when did you first hear/learn/see bmx??

[Pooch]

I borrowed a BMX in 1983 from Christopher Biggins.

sounds about right.. 

[Picklez]

Summer of 81. Visited a friend who'd spent the summer in the US and came back with a Team Murray. That was it, I was hooked and after much pestering of the parents got my first BMX by Christmas 81 - Black and Yellow Iron Horse  but loved it to bits.

33 years on, many bikes past, but still loving it 

[griff]

This should have been a good thread...

Nice rescue 

I borrowed a BMX in 1983 from Christopher Biggins.

That explains a lot 

[Mikku]

Yep, definitely a good thread resurrection!! 

My memory's fairly sketchy on this but I had a Grifter when BMX first started hitting our shores, or at least Dorset's shores! A few of the older kids in my town got the first ones and I ended up buying a 2ndhand (probably 3rd/4th-hand) Cycle Pro frameset with an assortment of parts from one of them. That must have been before seeing ET because that got me onto the Kuwahara bandwagon and the lust for a Laserlite, which was finally satisfied last year! 

[Doomchild]

In '79, my mum took us on holiday to Skegness. We hired a couple of bike, one of which turned out to be a Mongoose, Skyways and all, with a damn coaster brake on it.......well strange, for me.

[MartyC]

Think it was summer of 79, Andy Ruffell and Cav Strutt used to come over to Harrow Skatepark; I was hooked!

[Pooch]

Sorry Rich.. Honestly pressed the wrong icon.. 

[Devilock]

Sorry Rich.. Honestly pressed the wrong icon.. 

 

[bobbbbsy]

  (ghost of pkripster)

[Pooch]

I remember the first up market Bmx I ever saw.. I lived in Balham, so it must of been stolen..
Diamond Back silver streak.. Chrome with yellow companants, yellow snake belly tyres and so on.. Looked bloody awsome..
I was on a team Murray, so anything would have looked great..😞

[McQUEEN]

First bmx I saw was a team murray one of the guys at school had for Christmas 1979, maybe 1980. Orange and black, loved it. The second was from a rich kid at school whose dad worked in America part time and kept coming back with new parts for his nickel mongoose - one part was a set of z rims and all the guys at school couldn't believe you could have a wheel that could bend?!! It was the first taste of urban fantasy I'd experienced!!

The first bmx action I saw was outside a chip shop in Becontree Essex. I was in the front passenger seat of my dads car and I watched this guy pull an endo against the chip shop window into a roll back 180. Blew me away.............I occasionally drive past and every time I do I still think of that moment.

[Devilock]

The first bmx action I saw was outside a chip shop in Becontree Essex. I was in the front passenger seat of my dads car and I watched this guy pull an endo against the chip shop window into a roll back 180. Blew me away.............I occasionally drive past and every time I do I still think of that moment.

 

[andypatt444]

First BMX i saw was a Mongoose moto mag. I'd say it was the late 70's in a wee DIY come bike shop in Annan owned by a guy called Davy mckinna. I had i Grifter at the time and my Dad wouldn't let me have a BMX for Christmas as they only had one gear. After getting a boring racing bike from santa that year having traded in the grifter, the following year i wore my Dad down and traded in the five speed for a Huffy Pro 4. Fook i was over the moon. Blue and yellow, weighed a ton. 

[eddie kidd]

Everyone had Grifters or Choppers...

There was a Puch Motorbike shop on the Beersbridge Road that me and my mate Glen Molloy called into on the way home from school...

They were promoting 'BMX' bikes...

'What the hell are they' we said...

We went in and had a look...

I took the Brochure home and showed my Gran it...

Christmas came and with it a Brand New Trak Pro...

Molloy wanted one , but had to wait a year until he got a California from Dave Kane's Bike Shop...So he was made up...

A couple of years later I traded for an Aero Pro and Glen traded for a Pro Class...

We entered every race we could on them bikes...