[Closed] What bmx did you have back in the day?

Kuwahara Nova & would love another one ..

not mine but I had a Chrome Burner like this one..

mine also lasted years and years

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Raleigh burner for me but my mate had a mongoose that was awesome

A Super Tuff Burner. Gold with black Skyway Mag wheels. Awesome bike (or so I thought at the time anyway).

A chrome DP Freestyler with white mags and red kit, much like this.

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Hmm, I miss that bike! (nearly 30 years later)

Also started off with a Super Tuff Burner.

Skyways! AWESOME!

S E Racing Quadangle in red.

I've just bought a mk1 mini burner as a project. Hopefully will keep me busy in the man cave because the more time I spend in the house, the more silly jobs I get given by the other half

mini mongoose then onto a Skyway TA. wish I still had it now!!

White and red Raleigh Styler.

Many years later I met a girl with a mixed up bunch of random parts with blue mx brakes, yellow tyres and skyway mags. Married her too! 8)

Another Kuwahara here looking on the web it was a kz - 1 with the gusset. Also had a Silver Fox with skinny wheels which was nice.

Brother had a SE PK Ripper and recently bought a Quadangle 24" to relive his youth, shame he's pushing forty and never rides it

Great thread

Yay! I started with a chrome burner too. Then worked my arse off doing paper rounds, saturday and holiday jobs to build up a Wilson Reynolds 501 frame with Landing Gear, pro class rims and lots of other goodies. I bloody loved that bike!!!!

And it got me in the habit I still have now of indulgent 'Triggers Broom' style bikes, built up as finances allow.

I had a Tange Hot Heart... Looking back, it was a brilliant bit of kit but I never liked it much, partly because it was built to race, partly because it wasn't a brand my mates had heard of- I thought it wasn't a "proper bmx" (it was all stickered up Scotia BMX as it was an ex team bike). [i]I[/i] wanted a raleigh 😳

Falcon Pro Beta. Not this exact one (the pic is a random internet find), but the exact model and colour, I think

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A Skyway. I later found out it was nicked and sold to me by a schoolmate.

Tuff Burner, then a Meteor-lite frame, then swapped to an Ammaco Mongoose.

CW bars, Odi Mushroom grips, Skyway Tuff IIs, layback post, Shimano DX pedals, two-finger levers, quick release brakes.

I also had a tange. Not sure on the model but I used it as a commuter for my first job for nearly a year. Ten mile round trip on a bmx and loved every mile

A Super Tuff Burner. Gold with black Skyway Mag wheels. Awesome bike (or so I thought at the time anyway).

I snagged one of these from gumtree recently

Jamie 38yo

Mine cost me £40 second hand, as a kid worked all summer picking oats out of a wheat field to pay for it!

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Great bike 🙂

Who remembers Redline Flight cranks. They were the dogs. Cheaper now than back in the day.

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Not quite as old skool as some.
Broke and replaced every part on it bar the frame and seat.
Would go to the lbs so often for parts it was getting ridiculous.
Brilliant fun grinding benches for hours upon hours when it did work though.

Edit... Pic of this one is not mine, though same frame.

Vincent Airzone in sky blue with white tyres

The latest twin pinchbolt versions retail around 85 quid but the old single pinch bolt versions are so much nicer and worth a hell of a lot more. I still have a pair on my S&M. They were bought from Rockville bmx around 88. Another pair I had are on a bike I sold to mate but I've heard it's just laying around in a loft. I plan to buy that back if and when possible...

I started with a Mk 1 night burner with the round tubeset. Then an MRD expert (local bike shop wouldn't sell my father the 'pro' which I asked for. Good on him, I thought the pro was the best model at the time, but he knew better for a small chap and got the expert version in. Great service from the LBS! I then bought a raleigh team issue frameset and I think I sanded it down to respray/get AD990 mounts welded onto the stays not long after. Wish I kept that one original. Then I got a 1990 Elf pro.. followed by S&M's.

Robinson something-or-other. Soooo wish I still had it.

i had a murray cruiser and a haro sport. Always wanted a kuwahara cuz of clint hill andd et......
I remember a friend who was quite good got a 'co factory' ride with diamond back and got a diamond back harry leary free.

I always did want an se pk ripper awesome looking thing in powder blue.

I had one of these:

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I saved up for it for 9 months by doing car washing, odd jobs, gardening etc.

I've old it twice and bought it back twice and it now hangs (highly modified - only really the frame left) in my garage.

That pic is not mine by the way

Mag burner white and black.
Mag burner yellow and blue.
DP firebird freestyle white black.
Free agent Race bike chrome.
Diamondback viper chrome, OP I vaguely recollect you having a go on my Viper, I think you sold me a Swiss Army knife with a bit broken off the big blade for a quid that day, outside the park over the road from your mums?

Curtis expert. Beautiful brazing.
And my mum took it to the tip when i left home

Had a falcon pro that i put redline stickers on and loads of upgrades. Still see it about town nearly 30 years later ridden by some young lad. Then got a yellow gt pro performer after saving for about 2 years. Can't believe i sold it to buy a commodore amiga a500!

Raleigh Super Burner then a Torker 280 with landing gear forks, me in action circa 1984.
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My first bmx was a Giant 250, blue with coaster brake in 1983.
Have had about 25 others until i stoppede 5 years ago.

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First BMX was a cheapy Atomic Star which was constantly upgraded until just the frame remained and I started getting serious about racing. I then got a Skyway TA, followed by 2 GHP's,1 for racing and 1 for riding around on [I was riding for a shop team and and getting everything at trade price] also had a DP Freestyler and finally the first candy red Hutch Judge in the country. Some great memories of racing in the 80s, wish I still had the bikes!!

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mongoose supergoose. I am mates with a ex bmx star called simon lawther so used to get bits off him back in the day !! sold the goose to his mate "Teddy the real Shooter Edwardes" and had his old race frame off him !

I used to live about 500 metres from stoke prior bmx track

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This isn't the bike I had (mine had chrome Araya rims) but it was such a sweet machine and it had everything, Fork lifter bars, Flite cranks, etc. I qualified for the World Champs on this back in 1989 but didn't go due to eldest son packing in racing and youngest son being born and expensive.

Ahh an Elina Seat..
I still have a shimano dx post like that..

Back in 1985 i had a cheapie £70 BMX from the Jolly Giant toystore in Glasgow, i dunno what make it was but it had blue decals and i snapped the headtube from the front end within a month, my dad bent the headtube back into position and welded a couple of metal plates either side of the headtube to strengthen it, thankfully it lasted a few more years but the head angle was rather sharp and you couldn't take your hands off the bars as it dived to the side but i loved it anyway.

Yea that was me who sold you the knife. You got a good deal lol

Raleigh burner. Tremendous.

I had this untill a few years ago. I got an offer i couldnt refuse.

Mk1 Raleigh Pro Burner.

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Pro star MX1 (1982/3)
DP freestyler (chrome, lilac mags, GT bars).
KHE Beater
S&M Holmes
Haro racebike
DK legacy
Brew pro XL (now)

Normal rally burner then moved onto a wonderful aero pro burner (just really wish I still had it)

bmx hadn't been invented in my day "way back then" 😆
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An orange Halfords Stormer

Curtis expert with acorn mags, built July '84. It's hanging in my garage waiting for a bit of loving.

Red and yellow Raleigh Burner. My mum gave it to next door's kid about 8 years ago, who wrecked it, then lost it.

Gutted.

This thread is almost inspiring me to take my Haro down off the garage wall and ride it a bit. Almost.

BSA Javelin - a 5 spd yellow gate!

I remember seeing this pic in a magazine and not sleeping properly for a week..

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Being a school mate of Andrew Hobson here in East Lothian in the mid 80s i bought many of his frames as he upgraded,
PK Ripper, Quadangle, Skyway Ta, Harry Leary Diamond Back, Mk 1 Haro Freestyler. The Quadangle was my last BMX, a 1984 chrome looptale.
We rode the same bikes to race and to ride at Livingstone skatepark, just swap the wire wheels for Skyway mags for livi, great times, amazing bikes, just wish i had kept a couple of them and Go Pros were available to catch it all on film... 🙂

Nashiki frame, araya wheels, gt layback post, shimano DX pedals, Mx brake levers
With Dia comp brake with quick release.
Loved that bike I went everywhere on it from about 13-17/18
Wish I'd kept hold of it

Simon

Rebel Freestyler (twin top tubes like the Haro) with red Skyways. Watched a frame and forks in survivor condition do £230 on eBay recently 🙁

Raleigh Burner with yellow skyways.
Ammaco Team Pro in chrome & blue.
Supergoose in chrome with red skyways.
Torker 280x with a set of ACS z-rims.

Wish I still had the Torker despite the fact that it tried to kill me 🙂

The birthday when I got my Super Burner (and team Halfords kit!):

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Skyway Ta was my favourite of the 80's
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Standard STA for the 90's
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The first one was a Hoffman Evel Knievel Ltd edition for approx 2 weeks. In hindsight I wish I had kept it but it weighed a ton! Then a Hoffman Flash XL which I still have. That has one of the first sets of Profile SS that came into the country, Primo hubs, Sun Ringle rims and pedals and dx brake. Got a brand new pair of white Oakley grips to go on one day. Also have a Raleigh Mini Burner which I picked up recently awaiting a refurb. Was lucky to have been around some great bmx racers/characters in my youth.

Super Burner here too. Awesome fun.

I had a Peugeot BMX~ tried an image search, but no joy~ was similar colour scheme to AndyF1s pro burner with blue bits above, but with Blue Mags to give a more intensive level of Bluedom. Never did try popping the wheels in the freezer to true them despite the rumours.

By some strange fate, I drive a blue Peugeot, with colour matched interior!!

Peugeot also make pepper grinders!!

Another burner like this. God I loved it.

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wow, what a great thread.

Now, how many old bmxers now ride singlespeeds?

Soap - is that The ramp in Eastern London, uset to ride it in 89, got some photos somewhere of Juice and Jerry Galley riding awsome..

I had one of these in blue/yellow

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even used to do my paper round on it

Raleigh Night Burner followed by a Diamond Back Formula One.

Dp firebird In Fluro orange, with white acorn mags. Sorry no pictures just fond memories.

Raleigh Ultra Burner with ridiculously wide CW bars, loved every minute of it. Anyone have those bendy Z-rims, seem to recall my mate constantly putting them in the freezer over night to straighten them out!

Shit I feel old, but loving the pictures.

No idea what my first one was but after that got nicked I got turquoise white and pink raliegh styler mag. I loved that bike, that got nicked as well. The Townsend mtb I got after that just wasn't as much fun!

Not mine but just like this bad boy!

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Very ramp was Rochford and the trails were in Rayleigh Essex.
Good times

1983...A Kays catalogue BMX called a Rustler, made by O'Brian Cycles in Coventry. A monumental POS. Crank snapped after a week.

1998...I'm passing a bike shop in Kings Heath...20 mins later I'm wheeling this out the door...

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Yes, its covered in rust. I have some original black coaster brake Skyways to go on it.

I have still got my Rickman Freestyler from I think 1984, reynolds 531 tubing, Rickman bars, Pro Neck stem, Dia Compe freestyle brakes, Skyway Tuff II wheels, Elina UL seat post, SR seat clamp, GT epoch headset, Tuffneck chain wheel, GT fork standers, Shimano DX pedals etc etc. Really lovely condition Thinking of selling it to fund a full sus! COOL 8)

Not trying to gloat, but I had some great BMXs back in the day. Started with a Raleigh Super Burner. Silver and Blue.

Chrome Firebird Freestyler.
Mark 1 Torker made chrome Haro Freestyler with black Skyways.
Swapped the frame for a SE Quadangle.
Swapped that frame for a pink Hutch Freestyler.
Swapped that frame for a white Skyway TA.
Swapped that frame for a SE PK Ripper with black Landing Gear forks. Black Z rims, Renthal bars. Jump bike before "jump bikes"
Kept that one.

Then with the proceeds of 5 paper rounds and working for my uncle in his car body shop, bought a green mark 2 Haro Sport with the small platforms on the chain stays and removable platforms on the forks. Built it up black and chrome, with black Skyways, Redline flite cranks, Dia-Compe 9000s, Elina Flite saddle, Redline forklifter stem and bars. Potts mod on the front brake.

My brother went through a few too. He ended up with a GT Freestyler in Candy Apple Red with white Skyways and all white GT parts. Ala Eddie Fiola, 1985 Kelloggs Champs.

We were BMX gods in our town. Nearly all of our mates had good BMXs too. During the school summer holidays we would ride for 12-14 hours a day. I remember some days it felt weird when you walked anywhere. As in, I've forgotten how to walk!!!

One of these

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Followed by 4 of these (I abused the warranty for 11 years 😀 )

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And finally this.

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Can't believe that's only 3 bikes in 25 years of riding.

Raleigh something Burner
DP Freestyler
DP Freestyler GL plus
TRM
Kuwahara the one with twin downtubes
Anyone have Action Zone handlebars? cool as.

Mongoose Supergoose - 85 ish
Amacco Freestyle - 87/88
Haro Shredder - early 90s

Raleigh Extra Burner, which was white and red and looked like the ET bike.
got loads of nice parts for it through hard saving from my paper round, (and a wee bit shoplifting! 😆 )then transfered them to a DP Freestyler in a lovely smoke finish, with Landing Gear and white Z-rim wheels and white Comp ST Tyres.

Good times. 😀

Can't remember the bike, but it was a halfords job.

But did have the halfords trousers.

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Raleigh Gold Burner with black mags, my brother and I (who had a Falcon Pro) used to build ramps in the street and jump over the kids from next door...