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davidlandy:
whilst surfing the web today I stumbled across a website that has brought back so many great memories for me. Its for old school BMXers.

You may not beleive this but many years ago I used to race BMX bikes - this I started in the early 80s. I got to number one in age group in the club and 9th in england in my age group. I used to race nationally. Anyway I found a site that had many of my old BMX buddies on from West London all talking about the old times like they were yesterday. Many of them kept it going for years and I now wish that I did too.

my last bike was a Kuwahara Laser lite.

So I have joined up and will hopefully be in touch with a few of them very soon.

I feel old now!

muddyweb:
Dave, don't worry... you're not alone..   Jake was re-living his yoof the other day too.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnG6SwI4Bts

lee celtic:
I had a huffy pro5 frame with diamond back crank set and plastic rims. :dance:

until I was doing a bunny hop comp after a race day and did a huge one at speed (three car tyres high and three long) landed it heavy and the bars and crank both snaped at the same time ,not saying where the seat hit :-# (but it hurt) I went into trail bikes (motorised version) after that more padding on the seats... ;)

strapping young lad:
bmx are very popular again but the scene is a lot different now, in my day we copied people like eddie fiola and andy ruffell who were the best in freestyle and racing respectively, nowadays its totally different...

them trick bikes with no seat posts freak me out though, look very wrong

davidlandy:

--- Quote from: muddyweb on August 14, 2008, 08:41:14 ---Dave, don't worry... you're not alone..   Jake was re-living his yoof the other day too.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnG6SwI4Bts

--- End quote ---

lol - he has still got the old magic then!

SYL you're right todays bikes dont look as good as the older ones - my old Kuwahara laser lite was quite a bike in its day, mine was one of the first in the uk as I broke my old kuwahara frame. These days the old bikes seem to worth a few quid wish I had kept mine now.

I too remember Mr Ruffle - used to see him race at the old Eastway track near walthamstow in 1980ish. Also there was the big lanky chap Tim March - remember him?


Plastic Rims, werent they called ACS Z rims?    I had a set in yellow and they would bend like crazy, then pop back!

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