Author Topic: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's? (Read 5005 times)

BMX1973 · « **on:** March 08, 2010, 05:24 PM »

What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?

No reason, just curious!

brummie · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2010, 05:27 PM »

raleigh and their own brand are the ones i remember them having. i think i only remember the lower end burners mind you

rollin72 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 08, 2010, 05:28 PM »

team murray

fugazi · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2010, 06:56 PM »

Mongoose & Skyway, well in My local branch anyway.

motomagII · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:25 PM »

im sure del worked at halfords and they stocked diamond back

HEYWOOD BMX · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:28 PM »

I remember Halfrauds in Watford stocking Rebel frames and parts.

martylaa · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:28 PM »

i remember diamond back and mongoose as the big brands in our local store

sid1972 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:32 PM »

Weird, but I cannot remember halfords from back then ... $:-\$

hunterdubber · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:33 PM »

BH
Marlboro
Team Murray
Universal
raliegh Burners
and Halfords Turbo

( Blackburn Halfords ) pre 85

falcon freestylers after 85

cant remember what else

BMX1973 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:37 PM »

Quote from: sid1972 on March 08, 2010, 07:32 PM

Weird, but I cannot remember halfords from back then ... $:-\$

I think the old sign frontage was Red lettering with Blue background?

Why isnt this working · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2010, 08:00 PM »

Bought me first set of tuffs from the Basildon branch. Lavinder ones.

Also diacompe breaks, Kashi's, Comp 3's and all sorts of decent bits and bobs, It was a pretty big store though

.

Si.

Darren Wood · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2010, 08:32 PM »

REDLINE

markyp · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2010, 08:58 PM »

VICEROY,i knows cos i had one(unfortunately) and diamondback and raleigh plus the ultimate.............. halfords turbo

generallee · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2010, 12:49 PM »

I saw a Halfords Turbo survivor in Brighton not long ago!
Danny Harris is the man to ask this question to, as he rode for Halfords BITD.
I seem to remember California Star bikes in my Halfords in Bucks...

donnydresser · « **Reply #14 on:** March 09, 2010, 01:34 PM »

remember nicking a set of black tuffs from the one in donny

dialledbikes · « **Reply #15 on:** March 09, 2010, 01:39 PM »

Puch Murray, Raleigh and Scorpion in my local Halfords, BITD.

cheese2222001 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 09, 2010, 01:50 PM »

They also sold Wilson frame, forks and bars. Just like this!

Del · « **Reply #17 on:** March 09, 2010, 01:54 PM »

I worked in halfords at the weekends around 1986, the only ones I remember that were good were the Diamond Backs and Redlines, there was obviously others like Raleigh, scorpion and the other lower end ones they sold... just before I left we were selling off Skyway tuffs for a fiver each... the last DB Silver Streak I sold was half price at £125!!

jT Racing · « **Reply #18 on:** March 09, 2010, 02:02 PM »

Quote from: Hunterdubber on March 08, 2010, 07:33 PM

BH
Marlboro
Team Murray
Universal
raliegh Burners
and Halfords Turbo

( Blackburn Halfords ) pre 85

falcon freestylers after 85

cant remember what else

they had diamondback and mongoose when i got my burner chrimbo 82. i remember my dad walking down the row of bikes when it was were hmv is now and smiling the cheaper they got. i wanted a goose, got demoted to burner. loved it though.

hunterdubber · « **Reply #19 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:14 PM »

In 82 it was where H Samuels is

about 84 when it moved to old mothercare shop ( now HMV )

I reckon

sweetbeats · « **Reply #20 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:17 PM »

Quote from: cheese2222001 on March 09, 2010, 01:50 PM

They also sold Wilson frame, forks and bars. Just like this!

Fook me that layback is errrrrr exxxxxxtravagant mate

CD17 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 09, 2010, 09:37 PM »

I'm pretty sure I got a Haro Type 1 plate from Halfords BITD

I also got my 1st BMX from there a Halfords Turbo from the one in Tooting Broadway

jT Racing · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2010, 11:30 PM »

Quote from: Hunterdubber on March 09, 2010, 09:14 PM

In 82 it was where H Samuels is

about 84 when it moved to old mothercare shop ( now HMV )

I reckon

wow, really? i don't remember that. are you sure? i know i can't remember 95% of my childhood but i would have bet money it was there, maybe i just remember halfords being there after it moved. but they deffo had goose and db when i got the burner when they were a new release bike for christmas. might have even been earlier than 82 come to think of it. what year did they release the burner? I hate not having much recollection of stuff from my early years. somebody help me out. i got a red and yellow burner when they were new that year for my birthday/christmas present(happens a lot when your birthday is in december

) i was the first on our street to get a bmx, that much i remember because everybody wanted a do and my dad got mad because i came in the house and my new bike was still outside with somebody else on it.

and he was an angry fella back then.

hunterdubber · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2010, 07:38 PM »

You're probably right with the Red and yellow burner being 82 crimbo John

(How old were you just turned 10 or 11

)
but you'll have got it at the( H. Samuel ) first shop. Like you said looking back you'll just remember the shop being at (HMV) second location as it would've been there for longer when BMX was going , I suppose

Eccy is more of a Warlands wufter , whearas I got my first BMX about year before at Ewood bikes ( Ammaco sport )

I think I wanted a Halfords Turbo or a Team Murray for about a year or 2 previous to that, just after I got my Grifter in 79

Very happy days

Gizmo · « **Reply #24 on:** January 06, 2013, 03:40 PM »

I used to go to halfords in reading 82ish , remember getting some red 7x , mks graphite pedals & renthal bars

Author Topic: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's? (Read 5005 times)

motomagII

HEYWOOD BMX

martylaa

sid1972

donnydresser

dialledbikes

cheese2222001

sweetbeats