Author Topic: A letter to BMX Action Bike/RAD (Read 2844 times)

80s Mike · « **on:** March 14, 2017, 04:33 PM »

My only BMX claim to fame is having a short letter published in BMX Action Bike/RAD magazine. It would have been around about 1988 and I wrote to complain about the small amount of BMX articles in the magazine compared to the number of skating ones. Little did I know BMX would get dropped completely not long afterwards.

Would any magazine collectors be able to tell me in which issue a letter by "Mike Healey" was published, so that I can post a wanted on this forum and keep an eye out for it on Ebay.

Thanks!

BMX1973 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2017, 06:31 PM »

Good luck I hope someone knows. It would be cool if you could find a copy.

john4130 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2017, 08:18 PM »

i'll have a look when i get time, if it's definately from 88 then i will probably have it.

bigfatolly · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2017, 08:50 PM »

Isn't there an online resource somewhere of these magazines ?

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2017, 10:00 PM »

It's defo NOT in the feb 88 issue, as i've just checked. As you can see by the cover, there isn't any mention of bmx directly anymore - it's part of 'freestyle street action'

Good luck finding it - hopefully someone will have it

80s Mike · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2017, 01:36 PM »

Quote from: BMX1973 on March 14, 2017, 06:31 PM

Good luck I hope someone knows. It would be cool if you could find a copy.

Thanks, I stupidly threw away all my 80s BMX magazines, but you'd have thought I might have kept that one issue!

80s Mike · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2017, 01:40 PM »

Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on March 14, 2017, 10:00 PM

It's defo NOT in the feb 88 issue, as i've just checked. As you can see by the cover, there isn't any mention of bmx directly anymore - it's part of 'freestyle street action'

Good luck finding it - hopefully someone will have it

Yes, BMX became a dirty word in the late eighties, the BMX Action Bike logo got smaller and smaller until it vanished altogether along with any BMX articles.

john4130 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2017, 05:56 PM »

i should have some free time tomorrow night, i'll have a look and get it scanned for you.

80s Mike · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2017, 06:50 PM »

Quote from: john4130 on March 15, 2017, 05:56 PM

i should have some free time tomorrow night, i'll have a look and get it scanned for you.

Thanks, although don't go to too much trouble. Im pretty sure it's around 88ish!

Avro · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2017, 06:56 PM »

I remember being a kid in the mid to late 70's and it was all Skateboards. We had skateboards, there were skateboard shops and the council built a skateboard park; hell, I even remember going to the cinima to see a skateboard film (I do not know its name and have yet to find it on youtube, it would have been a matinee show and been second feature as we were taken to the cinema by our grandparents on a Saturday).

By the turn of the 1980's is was BMX and I came alive. I have no recollection of Skateboarding returning. I guess I was was fully invested in Suzuki TS50ER and girls and parties to have noticed. It is interesting how time factored compartmentilised things can be.

boofy44 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2017, 07:43 PM »

I'm sure they showed that skateboard film as the warm up before Grease in our local cinema.

Ady · « **Reply #11 on:** March 15, 2017, 07:47 PM »

By the turn of the 1980's is was BMX and I came alive. I have no recollection of Skateboarding returning. I guess I was was fully invested in Suzuki TS50ER and girls and parties to have noticed.
[/quote]

Suzuki TS50ER that brings back memories.
I had a red one my two mates had yellow ones..
I fitted a big bore kit and went like fook..
But my one mate had a FS1E and standard would pi$$ all over mine.
I would laugh my head off as each corner he would drag his pedals giving off sparks..
I gave it to my Bro who wrecked it in 6 months and end up in the docks .
I loved that bike..

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #12 on:** March 15, 2017, 07:53 PM »

Quote from: boofy44 on March 15, 2017, 07:43 PM

I'm sure they showed that skateboard film as the warm up before Grease in our local cinema.

Was it about someone trying to break the downhill speed record or something like that?

steve69 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 15, 2017, 08:44 PM »

Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on March 15, 2017, 07:53 PM

Quote from: boofy44 on March 15, 2017, 07:43 PM
I'm sure they showed that skateboard film as the warm up before Grease in our local cinema.

Was it about someone trying to break the downhill speed record or something like that?

Think that's the film I was thinking of too.... All driving round in a tour bus (SE racing style), got a new set of leathers for the final race of the film ?? Or something like that $:-\$

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #14 on:** March 15, 2017, 09:19 PM »

If it's the one i'm thinking of, it was shown on tv in the late 80's one saturday morning

john4130 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 16, 2017, 05:36 PM »

found it, rad mag 1988 issue 63.

letters page

your letter

griff · « **Reply #16 on:** March 16, 2017, 06:25 PM »

Great work

80s Mike · « **Reply #17 on:** March 16, 2017, 08:13 PM »

Quote from: john4130 on March 16, 2017, 05:36 PM

found it, rad mag 1988 issue 63.

letters page

your letter

Hey John, thanks for digging that out, much appreciated.

Can't believe I wrote that nearly 30 years ago! $:-\$
All things considered, it's not 'that' embarrassing. I'll have to get something put in the wanted section to see if I can get hold of a copy for myself.

john4130 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 16, 2017, 08:28 PM »

no worries mate.

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #19 on:** March 16, 2017, 11:36 PM »

Great detective work, and well remembered on the accuracy of the date

Author Topic: A letter to BMX Action Bike/RAD (Read 2844 times)

griff