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PostPosted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My uncle was in that movie.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:31 am    Post subject: Old Skool BMX Reply with quote

If any of you are interested in BMX (anything from the early 80's to current) you need to check out "Joe Kid on a Stingray" it's the "Dogtown and Z Boys" of BMX

http://joekidonastingray.com/
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

shit, I saved up paper route money in 1975 for about 6 months so I could buy one of these...Matthews Monoshock!

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I loved that bike. I didn't have the moto-mags, those things are heavy! Some f*cker stole it a few years later. I'm looking for one now, just to have. Rode a Redline after that, and then a Torker.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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RareAir wrote:
Who remembers Nicole Kidman's first movie "BMX Bandits"? Oh yes, memories........


remember "Rad"? Laughing

two of my friends raced in that movie...said that starting line was an intense drop. One raced for GT and the other for Powerlite at the time.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea i rode gt ...at the time still got one of my frames though .... any body lookin for early 80's bmx plus mags ive got alot in good con.. Shocked
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

anybody remember a"bully"?....

it had a rail slide below the crank so you could get all crazy..

i had to have one, traded some stuff for it.... black frame, with roses and thorns.....

that fuckin thing was HEAVY!!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who had a Schwinn Predator, PK Ripper or the Diamondback Viper? Those are some classics right there.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Remember "Turbo" harry Leary? Used to race for Diamondback way back when. Thanks for making me feel old. Very Happy


Oh yes Harry Leary. All Black leathers with "Harry" embroidered on the ass. The Diamondback Turbo was the top of the line model. Bike cost $500 back in '82 which was alot of money.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea i started with a huffy, then gt, but adventually went to a s&m bikes now those are the best..... Shocked
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Who had a Schwinn Predator, PK Ripper or the Diamondback Viper? Those are some classics right there.


The bike I ride every day is a old school 24" Predator. Didn't care for Schwinns back when I was a kid. My first bike was a Raleigh R11. From there I had a Race Inc.(sold) JMC Black Shadow (stolen) 3 different National Pro's (sponsorship) , and my last one was my Quadangle.
Diamondbacks were real popular with a lot of kids in my area. Harry Leary and Pete Loncarovich came thru town one time and everybody had to have one. The Hutch team came around for a track opening and Timmy Judge got pulled over in his Trans Am smoking a joint. Laughing So the team had to cancel the appearance.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Timmy Judge got pulled over in his Trans Am smoking a joint. So the team had to cancel the appearance.

That is funny as hell.Wonder if he had a mullet and def leppard on his stereo at the time.
I saw Pete Loncarovich at the Vans sk8park,orange. a few years ago.BIG,he does ultimate fighting.Not a dude you'd want to tangle with.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Who had a Schwinn Predator, PK Ripper or the Diamondback Viper? Those are some classics right there.


How about the Torker -w- the twin top frame tubes. Total classic.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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How about the Torker -w- the twin top frame tubes. Total classic.



Oh yeah, the fabled Torker 280. Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I myself had a Super X; it was a cro-mo knockoff of the basic Mongoose design but with one gusset on the head tube/top tube/down tube junction instead of two. Mine was yellow and had chrome Tange bent forks, and Ashtabula cranks, IIRC. The year was 1976... School chums and I used to compete in our own ad hoc "Tuff Bike" competition at our elementary school. One of the events was to ride straight into the wall on the side of Room A2 at John Muir Elementary in Modesto, CA. The loser was the guy whose forks bent. The Tange was never defeated... Smile

I now ride mountain bikes rather alot - my current rides are a full XTR-spec Santa Cruz Blur and a Marin Pine Mountain set up singlespeed. I avoid riding into walls now.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to have a kick butt PK Ripper. Man.....those are some great memories of waking up early and riding all day, setting up ramps in the street, learning new street tricks and riding to the track to tear it up.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just found this thread. I love this topic. I used to ride for factory Bandito Here is Socal in the 80s and I still have my 24 inch racing cruser with the cool CW bars and the dual dropouts. I took it to BBB this year and had a ton of people ask about it. OG as it was when I raced it except the seat. here's some pics
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a hutch back in the day, great ride!, still have an old Haro and another one I am trying to figure out what it is, it an old freestyle framewith white mags. Old school bike are "RAD"
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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an old freestyle frame with white mags.


White mags? Z-Rims? The kind you can put in a freezer & they snap back into shape after being tweaked?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh yeah. I remember the Z-Rims. Those were cool.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh damn, they might be, I will need to look closer.....
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