What years do you collect? What years do you class as "Old School"? POLL ADDED !

[bobafett]

Added a poll for a bit of fun 


.... get your decision in 

[markyp]

what a great thread,always wondered what everyone else thought was classed as proper old school.for me it ended in 86,anything after that is mid for me,bmx died a death around our way by 87,two mates of mine who were bros both got rid of their bmx's in 87, one traded his torker 280 for a claude butler racer,wtF!!!! the other his raleigh aero pro for a mtb!!my robbo r gusset gathered dust in our garage for a further year till i  got shot of it in may 88,bad times!!

[Spen69]

Tricky subject this. I'd have said around '85 which is soley based on the fact it was when I sold my beloved Cali and spent the money on a lads holiday chasing birds.....

My collection is therefore 1978 to about '84 / '85 with the single exception of a Haro with an '88 serial number. It's my daily rider and I love it as it cost bugger all in a lucky eBay moment from the States. My collection is now limited to Monggose and Haro, with an Ammaco as it was the first bike I had back in '82, but I do fancy building a decent GT form about '82 '83 or '84 one day before I hang my spurs up.......

Spen

[bmxbert]

im a who cares vote. technically i could ride a 1" dyno compe from the early to mid 90s in an old school race just because it has no brake mounts and a 1" headtube.

so who gives a fook when it starts or ends. bmx is bmx. think i'll stop now before i get on one

crack on lads

[pickle]

i view old school as ending around the 86/87 but i actually stopped riding my BMX about 85.

as for collecting?  i don't really collect anything in particular.......i have an 84 Goose, a 93 Hyper and the others are all new school.....if something pops up that i like the look of then i'll think about buying it, i don't go out to buy a particular make or year though.

 

[markyp]

im guessing alot depends on how old you are as well,ive just hit 36 and seem to be a tad younger than alot of the members here.i really got into bmx in 83,this was when i was 10 and being a short ass about the soonest a 20" was the right size for me.i bmx'd passionately thru to the end of 86 when i was 13 1/2,by this time im guessing alot of the other guys here would have left school yonks before and been chasing women and  working full time so their bmx years were well past them by then.

[JT71]

I think old school finished with 1" Headsets and "crappy" brakes.

And I collect anthing I can get past the wife  and I like the look of new, mid, old

so this isn't mid school then!



but I know what you are saying, 1 1/8" headsets and AD brakes really were the change from old to mid....and a little added weight.

personally i don't collect as such, but have an 83 TA (91 dirt bros style), the 91 haro sport and a DK which is late 90s i think

[hunterdubber]

I'd say AD lugs , bash guards indicates the change to Mid school

and the changing back to sub 5.5lbs in weight and sub 44t chainrings is deffo new school

 Actually people would more likely say '99 onwards is newschool and mid was '91 onwards


If your talking O/S racing though then old school is anything pre- May 16th 2009

[trasher]

went to canada in 85 and while i was there my dad sold my curtis    so it ended there for me

can remember seeing mtb's in canada and how cheap they where compared to the uk ,think that was kind of the
crossover  time for me

oh and as jt said ,,special brew on a saturday night down the school disco ,,,, and birds  was the end off it

[jT Racing]

pre 85, about the cut off date for old school.

[JT71]

the point where fingers were for girls not brake levers.

spot on.

 

[MartyC]

Post 86/87 saw the borth of mid school and the demise of old school