when is old school-old school???

[bomberman]

Been trawling through various ads and listings on the hunt for more bikes and bits and I'm getting confused by reading "old school bmx" and its a 1996 model, to me thats fairly modern .

My question is, is there a defined date line from old school to mid school to new???

Or am I just being picky 

[martylaa]

for me its anything before 1986, know there'll be a few on here what will disagree with that though

[meticulous]

for me its anything before 1986, know there'll be a few on here what will disagree with that though

x2...

about this date....

[CD17]

Its hard to say, in 100 years time it will all be old skool  

But I think of the 80s & before as old skool, the 90s as Mid & the 00 as New Skool

But the last few years have seen another change, where frames, bikes etc have gotten much lighter, so that could be another turning point  

[martylaa]

Its hard to say, in 100 years time it will all be old skool  

But I think of the 80s & before as old skool, the 90s as Mid & the 00 as New Skool

But the last few years have seen another change, where frames, bikes etc have gotten much lighter, so that could be another turning point  

yeah good points

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  Here we go! To me 96 would be mid.Anything with a 1 1/8 headtube & u or v-brake lugs would be mid-new with plenty of variants along the way...Another reason you`ll see not so old bikes advertised as Old School is `cos the sellers have heard that some OS bikes are valuable & automatically assume they`ll retire on the proceeds of any POS bike.

[Broggie]

Depends what it's for...

If collecting, then OS is mid 80's and before

If riding for race and fun purposes then OS is 1" stem and caliper brakes...not many of us could afford mid 80's and before as riders.  All of us deserve some fun.



Ray.

[harris]

it will as stated get all out of sink as time goes on,,so just call it  by its age 70s  80s   90s  2k   we all know whats what from that.

[bomberman]

Thanks for your replies.
I will go with the 80s old, 90s mid and 00s new, I also rekon our ages have something to do with it  I was around in the days of the original bmx boom




Happy days!!

[stidds]

I think the best indication of dates for old/mid/new school are the categories for Bike of the Year.

Look here.....   http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=26.0