Author Topic: What was your first BMX? (Read 1954 times)

nosepickben · « **Reply #25 on:** July 04, 2013, 11:49 PM »

Quote from: thirteeneast on July 04, 2013, 10:13 PM

Stratton, it was red and white 2 tone and I swear it was made of licorice.

Ha ha Stratton...!! I remember those. Plenty of blue and yellow ones round my area in the mid 80's.
I had an 82 puch gti turbo. I have an excellent survivor example, crude but cute.

Redline · « **Reply #26 on:** July 04, 2013, 11:57 PM »

Moto One for me..... £69 from a petrol station in Stretford nr Manchester of all places.

Bent the forks after 3 weeks so was treated to a pair of yellow Redline MXII forks and the rest is history

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:15 AM »

Falcon Pro Kappa. Blue with yellow pads,grips, seat. Bought a 99% original survivor for £112 on ebay 2 weeks ago. Brought back lots of memories. Resto thread will be posted up soon

BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:17 AM »

Raleigh Burner Ultra 1982 - black and gold - loved it till the day it died

58 delray · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2013, 09:50 AM »

team murray but it didnt last long as i kept snapping it and getting it rewelded, then got a goose

kungfunky · « **Reply #30 on:** July 05, 2013, 09:55 AM »

Burnished PK Ripper. Still got it too

willo73 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 05, 2013, 09:59 AM »

MK1 Tuff burner, loved it, still want one but horrible to ride now I'm a big bigger

Bob_Acid · « **Reply #32 on:** July 05, 2013, 10:44 AM »

I borrowed a bike from a mate for a couple of months till I got my own, which was a Pro-Star

dp and chopper dude · « **Reply #33 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:42 PM »

I got a Mark 1 Raleigh Tuff Burner. It was ace. I'd love a mint one the same just for looking at

oldschoolace · « **Reply #34 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:50 PM »

Interesting how the vast majority of people had pretty low end stuff, which there seems to be alot of love for and yet when given an opportunity to have fun building some low end stuff in the budget build off there is no love....... Just sayin

Anyways pretty sure mine was a red and yellow burner though i remember it having cobra style grips with hexagon shaped ends

griff · « **Reply #35 on:** July 05, 2013, 12:50 PM »

1982 MT Racing Silverfox

was the only BMX I had BITD, not got it any more but have another one very similar now...

thirteeneast · « **Reply #36 on:** July 05, 2013, 01:16 PM »

Quote from: nosepickben on July 04, 2013, 11:49 PM

Quote from: thirteeneast on July 04, 2013, 10:13 PM
Stratton, it was red and white 2 tone and I swear it was made of licorice.

Ha ha Stratton...!! I remember those. Plenty of blue and yellow ones round my area in the mid 80's.
I had an 82 puch gti turbo. I have an excellent survivor example, crude but cute.

At the time I thought my Statton looked so pansy even with the star patten pads taken off.
And all my m8's had Burners and used to tell me my bike looked alright. Fooking scared me for life that bike !.

In the end I swapped it for a frame that I had no money to build so eventually it got thrown.

I did manage to do a pots mod on it though.

MartyC · « **Reply #37 on:** July 05, 2013, 01:40 PM »

Scorpion TX, red with yellow Tuffs

Jaypeg · « **Reply #38 on:** July 05, 2013, 02:58 PM »

Quote from: oldschoolace on July 05, 2013, 12:50 PM

Interesting how the vast majority of people had pretty low end stuff, which there seems to be alot of love for and yet when given an opportunity to have fun building some low end stuff in the budget build off there is no love....... Just sayin

Anyways pretty sure mine was a red and yellow burner though i remember it having cobra style grips with hexagon shaped ends

I think (for me) that low end bikes can still be pricey... I love mongoose wire wheels but so far I have spent just as much as I did on my street beat for example. As I wanted/am trying to find era specific or factory parts. in all honesty I have found it harder to find factory parts that are in good nick. It's easier to buy a pro neck or suntour stem then it is to buy a wire wheel stem(probably all thrown in the bin

)

What needs to change maybe is the opinions of low spec bikes, its a
Bmx at the end of the day and its history. You can't beat that feeling of riding the same bike you had as a kid.

Low spec or top of the range... Doesn't Matter ,as they are just as important as each other.

Mattdub · « **Reply #39 on:** July 05, 2013, 05:22 PM »

Quote from: Bob_Acid on July 05, 2013, 10:44 AM

I borrowed a bike from a mate for a couple of months till I got my own, which was a Pro-Star

Pro-Star here too , my first bike

. Chrome with the blue parts , and back then we didn't call them DB Pro-Star

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pickle · « **Reply #40 on:** July 05, 2013, 05:25 PM »

Raleigh Burnet GS from the catalogue

NORTY40 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 05, 2013, 05:25 PM »

Quote from: Macmania on July 04, 2013, 09:45 PM

MT Racing Silverfox (still got it)

Same for me Nath ..... and i still have mine aswell

Dannywhac · « **Reply #42 on:** July 05, 2013, 05:36 PM »

Tear-drop tubed Freeway, blue acorn mags (the thin'ns) for me - bought all the bits and built it with my dad. Got most of the parts from a bloke that sold bmx bits out of his garage in Beverley called Percy Bolton I seem to remember.

In2bmx · « **Reply #43 on:** July 05, 2013, 06:52 PM »

I was using my mates Robinson for the first three months of me racing , then my mum got me a GT from Alan's .

AKGOFF · « **Reply #44 on:** July 05, 2013, 07:19 PM »

I find it amazing how few people had decent bikes, so far the only people I know of who had a decent BMX BITD were Ash with his PK Ripper, Carl with his GT, Steve69 with his VDC Changa and my brother with his CW Phaze 1 (only because my mum & dad won the Frameset at a raffle). I, incidentally had a crappy Super Burner (not even the Tuff version) from which the 'gold' peeled off very rapidly.
Perhaps that's why I like the good stuff now. $:-\$

bbmac · « **Reply #45 on:** July 05, 2013, 07:35 PM »

Red Moto - One, snapped this after 2 months, then Blue & Yellow Pro- Star

mivvi · « **Reply #46 on:** July 05, 2013, 07:36 PM »

Tioga Rhinocharge with really crap parts. Then my dad bought a bike shop and I had a different bmx every week lol

factory pilot · « **Reply #47 on:** July 05, 2013, 08:11 PM »

Just like Pickle I had a silver/grey/blue GS Burner.... mine must have been a steal cos me dad got it from the Catalogue Shop in Worcester. ( My dad was a printer back in the 80s and they printed all the kays/gratton catalogues in Worcester strangely )
I loved it but it really was the poor man's ultra burner

TORKER mick · « **Reply #48 on:** July 05, 2013, 08:11 PM »

Peugeot black lion in blue

if anyone has 1 let me no

Jaymz · « **Reply #49 on:** July 05, 2013, 08:31 PM »

Italian made dingo, recently scored one

1984-2013

Author Topic: What was your first BMX? (Read 1954 times)

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