Author Topic: everyones dream bike/holy grail (Read 4359 times)

mamadirt · « **Reply #50 on:** November 03, 2009, 08:55 AM »

Not oldschool by any means, but I've been looking for years for a Dirt Bros Shortbus frame . . . can't see it happening - heck, I can't even find any pics online - used to have a Y2Kish Dans Comp catalogue with the range in but it got ruined in a freak plumbing accident

. I've owned Shortbus, Patriot and Trail R Park frames in the past . . . maybe it's just rose-coloured specs as the Shortbus build is the only one I don't have a pic of (sold it to someone off bmxtalk iirc).

Still have the marks on my kitchen floor from bashing the b/b cups into that Trail R Park - took a good few hours

and I well remember the chap at my LBS struggling to press Pig headset cups into the Shortbus . . . tight or what!

LucyLastic · « **Reply #51 on:** November 03, 2009, 08:59 AM »

A Redline Carrera for me, would oggle over them in the early 80s.

Has anyone got one and could show me a pic? Just so I can do a bit of oggling again

slurp · « **Reply #52 on:** November 03, 2009, 09:29 AM »

I'm surprised this hasnt been picked before:

JMC DY.

For me the ultimate race BMX and the one I wanted BITD.

Would love a Nat pro Long and a Profile champ in the collection to.

Haro sport for freestyle.

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #53 on:** November 03, 2009, 10:20 AM »

because im a bit of a bmx perv, i'd love one of these

kinky

not specifically with them forks tho

Spen69 · « **Reply #54 on:** November 03, 2009, 12:08 PM »

Quote from: oldschoolib on November 02, 2009, 11:06 PM

why does every one like ta they are like clits every %^&* has one ?

I'm with you on that one Ian, I wanted one, got one, built one, rode it, didn't like it, flogged it.....

Race = ProClass (never even saw one in the flesh as a nipper, finally got a very early one last year!)

Freestyle = Haro Sport (got one now

- had a Gen1 and FST but they were a little too short so a bit wobbly!)

And finally......

Old School icon - my 1978 Team Mongoose, 100% Cromoloy, the fore-runner of the Supergoose, the first year Mongoose made them and she still rides like a dream 31 years later

Spen

WizardWeb · « **Reply #55 on:** November 03, 2009, 12:14 PM »

Loved Haros the most BITD and would still love a blue 86 sport, an 87 or 88 team sport. But now I think I'd like a cali red 86 RL20II. like the ones in the adverts...

Rooonga · « **Reply #56 on:** November 03, 2009, 12:24 PM »

My dream was definitely a 1979/80 MCS magnum - with the large gusset.

It was my 1st proper BMX race bike, and I loved it so much.

However, after taking me about 4 years to find one, and get the same original parts for it I found it was rediculously small to ride on, and I lost all love for it.

So it's just sitting in the shed now.

I did the same with my 1980 Team Mongoose build - even got the right cranks for it as well as loads of really pukka parts, that were damn close to perfect nick. BUT I couldn't find a proper suede saddle for it and after about 2 years of trying to get one I just gave up and sold the lot off for a stoopid loss! (Recon I lost about 400 quid all in - guess I shoulda just held onto the parts cos I could use a lot of em now on my Supergoose 2 build.)

Dream bike now?

LOL - I just dream of being able to get on my old school ride and get on a track.

Maybe once the dust has settled on stuff going on in my life right now I'll be able to get out on it. (Or perhaps i should race now and again with a pseudonym...)

b45t4rd · « **Reply #57 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:16 PM »

Kastan uni blade.

bodamus · « **Reply #58 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:19 PM »

For me it was always the Kuwahara Laserlite I wanted got a NOS one.

Always liked the Nomura so got one.

Freestyle

Kuwahara Exhibitionist 1st Gen 1984 got one.
CW Luggage Rack got one.

Holy grail would be a 1979 Kuwahara KE-1 not a great bike by any means but would complete my Kuwahara collection.

bodamus

crazycraig · « **Reply #59 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:22 PM »

Torkers and robinsons for me ,got ,got got and got !

MartyC · « **Reply #60 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:37 PM »

I think my holy grail is still an ACE Racing Pro

I think Ratty has one and that's about it

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #61 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:46 PM »

Marty, is that gusset on all those Ace bikes if so I think I passed on one a few years back

It had good quality parts on it aswell I just didnt know what it was? I dithered about and he sold it the following week,please dont tell me they are worth a fortune

brass monkey! · « **Reply #62 on:** November 03, 2009, 03:50 PM »

realistically I want a Torker MX Long

MartyC · « **Reply #63 on:** November 03, 2009, 04:27 PM »

Quote from: daz bmx on November 03, 2009, 03:46 PM

Marty, is that gusset on all those Ace bikes if so I think I passed on one a few years back It had good quality parts on it aswell I just didnt know what it was? I dithered about and he sold it the following week,please dont tell me they are worth a fortune

Yep, same gusset on all of them, not worth a lot to anyone except maybe KDUBBMX, Ratty and myself

. Very rare though, the one Tony has/had/knows who has one is the first I have seen since mine got stolen in 1982.

jT Racing · « **Reply #64 on:** November 03, 2009, 06:08 PM »

bitd i wanted a candy red ripper with gold decals, like the one in the ad.

southern andy · « **Reply #65 on:** November 03, 2009, 06:15 PM »

One of these 4......

MRD
Zeronine
Rickman

all of these would have to be race bikes rather than freestyle.

Or my GJS race bike back from back in the day.

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #66 on:** November 03, 2009, 07:28 PM »

sid salisburys floval

Goldie_THFC · « **Reply #67 on:** November 03, 2009, 07:56 PM »

Quote from: markyp on November 02, 2009, 09:49 PM

hutch pro star.i still remember abbmx having an article on it bitd saying"the first £1000 bmx" thats stuck with me to this day,that one of mark J's(i think ) in the museum is to die for

Gotta be mine too, that one of Mark J's is one of the nicest bikes i've ever seen!!

fmx · « **Reply #68 on:** November 03, 2009, 08:03 PM »

Some real nice bikes mentioned on here guys,

but clear your mind and picture the elusive, the unpredictable, the glamorous...........................Tuff burner, blue frame and yellow tuffs isn't it? wasn't it?

dannywhiteley · « **Reply #69 on:** November 03, 2009, 11:03 PM »

I can honestly say I own my two dream bikes, chrome TA and a white Rebel Freestyler.

TA... well cos its a TA basically, and those ads on the back cover of every issue of BMX Action always stuck with me.

But more so the Rebel cos a mate had a Rebel when I was a kid and I thought it was dead exotic (didnt realise they were made in the West Mids, always thought it was American), cos I always adored twin top tube frames (only one I remember anyone having was a lad with an Ammaco Freestyler), and white cos white BMX are well 80's.

If I had to choose one more though, it would be the full on bling chrome Hutch Pro Star as mentiond earlier, that I remember a BMX Action competition where you could win one and couldnt believe a BMX could be worth a grand (in 1985!)

baldbmxer · « **Reply #70 on:** November 03, 2009, 11:08 PM »

Gotta be Bassetts for me

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Redline · « **Reply #71 on:** November 03, 2009, 11:14 PM »

For me it has to be a "Mudcruncher"

Nah, am building my dream build now..... pics up in a couple of days

boofy44 · « **Reply #72 on:** November 03, 2009, 11:31 PM »

could never understand how the hutch cost a grand here.when you compare the price in america for one compared to say a lazerlite and the exchange
rate of the time it looks like they stuck about £300 on over here just for the hell of it.btw,loved lazerlites and gt pro's when i was a kid and got both now
but i'd love a red and chrome JMC DY or a gusseted Robinson pro with the blue and red mixed parts.

mark 2 · « **Reply #73 on:** November 03, 2009, 11:38 PM »

Thanks chaps for the few nice words about the Pro Star, very flattering

......but to be precise the UK retail price wasn't £1000, it was a crazy..........£1200! ($799 in USA). In 1984 our mummy's and daddy's weren't going to stump up even half that for a bicycle so its inevitable it would have been a dream bike as a kid, out of reach and have an air of exclusivity to it. And that probably stayed with a few of us for 25 years. I will admit it is a nice bike to own, still enjoy it. Was certainly my dream bike.