Author Topic: Iconic Bmx (Read 4115 times)

Flaz · « **Reply #25 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:14 AM »

for me the most iconic uk bmx would have to be the burner ,, most of are parents who are now in there 60's and 70's if you stuck a burner in front of them and said what type of bike is this 95% of them would answer "like the one you had as a kid, is it xbm , mxb , bmx yes thats it bmx" ) shame really aint it but dont forget we where just coming out of the 70's and most of us where poor...

most desirable bikes Bitd T/A Ripper Redline Torker GT where the only bikes to have where i lived, but i did stop riding at the end of 83!!!! I cant ever remember seeing a gen 1 or any haro's come to think of it not while i was still riding

Bigplinky · « **Reply #26 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:52 AM »

The one bike I used to drool over in Kelly's Cycles in Sunderland was a MK1 Pro Burner (the best bike in the shop)

and through the years my own personal icons have been

1983 Patterson Long
1984 Hutch Pro Racer (black)
1985 / 86 JMC Darrell Young (candy red)

Mid school even though I rode from 92-97 I didn't take any notice of the bikes at the time I was happy as long as I had a bike to ride (85 Haro Sport and Later a 93 Haro Master both off Yoda)

New School S&M as they still manufacture in the USA or Curtis for the same reason in the UK

Oh sorry the boring selection aswell PK Ripper, Skyway TA, Haro Gen 1, Goose Mag and Hutch Pro Star

selfpreservation · « **Reply #27 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:38 PM »

i never liked GTs but then again i never owned one probably for the same reason

Bitchy Roo · « **Reply #28 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:55 PM »

Team Murrays from your local Halfords store, 342 red n yellow if i'm right. Looked the biz

etriedes · « **Reply #29 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:57 PM »

Ripper seemed to be the dream bike ( prolly cus no one ever seen anyone with one )
Silver Streaks, seemed popular round here, all the other bikes were GT's Redlines, Kuwi's, Haro gen1, DP's, MRD's, Mongoose,

most didn't have a burner , or have them for long , wasn't cool to have one and you was laughed at

phantom photon · « **Reply #30 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:58 PM »

TA

jimwise68 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 11, 2007, 09:14 AM »

Sorry guys you are all wrong. As much as you are listing fabulous bikes they are not the most iconic bike of OS BMX.

I'm prob gonna get banished to Burner forum for this BUT IT IS THE MK1 BLUE AND YELLOW TUFF BURNER.

If you put all the aforementioned bikes in a line and asked joe public to pick a BMX 90% would pick the Tuff Burner..

An icon is a figure that sums up an era. As I say it isn't the best bike listed but IT IS the most iconic to the great british public.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It will overtake the Raleigh chopper as the next most iconic bike.

You can't look at this question as a BMXer.

DIRTBIKER250F · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:29 AM »

Surely Iconic means greatest of an era, the burner might be the most reconisable but that is just Image Jim. I would have thought this question was meant only for a BMX'r, Iconic is the Brazil team of the 70s the Audi of the early eighties, the Roses first album to the ninties

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What bike is most reconisable as being the best bike of a generation

Paul

login_user · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:29 AM »

Quote from: jimwise68 on March 11, 2007, 09:14 AM

Sorry guys you are all wrong. As much as you are listing fabulous bikes they are not the most iconic bike of OS BMX.

I'm prob gonna get banished to Burner forum for this BUT IT IS THE MK1 BLUE AND YELLOW TUFF BURNER.

If you put all the aforementioned bikes in a line and asked joe public to pick a BMX 90% would pick the Tuff Burner..

An icon is a figure that sums up an era. As I say it isn't the best bike listed but IT IS the most iconic to the great british public.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It will overtake the Raleigh chopper as the next most iconic bike.

You can't look at this question as a BMXer.

Got to agree,not the best bike but more people owned burners bitd then any other bike and everyone knows what they are...............Cheap crap...

gt0733 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2007, 10:54 AM »

ceremonial objects and symbols, huh?

probably very different from country to country as the raleigh burner means absolutely nothing to me in terms of bmx. i reckon here in Australia it could be quite a few different bikes as long as they were American just like in the mags.
going out on a limb i would suggest any mongoose product may be above the other manufacterers with redline running up it's bum in terms of being on pedestals.
in the US it's probably schwinn or perhaps hutch, but..........um, i really couldn't care less what the yanks think

not just bikes either, there would be quite a few "iconic" parts, tracks, magazines etc

scary_leary · « **Reply #35 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:19 PM »

Quote from: ruler™ on March 09, 2007, 10:32 PM

but the gussetty goose was the "people's bike"

Burner was the people's bike.

Waxintaxin · « **Reply #36 on:** March 11, 2007, 02:25 PM »

Iconic ? mmmm

it would have to have tuffs

so yea for the masses it has to be Jims choice of the blue , yellow Tuff Burner clearly the mos Iconic UK BMX

For anyone who was into BMX then I reckon the PK. As Icons can mean different things to different people some people would think a burner is never going to be iconic , however for me , yea the tuff burner and the PK

but both would have to be fitted with Tuffs

Rich

sonic-1 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 11, 2007, 11:23 PM »

well i vote burner to but it must be a red one with yellow tuffs n pads

but the bmx my mates n i allways wanted was a mongoose
we all were skint so mum n dad didnt have enough cash to buy mongooses bitd

jimwise68 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2007, 09:12 AM »

The PK is in a different iconic class. It is like a VW Beetle or George Best. More of a legend than an icon. It is also a design classic.

I'm not denying it's iconic class, but it is not IMO the iconic BMX of the UK.

In the early days of BMX the only bikes available to the masses were the burners. You could get others but they were for the fortunate few who lived near a decent bike shop or influence.
I had never even heard of a ripper as I pawed over the pix of the tuff burner in my mum's Littlewoods catalogue. It wasn't until I had gotten fully into BMX that I learnt of RIPPERs, Gen 1s, TAs, GTs etc. All of which are indeed icons but the epitomy of a BMX icon for me is the humble Tuff Burner.

Also, not all icons need to be the greatest. Yuppies with red braces are eighties icons

DIRTBIKER250F · « **Reply #39 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:20 PM »

Isnt Paul Hogan a icon of the eighties ?

That's not a knife

theRuler · « **Reply #40 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:57 PM »

burners weren't the only cheap shit bikes
there were dozens of other cheap bikes out there

burners were just one option. defo not the only one

RATTY · « **Reply #41 on:** March 12, 2007, 10:34 PM »

Quote from: ruler™ on March 12, 2007, 06:57 PM

burners weren't the only cheap shit bikes
there were dozens of other cheap bikes out there

burners were just one option. defo not the only one

The first pos bike I remember seeing, before the burners was a moto 1, black and gold and weighed in just about the same as the forth bridge, what an utter waste of wheels that was

gt0733 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 12, 2007, 10:40 PM »

i think the word "iconic" needs to be interpreted by a few here. a dictionary will help

MartyC · « **Reply #43 on:** March 12, 2007, 10:53 PM »

Quote from: gt0733 on March 12, 2007, 10:40 PM

i think the word "iconic" needs to be interpreted by a few here. a dictionary will help

You mean like this....

Quote from: MartyC on March 09, 2007, 11:03 PM

From wikipedia....

"An icon (from Greek εἰκών, eikon, "image") is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an icon is a symbol on the monitor used to signify a command, file or record; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern popular culture, in the general sense of symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities."