Mongoose Hooligans

[Wayne Ryder]

What happened to all the Hooligans, then?
I've seen very few in the flesh, and McCoy himself was on most of them! There was a frame & forks in the window of The Bike Shop, Lewisham, around 1990-1.
...And that's it! They almost never come up on eBay, the last one I remember was (I think) one of the later models. Seemed more like a flatland bike to me, don't remember McCoy's name being on there.
So did Rob Ridge break them all?

[stuntmaster]

i had one but got nicked back in 97 98 i think ,my favorite bike which was black and had gt hubs on it .wish i still had and yeah i do look for one but as you say never find one

[harris]

i think mason rode one on mini for a while  then ad you say they just stopped .

[generallee]

I used to ride one of theose in the 90's - it was Mike Jorys old flatland frame, I rode it on ramp, street, everything, and apart from the paper thin droputs,I adored it. I even had 990 mounys welded under the seatstays - it ruled!

[loosenut]

mike daily, then editor of GO magazine (1991)..

[darkersomeday]

i ha d a hooligan for awhile ,
from what i can remember it was a good bike to ride, if a little short,

what i can definitely remember is that the dropouts closed up and i smashed the chainstays in learning smith's on it,

the bars bent too,

does anyone have any pics of one,
i'm sure it was mint green

[Lazarou]

I can't post pics  heres a link.....

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.23mag.com/com/mongoose/mon91hoo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.23mag.com/com/mongoose/mongoose.htm&h=295&w=340&sz=22&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=KX7X-QDSOdzEiM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmongoose%2Bhooligan%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den

I've never seen one with a bashguard!

[SaMAlex]

I remember that removable bash guard. I think it was just on the early ones. A mate of mine had one like that. He might still have it but he moved away and I dont know where he is now

[the_cyclops]

Jon 'THE KONG' Barnett rode one for a while. I remember them being very short and fairly heavy?

[SaMAlex]

Oh yeah, he did ride one for a bit. I think he won it in a contest or raffle or something.

[the_cyclops]

Oh yeah, he did ride one for a bit. I think he won it in a contest or raffle or something.

Thats right! I think it was when DMC was in Hastings.

I must confess that it was me that brought 'THE KONG' into the BMX world!

Please forgive me!

[SaMAlex]

Ha ha, how did you do that? You talked him round from his live of kung fu?

He recently popped up on the Union site, riding at "the spot"

[the_cyclops]

Ha ha, how did you do that? You talked him round from his live of kung fu?

Back in about 90/91 'Kongo' and a few of his mates wandered into Split Skates in Manchester asking for whitewall tyres! After falling about laughing for a while I showed them the way and invited them to ride a mini-ramp in Northwich with me,Mad Jon, Ross (Cheeky Monkey) and Splodge (Note Skateshop) They turned up and the rest is history!

I never once mentioned Kung Fu or Kebabs for that matter!

[Lazarou]

Wasn't Kong British Jap Slap champ at some point?

[SaMAlex]

John is a top man. He came all the way down to the ramp in Oxford a few times and also rode in some of the comps there (there is a thread with scans from one of them here somewhere). I havent seen him for ages and ages. Its good to know he is still riding so I might bump into him again one day.

[theRuler]

i have a late 90's hooligan

the original dmc's were good framesets too

the dmc bars were a little yeehah though!