Author Topic: components by Landar, Belvin etc, do they have a place in BMX..today? (Read 4769 times)

aerostylie · « **on:** January 12, 2011, 08:49 PM »

looked down upon or acceptable?

bitd with only me dad working was sometimes the only items I could afford.

Picked up a few cheapies off the bay, all NOS.......feast at your leisure

PS: not for sale

brummie · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2011, 08:54 PM »

perfectly acceptable imo paul

i could have seriously only dreamed of having the parts i have now bitd
part snobbery does defo exist with a lot though

dave

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2011, 08:55 PM »

I say yes, but i tended to go with second hand or older good stuff rather than. I still do tbh, a five year old Ghia rather than a new L .

trasher · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:11 PM »

i bought my own stuff back in the day ,,, paper rounds and a weekend jobs paid for it ,,,no place for landar for me then and not now

p.s nice little landar stash

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:15 PM »

nothing wrong with a bit of landar unless your snob

hunterdubber · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:33 PM »

Crazy craig had Landar "chip cutter " number plate on his CW Phaze 1 , Quality

sid1972 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:48 PM »

not got any but why the hell not

its like using pattern parts on cars - great if can afford the expensive stuff but BITD it all rolled on our block!

Unless you were a twonk and then you got some of that..

animal · « **Reply #7 on:** January 12, 2011, 09:51 PM »

Used loads of the stuff bitd at 1 time or another. Not a lot of cashola about in my life back them

Some of it is good stuff other isn't

I had plenty of their brake calipers shatter on me

Have the scars 2 prove it

aerostylie · « **Reply #8 on:** January 12, 2011, 10:01 PM »

cool comments, was expecting a flaming tbh, happy to buy this stuff along with MX thous.

another item, Belvin 44t chainring, but quite weighty

At least its affordable, can't evisage these products going for large sums in years to come?.........someone's bound to say crap is crap

kirk · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2011, 03:19 AM »

Our local shop was a Landar heaven, most of us decked out our Burners with there parts, two finger levers and Oakley copy grips etc...but when we got into it and were old enough to do paper rounds we saved up for top line parts, I had a TA with flights from Paper round money.

Landar has its place and the quality was not that bad.

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:15 AM »

when yer were young it's what yer pocket money went on

baldbmxer · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:28 AM »

30 years on its a bit late to question theyre place in BMX! But Landar and 'Dai Yung' tires were always favorites for the but of our jokes.

We all used to take the piss out of these brands calling them 'imo' (imitation) - but then again we all had 'imo parts at some time or another! Landar seat clamps were very popular cos we would ride so far between riding grounds and golf clubs

that the seats would get highered and lowered all the time and of course we never had the correct sized allen key did we. Landar made cheap replacement clamps

Again, in Harrogate we had a specialist BMX shop - BMX Specials, se we werent short of access to the quality branded stuff if we could afford it.

brettypeeps · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2011, 11:27 AM »

Without these brands we as kids probably would have been able to keep our bikes going

OK now we are older we want the best we can get for our bikes but they definately have a place in BMX History along with Lee Chi and other such copies

pickle · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2011, 11:32 AM »

christ it was all we could get in our local Raleigh shop

trasher · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2011, 11:46 AM »

You should have got off your arses and worked
To buy the good stuff

Blaming your parents , shame on you

baldbmxer · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:05 PM »

Quote from: pickle on January 13, 2011, 11:32 AM

christ it was all we could get in our local Raleigh shop

And it appears its getting like that again at the local eBay shop! loads more lesser brands being bought now as prices of premium brands go through the roof.

Is Landar the future of this hobby?

sweetbeats · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2011, 12:22 PM »

Quote from: baldbmxer on January 13, 2011, 12:05 PM

Quote from: pickle on January 13, 2011, 11:32 AM
christ it was all we could get in our local Raleigh shop

And it appears its getting like that again at the local eBay shop! loads more lesser brands being bought now as prices of premium brands go through the roof.

Is Landar the future of this hobby?

Sure i seen a landar crank on the bay for £45 quid so maybe your right.
Team megamax is the choice of champions though

MartyC · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2011, 04:37 PM »

They certainly do have a place in BMX as they were a major seller bitd. I think you just have to match like with like

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aerostylie · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:49 PM »

Thank you for your comments guys.

Think I should re-phrase the question a bit differently........do they still have a place today, ie builds, or is there an element of 'cheapo, you don't know what you're doing'

Think Marty is right re match like with like, but have no problems buying lower end items and say wacking em on a TA......yep I've no idea what I'm doing

just love anything BMX related.

baldbmxer · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:00 PM »

Always said an honest & true 80's build would be a TA a Ripper with burner parts on it. A new f&f with used parts on it.

Used to see bikes like this after someone had upgraded their f&f, probably after a load of saving up and probably a birthday!

When will someone build one of these? and for that matter when will they recieve any props for doing it!

James Nada · « **Reply #20 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:12 PM »

I use a Landar plate on my OS racer. It's the plate I used BITD and realy like being an inverted snob.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<see profile pic.

Personally I'd like to see more love towards the likes of Landar, Ammaco, etc.

bigfatolly · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:58 PM »

My bike evolved from BURNER with Landar,formos parts etc into Rickman freestyler with aero zytecs.

BITD i really wanted a GT performer f and f but Rickman was £50 cheaper,wanted tuffs but got zytecs as they were £20 cheaper,thats how it was for me back then.

I used to swop parts and buy secondhand at Poole bmx meetings.

I actually bought a sst layback for £3 secondhand there,imagine what that would be worth now.

So yes landar etc deffo has respect.........

Jaymz · « **Reply #22 on:** January 14, 2011, 08:06 AM »

There's a seller on fleebay that has a plethora of belvin and landar bankrupt_bike_parts. Ive had a fair bit off him for building up my OS toys r us bikes

BMX1973 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 14, 2011, 10:20 PM »

I had a few pairs of Landar pedals, in fact I still have a NOS pair in original Landar box. Wish I kept them really as had a few colours. Very nice looking pedals and look very similar to Skyway pedals.
I remember my local bike shop having a huge landar advert in the shop and sold it by the bucket loads. They were good quality at an affordable price.

58 delray · « **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2011, 10:47 PM »

was lucky enough not to have to use it bitd (i worked in a bike shop) and won't use it now but it is deffo part of bmx history

Author Topic: components by Landar, Belvin etc, do they have a place in BMX..today? (Read 4769 times)

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