mid life crisis

[marcevs72]

hi all been wanting an old school bmx for a few years but mrs said no way as I am too old (42).have decided sod it and looking at restoring afew of the bikes I grew up on.have just picked up a universal super tracker which will be restored with some period goodies to ride and looking at a gt and haro freestyler to build as show bikes.

[BMX1973]

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Restoring / rebuilding an old BMX will give you a great deal of pleasure. Sometimes frustrating waiting for the right parts but will come good in the end 

[ED209]

42 is average on here ... being 50 is much cooler.

  aboard ... hope you like spending money!

[20to26]

Keep them out of sight...

[CustardLips]

42 is average on here ... being 50 is much cooler.

  aboard ... home you like spending money!

No way are you 50 Ed.

Thought you was older. 


  to Rad marcevs72. 

[Retrodan72]

  to  and step back to the 80's.

[griff]

Welcome in young man 

[midschooljon]

Welcome. Its a slippery slope from here!!! 

[marcevs72]

cheers guys.looking forward to some new projects and already trying to source a haro frame/forks for another build.just picked this up and all original.be good as a run around and to embarrass the kids.lol

[Bfellows]

Keep them out of sight...

Wise words........ I've have a right twat of a bollocking this morning.......

[marcevs72]

i  got rid of my motorbike a couple months ago and said i wanted another one or maybe a jetski....funnily enough the mrs now has no problem with a couple of bmx bikes.just cant let her know how much the bits are costing.

[oldscool]

   Ive been in my mid life crisis from 35 to 45 

[bmxband1t77]

Hahaha.
I used to throw those universal bikes around in the Essex  Rayleigh warehouse distribution centre BITD. We used to get at least 2 containers packed to the door of bikes, sex toys, dodgy Russian world radios and optically challenged telescopes. Literally chucked them at each other then stacked em up to the ceiling!

Rode me GT performer BMX to work nearly every day. Or rode in on me Lambretta. Grew quite large pecks and washboard chest doing all that a few times a week.

Eventually graduated to the holy grail of the back room bike building office.

The owners wife bought him an American Jeep for his birthday once.

Met some ace guys I'm still mates with there.

Friday pay day it's off to the Pink Toothbrush to get waysted!

Happy days.

Welcome and good job on the universal. Tbh I'm stunned one ever survived more than 5 mins the way they were made!

Stay Rad.



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[dancetothedrummersbeat]

Welcome to RAD. You're never too old.

[oldscool]

We are all too old but too immature to realise.

[bmxband1t77]

We've all been touched by BMX so much that we happily try to relive it and some of us get to own the machines we could only dream about. We have created a new tribe who know and love the sport that changed our lives.

We've lived through an incredible period of history and technological advances that quite frankly I doubt any other generation will ever experience. 

Is it any wonder that some of us 'refuse to grow up'. Our parents and our kids will never have that experience and I feel sorry for them sometimes. I would do it all again in the same timeframe. I would change some of my mistakes and work harder, I would not give up BMX in the dark days, I would buy lots of ugly pottery and buy a council house.
I would also buy every blinkin Haro freestyler frameset  I could lay my hands on! 😉


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