Which BMX did you have ?

[meridian]

I had a Mongoose BMX with mushroom grips

Diamondbacks were the must have when I were a lad.

I had a Raleigh 20

[SupremeSpod]

I had a BSA Tour De France for the road and built my own off road bike with a "Grifter" frame - heavy but robust!

[BoredBloke]

Can't remember the name of it, something like GX or GLX 2000. It had a drum brake on the back wheel and back peddle brakes. Because the brake was so severe it would lock the back wheel meaning that you could leave a long black rubber stripe on the road and waar those knobbly tyres flat in no time. My mate had a Grifter but I preferred my unnamed one because it was lighter, easier to stad on - as you could stand on the brake, and had a higher gearing than his.

[thunderlizard]

Apple bike

This is the one you want

Here Comes the iBike? Apple Files Patent for a Bicycle Accessory [Updated] - PCWorld

Bonus marks for use of cloud.

[milanbenes]

it's all flooding back now

Mongoose

Diamond Back

those were for the rich kids


Mushroom grips

bear trap pedals


Z rims, weren't those the rims which could bend ?

Milan.

[thunderlizard]

I had Spokey Dokeys. Or sometimes a twig stuck between the fork and the spokes, so that it sounded like a motorbike.

[Spacecadet]

I had Spokey Dokeys. Or sometimes a twig stuck between the fork and the spokes, so that it sounded like a motorbike.

I thought spokey dokeys were those little plastic balls which made a tinkling sound if you cycled really slowly and then simply stuck to the rims if you went faster than walking pace.

[Pondlife]

I had a Grifter in black and gold and later on a proper racer. Never had a BMX, they are fine for tricks but woefully inadequate as a means of transport.

WdoodabS but in sliver.

I had Spokey Dokeys. Or sometimes a twig stuck between the fork and the spokes, so that it sounded like a motorbike.

Playing card surely or you bent the back of your mudguard down.

[milanbenes]

Pondlife,

you sir, are showing your age

Dad, it's like this,

BMX's didn't have mud guards - that was the whole point of them.

Milan.

[Spoiler]

Chrome burner with stunt nuts (or trick nuts, if you prefer) front and rear.