The BMX Files

[Rip76]

That's it...
I'm buying some TuffWheel II's.

 

[jt09]

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[jt09]

boso - got to skate w/ clause grabke once when i lived in germany in hs. a friend of ours was a local pro and knew him. we went to a skatepark about an hour away from us to ride for a whole day (big deal to us, as there weren't full on, indoor skateparks around those days) and grabke and another santa cruz rider (can't remember who right now). i remember just being in AWE. i'd never seen someone kill a 1/2pipe like that in person. really nice guy also.

 

[Rip76]

Skyway F/F
$405.00
The Link

with a day and 1/2 left...
622 bids.

 

[jt09]

622 bids and only at $405? bunch of nickel and diming *******, huh!?! i bet that one goes for WAY more than that w/ a flurry of sniping at the end.

if that were a 26" f/f, i might be one of the snipers!

 

[UofTOrange]

I truly loved my Diamond Back. Not on the same level as the Hutch's or the GTs here, but I dominated on a very similar bike to this

 

[notreally]

Here are some other tight ones from back in the day.

Kuwahara

CW (i once wrecked into "chicken" george seevers at our local track in las vegas. he was a ***** about it too).

 

[bozo_casanova]

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[Endust]

first bike was a GT Mach One circa 1985...

then quit bmx for freestyle and had a haro sport...

then got a haro master (but mine had a gyro and not an acs rotor)

then switched back to GTs

then dynos....

...and then i got old and started riding a cruiser in college....

...and my life has never been the same.

 

[Endust]

it ain't bmx, but i got pour some to the curb for jeff phillips...

 

[Rip76]

are those Profile cranks on that ELF.

 

[Rip76]

Clean......wow
Same guy owns all of them.

 

[jt09]

endust - another pro ho story... there was a rickety halfpipe in a random german town we would go to every now and then...hop on the u-bahn and make a day trip out of it. pipe sucked *** and none of us could really ride pipe to beging w/ - hell, the pipe was decked w/ like 1x10s - deathtrap for us skaters. but there was lots of good street stuff around there and we liked going different places to skate.

so we roll up there one day and i **** you not, brian blyther and one of the other guys who had a signature haro bike (whoever had the master - their top rider) were there w/ a german host. just the 3 of them. totally random and just incredible to watch those guys ride! living in germany, you NEVER got to see the pros.

 

[CaptainEd]

oh man, my friend brian in elementary had that blue hutch trick star. kick *** bike.

i remember seeing the gt tour team come through and put on shows in the parking lot at webster bikes in the early 90s a few times. my friends that were more into riding than me used to go to the bigger exhibitions around that time and i remember seeing a few of them standing around in this vhs tape i had called "RIDE" from a dallas stop. mat hoffman completely blew a backflip over the middle spine and came down directly on top of it on his chest - looked really painful. i also used to have a few vhs tapes from homeless bikes (now defunct austin based co.) where it was all filmed here in austin.

 

[Rip76]

What the hell?
Webster Bikes... That's where I got all my bikes..

remember Cody Smart?

There's a blue Trick Star hanging in Webster bikes right now....

 

[Rip76]

Question....
I don't ride mine all that much and it mostly hangs in the garage...

What is the best way to get rid of a little surface rust? What's best to buff out and shine up the chrome? It's been a while.

Thanks...

 

[CaptainEd]

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[Rip76]

Both....
but he's older than me, so definitely older than you....