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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 8, 2023 7:21:52 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 8, 2023 7:23:36 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 8, 2023 7:25:23 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 8, 2023 7:30:38 GMT -8
He has much more paperwork, and he has all the original Boxes for the frame, Tuff Wheels and parts. Considering that, $9500 is steal. What are the original Boxes worth? There's where the big cash is. You could disassemble this whole entire Bike and put it back in the original Boxes.
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Post by amxdreamer on Dec 8, 2023 23:41:24 GMT -8
Like every other kid in the 80's I did the BMX freestyle thing. I mowed a LOT of lawns and collected a lot of pop bottles and cans to save the money to buy my bike and parts. I couldn't justify the $$$ needed to get my old Kuwahara Exhibitionist back just to take camping with the grandkids, so after some watching online I scooped up a new school bike for next to nothing on marketplace. The cleaned up Mirra BMX. I wish I could get the seat post to move so I can put a laid back post in there but it is STUCK!
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Post by n2ojoe on Dec 9, 2023 5:42:51 GMT -8
My buddy had a new Kuwahara way back, I wanted one so bad! It's all I talked about before Christmas one year (long before I started working at the bike shop) but my family didn't have much money, and I my folks bought me a chrome Huffy mountain bike instead lol.
Nice ride Tony, that looks like a good quality bike. What are some other newer high end brands these days?
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Post by spud on Dec 9, 2023 10:52:09 GMT -8
I dont pay a lot of mind to new stuff. Its all pretty much the same. To me , bmx is from the 70’s, By 1980 i was pretty much over it and well into automobiles. I still loved to ride my bike, but i wasnt in love with new bikes. It was already retro. I cant do it anymore so its in the past. Honestly I feel kinda stupid trying to ride a 20” bike now. If i was going to have a bmx midlife crisis, i think a 24” early bmx cruiser like hurst’s torker would be cool. I have thought many times throughout many years about collecting cool pieces like an early redline squareback, or an early fmf alloy, or really rare stuff like a mathews monoshock or redline monoshock would be fun. But that stuff is what people collect and its valueable. So new high end stuff doesnt really interest me. And the stuff that does interest me is pricey. And face it i cant make it fly anymore. So ho hum. Might as well get a good electric wheelchair. 😟
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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 9, 2023 12:41:53 GMT -8
I was out of it in 82-83.... My Hutch buddy joined a Club that Rides in Pittsburgh. He tried to get me into it. I can't ride a 20" bike anymore. Not sure if I could keep up with those guys on my 26" Mountain Bike. But's it's a junk Huffy too. So I wouldn't fit into the $100,000 bike Club. Hutch Buddy has several Bikes now and built some name Brand 24" for himself.
My knees are junk, and I'm fat. I ride that junk 26" (it was GBs Bike actually) but I'm not like those guys.....
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Post by spud on Dec 9, 2023 12:52:08 GMT -8
I got a plenty o bikes. I can still crank one down the road pretty good for my age. Riding off road is cool if the trail isnt so rough it rattles my skull and rax my nuts. My balance isnt what it was so i pile up more. Cant walk a wheelie and forget catching air. I’m old thats how it goes. I dont go to the beach and carry a surfboard to fool people, and i aint cranking a old bmx around. Its too hard on the joints. My flying days are over. I should have got some pictures cuz talking about how much air i could used to get is like talking about my 10 second b body from back in the day. Nobody gives a shit about forty five years ago. Well unless its a video on you tube, and i’m fresh out of those. I got pieces of bikes and a few scars and a lot of memories. Thats as good as it gets. Stories dont get much applause. I got arthritis, ringing in the ears and fuzzy vision, and honestly looking forward to cashing it all in for a relaxing pain free afterlife, hopefully somewhere cool and breezy. So for now i got a room with some bikes, skateboards, roller skates and whatnot. I can chew a “ weed” gummie , loosen up and blast off a little, take a ride, maybe crash. Its still good or at least as good as it gets now. I’m just not a kid anymore. Well not a young one anyways. I’m not whinin’. God has been generous.
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Post by Captain Awesome on Dec 9, 2023 13:04:03 GMT -8
45 years ago is ok, as long as it's the truth.
I'm telling you I was the same loser then as I am now. BUT I hung with all the "hot shots" around here tho. They were cool with me and my Junk Bike. There were 3 sponsered Racers around here, we weren't friends, but we rode at the same place. They never bashed me. I was nothing, but I wasn't nobody. I was in the scene. Great memories and fun times.
I wanted a White with red trim Redline in 1982. I couldn't get my Dad behind it tho. He said they looked like Clowns Bikes and everyone riding one was a Clown...
I couldn't work, Dad wouldn't allow, and I lived in Farm Country. No Paper routes and everyone had a kid or kid relative to mow their grass, or shovel snow. 500 kids battling for 1 job that may have been available..... No City shit here. No Lazy City kids either, that sat in the house while their Parents paid some other kid to cut their grass..
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Post by spud on Dec 9, 2023 13:20:49 GMT -8
Its like this. It doesnt make any wind me talking about those days. Or what i did. What matters is what the people i rode with say. We had many places that we rode, basically to get high air, and the crown came with it. Set high air in a full cross , land and laugh and laugh. And say “ beat that motherfucker” 🤣 and then one of em would. And so it went. I never got to see “ me” do that, but i got to see others do it, and some die trying, and that was the best of it all. I did odd jobs, yards, painted shit, roofed, tweeked bikes, mowers, motorcycles, tractors, whatever i could for $ i made my own $, worked hot and hard for it and still am squeeky. I bought all of my parts and machines. And traded them off, there was always much trading and swapping, buying and selling. We would ride twenty milers, round trip to the bikeshop, to buy and sell and swap, have the geezer straighten a rim, it was a big deal on saturday morning. Sometimes i rode all the way th “ bicycle exchange” which was at least a 30 mile round trip. Come back with maybe another bike, or frame, or maybe just a sticker. Come back to the hole in the fence and walk a wheelie past the world riding something new. Just to show off. I really was that guy. I walked one handed wheelies flipping my crew off. Or anyone else for that matter. I dont just talk arrogant, I AM arrogant. 😁 you’re not bragging if you can do it. But when your old, ya cant do it anymore. I can’t prove it. The sack has shriveled. You’d hafta ask someone i rode with. And that was a million years and a million miles ago. So what do i have? Old bikes and old memories of air blowing through my ears. Thats why i still get up early sometimes and ride the backroads on a mtb.
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Post by spud on Dec 9, 2023 14:55:41 GMT -8
Some more RAD you tube gold-“ 1970’s bike jump” and “ jumping bicycles in the 70’s”…
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Post by spud on Dec 9, 2023 15:18:02 GMT -8
“BMX Vintage Footage- Rare find of the early years” Also on you tube…. Ahh yes my generation. Featuring the street rats, co starring the kid who crashes… killer cimematography and soundtrack. See the schwinn weilding outlaws with PC hair burn a million calories doin it the socal way. Uber and mondo mi amigos
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Post by 71sc360 on Dec 9, 2023 15:32:34 GMT -8
I must be old... I was out of bikes and into cars by the mid 70's. BMX was just coming out and I got my first car in 75/76. I did work at a bike shop back then but the whole BMX thing was still in the making and I was not following it..
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Post by 69Rebel on Dec 9, 2023 16:38:23 GMT -8
I too was into BMX/freestyling in the mid '80s. I had a Peugeot BMX that I cobbled together and a couple others that I can't remember. That Peugeot was a little heavy for freestyle though. I always wanted a Haro or a Robinson, but couldn't afford one. I bought the Haro I always wanted at a yard sale in the early 2000s, but felt kind of silly riding around on 20" bike as a grown adult. It got stolen when I lived in town. ☹ By '87 (16 years old) I had moved on to motorbikes and then cars.
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