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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
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