One of my old school BMX bikes won!

[coolwhip]

Drove out to Crown Point Indiana last weekend for the Old School BMX Show and swap meet and took some of my old race bikes with me.
My 1980 Redline MXII won 2nd place in the 1980-82 class. I was happy considering how many bikes were there.




Here is another I brought to compete in the Freestyle class, but it didn't win….way too many nice old FS bikes there I guess.

85 Skyway StreetBeat



growing up in the 80's, BMX was my world…I figured some you 80's guys might remember those good times and appreciate some old school American made bikes.

[timebuilder]

Very clean!

[Dehno]

That Redline is awesome

[Hrdworkingacguy]

Had a GT performer. Thought I was the man. Then I found out girls were soft and smelled good...

[itsiceman]

Coolbikes Coolwhip
Not many BMX around anymore.
I see those skate parks everywhere though. Go Bulldogs

[coolwhip]

Had a GT performer. Thought I was the man. Then I found out girls were soft and smelled good…

Driving, girls, and parties is why I left the sport….but now Im back!

[jason12000]

Redline looks sweet. I had a mongoose among others. Nice post.

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[mofotech]

Looks awesome. Buying a BMX bike is on my to do list. I rode a Mongoose as a kid.

[coolwhip]

I still have my 81 Supergoose I raced when I was 12 at the Waterford track. I restored it 4 years ago by giving it a oxalic acid bath.
I still take these bikes to open track night and ride them, but Im a lil bit bigger these days so I take it easy on them…also, parts are difficult to find and expensive to replace.

[coolwhip]

Here are a few more I have.

1986 CW Racing California Freestyle


1983 Thruster Tri-power

[ammoniadog]

I like your banjo. Are you any good with it?

[coolwhip]

I like your banjo. Are you any good with it?

Im not like this guy, but Im okay for being self taught….I dont use picks..never liked picks, kinda like Jeff Beck.

This is String Bean…one of my favorites.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpu2Zk1SYQ

Used play every Saturday at my buddies house for 16 years.. until he got married a few years ago..then the wife took over the house.
Since then I haven't picked it up much because the gang disbanded and I have no one to play with.

[mofotech]

I still have my 81 Supergoose I raced when I was 12 at the Waterford track. I restored it 4 years ago by giving it a oxalic acid bath.
I still take these bikes to open track night and ride them, but Im a lil bit bigger these days so I take it easy on them…also, parts are difficult to find and expensive to replace.

That silver 81 mongoose is the bike I had when growing up. Someone give me just the frame and I built up the bike from scratch at a local bike shop. Man the people at the bike shop literally did the job at cost. I had sold a bunch of my basketball cards (Kobe Bryant Rookie cards and others) at the local card shop to gather the money. I love riding that bike. It was sooo freaking fast. Sad thing is my dad placed the bike outside in the backyard for some reason and some gangsters ( latin kings gang) stole the bike. I wasn't there at the moment as I was with my mom and sisters visiting Pakistan for the first time. Gangs were kinda of a problem in Miami at that time.

[pctech]

Old school rules
not like some of the new cheap ass junk of to day

[ammoniadog]

Im not like this guy, but Im okay for being self taught….I dont use picks..never liked picks, kinda like Jeff Beck.

This is String Bean…one of my favorites.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpu2Zk1SYQ

Used play every Saturday at my buddies house for 16 years.. until he got married a few years ago..then the wife took over the house.
Since then I haven't picked it up much because the gang disbanded and I have no one to play with.

I clicked on that youtube link and I let it keep playing through about 7 or 8 videos in a row. Even though I don't even like bluegrass (or at least I didn't think I did), it was fun to watch. He was a very talented musician. I was reading some of the comments and learned that he was robbed and murdered after returning from a show one night. That's some crazy stuff. Anyways, thanks for sharing.

[coolwhip]

I clicked on that youtube link and I let it keep playing through about 7 or 8 videos in a row. Even though I don't even like bluegrass (or at least I didn't think I did), it was fun to watch. He was a very talented musician. I was reading some of the comments and learned that he was robbed and murdered after returning from a show one night. That's some crazy stuff. Anyways, thanks for sharing.

Careful man, that bluegrass is catchy. I never paid no attention to it much in my younger years, but always wanted a banjo for some reason. When I was 16 I got my tax return and wandered on up to this lil shop called The Pick and Strum where I bought my first banjo from an old milkshake that owned the place.
He took took that banjo off the wall and played the heck out of it……I said sold!

For me, Bluegrass is the heart and soul of this land….not all of it of course, as some is not so good. But listening to the ol boys like Stringbean…ya cant help but get happy feet. Its good ol grass roots music that makes you feel good.

[Brian GC]

Old school rules
not like some of the new cheap ass junk of to day

I am currently and have been an avid road cyclist and a casual dirtbike rider for over forty years. I owned a Medici Pro Strada with full Campy Super Record and a Yamaha YZ 250 in the eighties. Those two bikes were the best of the best back then. Now they are nothing more than antiquated, outdated junk (at least performance wise). So I ask, how can thirty to forty year old technology of BMX bikes be better than what is built today?

[coolwhip]

I don't think they are better than some bikes built today. The stunts these days are outrageous and insano, and the bikes hold up to the task.
What I do like is that they were made here for the most part. Japan made excellent bikes/parts as well. Also, the aesthetics of that era are more appealing to me because thats when I raced and because newer bikes all look the same.

The 80's BMX scene was huge and holds a mystique to this day. So much so, that there are shows and swap meets all over the country focused on it, and these bikes and parts are worth a small fortune if in nice shape.

Go on ebay and punch in NOS BMX and check out the prices.

If I would have known in the 80's this stuff would be worth what it is today, I would have invested all my money I made at the time into it.

[Brian GC]

I don't think they are better than some bikes built today. The stunts these days are outrageous and insano, and the bikes hold up to the task.
What I do like is that they were made here for the most part. Japan made excellent bikes/parts as well. Also, the aesthetics of that era are more appealing to me because thats when I raced and because newer bikes all look the same.

The 80's BMX scene was huge and holds a mystique to this day. So much so, that there are shows and swap meets all over the country focused on it, and these bikes and parts are worth a small fortune if in nice shape.

Go on ebay and punch in NOS BMX and check out the prices.

If I would have known in the 80's this stuff would be worth what it is today, I would have invested all my money I made at the time into it.

I agree on those old parts being valuable today. I sold my 1982 Medici a year ago for $600. The guy who bought it seemed to only be interested in the Campy Super Record Groupo.