I'm too old for this!

[CarreraS2]

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[tabs]

Landed on your head Huh!!! Maybe that accounts for some of the views you express??? Now wait a minute have you bin pro Tabby or not...Hmmm let me think now....Maybe you should just forget what I said erase it from your mind. With the bump on your head that should be NO Problamo!

[vash]

wow, you got serious air! but come on, we like hearing from you on this forum...get a helmet on!

[dd74]

Oooo...looks like you're about to learn what the worse pain known to a man is...

[MrPants]

you look like Dr.Green from ER

[Victor]

Amazing what you find searching the archives . . . .

I was trying to find out if a 6'2" adult can ride a 20" BMX. Still don't know but hoping someone here will know?

[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by Victor
Amazing what you find searching the archives . . . .

I was trying to find out if a 6'2" adult can ride a 20" BMX. Still don't know but hoping someone here will know?

Yep, I host a 4th of July party every year for the old college gang and we set up a ramp into the pond every year and dare each other to hit it on an old 20" BMX bike. A couple of my friends 6' + and they have hit it (much to all of our wives dismay). We are mid to late 30's and every year it gets a little harder to do the deed!

Thus far after 3 years of 4th of July parties, we have had 1 blown ear drum, 2 cut shins, 1 lost contact lense, 1 mild concussion. My wife hosted a party last year and her 55 year old boss after too many glasses of wine, he busted 4 ribs while attempting to hit the ramp (he crashed into the faced of the ramp and body slammed it).

Big fun!

[kach22i]

Wear a helmet.

This could of been you - just a little bloody.

http://www.motorcyclebloggers.com/images/angrybob/march05/head_wound.jpg

Just found this on the web, here:
http://motorcyclebloggers.com/2005/03/15/helmet-laws-a-different-take/

[pwd72s]

Dawin was right...

[Tim Hancock]

Originally posted by pwd72s
Dawin was right...

What that second place is the first loser?

[Victor]

.....wow some crazy stuff going on - thanks for the confirmation. I wont be crashing it into a swimming pool full of jelly or anything. Just want to ride it to the park and back with my 7yo daughter and the dog. Getting tired of chasing them down the street on foot. Also, the whole "mountain bike" thing gives me the *****s.

[Racerbvd]

I'm 40, fat & gray, and I can still get air, landing isn't always the smoothest anymore, but my last trip to the track shocked more than a few of them youngsters I still collect old bikes and ride new ones Here is a pic from BITD

And one of my new toys.

[kaisen]

I am getting older. I admit it now. I'm three years away from my 20 year high school reunion. Yikes!

So what do you do in that situation? Relive your youth!

In the early eighties I was into BMX big time. I raced regularly in Uniontown and Pittsburgh, PA. I was tall for my age (6'2"), so I won most races I entered. I started riding a Schwinn Predator, then a GT, then a Hutch, and finally settled on Redlines. When my family moved to the midwest, there weren't any tracks near my home so I took up freestyle.. mostly flatland, some ramp.

I bought a Haro FST (Haro green - flourescent lime color) with white Tuff II mags for freestyle. Great bike, very much an icon of the era as I look back.

I still kept my last race bike, a Redline Carrera 2 frame, Redline 3pc flight cranks, Bullseye hubs, Araya rims, Uni layback seat/post, Redline flight-lift stem, GT bars, mushroom grips, Dia-Compe brake, 44/16 gearing, 2.25 front/1.75 rear Tioga Comp 3 tires. The tires were black with gumwalls, everything metal was chrome, everything else was white for the 'sano' look. Most components were circa 1985. It weighed about 17 lbs if memory serves.

I sold that bike (and my guitar stuff) to buy my first sports car after college.

So now I have a son who is nine and he is into the street BMX look and I was surfing eBay thinking it might be cool to buy him a 'vintage' 80's BMX bike. Wow! There is a huge following for bikes like the ones from my youth. And the good ones are EXPENSIVE... like $1500+!!

So I bought my son a new Haro Dave Mirra which was cooler to him anyway. I now scour eBay searching for the components to rebuild my Redline.

The guitar stuff is worse, by the way. If I would have kept my guitar gear, that I remember selling for about $1000, I could now sell it and buy a tired 84 911 Carrera ... no kidding. Vintage US-built Gibsons are NUTS!

Great thread to help us 'old folk' remember the cool times

E

[Rich76_911s]

Cru Jones all grown up? How did things ever work out with Christian?

Nice air. Next time protect the Nogen would ya.

[MichiganMat]

OMG, you couldn't pay be enough to get on that bike. Talk about death-trap. I've snapped toothpics with more rigidity.

A few bikes I've owned over the years:
- A few Haros and GTs
- PK Ripper
- DK General Lee
- S&M NextGen Dirtbike

[kaisen]

SoCal,

I vaguely remember that photo. I'm pretty sure that is Stu Thomsen who was one of the first super-stars of BMX and a Redline factory rider (I supposed the #1 plate and Redline uni give it away). If I remember correctly, Stu was a big dude, like 6ft 200 lbs. The bike in the pic looks like an original Carrera or RL20. I wish I still had my collection of BMX Action mags.

Most of the original BMX guys were also car guys. I think they used to put rider's rides in the mags as a regular feature. Haro had a sweet BMW 635 with Epsilon wheels that just had the right stance. I remember Oz and his son were both Porsche guys.

Thanks for the memories

E

[Racerbvd]

Originally posted by SoCal911SC


Classis pic from the early 80s - pre-photoshop! At the time, the sport was getting big and there was actually some money to be made in it. The 3 brand new Euro turbos were owned by guys in the industry, I think one was Oz, who owned/ran BMX Action magazine, another belonged to a guy from Oakley, and the third may have been a rider.

Kaisen, there is a huge market for "Old School" BMX stuff. The biggest things seem to be anything SE, JMC, or Hutch. Old bikes have sold for around $4,000. Crazy. I don't really get it.

The 3rd belonged to Lin Kastin who started Red Line, you are correct on the other two 930s.

Originally posted by MichiganMat


OMG, you couldn't pay be enough to get on that bike. Talk about death-trap. I've snapped toothpics with more rigidity.

A few bikes I've owned over the years:
- A few Haros and GTs
- PK Ripper
- DK General Lee
- S&M NextGen Dirtbike

I've snapped my share of bikes too, but the Schwinn isn't for riding hard, just part of my collection. These are the current riders of mine and the last 20 that I raced the national circut with.