Reply to: Which BMX did you have ?

[Mich the Tester]

Actually we used to race at the same meets in Danderhall Edinburgh though I was a year or two ahead. But look at me know

I bet those guys who ride keirin in Japan can earn a few bob.

[Jeebo72]

Idiot. You could have been a professional track cyclist and retired by now.

Saying that, I perhaps could have played rugby as a pro if I hadn't gone off to 'find myself' in India and got dyssentry.

Ho hum, no point in regretting.

Actually we used to race at the same meets in Danderhall Edinburgh though I was a year or two ahead. But look at me know

[Mich the Tester]

...all those mushroom grip thumb blisters and the Bear-trap shin smashes...

Ooh, brings back memories.

I still have a few dents in my shins. I actually managed to scrape my shin bone with one of those metal teethed pedals; the skin was pulled away in a flap and the doc told me he could see the scratch on the bone.

[gingerjedi]

Sod the BMX with all those mushroom grip thumb blisters and the Bear-trap shin smashes...

OMFG... BIG TRACK!!!

[doodab]

Mongoose Supergoose 3. And was in the top 5 in the country for BMX racing until I gave it up age 14.

That wasn't due to a knee injury was it?

[Mich the Tester]

And was in the top 5 in the country for BMX racing until I gave it up age 14.

Idiot. You could have been a professional track cyclist and retired by now.

Saying that, I perhaps could have played rugby as a pro if I hadn't gone off to 'find myself' in India and got dyssentry.

Ho hum, no point in regretting.

[Jeebo72]

which BMX did you have when you were ikkle ?

Anyone have a PK Ripper

Friends had Raleigh Burners with Skyway rims

one had a like Asda BMX BMX BMX

Milan.

Mongoose Supergoose 3. And was in the top 5 in the country for BMX racing until I gave it up age 14.

[SupremeSpod]

"You mean when you've stopped drinking and got a job, Dad?"

He ended up on Coronation Street as Kevin Webster's Dad.

Note to self...

Remembering that sh!te is not a good thing...

[Mich the Tester]

"Maybe next year, eh Son?"

"You mean when you've stopped drinking and got a job, Dad?"

[SupremeSpod]

And for the further purposes of bike related nostalgia. Who else remembers the "I were right about that saddle" advert.

"Maybe next year, eh Son?"

[doodab]

What, that sturmey archer crap with a twisty handle? That was tulipe too. No good for the serious crash and burn usage on the mean streets of Testerville. Sorry, the rather pleasant pastures of middle England. It all broke too easily.

I must admit the gears would occasionally slip and leave me doubled up in agony as the saddle crushed my nether regions.

I want a new bike.

[milanbenes]

i had a silver grifter too,

god it hurt the goolies when 2nd or 3rd gear would just give way

I remember some kids with talented dad's I guess had stuck 5 speed derailers
on their bmx's

Milan.

[Mich the Tester]

Unless you wanted to actually get somewhere in which case the bigger wheels and three speed gears would leave your BMX riding friends in the dust.

What, that sturmey archer crap with a twisty handle? That was tulipe too. No good for the serious crash and burn usage on the mean streets of Testerville. Sorry, the rather pleasant pastures of middle England. It all broke too easily.

[BoredBloke]

Well I've googled mine and I can find no trace of it on the net. It must have been seriously tulip......but I liked it.

[Pondlife]

But let's face it, they were tulipe compared to a BMX.

The very betamax of the bicycle world. How I wanted to buy pegs and the need stick a set of bright yellow skyways in the freezer to fix their buckling.

"Look at me, I've got gears" didn't fool anyone.