When i was a kid all i ever did was ride my bike. Everyfuckingwhere i went it was on that bike, hell i went to France with my parents in a Ford Cortina estate car and the bike went with me. I started off with a shity Raleigh Burner... [img]http://www.jaffs.com/trumpet/images/magburner.jpg[/img]

..but soon built a new bike that made all my friends look like shit. To this day i still remember all the parts.

[b]Mongoose Supergoose frame and forks

GT jumbo bars

Mushroom grips

Powerglide brake cables

Aero seat with layback post

Comp four tires

Skyway Tuff 2 wheels

2 piece Tuffneck crank shaft

Two finger brake levers (i can`t rmember what they were atm)

Victor plarform pedals

Gear ratio of 44:16[/b]

Sad i am, but i was just sat hear reminiscing and thought i`d share it with you lot.

Anyone else into BMXing?

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dude I had the Huffy with the radio on the front.

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I rode my bike every day too... but it wasn't a bmx. 12 years old riding without touching the handlebars as long as I wanted made me feel like the shit.

"Hi, my name's Adam, and I ride my bike with no hands" :oops:

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[img]http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/bradpilcher/bmxxxx.jpg[/img]

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anyone remember the movie bmx bandits with a young nicole kidman??that movie was the shit back in the day

[img]http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/BMXBanditsPoster.jpg[/img]

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[quote=Localizer]dude I had the Huffy with the radio on the front.[/quote]

me too, substitute the radio for the stupid pink basket with streamers :lol:

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its funny how you guys talk about bmx back in the day, all i do these days is pretty much go to school listen to edm watch baseball and bmx....

[img]http://img149.exs.cx/img149/5336/stevensonpoolwa3uo.jpg[/img]

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[quote=Lrn]its funny how you guys talk about bmx back in the day, all i do these days is pretty much go to school listen to edm watch baseball and bmx....[/quote] get a life kid :roll:

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oh yea and im studying for my lsat, dick

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[quote=Lrn]oh yea and im studying for my lsat, dick[/quote] don't make me drive up there and learn you a mean tailwhip to nose pick to foofanoo now...

back to studying young man!!

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oh snap, i just got hella served

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[quote=buckman]anyone remember the movie bmx bandits with a young nicole kidman??that movie was the shit back in the day

[img]http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/BMXBanditsPoster.jpg[/img][/quote]

I loved that film

[quote=esef][quote=Lrn]its funny how you guys talk about bmx back in the day, all i do these days is pretty much go to school listen to edm watch baseball and bmx....[/quote]

get a life kid :roll:[/quote]

Oi shit for brains, leave of my fellow biker and get the fuck outa my thread. :blow:

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:Gay:

Ohhhhhh leave my thread you bad, bad boy.

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My bike was totally homemade. Weighed a ton. I painted it silver than flat black than silver........wetn everyehere on it, than I discovered rollerblades, no more bike just lots of bruises and cuts and maybe a broken this or that.....good times. :D

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Shit, remember those mushrooms grips? Blast from the past man. Yeah used to love my BMX. Just looking at buying my first bike for about 14 years, can't decide on full suspension or a hardtail right now.

BMX Bandits, top film!

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Whoa! BMX! i was actually in the south west freestyle team, no shit 8) My first ride was a Raleigh Superburner (same as a burner but the frame was coated in gold plastic and it had Skyways) but i soon ended up with a yellow PK Ripper with black Skyway graphites, Renthal bars, Skyway crank, fuckin awesome machine till some scally robbed it when i was in the fuckin sweet shop :evil: I bought a Torker 280 frame & forks after that but never got the whole machine together, in fact the frame is still in me old mans shed.

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^ sick.

i had a GT Pro Freestyle. Added the aluminum 3 piece crank, and eventually the Haro Team handlebars. They were really narrow and made windmills, tailwhips and cherry pickers a lot easier.

So wanted the Haro Master team bike, that fucker was like $650 back then tho, and my summer job didn't pay that well. Ended up building the GT Pro piece by piece from the frame up as i made more $.

damn i'm old.

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[quote=Jenks]So wanted the Haro Master team bike.[/quote]

me too indeed, the holy grail :P

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[img]http://www.bmxmuseum.com/5images90s/90haromstr.jpg[/img]

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That crankguard was the bomb. Invisioned grinding the snot out of that.

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ford cortina?? sexy car. :o

[img]http://www.fordcortinamk2oc.co.uk/images/bettsieann2_jpg.jpg[/img]

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BMX bikes were the shit back then. The whole neighborhood had one. Remember this other BMX movie..

[img]http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1010/194391.1010.A.jpg[/img]

:D

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^Cru Jones RULED hell track.

Lori Loughlin = :EatMe:

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but seriously i got my first GT Dyno in 5th grade. I was the coolest lil injun in a 20 foot radius. i'm gettin more into sport bikes though....

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^ 20 feet isn't a very big radius. :P

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[quote=Musical Journey]Oi shit for brains, leave of my fellow biker and get the fuck outa my thread. :blow:[/quote]

jeez you're a testy lil bitch today... didn't have your normal breakfast - two pints and a pack of smokes?

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Dude pulls some nice shit towards the end of [url=http://www.santoalt.com/videos/corey_martinez.php]this[/url] clip

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Dang that movie is old, I wonder if it's available on DVD???

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My BMX experience ended when I looked at a rabbit, hit a pothole, fell off my bike, and broke my arm BAD. Both bones snapped-OWWWW

I think I was 8 yrs old.

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although bmx has changed so much in its 30 plus years of exisitence, riding bmx has always been about just having fun on your bike, thats why it still appeals so much to me. btw the rad soundtrack is the fucking best, "break the ice" one of the best 80's anthemes ever imo

[img]http://img95.exs.cx/img95/9673/garrettmarseille9fl.jpg[/img]

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[quote=Garrick]ford cortina?? sexy car. :o

[img]http://www.fordcortinamk2oc.co.uk/images/bettsieann2_jpg.jpg[/img][/quote]

:lol: That`s quite an old version. This is more like the one we had

[img]http://mclellansautomotive.com/photos/B31665.jpg[/img]

Theres always one thing that sticks out for me back in my BMX days, them fucking platform pedals and the little bits of metal that stuck out to give you more grip... if you didnt get ya foot back on in time after a trick you knew you`re shin was in for some severe pain. :roll:

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Do you remember Hutch Beartraps? OUCH! :x

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Indeed, if i remeber rightly, weren`t they made up from more than one piece of metal and were very flimsy?

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[img]http://www.chemicalbeavis.com/picturehosting/hutchBMX.jpg[/img]

eeeek

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[quote=chemicalbeavis][img]http://www.chemicalbeavis.com/picturehosting/hutchBMX.jpg[/img]

eeeek[/quote]

Faaaack, thats them. Did folks actually brave using them? :lol:

They should come with a goverment health warning.

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shin killers!

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[quote=Jenks]shin killers![/quote]

Fuckin yeh, it brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.

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lol, me too, what about those other ones, Shimano i think they were, with the little pins, and when your foot slipped off the pedal they would whip round and thwack into your shin, ewwwwwwwww :x

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the all time shin bleeders in my opinion WERE the Hutch Beartraps!!! Ouch!!! Those pedals would dig so far into your shin bones, ahh just great they were.

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[quote=chemicalbeavis][img]http://www.chemicalbeavis.com/picturehosting/hutchBMX.jpg[/img]

eeeek[/quote]

Love this thread man, taking me back years. Those things really were shin killers, what twisted fuck designed them!