Name: Gavin Terry, aka Gavprimo or Dangerous gav
Occupation: Policy Manager for Diabetes UK/ serial bmx acquirer/builder
Years Collecting: build a bmx every now now and then sell, then find another load of bits and build another one!
Interests: mid and new school bmx, mtb
Dislikes: a lot of the very very new school bikes, they look a bit characterless and samey
Favourite BMX: Metal Burma
Favourite OS brand: Curtis or Robinson
Haro RS1 that I was going to use to have a go at OS racing, but didn't get round to it
had a couple of off the peg Huffy's (MJ12 and a Cory Nastazio sig) then got into building. one of the first Fly Panteras, in bronze, with smoked chrome demolition rims and wtp royal cranks
a while later I built up a T1 Barcode after picking up the frame for £13
next up was a mongoose rogue that I picked up complete for change, rawed the frame and tidied it up, but it still rode like crap and was heavy
got the bug again though and built up a Federal T-Nez with Proper forks and Proper bars, primo balance wheelset and ody aitken tyres, madera cranks.brilliant bike. Hidden nation seatpost put the seat at the right angle long before pivotal came about
After that went, I picked up a Hoffman complete for about £20, tried my hand at custom painting some race checkers and generally made it rideable
After that I came across a Metal Burma Frame, and put some effort into building my ideal bmx
Metal burma, with Fly Racing Mike Day bars, Hoffman forks, atomlab trailpimp front wheel, sun city light rear on a GSport homer, fly malaga stem and home made fur trimmed pivotal. Was the best bike I had. Got totally shafted swapping it for a downhill mtb that was a total PoS. hard lesson learned
most recent was an S&M dirt bike mid schoolish build, good fun but I sold it to fnance a new mtb
my mtb - Curtis SuperX
just got my sone a Fit TRL Pro off Mark on here, top buy from a top guy! used it as an excuse to get myself another bmx. got a cracking deal on a Macneil freimuth and will post a pic up when I'm done tweaking
