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Originally Posted by David
Someone talk me out of buying a Big Ripper:
Also, is 55 too old to learn to ride wheelies  |
I have a 40th Anniversary model, but may sell it as some are paying crazy money for certain model Big Rippers, and mine is one of those bikes.
I'm returning it to stock.
Not to worry, I have replaced it with this.
Since the accident, my balance is still not working correctly, so my wheelies aren't what they once were, plus the wheelie crowd is not the crowd you want to be associated with.
I say that as a 1st generation BMXer, who started riding in the early 70s, mimicking Evel Knievel, then found a BMX track in the mid 70s, racing straight through to the mid to late 90s, as knee and injuries , as well as COPD (and at that time I never smoked ANYTHING) made it harder and harder to complete on the national level.
Even then, I still never got out of it and kept most of my BMX stuff from over the years , and boy, I never thought that it would increase in value the way it has.