Originally Posted by
Oldbikenut
He's actually in kind of rough shape. There is a great documentary on youtube about him, watch it you'll like it!
Your comment on being to old and fat, bikes and motorcycles are one of the biggest inspirations of me keeping fit. I raced my last BMX race in 1986 at age 20 until I decided to give it another shot a few years back. I went to practice several times and raced one day, what a blast it was but sadly for me I was not feeling the track, felt like I was not riding on dirt and if I went down it was going to hurt
That being said I'm getting a bike ready to go do it again to celebrate 30 years!
You defiantly don't heal as fast as you used too! lol. What type of bike are you thinking of building back up?
Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
I was in to BMX back in the late '70s/early '80s. There was always a huge delta between the bikes I wanted, and the bikes I could afford. I would spend hours pouring over BMX Action magazine and dream about owning a SE Racing, Diamondback, Redline, etc. But bikes like those were always out of the reach of someone in my family's economic position.
My favorite bike I've ever personally owned was my old Cycle Pro Macho BMX bike. I only owned it about a year before it was stolen. I wrote an article about it on my website:
My Third Bicycle - The Tundra Man Workshop
I understand where you are coming from. I was really lucky when I was a kid to have a paper route. My first good bike was a used GT freestyle which was $350.00 at the time, which was a small fortune. The kind old bike store owner set it aside for me, and I made payments of $30.00 a month on it (all my paper route money) About 5 payments into it, he actually let me take it home! But I made sure to keep paying it off.
My brother on the other hand had my parents buy him a bike for Christmas, and he ended up with a horrible Supercycle bobkat. Which actually almost killed him one day.
Later on I was in the right place at the right time. There was a lot of guys who were like Oldbikenut who had been racers in the 80's but now were 20 something, and looking to unload their "Junk". I remember buying things like Kawahara frames for $20 bucks, I bought a couple Diamondbacks for $40 etc. And in my small town it was like a little car culture, where we BMX'ers were constantly trading with each other for better parts etc.
But there were certain things that you could never get cheap...1) Redline 3 piece flight cranks. 2) Hutch anything. 3) Those fancy super light Araya rounded gold wheels. They were always more expensive then what my entire bike was worth
Your little BMX looks like it might be pretty fun. Ironically something like that might be harder to find then a Redline etc. (BTW Your Guitars look amazing)