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Offline DIRTBIKER250F

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Mid school 89-
« on: February 02, 2014, 10:45 AM »
So I ain't been on the site for a good while really, but it's winter and maybe this year is another build at some point.
What's really striking me is these early mid school bikes, as I really know nothing about them apart from what rads mid collectors post.
I have built or owned nearly 45 bikes in my time, so old school, there is nothing really new to me about it (hunterdubber has most of old school porn anyway).
Does anyone else who has always been primarily old 80s bikes fell these mid school are almost a breath of fresh air in the hobby, could mid become the new old ?

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2014, 11:54 AM »
When i started out, i didn't look at mid school,but after doing some o/s racing i got into mid bikes as that was what i was riding  :D

I started to appreciate how good the bikes were to ride,then built a few with my new rider perspctive  :daumenhoch:

Mid school is the transition between old and new obviously, and as such its interesting to me to have some in my collection,plus they are way better to ride  :daumenhoch:

Will mid become the new old?, don't know about that,all i know is they are great bikes  :smitten:

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2014, 02:20 PM »
in short 'no',  everything pre 84 for me,  mid school are nice as riders (I have a 91 robinson) but for me all its all about my childhood memories for collecting...
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2014, 03:50 PM »
Nah, i raced from 83-88 so anything after that is alien to me as pretty much anything before 83 to be honest.

Old school only i'm afraid Paul.  :)
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2014, 03:53 PM »
Sam, don't you get bored of it, you and me entered this hobby around the same time. I know it's bmx, and 84 and pre are the *classic* years, but there is nothing really that new anymore, fook me I remember selling you a T.A in 2006, 8 years ago....you have had some cracking bikes bud, but we're do you go once you have done a bike 4 different ways.
The only old school bike that I'd sell my kidneys for is the Big Tube, and that's cos I've had that build in my brain for a long time.
2026 had a 89 Kuwi, it was the bollocks, I think if I was to ever build another bike...I'd re ignite my interest by dipping into the unknown, like I did in 2005, I absolutely got immersed in the parts and chase. I need a wing man though, and you were always a good fella for swaps n the hunt.
I may challenge you to a after 88 build in the summer 👍

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2014, 04:00 PM »
Nah, i raced from 83-88 so anything after that is alien to me as pretty much anything before 83 to be honest.

Old school only i'm afraid Paul.  :)

Andy, the fact it's alien to me is kinda what's getting me going, that gt that was posted up, if I was to build that, I wouldn't have a clue were to start, and that's almost like a new boob job on a missus that you love 😍

I don't know, I'm sorta finding my way out my own recession, cpl more bills to pay then I'm out again.
Mid school, or at least one rare bike that I have no idea about maybe on the cards to go alongside my super goose 3 😁

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2014, 04:27 PM »
I stopped riding 85/86, thought all later stuff was shite for a long time, then you started noticing splashes of quality and things outa the ordinary and if you ride you get usable great handing strong bikes to boot.  :daumenhoch:

old for wanking, mid for spanking  :police:

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2014, 06:04 PM »
I raced up to 1990 but was still on OS bikes at that point.
At that point I would have killed to have ridden the Revcore/Boss type bikes that were appearing, and the few mid bits that I had (Revcore bars, early Crupi stem as id'd by Orgasm Donor) were really well made and better fit for purpose than the OS stuff I'd bent and broken.

Having come back I've ridden a mid Haro myself, as well as trying out Freeagents, TNTs etc - they are all WAY better than the OS stuff. Of course my first memories are of Old Skool BMX so nothing will change that, I'm just not looking at those bikes with rose-tinted specs.

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2014, 07:05 PM »
The early 90's bikes are 'old school' enough for me! Caliper brakes and 1" stems.

I still don't understand how mid-school started in 1986/7 but that's another debate - I rode up until 89 then moved to mountain bikes. 90 is when mid school kicked off for me but the early 90 bikes give me almost the same nostalgic feeling as many of the top riders were still cranking.

Another great thing about early 90's bikes is they're generally cheaper to buy and parts are not that difficult to find - but there's still enough 'hunt' in the project to make it just as satisfying. In fact some of the mid school bikes seem rarer than a lot of old school bikes - but maybe that's just me.

Granted none of my grails are mid school but I probably couldn't afford them anyway so the early mid school bikes feed the habit...

Try one.

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2014, 07:11 PM »

I still don't understand how mid-school started in 1986/7 but that's another debate - I rode up until 89 then moved to mountain bikes. 90 is when mid school kicked off for me but the early 90 bikes give me almost the same nostalgic feeling as many of the top riders were still cranking.



The reason it starts at 1986 on here is because everybody complained when I set the section up and had Midschool starting at 1990.  We held a vote and it was decided that it would start at 86 so 86 it starts at.

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2014, 07:23 PM »
I got back into building because I wanted to ride my old DP 80s bike ... but having gradually moved onto a new school ride through various mid bikes I've come to love the design & innovation of early mid school ( warts and all ) ... and the sense of recapturing an era that I would loved being involved in if I hadn't sold my soul to Skateboarding  ;)

I've just sold the last of my old school bits ... I've got the 2 bikes that were my Mid School grails... a WAL Riot and an Auburn CR20S ... playing with building a 2hip Pork ... but thats gonna be it for me  :daumenhoch:
« Last Edit: February 02, 2014, 07:42 PM by ED209 »
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2014, 07:26 PM »

I still don't understand how mid-school started in 1986/7 but that's another debate - I rode up until 89 then moved to mountain bikes. 90 is when mid school kicked off for me but the early 90 bikes give me almost the same nostalgic feeling as many of the top riders were still cranking.



The reason it starts at 1986 on here is because everybody complained when I set the section up and had Midschool starting at 1990.  We held a vote and it was decided that it would start at 86 so 86 it starts at.

Sean, I thought the Mid school section started 87 to 97.
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2014, 07:27 PM »
the 1986 mid school divide objectively makes some sense...
->http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,167111.msg1677035.html#msg1677035 rod's theory, objectified :D

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2014, 07:45 PM »
Can anyone point me at the mid school starting age vote thread? missed that one completely!
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2014, 08:36 PM »

I still don't understand how mid-school started in 1986/7 but that's another debate - I rode up until 89 then moved to mountain bikes. 90 is when mid school kicked off for me but the early 90 bikes give me almost the same nostalgic feeling as many of the top riders were still cranking.



The reason it starts at 1986 on here is because everybody complained when I set the section up and had Midschool starting at 1990.  We held a vote and it was decided that it would start at 86 so 86 it starts at.

Sean, I thought the Mid school section started 87 to 97.
It was at MK last year

If I remember correctly, when I first set up the sections when we opened the new site I had midschool starting ranging from 90-00, then I changed it to run from 87 as per the S&S cards.  Then there was a vote and it was decided to change it to 86.

After that I washed my hands of it all Gish, I was always wrong so stormed off in a strop  :LolLolLolLol:
« Last Edit: February 02, 2014, 08:47 PM by stidds »

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2014, 09:25 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2014, 09:32 PM »
Fookin 86 mid school  :2funny: :2funny:
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2014, 09:32 PM »
Sorry to tell you all... but midschool is up from 1990 IMO  ;)   :LolLolLolLol:
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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2014, 09:51 PM »
Get some mid school in you boys!  :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2014, 10:07 PM »
Fookin 86 mid school  :2funny: :2funny:

Actually checking back through the midschool age threads, it was decided by the members on here that midschool was to start at 1987.

On the other big forums midschool is as follows: 

Vintagebmx 1986
RADBMX 1987
BMX Society 1988
OZBMX 1990's

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« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2014, 10:58 PM »
I) ....until good reasons are given rod's theory holds imo :yahoo_silent:

II) one good reason: mid school is 90's bmx experience. (->http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,167111.msg1677244.html#msg1677244)

III) otherwise: it's the bashguard, it's the .... you name it.

radocratic (! word invent !) solution:
You could have a vote-thread and peeps give reasons (basically for I, II, III, as i see it).


i know this is pathetic, but this question keeps on rising up.... so....

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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2014, 11:01 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2014, 11:05 PM »
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Re: Mid school 89-
« Reply #23 on: February 02, 2014, 11:07 PM »
We have already done this, you guys had a chance to vote for the year, it was chosen as 1987 onwards and that is what was done.

For me it is over, we cannot keep changing it whenever somebody else feels it is wrong.

I feel that us being in the date middle of vintage and bmx society shows that mid-school start date is hard to pin down but considering all 3 sites are similar leads me to think we are all correct.



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« Reply #24 on: February 02, 2014, 11:08 PM »
We have already done this, you guys had a chance to vote for the year, it was chosen as 1987 onwards and that is what was done.

For me it is over, we cannot keep changing it whenever somebody else feels it is wrong.

I feel that us being in the date middle of vintage and bmx society shows that mid-school start date is hard to pin down but considering all 3 sites are similar leads me to think we are all correct.

Yep  :daumenhoch:

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