Author Topic: BITD BMX Promo Competitions (Read 8999 times)

Retrodan72 · « **on:** November 11, 2018, 12:44 PM »

In the ‘we were RAD’ thread, Ant asked the question about how we all got into BMX, and in my memoirs I was reminded of 2 competitions I entered around 1983ish, to try and win my very own BMX, rather than ride the Team Playway rattler that I’d had for Christmas in ‘82.

I cab only vividly remember 2, I’m sure there were more, so I googled the product and added BMX to the search and straight away found 2 promotional adverts. I ate a lot of Ready Brek around this time.

Can any if you guys remember any comps back then where you could win a bike, or did any of you win one of these bikes?

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factory pilot · « **Reply #1 on:** November 11, 2018, 01:00 PM »

Love these Dan ... awesome mate! .. never entered any competitions BITD sadly but definitely do remember many of them... doesn’t Bubbs own some race pants that were a prize in BMX Action Bike Magazine?

CustardLips · « **Reply #2 on:** November 11, 2018, 10:47 PM »

Quote from: Retrodan72 on November 11, 2018, 12:44 PM

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griff · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2018, 10:19 AM »

Get your entry in Nick

Quadog · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2018, 11:16 AM »

seen this as a prize on Bullseye

griff · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2018, 11:19 AM »

A kiddie's bike

Smashing, great, super

dancetothedrummersbeat · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2018, 01:23 PM »

Quote from: Quadog on November 12, 2018, 11:16 AM

seen this as a prize on Bullseye

What brand? Halfords?

Quadog · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2018, 02:15 PM »

Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on November 12, 2018, 01:23 PM

Quote from: Quadog on November 12, 2018, 11:16 AM
seen this as a prize on Bullseye

What brand? Halfords?

not sure what it is thought it was a Peugeot

burnerboy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2018, 06:06 PM »

Lyons Ready Brek was a taste sensation!! all changed now there owned by weetabix . Be good to hear if anybody won a bike off one of these comps.

factory pilot · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2018, 07:27 PM »

Quote from: burnerboy on November 12, 2018, 06:06 PM

Lyons Ready Brek was a taste sensation!! all changed now there owned by weetabix . Be good to hear if anybody won a bike off one of these comps.

Totally agree would be awesome if any Radsters actually won some of these prizes

richiebozza · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2018, 11:49 PM »

Evening all!

I am happy to say that I was one of the lucky people to win one of the Ready Brek bikes!

It was a Mongoose Wirewheel, 200 were available

At the time I was riding a catalogue BMX, it was called a 'CX88' and my parents had bought it for me, for which I was grateful. But I was BMX mad, and it was quite heavy and I really wanted a better bike...it was then I saw the TV adverts advertising the Ready Brek BMX competition and I knew that I needed to give it a go. Trouble was I HATED that type of cereal, but that wasn't going to stop me! I casually asked my mum to start getting Ready Brek...she thought it was a strange request until she saw the packet and realised why! So for weeks and weeks I forced the stuff down me in order to enter the competition (you had to collect tokens from the packet I believe, then come up with a cool slogan to their question). Just looking at the shiny Mongoose on the Ready Brek packet filled me with excitement and hope as I ate each bowl full!

Fast forward a few months later, and one morning I received a letter...my bleary eyes had to read it about 5 times before I suddenly realised that all my luck had come together and I really had won a Mongoose! I couldn't believe it! I was so excited and remember it vividly!

The wait for the bike to come was agonising, every day at school all I thought about was getting home to see if it had arrived, and every day I ran home from the bus to see if it was there.

It eventually did, and boy was it worth waiting for...the difference between the Mongoose and my 'CX88' was night and day! At last I had a proper BMX!

You might be wondering what happened to the bike?
I still have the bike to this day!!

I would never sell it, and in fact it's in use, it went on holiday with me to France recently

It does look different to how it originally came, as I kid I upgraded various bits, such as Skyway Tuff IIs, Haro freestyle bars, Shimano DX etc ...but the frame & forks is still pretty shiney and all original stickers are intact.
I also still have the full helmet & kit that came with it, and somewhere I still have the congratulations letter too.

Oh yeah, I actually grew to love Ready Brek, and still do to this day!

I wonder how many of the 200 original bikes are still alive?

CustardLips · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2018, 07:30 AM »

Ready Brek... what dreams are made of.

Lucky boy... great that you still have it.

oldschoolace · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:39 AM »

Amazing Richie!

would you fancy submitting that for the we were rad book? A couple of pics of it then and now would be ace if you have them

DazA · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:41 AM »

Pics pics pics pics please.

Excellent story.

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:46 AM »

Nice one Richie, brilliant story.

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:53 AM »

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:57 AM »

Who do we think the rider is in the ad, Andy? He was riding for Mongoose at the time.

griff · « **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2018, 09:25 AM »

Fantastic story Rich!

As the others have said PICS PLEASE

richiebozza · « **Reply #18 on:** November 14, 2018, 11:17 AM »

Glad you like the story folks!
It was an incredible dream come true for me, if not for that Ready Brek competition I am not sure when I would have been able to get a 'proper' BMX.
I was BMX nuts at school and I engineered BMX into every aspect of every class I could...as a result I was given the nicname RadRAL (RAL are my initials)

Yes indeed I will get some photos up on here for you cats.

I had thought of creating a thread for it too, but am not sure if it should be Old School Racing or Freestyle...it's naturally a racer, but I added all freestyle components to make it a freestyler as that's my thing.

richiebozza · « **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2018, 11:21 AM »

Quote from: oldschoolace on November 14, 2018, 08:39 AM

Amazing Richie!
would you fancy submitting that for the we were rad book? A couple of pics of it then and now would be ace if you have them

Yes I would be very happy to supply it...finding decent photos of it how it originally was might be a little tougher, but not impossible...when do you need them by?

oldschoolace · « **Reply #20 on:** November 14, 2018, 12:39 PM »

Whenever you can mate, we are due to start compiling things in the next month or two

Retrodan72 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:28 PM »

I’ve had clarification off the man himself, the rider in the Ready Brek commercial is indeed Mr Ruffell.

richiebozza · « **Reply #22 on:** November 16, 2018, 04:01 PM »

Word up Ready Brek fans.

As requested here are some photos of my trusty steed...

As I say, as a kid I changed various parts over the years, both to upgrade stock parts to better components, and also to make it into a freestyler, as that was my thing. So whilst the bike is dated 1983, it really is a bike of the 1980s as parts were added it to throughout the era.

Colour wise lavander was always my favourite, but I didn't live near any BMX shops so I had to buy what was in stock on the occasions I did get to a BMX shop, and so the Tuffs had to be orange as that's all they had, and the Haro bars had to be green as that's all they had etc...thus the bike is a mixture of colours, using stickers to try and tie things together.
(Tyres a recent purchase so it can still be ridden.)

I am trying to find some original photos of how the bike was originally. I also have the full helmet and kit that came with the bike if you want to see that?

factory pilot · « **Reply #23 on:** November 16, 2018, 04:29 PM »

You got the helmet and kit too! That’s incredible... great pictures..
yes post up the gear too definitely... would love a pic of the bike from bird too if you can find one mate ?

SDF · « **Reply #24 on:** November 16, 2018, 04:55 PM »

Quote from: richiebozza on November 16, 2018, 04:01 PM

Word up Ready Brek fans.

As requested here are some photos of my trusty steed...

As I say, as a kid I changed various parts over the years, both to upgrade stock parts to better components, and also to make it into a freestyler, as that was my thing. So whilst the bike is dated 1983, it really is a bike of the 1980s as parts were added it to throughout the era.

Colour wise lavander was always my favourite, but I didn't live near any BMX shops I had to buy what was in stock on the occasions I did get to a BMX shop, and so the Tuffs had to be orange as that's all they had, and the Haro bars had to be green as that's all they had etc...thus the bike is a mixture of colours, using stickers to try and tie things together.
(Tyres a recent purchase so it can still be ridden.)

I am trying to find some original photos of how the bike was originally. I also have the full helmet and kit that came with the bike if you want to see that?

I love it proper "Back in the day" Just like my Burner.

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