Will the noughties be classed as the golden age of old school bmx restoration?

[meticulous]

lets face it, nearly everything has been done to death now, and very few builds are anything differant than before....

so in another 20 years time the noughties could be classed as the best era of restoration...

still got a couple on the go myself though, just to keep me interested and for my own pleasure...

[Jaymz]

restoration of OS bikes maybe

bring on the mid school revolution, then once thats died we can all restore Rooster big daddy's !!!!!!!!!!!!

[rooski]

lets face it, nearly everything has been done to death now, and very few builds are anything differant than before....

so in another 20 years time the noughties could be classed as the best era of restoration...

still got a couple on the go myself though, just to keep me interested and for my own pleasure...

Tis getting difficult to deliver an original build,but as we have seen in Bike of the month they are still out there

Most of the early stuff is still in the states,unless someone imports some it will be mainly 1980 plus for most builds,thus limiting anything really different

You also have the fact that people tend to build stuff they remember


To answer your original question ,its gonna be hard to top.

[lk_97]

You rarely see a late 80's freestyle build, I don't want mid school bikes to be popular though, starting to get dear already....

[VWmk2]

I may be picking up a late 80's redline at the end of the week that I'm thinking of freestyling 

[deeman]

Its only natural that mid school stuff will become more expensive as people grow older and want a piece of their childhood back!

[stuntmaster]

mid skool stuff is harder to find anyway as lack of it sold bitd

[hunterdubber]

   
Will the noughties be classed as the golden age of old school bmx restoration?



Maybe the birth of ? don't onow about the golden age Sam 

You're done with it and it shows with thread, so maybe personally for you 

but the  scene is now massive globally , so there will be lifers and progression within the hobby to ride and collect bikes from different eras as time time goes on

I expect you've  done all the bikes you have a connection with 80 > 85

(Riding /racing would mix it up a bit for you and introduce interest to a different era, but I know you don't fancy it  )

When you pack it in , there will be collectors  doing the same bikes as you've done and others

I think a broader more varied "Golden" age is to come

[southern andy]

They'll only ever be one true old school era in my eyes.

[hunterdubber]

They'll only ever be one true old school era in my eyes.

Exactly Andy    

Our connection is with the eighties era  

One of the young  plumbers at work used to ride in the late nineties ( about 11 years old) and I reckon in another ten years or so , his Old school era will come alive

Plus BMX street , Park and race are massive now all the current  kids WILL eventually , maybe in 20 years from now will want bikes from  
2005 to 2015

At that time ome of these new collectors will want older bikes from the 70's, 80's and 90's too,,, as they will appreciate the true roots of BMX


You notice  this pattern  in all collecting hobbies , from Cars to model trains  

[Rodgy1970]

I think building might go in a different direction similar to the way it went with the BMX society crowd, survivor builds with unrestored parts, you can get unrestored parts from the states but getting hold of used parts here can be a bit of a nightmare with people hoarding to restore or at worst polish the fook out of them.

I started off wanting to build a BITD bike, I haven't got it together yet as I keep changing direction possibly in search of originality which I'm probably never going to achieve so should just pull my finger out and get it built.

[lk_97]

mid skool stuff is harder to find anyway as lack of it sold bitd

I guess we can hope to find a few warehouses full of it then

[Dannywhac]

mid skool stuff is harder to find anyway as lack of it sold bitd

I guess we can hope to find a few warehouses full of it then

They scrapped quite a lot of it.......although having a wander round places like BMX City would make my year

[SaMAlex]

mid skool stuff is harder to find anyway as lack of it sold bitd

I guess we can hope to find a few warehouses full of it then

No chance (Id say). If you look at the people who were importing (the now collectible) bikes in the 90s it was tiny companies like backyard/seventies & Custom riders. They only bought in a hand full at a time and Im sure they all got sold. It wasnt like the 80s where people like shiner were bringing in containers full of SE and HUTCH stuff. It just wasnt happening.

OK, shiner did bring in loads of complete Haro bikes. Ive seen the warehouse pics of them all stacked up, still in the boxes. But from what people say, there is much more in shiner to get worked up about.