Author Topic: Makes of Top Line BMX's You Didn't Like (Read 3947 times)

HUTCHMAN · « **Reply #25 on:** March 05, 2007, 10:32 AM »

never liked quads and also bandito(could'nt get into the double dropouts)

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #26 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:10 PM »

Quote from: ruler™ on March 05, 2007, 10:31 AM

blimey

what did you like?

the hutch trickstar was an amazing bike btw.
and the GT performer's platform set the scene for the years to come. many many years

The trickstar was nice, but i never came across any BITD, so couldnt comment,
the Gt performer, like i said, the way it made me feel back then was that it was the end of bmx as it was, the bikes dramatically changed and i didnt like it. In hind sight obviously it wasnt the end and most of my builds are 85-88, but BITD thats what i didnt like.

what i did like then, GT pro, jmc, super goose (gusseted one) torker 280x, GHP, VDC, powerlite, kuwahara, mrd, un gusseted robinsons, basically any sleek lookin strong Race frame, i remember silver fox did a race frame that was sleek as fook.

no mention of skyway ta because i wasnt fussed either way, think cos forks looked too skinny. nice now but not then.

i was and still is a fussy fooker, and when i do eventually post up some of my builds im sure you wont believe that, but i build my bikes to ride well with the bits i like and r up for the job, basically how a lot of the bikes on the street and track where like BITD, never two the same.

theRuler · « **Reply #27 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:13 PM »

good stuff

and TA forks are a little flimsy, i agree

bmx did change around time of the performer though, you are right
freestyle changed dramatically in those formative years

changed for the better

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #28 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:17 PM »

yeah lookin back, but at that specific time 85-86ish it didnt feel to me as though it was goin in the right direction, bikes gettin heavier and stuff, i was all wrong i tell ya!

kids eh? you thought you knew everythin but knew fook all

brass monkey! · « **Reply #29 on:** March 05, 2007, 12:45 PM »

it was hard to say 'what i didn't like bitd' namely cos back then we didn't have a pot to p1ss in, so I was grateful to have a BMX in the early days. Must say I never had a Mongoose, along with Burners, never liked either of em, always hated Gen 1's, basically cos i couldn't afford one....!! LOL !

funny to hear the comments about VDC's considering how sought after they are now !!

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #30 on:** March 05, 2007, 01:23 PM »

yeah the VDCs were an acquired taste, but attitudes change, in my original thread i said i didnt like gen 1s too because they looked slight, i like em now for the exact same reason, they not slight anymore, they is pretty

gt0733 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 06, 2007, 12:10 AM »

torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck, oh and an honourable mention for the stupid, exagerated quad and hutch's were a rich kids wank and did i mention torker's suck, torker's suck, torker's suck

LOL actually i couldn't care less what other people own or want, in fact there's probably some nice torkers, quads and hutches- i just wouldn't want any of them. anyone got a CYC ames stormer they want to get rid of? pm me.

billstup · « **Reply #32 on:** March 06, 2007, 12:20 AM »

PK Ripper for me, rode like shit then broke

darkersomeday · « **Reply #33 on:** March 06, 2007, 01:00 AM »

looptail ripper, i snapped the back end off three of them, theyd just fail without any warning, pretty though!

hoffman deebo, cheap ugly heavy cousin of the legendary t1 barcode

any and every volume frame i've ever seen, just nasty

khe's internal gyro feck ups

macneill deucedeuce, cmon jay man i'm not that bloody tall!

2hip pork frame, no just no.

airborne miss behaving, i still shudder when i remeber how that thing felt to ride!

jT Racing · « **Reply #34 on:** March 06, 2007, 03:54 PM »

i never liked it when people had cruisers for street use

might as well have a drophandle.
love em now, and they do look sweet but not for street.

LXIX · « **Reply #35 on:** March 06, 2007, 04:54 PM »

there were no bmx,s i didnt like as a kid .

poolysheriff · « **Reply #36 on:** March 06, 2007, 05:11 PM »

The 1s i didn,t like $:-\$ back then i would love

now (except the scorpion)

Quadangle , VDC , and that Scorpion ZF 100 Brakedancer

Didn,t like CW bars till i bought some then loved them

rarman1 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 06, 2007, 05:22 PM »

was open minded to any bike except burners, i had owned in this order mongoose, ammaco, redline, gt performer.

but after owning the gt i thought every other make was sh*t,

now im completly open minded again

still

gt's

davepike · « **Reply #38 on:** March 07, 2007, 06:09 PM »

Only ones i didnt like were the ones my parents got me that looked a bit like the one i wanted

Oh an the pink CWs bit barbie like for me.

selfpreservation · « **Reply #39 on:** March 07, 2007, 11:09 PM »

never seen many good bikes bitd or now except in zines never likes aero pro back then but on reflecton they were magic

ozzie_owl · « **Reply #40 on:** March 08, 2007, 05:51 PM »

I never liked Raleigh Burners, still don't really. Although i'am now the ~~proud~~ owner of a Tuff Burner...

Broggie · « **Reply #41 on:** March 19, 2007, 03:36 PM »

Hmmm... Actually Bitd I didnt like any bmx's, wasnt interested at all and didnt get it, loadsa colour, titchy bike and little point. Now for some bizarre reason I really like them, though I dont have as much interest in new school stuff as a lot of them seem to have no colour or flair, all painted in incredibly dull colours with nothing to set them apart tend to look too much alike.

Ray.

Moose · « **Reply #42 on:** March 19, 2007, 03:52 PM »

Stick around Ray - New school stuff has been moving towards colour and flair for the past couple of years.

I thought the same as you until I started to see that it doesn't all have to be black with black parts

dordymush · « **Reply #43 on:** March 19, 2007, 07:02 PM »

Quote

I thought the same as you until I started to see that it doesn't all have to be black with black parts

lol you aint seen mine

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highrisedrifter · « **Reply #44 on:** March 21, 2007, 12:18 AM »

Never liked Quadangles. The weird tubing at the front end was wrong.

I disliked PK Rippers too. I didn't like the front end and the overly large lower tube. Although I may be lynched for saying this.

HRD