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Offline BMX1973

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What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« on: March 08, 2010, 05:24 PM »

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

No reason, just curious!

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

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 05:28 PM »
team murray :daumenhoch:

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 06:56 PM »
Mongoose & Skyway, well in My local branch anyway.
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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2010, 07:25 PM »
im sure del worked at halfords and they stocked diamond  back

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2010, 07:28 PM »
 :) I remember Halfrauds in Watford stocking Rebel frames and parts.

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2010, 07:28 PM »
i remember diamond back and mongoose as the big brands in our local store

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2010, 07:32 PM »
Weird, but I cannot remember halfords from back then ...  :-\

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« 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  :)




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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2010, 07:37 PM »
Weird, but I cannot remember halfords from back then ...  :-\

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

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2010, 08:00 PM »
Bought me first set of tuffs from the Basildon branch. Lavinder ones.  :smitten:

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

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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2010, 08:32 PM »
REDLINE  8)

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« 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 :LolLolLolLol:
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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« 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...

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2010, 01:34 PM »
remember nicking a set of black tuffs from the one in donny    :4_17_5:

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2010, 01:39 PM »
Puch Murray, Raleigh and Scorpion in my local Halfords, BITD.

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2010, 01:50 PM »
They also sold Wilson frame, forks and bars. Just like this!  :daumenhoch:


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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« 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!!

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2010, 02:02 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.
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« 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  ;)

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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2010, 09:17 PM »
They also sold Wilson frame, forks and bars. Just like this!  :daumenhoch:




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« 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  :)

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« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2010, 11:30 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.
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« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2010, 07:38 PM »
You're probably right with the Red and yellow burner being 82 crimbo John  :daumenhoch: (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


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Re: What BMX brands did Halfords stock in the 80's?
« 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  :smitten:

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