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S&M re issued the mk1 Holmes in 09 and the frame/fork kits were about £350 (even less in the states) and you got a free seat post
I like to dress up as a Panda & take my missus over the edge.
I was never into freestyle when I was a kid so Haro's not my thing, however I can appreciate the Iconic value this F&F represents but not the monitory Everyone has to make a profit, its what makes the world go round But granted not very fast at the moment If I was into Haro I think I'd rather spend a few extra quid and get the 80's version I understand that numbers of these F&F are limited but there’s always someone willing to sell At the end of the day everyone is entitled to an opinion and people should be able to take the rough with the smooth I like most 100% buy into the concept of brand loyalty cars, clothes, bikes, food but I don’t see this as the case here
if SE made a limited run of the str prototype and sold them for 2000 they'd be gone in a flash and i'd be all over one.
personally I think Haro could have sold these for more, they'd have all gone even at $1500. They are about the same price as the cosmic chrome CW'S and they flew out. !. buy one now and it'll be worth how much in 5 years ?....if SE made a limited run of the str prototype and sold them for 2000 they'd be gone in a flash and i'd be all over one.
Quote from: Betty on October 02, 2012, 06:04 PMS&M re issued the mk1 Holmes in 09 and the frame/fork kits were about £350 (even less in the states) and you got a free seat post Now Im wishing Id got one of the Mk1 Holmes re-issues.
Quote from: kungfunky on October 03, 2012, 10:42 AMpersonally I think Haro could have sold these for more, they'd have all gone even at $1500. They are about the same price as the cosmic chrome CW'S and they flew out. !. buy one now and it'll be worth how much in 5 years ?....if SE made a limited run of the str prototype and sold them for 2000 they'd be gone in a flash and i'd be all over one. Just the one Ash....
A panda eh Rich?
that actually looks decent,I quite like it.
Quote from: darksunday on October 04, 2012, 01:25 PMthat actually looks decent,I quite like it. You've chaged, Joe, you've changed - you gave one of my favourite posts on this forum in response to a 2009 retro Haro Freestyler. Still makes me wince how cutting it was http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=135786.0Welcome back mate
Quote from: TwoBobRob on November 20, 2011, 07:24 PMQuote from: darksunday on November 20, 2011, 06:58 PMwelcome,apparently they ride better if you use a hacksaw and cut the headtube off, its a quick and easy mod And you'd be happy to offer your services i'd hang it on the wall,,,,best place for it ok, for the "be nice" squad i'll make an attempt to be positive....mate,matey,bro,etc,long time ago a man called bob started a bmx company and all was rad, he sold the company,lock stock the whiole fooking lot kit and caboodle to a large corporate organization and all was a little less rad,after a time the bmx riders realised that the owners of the said corporation were not interested in bmx at all and just wanted porsches and cocaine and patek phillipe watches,the bmx riders stopped buying the corporate bmx bikes,haro and its shareholders fell on hard times,there wasnt a line to be had and the petty cash wouldnt even stretch to a hand shandy,some corporate bright spark noticed that the now "old" bmxers that used to buy there bikes and grown old and fat and most importantly rather rich,and he noticed they had a fondness for trying to buy back there youth,so mr corporate bright spark digs up old bobs designs and had some stickers made,he then set out to "design" a new frame that looked just like old bobs,whilst sipping his mocha skinny latte he made a list of priorities, first the frame had to be cheap,then it had to be weak and lastly it had to be as heavy as possible,he made a few calls and recieved a catalogue of generic frames and picked one,then he had another latte,in his corporate fook witted-ness b-spark-boy had failed to notice that although the "old bmxers" were fat and old and rich......they werent completely stupid,mr corp-bright-spark soon got the sack from his corporate un-bmx loving coke charged bosses,a few years later and after all mr brightsparks old bob bikes have been sold on, and sold on, and sold on,and now youre here, and everyone is sugar coating the truth for you.if you want a new bike that looks like old bobs,build it yourself, we'll gladly help you.
Quote from: darksunday on November 20, 2011, 06:58 PMwelcome,apparently they ride better if you use a hacksaw and cut the headtube off, its a quick and easy mod And you'd be happy to offer your services
welcome,apparently they ride better if you use a hacksaw and cut the headtube off, its a quick and easy mod
Hahaha. Proof that DSD Rules. Both from the positive comments on the "good" repro frame just come out, and from the "truth" about bad attempts that have happened before.
"darksunday, when we started this repro before you ripped the arse out of us and it stung because we we thought we were doing the right thing,and even though you got a bit "pointy" with the truth we had to listen and we scrapped that abortive project until the corporates at HARDO were smart enough to cotton on to how lucrative and high profile a history project like this could be for the company profit margins, so, even though you're a mouthy c@nt sometimes what you inadvertently did was prevent us from making a complete fook up the first time,this time the cash pot for the project was bigger, so we've made another attempt at it and followed your harsh as fook words, we've made the frame high quality and a fitting replica of the original, we've put in the time and effort this time to pay tribute to what is a bmx legend,we even managed enough cash to pay bob to turn up and handle it for the bmx media at a bash were all the fat noo-noos got pissed up and even fatter,you weren't invited though because even though you're smarter than us,you're still a no-one"
