Author Topic: Rickman Freestyler replica of my bike that was nicked bitd........... (Read 11630 times)

bigfatolly · « **on:** September 10, 2011, 07:02 PM »

Like many people in the 80s my first bmx was a pos then i graduated to another pos(secondhand burner),and gradually swopped and bought parts until i had a bike i was happy with.

That bike was a chrome Rickman Freestyler frame and forks which i got for my birthday around August 85.

Most of the bits from the burner went on it and a few more were swopped/bought until it looked like this............

Parts List

Chrome Rickman FS Frame and Forks
White Rickman FS bars
White Aero Zytecs
Green tuf neck fs stem
Green mushroom odi grips
White Dia Compe tech 3s with white sharp lever grips
Blue Dia compe mx1000 rear
Blue COPY mx1000 front
Burner one piece crank
Sugino blue chainring
Tioga powerdisc
Blue chain
White Elina Flyte Tech
Chrome Reynolds 531 layback
Blue Tioga seatclamp
Silver Victor dx pedals
Green dia compe rear cable
Blue powerglide front cable
Green comp st tyres (They are white cw tyres in the pic but this was my last pic of it)

Then in the summer of 87 i locked it up in Bournemouth town centre,went to the local our price record store,and when i returned it was GONE along with my mates chrome dp firebird.

We were gutted,a few years of bmx memories gone in an instant,never to be seen again

Fast forward 20 odd years and i find rad,build a couple of bikes,but none compare to the Rickman,so the hunt starts for all the bits.......................

And this is what we end up with,as near as i can possibly get to my old bike................

Kind of weird to build it up after all these years,but its as i remember it and i cant stop smiling

Anyway a few partslist thanks.
I started collecting parts over a two year period so here goes.....

Frame and forks ebay bargain badly listed
Bars came from Del in a trade
Stem-i had to buy a whole bike to get the right green one,then i stripped and repainted it as it was in bad nick

Seat-yannick
Seatpost-cant remember,someone on here
Seatclamp-danny whitely i think
Wheels-Munners
Tyres-Porkchop repros as couldnt find ogs
Levers-ebay were gold but stripped and rattlecanned just like BITD
Brakes-front ebay,rear was a silver one from someone on here,i gave it the blue glass paint treatment

Cables-ebay
Crank,chainwheel,powerdisc,so long ago,cant remember who?
Grips and lever grips-Harorider
Pedals,again someone on here.
Del for the missing downtube decal

Thanks guys its been a blast,this ones deffo a keeper!!!!!!!!!!

Peter J · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:07 PM »

Love it...

I like to see bikes build how we had them BITD.....and not just "factor Rep" ones

Its a credit to you

glenboy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:08 PM »

very nice , orig chrome as well , and you've upgraded the parts list

WINI · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:11 PM »

Storming mate, I love a rickman

theRuler · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:11 PM »

Wicked bike mate.

Do a gut lever on it!

rick1970 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:12 PM »

Great feeling when you finnish building your bitd ride ,looks super lush mate well done ,love a rickman me

twit twoo · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:12 PM »

looks good. rickys ride great too, highly underrated freestylers.

Gnarlyscoots · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:21 PM »

I love reading stuff like this

This is what BMX is all about

Looks proper cool bro and so glad you kept it how you had it before

I bet the memories came flooding back

I love the Puma Cali II's too

I had them and were so damn comfortable

Top marks dude

mattfx81 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:22 PM »

Thats the best freestyle build i've seen in a long time, its got 80's freestyle all over it.

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:23 PM »

thats identical to the one i found BITD

cool

monkian · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:31 PM »

Great stuff. Love a happy ending

diesel · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2011, 07:56 PM »

Fantastic

Rodgy1970 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2011, 08:06 PM »

great build

BrianP · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2011, 08:55 PM »

Cool!

Brian

Badbaldie · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2011, 09:01 PM »

cool build

markyp · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2011, 09:09 PM »

ive always loved a ricky freestyler

Deano · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2011, 09:43 PM »

80's freestyle bmx bwoy

Now thats a cool build and story geeza

love it

bigfatolly · « **Reply #17 on:** September 11, 2011, 10:43 PM »

Thanks for the comments people

benno · « **Reply #18 on:** September 11, 2011, 11:05 PM »

That is the nuts mate

brettypeeps · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2011, 11:09 PM »

Sweet

oldskooldayz · « **Reply #20 on:** September 11, 2011, 11:14 PM »

it actually looks old skool great build

rollin72 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 11, 2011, 11:30 PM »

nice1

rooski · « **Reply #22 on:** September 12, 2011, 05:37 PM »

I like bitd builds,this is nice

kungfunky · « **Reply #23 on:** September 12, 2011, 06:05 PM »

Great looking build there fella, now lets see a pic of you pulling the same stunt

animal · « **Reply #24 on:** September 12, 2011, 06:51 PM »

Author Topic: Rickman Freestyler replica of my bike that was nicked bitd........... (Read 11630 times)

theRuler

twit twoo

monkian

Rodgy1970

Deano

oldskooldayz