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Welcome back MikeQuick question - is there any chance you could borrow an oldschool bike to ride for 5mins before you give up something as great as a T1 Barcode Honestly if you intend to ride a bike, your beloved memories of a childhood of Bmx will be shattered in seconds with bad geometry, threaded headsets and shite brakes on an 80's bike....... If you have to have it all, go newschool oldschool in disguise mate
Are you allowed to say things like that about old school bikes on this site?
Quote from: 80s Mike on March 03, 2017, 01:12 PMAre you allowed to say things like that about old school bikes on this site? I know Mike.... but thankfully this site is about one thing only, BMX. Be it a Burner to a WeThePeople, they are all BMX I love this site and have been through the ups and downs of o/s collecting, but always loved riding them not polishing them. Eventually I got to the point of modifying o/s bikes with midschool 36/13 gearing and then finally newschool 25/9 and trying to enhance the brakes to make them more rideable. I couldn't bring myself to ride a newschool as they just all looked the same and soul-less....Then a few "retro" frames started appearing which were just copies of the oldschool.... literally copies (ie Haro especially). What's the point of those I thought - if you want one, buy an old one and restore it, get some skin in the game.Finally Subrosa grasped the nettle and brought out the DTT, and Supercross brought out the Extension and suddenly you could ride an old-school looking bike but with actual newschool technology and geometry. Boom, I wanted one.But the final stage for me was when I found a few specialist companies had taken to crafting frames that really paid their respects to the oldschool in terms of looks, but added newschool geometry and component compatibility - firms like Knightbikes, Kappa and Eddie Fiola's venture (forgotten the name!). Now you are talking.....So I'm one of the lucky few who ride an oldschool looking bike that every dad remembers when it's out and about, but when I ride it in a skatepark it is actually designed and built to do just that..... My advice is buy a secondhand newschool bike, something half decent for about £100 to £250 and ride it as you'll be amazed how good they are. You can then keep your T1 for looking at, as Midschool is the new oldschool after all
What I don't understand about the scene is:1) who buys all of the cheapo P.O.S. 90s bikes that get revamped and sold on ebay as 'rare old school classics'? I know retro bmx is cool right now, but it's not like you walk down the street and every 3rd bike is old school bmx, and yet if you look at feedback of these dealers they are selling a lot of these done up crappo bikes!2) who is buying all the new release Skyway wheels? Surely people who want to build an old school bike will buy originals, it's not that difficult to buy old Skyways. Maybe the people doing up the crappo bikes but them, but that means a lot of crappo bikes are selling, which brings me back to my first question, who's buying 'em!?