Where did you get your first BMX

[priv]

watson and cairns leeds,i got a peugeot,brother got a burner

[dikk1970]

halfords turbo from halfords for my first bike

[telelogic]

Faze 7 in Waltham cross

[Rooonga]

I remember going to Mike Vickers in Barking, and looking around the shop. Even back then I knew we were pretty poor so picked the best fully chromo bike that was cheap. They had Mongooses, supergoose etc etc.

I picked a Peugeot Black lion - pukka bike! Fully chromo, with class components too. I still remember my mum signing the credit agrement thing cos it was on HP, and her asking me if I was sure this is the one I want - god bless!

Writing this has just reeminded me how I used to go into Halfords, and mike Vickers just to look the the bikes. Do you guys remember the feeling looking at the bikes as a kid?

I still get that feeling when I look at Old Mongoose brochures, or ads in the old magazines.

Happy days.

[priv]

Do you guys remember the feeling looking at the bikes as a kid?

ohhh yesss,pulling the brakes levers

[nomad]

First BMX was off a local rich kid who got a more expensive one for xmas, deal was done and he bought it round xmas day, used all my xmas money for it, was about £80 iirc, in 1993ish,  was a purple Mongoose Villain. I loved that bike, steadily upgraded it mostly by swapping / fixing and painting other kids bikes and taking parts as payments. Bent the back in the end

[monkian]

No idea where it came from but with some help from Gax managed to work out what it was:
Cycle Pro Blitz / Super Macho





It might have been Dentons in Didcot or more likely from that catalogue

[mr hoppy]

huffy pro 4 from hot wheels in bournemouth, when they had their shop in a petrol station, xmas 1980. Which led to my first after school job assembling bikes there  happy days

[James Nada]

Arragon's Cycles in Penrith - a basic black Mark II Burner.

Loved it until I raced it a few times - then my parents bought me a second hand Mongoose Cali.

[R Al]

A Tuff Burner from Winstanleys, took it back at least 4 times having snapped the frame for replacements under warranty, gave up after a year and got a BMX 

[russ j]

First i had a Burner GS in 83' bought second hand from 'Compton Cycles' on Compton road,Leeds (the shop is no longer a second hand shop) and then in 84' a Mk 2 Supertuff from Watson & Cairns in Leeds (Lower Briggate) the best bike shop in Leeds at the time,its now the Hoghead pub 

[trickydeno]

super burner in 1983 from leedhams raleigh dealers in leicester

i loved it 

[bbmac]

Blue & Yellow Pro Star form Faze 7 Waltham Cross

[gossa]

Unsurprisingly I got my first BMX from Edwardes of Camberwell, July 81 and it was a Team Murray 340 blue and yellow with Lester mags, coaster brake etc. Broke that bike about ten times and eventually got a 'real' BMX, a Diamond back Senior Pro.

[Bigplinky]

Parnaby's Toy and Bike Shop (Raleigh Dealer) in Sunderland, Ultra Burner.

[subversion]

Falcon Pro Theta from Trinder Bros Cycles in Banbury



the shop I now work in

[bert4142]

RAD City in benfleet, essex. Brilliant place in its time.

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  My dad bought one back from Germany,August 81.Was called a WMX,had an arrow in the gusset,looptail,gold anno parts and yellow tyres.Didn`t really know what it was until about a year later.Had it a fortnight before it was nicked