, Mongoose, Cook Bros. We used to get pretty (ahem) gnarley, radical and all that in my day, I remember one jump over my friends moms MG...

[HITMAN 149]

Hi. Well i still have some of my bmx bikes when i was a kid. When i was in my teens i got into dirt bikes and raced motocross up to my 30's. I have restored some of my bmx bikes and still ride the bigger cruisers. I go to a couple of bmx shows each year. And meet lots of great people every year.
Here are a couple of pics.

WOW... i just had flashbacks of being a teenager!!! great stuffff!!!

[bull]

Huh? That looks like a bike show. Do people actually hold bike shows?

[Patronus]

DeCoster Goose??!?!?? That thing is rare as hell!!

[tracpack440]

Huh? That looks like a bike show. Do people actually hold bike shows?

Yes. the bike show is in vancouver Wa. in august.. There are shows all over the country.  Mostly  older folk 30-50 + year olds. old school guys and some gals.
If you want to check out alot of pics of bikes that you remeber or had when you where a kid look at    bmxmuseum.com    there are over 30k bikes posted and lots of pictures too look at.

[440]

Here in Australia we have pretty big ride days for a sleepy city. I think the count on the last run was about 43 BMX bikes, and that wasn't the biggest run of the year.

Those pics tracpac posted has inspired me to build another bike    lol. Those JMC and DeCoster Goose BMX's look awesome. Not looking forward to the build cost as some of the parts like that Takagi crankset on the JMC are about $400+

I took my Solution Pro out for its first real test ride since being restored and was a bit disappointed that it developed an issue with the rear hub again. The original rear hub had a cracked bearing cup so I had the hubs machined to accept sealed bearings from a Skyway kit. The crush sleeve looks like the culprit so off to the machinist tomorrow to try and remedy it.  

[HPP]

I wouldn't consider any of the "Crate Machines" as BMX, but they definetly are cool.

I starting riding BMX back in the mid 70s before there was much in the way of dedicated machinery. Our best deal was to strip down a Stingray frame, paint it black,  and start adding tougher parts. I was starting getting in to cars about the time it really took off and eveyone and their brother starting building dedicated BMX parts. I did manage to step up to a Murray frame and a few trick parts before hanging it all up. One of the neatest add ons me and my buddies ever came up with was a motorcycle tire trimmed down in width to just fit inside the rear frame. With the size and weight of that, keeping traction was never a problem.

As the only kid on the block with an Kodak Instamatic, I actually have a number of action shots from back then. I'll see if I can find them and scan some in.

[bordin34]

I've been riding my D-Tour nearly everyday for the past year to and from class. Its great, it just goes through brake pads very fast because they need to be soft to work well with the plastic wheels.

[440]

Thought I'd post my latest bike as I finally got pictures of it. It was an expensive exercise but worth it, it rides like it just left the factory and is mostly original. It was in pretty poor shape when I got it from sitting in the shed for a long time.

It turns out this very bike was raced at the local track here over 15 years ago from the first owner before being sold to the second owner and stuck in a shed for 15 years. I visited the track the other day and it's still there. Pretty cool to bring the same bike back to the same track after all these years and ride around it again 15+ years later.

Not really old school or collectible... But the story behind it is cool.

Before :

[440]

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[440]

Here is another bike I just restored. It is actually my first BMX from when I was younger. It's not 100% at the moment but close, I'm watching a more original Mongoose branded seat on ebay at the moment. The stickers aren't original either but they fit the era, one day I'll have the originals redone.

Before and after