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Rip76

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This is mine.

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This is to Bozo/Hoosier.....
Actually, I busted my @ss (well not really but I played a few gigs), to get this bike.

My first bike

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Back in the day (we were poor too), my mom bought me a black and gold Hutch "Pro-Racer" after the Mongoose. Had the Hutch for about 6 months, won a sh*t ton of races on it, and Bamm......
Stolen.

Got a Redline after that.. I was never the same...

I just always wanted a Hutch again.
Got it off of Ebay for $668 about 5 years ago.
 
Allsome. I had a red "Super Good" with the lightweight rims on it. It was money. I still have a badass scar down my shin from where one of those spiked pedal torn my shin open to the bone one day. It was absolutely nasty as hell. I didn't even tell my parents. I rode my bike to the store and got a bunch of butterfly closures, closed it up and wore high socks for a couple of weeks. I didn't want to go get stitches or have a lecture about doing stupid **** on my bike. good times!
 
my first move up to the "big time" from the huffy days:
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after i sold that, i bought this haro master right when the megatube frame came out. i mowed lawns, bought it from albe's in michigan and built it myself. 6 months into it i went riding with some friends in downtown houston and my parents were picking me up in the heights when 3 guys decided they wanted my bike more than me and beat my *** and took it. sweet.
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after that, i bought & built a slightly older (1993/1994) version of this gt pro freestyle tour and sold it about a year later.
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my buddy used to race bmx in elementary & middle school and bought, piece-by-piece, his old hutch off of ebay and rebuilt it when he was living in nyc a few years ago. i think he gave it to his nephew when he moved to san francisco.
 
Those things were freaking heavy. Even the super goose which was supposed to be more light weight was freaking stone heavy. At least it was for me when i was a rail thin 10 year old.
 
rip - you and i have VERY similar taste in bikes! i would have KILLED for a skyway t/a back in the day. i used to make spreadsheets of all kinds of different frams set up w/ different components. i know i would have had redline 401 flights, shimano dx pedals, redline v bars w/ a dk stem and some peregrine 48s. gettin all excited just thinking back to those days!

i had a mongoose that was bulletproof. changed out every component at least 3 times over it's life. lest version had some skyway tuff wheel IIs on it - VERY pimp!

as it is, this is going to be my next ride, but in chrome. they've never made one in chrome, so i'll be the first to have a Texas Fireman's 26" Cruzer in chrome - woo hoo!

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btw - that candy apple red hutch is tits!

and Ed - i never figured you for a bmx guy!
 
HAHA, hell yeah...
Sort of had the Mongoose look with the hole near the neck.

Does anyone remember the mono-shock bike set up like "Smokey and the Bandit?"

couple more.

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Me racing the Redline

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Picture of the Mongoose after taking off the motomags....

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2nd skateboard (it was my brother's, i think it was either a Logan or G&S)

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haha.....nice birdwells, rip. i grew up wearing those and tiddies (from the original pasadena shop - off shaver i think?). i still have a pair of red birdwells and gray tiddies that i wear.

jt - before i started ruining my lung capacity and drinking in high school i was way into bikes. not saying i was worth a ****, just that i really enjoyed it.
 
I had an all white Hutch with no stickers or anything on it and it was the ****. I still remember scrapping together the money for that thing.

Does anyone remember Bonzai's. They were super light and cracked instantly. The Link
 
I had GTs. they are still in my parents' garage.

I know one of them is a chrome gt performer

I was contemplating selling them on ebay. is there a big demand for old bikes?
 
Ramsalot - that Pro Performer, and it's cousin in the all-neon-pink, were THE bike during my elementary school days.

My cousin was big into the freestyle scene out of houston - rode with most of the big names at one point or another (McCoy, Mira, Hofman, etc). He kept me in bikes, but I was never huge on it myself.

the one I did buy for myself I can't find on the intertubes - maybe HF can help me out. I SWEAR it was a PF Flyer, but I can't find anything about that. I bought it from Trend Bikes in Austin in probably 1988, and it was powder blue with chrome rims and ****-tastic brakes that I rapidly replaced. It probably ran me $300 then.

damn, Trend Bikes was a cool-*** store. On old Jolleyville Rd, right behind where Academy used to be.
 
You guys had it easy with those bikes and boards . . .

When I was growing up, we rode these:

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I cracked by nutsack on that gearshifter and the board was so thin (and the trucks/wheels so soft) that I donated skin regularly to the local streets.
 
Back in '77 and '78 my brother was a member of the skateboard club at Texas City High School....

I would get his hand me down boards...
this was the first one I ever had.

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bottom looked like this

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Rip, this is almost indentical to the Hutch I had.The Link

Also, if you want to talk about skateboards, I was a big Lance Mountain guy if anyone remembers him. I also loved Ron Chapman. H-Street skateboards were probably my favorite. I would sit around elementary drawing the H-Street symbol all day long.
 
friend in my neighborhood in vegas had this GHP. that was one bad *** bike. that was like a grand back in 88.

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