BMX regrets....

[ukoldschool]

I sold my streetbeat to fund my first car (which was shit, the car not the skyway...) and I regretted it right up until I finished building up my new streetbeat a while back, but nostalgia got me thinking about some of the riddiculous things we did 'back in the day' and now regret horribly....

I had a patterson, cant remember how I got it but it weighed very little, had a lower top tube but was a full size frame. I swapped it for a skateboard.... god knows what that would be worth now...

A friend also reminded me that I had a cook bros frame and it rode really well as a converted freestyle bike, but I didnt liek the gusset, so we hacksawed it off and later binned the frame.....

any other horrors?

[markyp]

back in the summer of 85 i bought myself a robinson pro.it was really well equipped with all the best bits,no snides,but only thing was it was all blue ano and i wanted black so i swapped out the whole bike,changing dc mx1000's for a dc 890 and a weinmann,my blue kashi aero for a black copy,you get the picture

[Spen69]

BiTD I sold my 1983 Mongoose Cali with alloy Tuffs for fook all to get some cash for a lad's holiday

But worse.......

Not from BiTD, but 6 years ago before I found this site and had got back into riding my BMX a bit, I was collecting bits for a Haro I'd bought on the bay and bought a set of Tuffs off a lad - he asked if I wanted anything else and I took a box of scrap with me he was chucking out, including a set of odd freestyle looking bars painted in green Hammerite......

(you can see where this is heading already can't you.....)

My brother picked up the bars and said "fook me they're light, can I have these?" and took them away no worries........

 

Yep, they were a set of DP Ladder bars.......

[southern andy]

back in the summer of 85 i bought myself a robinson pro.it was really well equipped with all the best bits,no snides,but only thing was it was all blue ano and i wanted black so i swapped out the whole bike,changing dc mx1000's for a dc 890 and a weinmann,my blue kashi aero for a black copy,you get the picture

Phukin ell...........he's back  





I sold a GJS race frame with 400's and JMC Darryll Young bars in the early 90's.  

[OrgasmDonor]

not riding for 20 years 

[mattuknc]

Probably not worth much but regretted leaving our (mine and brothers) bikes in dad's shed...he had a clear out and threw them all away!
That was my blue/ yellow mag burner and my brothers 'own build' Tioga chrome framed bike.
We were both gutted.  
(I kept my first skateboard though, Schmitt Stix Chris Miller.  )

[Dannywhac]

Flogging a load of old school bmx's I'd accrued from 88-91 (TA to name but a few as you could pick em up for £20) for next to nothing to buy an S&M dirtbike. Then selling the dirtbike and getting a Hoffers. Then selling the Hoffers.....etc etc You can see the pattern emerging there........

[ED209]

Bending down next to Pickles arse at Corby last year 

[sharp767]

buying a 2009 haro freestyler. 

[Why isnt this working]

My mate scorcher mick swapped his Harry Leary for a gram of coke about 15 years ago.....

To anyone who is'nt familiar with narcotic prices that equates to £50. What a tool  

[Swivel]

Too many to mention... main one is selling quite a few Haro bits years ago 

[58 delray]

not riding for 20 years 

x2 

[MartyC]

I have very few regrets, but like you sold my Haro Freestyler to buy a set of Revolution Alloys from Lee Shurey to put on my Escort Mexico....

[In2 bmx]

Not keeping hold of my original  robbo  .   And not having any photos of it or me racing .

[Glynnyboy]

Bending down next to Pickles arse at Corby last year 

Why what happened ED?

[sweetbeats]

Losing my blue zoom products number plate that was raced at the dunston kellogs by  sid sailsbury and i got it signed on the back by haro and leary  
Also had a ton of autographs from dominguez,fiola,miranda,rupe to name a few they where on et phone home notepaper too which hurts even more
Awesome day up there with meeting Fiola in newcastle before the gt tour  

[punkdSICO]

buying a 2009 haro freestyler. 

..not buying a 2009 haro freestyler. 

Paul

[Munnyella]

Not major, but I sold a pair of black coaster tuffs for £20 so I could go on the lash, didn't even get tops and fingers if memory serves!!

[Discostu]

i managed to aquire a pk ripper from jamie bestwick in the late 80's.  when he rode it, it was white.  anyway he had cracked one of the drop outs.  i bought it off him and got it welded back up.  then painted it some ford purple colour. i think it was purole velvet.  anyway i managed to slightly bend the top tube learning tailwhips.  and ended up giving it away to some lad in bedford as he said he could get it straightened.  i always regret giving it away. gutted    i now have the same type of pk ripper i must try to stop myself from doing frame whips!!    i also managed to bend a peregrine super pro doing whips at southsea, king of concrete. luckily mason smith had bought some spare. and i lased it up & trued it on the forks.  it was my first wheel. and took a few hours. the things you done back in the day just to ride.

[rooski]

Not racin till 3 years ago

[Gashead]

Selling my first ET for £5

And then a fully loaded Curtis fo £35


The biggest regret was meeting Pete Quad !

[Pooch]

Sue Jarvis that owned ammaco gave me the f&f that belonged Gary or Wayne llwellyn and then I was aloud free rein of the work shop to build it as I like!!!and I did!!!!! It was the bollocks!!! Sold it to a chief at a hotel I once worked at for £50 ... Feel gutted to this day  

[rick1970]

Getting back into bmx  the grip it has now is equaly as bad or great rather as the 80's ,but costing me a small fortune instead of my dad 

[HUTCHMAN]

Sold my yellow Changa with Profile horseshoe pedals ,Campag hubs,chrome rims etc for £165 ,very nearly got it back in as sold condition a year ago,he pulled out at the last minute.

[griff]

letting my silverfox go in the first place