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Merry Christmas bro

Hey just bought my first Gary Turner. I live in Vegas and no one here can chrome. Can you recommend someone good in AZ?

I been looking for an orange 1992 GT Interceptor for decades. Was my favorite bike ever.

I just bought a bunch of stems cranks & parts for peanuts it’s will probably take a year but I’m sure I’ll eventually double or triple what I spent

Old school with the Aqua Net & A'me grips for sure. Back as a kid I would put a nickel in each grip, push it down with a screwdriver and slide on the grips. The nickel would prevent the sharp end of the bars from cutting through the end of the grips. I still do this on my bike's and my kids bike's. Awesome build and collection.

I had different stickers on mine

you need a white Nippon Brake with blue lettering on that bad boy , i’m pretty sure they made one of that color scheme🤔 check that, it was actually blue with white lettering! Would look so bad ass on your bike

damn!! i remember a pair of redline flight cranks was 100$ in the 80s...prices ae gonna be insane for parts now

say it aint so....i hounded my parents 24/7 for a 88 day glo pink pro performer...i stil really cant afford a mint one lol

R.I.P. GT ill keep my 87 PFT forever.

It's a shame when a big company buys up another and just decides to gut it, I'm sure G.T. Bikes was a license to print money for the last owners.

I had this as a kid in the 80s. I kept it in perfect condition, everything original. I'd still have it but my folks gave it to my nephew when I was in the Army. He sold it or traded it for something.

Again?

Not enuff kids ride bmx bikes anymore ! The next newest things sell !

I knew this was coming 😢. You could see the decline. I have three frames that I will never give up.

Sean,gotta love Lola 🐶

no spare parts makes the bikes obsolete. just like they do in other industries.

sorry but the USA has been in a decline for years now. many companies going away. its the same in the home stereo market. big names going down. the 80's were a great time. post covid the USA has been like a corpse.

If you Place your left hand on the right sie its the same

Sean,great content! Stay Rad!

My friends 2 brothers had 2 of those diamond back BMX bikes Christmas presents similar to that era early 80's stolen off their porch in hoquiam wa

If l lived in Texas I would love to go to the event n show my support love ur channel bro

Personally I think individuality killed the old-school styles. Im a bit younger born 82 i had a few old-school 80s gt haro kuwahara hutch etc. But thing was you could identify a bike a 100 yards away. And the whole idea of paid sponsorship was a pipe dream. Riders started preferring less recognizable bike. I personally loved my 96 mongoose comp i could race at the track and beat her up a bit on the streets, and it wasn't a very recognizable bike at all just a crome bmx. Standard bikes kinda did it first pull the sticker off and no one knew what you rode. And now a days you can barely identify a bike in your hands .

Wait its actually gone 😢 my first bmx was a gt power box

Gt failed because of everything besides their BMX line. We were a gt distributor for over 30 years. When everyone was mastering full suspension and downhill and road bikes, gt had the lowest quality models on the market. We did a comparison between their $500 entry level MTB to a $99 Walmart Schwinn. The Schwinn was the nicer bike. At least 80% of their bikes would be returned. This is what happens when you mainstream a bike line. Also, someone killed long. I believe that whole heartedly.

I just bought my 7 year old son an 18” GT Performer for Christmas. It’s a 2021, so a far cry from the GTs I remember, but I’m still stoked he’ll have his own GT. Bummer to hear they continue to struggle. I hope one of these big bmx brands buys the rights and makes them a legacy property within their brand. S&M would be rad and could bring back the respect to the GT name.

I had a White Mach-1 in 1986. Man that thing was beautiful... The 80s !!!!! 😁

Keep up the great work my friend. Clearly passionate about Oldschool Bmx.

The solution to all this is to ride a made in America since 1987 brand bike that has done nothing but improve as time passed. If you dont know you really should ask somebody.

Man I’ve loved Haro bikes and could never afford… well never could while I was a kid and got older and now can’t get one just yet, it’s crazy to think that I will be 55 by the time I can get one for my grandkids 2x boys and 2x girls so maybe someone can throw a brother a discount for a 4- fer special on some Masters I can’t wait

I was in the bicycle industry back in the 80’s when my partner and I started Azonic/Oneal. I was the designer and my partner Frank was in charge of sales. At one of the shows, for some reason, Gary Turner walked up and opened up to me about what was going on at GT. Maybe it was because the same thing was happening at Azonic/Oneal, I don’t know. Gary was very somber when we spoke and he made it clear that he did not like his partner and I could relate. His partner only cared about selling and not about the design or the quality, same as my partner Frank. Frank was so cocky about his selling ability that he would constantly tell me “give me dog shit and I can sell it”. Funny fact about Frank is he bullshitted Jim O’neal into thinking he liked him and now Frank is President of O’Neal Motorcycles. This is ironic because Frank use to make fun of Jim throughout the day. When we were selling him the Pro Style Levers Jim took us out into his warehouse and Jim looked at the boxes of our levers labeled Y/S/K and slowly said Y…..S……K, like he had no clue what that meant. From that day forward Frank would tell me how stupid he thought Jim was and say Y….S.…K very slowly to make fun of Jim. Frank would tell me that someday he would own O’Neal, not sure that’s happened, but he is President. Later after Frank started to work as the VP of O’neal, I asked him if Jim was still in charge and Frank said Yes, Mr. O’Neal is still in charge. It’s amazing what a line of bullshit can do for your career. When we started Azonic/O’neal, our motto was “no me too” products and after time Frank would just buy Taiwan stems, cranks, pedals for CHEAP and mark them up 5 times. I am not built that way, but he is a salesman for sure. He could sell ice cubes to Eskimo’s. Or like he would tell me, “he could sell dog shit” to customers. Some funny times Frank and I had was when he introduced me to going to Santa Monica to get what he called a “Wacky Smacky”. I never asked, but I guess his wife Julie wasn’t giving him what he needed at home. One of the many times we went, the girl at the first massage parlor refused to give him a happy ending so, since I was driving, I had to drive him to another massage parlor on Franklin Blvd and wait in the truck so a girl could give him his “Wacky Smacky” and make him happy. After all what are good partners for LOL. On another occasion after, I won $1,000 in Vegas and we drove to The Bunny Ranch in Parumph Nevada. I was surprised that he chose a small girl that looked nothing like his wife. Back to Gary, he told me that he knew the company was doomed when they bought a laser cutting machine to cut the tubes for the bikes. We spent a long time discussing what was going on in our companies, our personal lives and his airplane. We bonded right away. I will be forever grateful for the time we had together. It made me realizes, that as bad partnerships go, I wasn’t alone.

My childhood bike was stolen. A neon pink Kuwahara Bravo. Soon after, insurance covered foe another bike a green Dyno Compe, but it just wasnt the same. Man, I'd sell one of my sons to get back my bike. Ha ha.

Radbmxbuilds sounds like you've got the passion, the knowledge of the history and possibly an encyclopaedic list of part numbers. Pair that with demand for GT stuff and an eye for the peak aesthetic of the brand and... be the change you want to see in the world. Can I put in an order for a 1998 Fueler....stamped No:00001 please?😃

speak your truth you’ve worked hard and it shows

I have a 99 export quad, baby blue with team decals. Also have a 99 export std pro PK, black and believe only x2 came to the UK. I’ve seen x2 polished in OZ, that’s it. The only other quad I’ve seen like mine is on the museum. I don’t know the story of them “I tried really hard to find out” I believe they are very rare, like not 500 made but 10?

So i gotta ask. What do you think of Eddie Fiola's bikes?

I kind like the rainbow GT - unique piece !

The Mike Buff Ripper is an absolute dream machine - i need to recreate this !

Just when I thought 2024 could not get worse ! Sad news in the BMX world. Thanks Gary Turner for the great bikes - absolutely racing my GT back in the day.

I have A. Ninety three or Ninety two g t interceptor for sale

I have the g t thing but just not the gts rocket

Great video! Time is money! Editing is the reason my channel growth has been so slow. I love filming and coming up with creative ideas, but I hate editing and it takes the MOST time in the content creation process. Cheers!

Right on🤘You have it going on brother, keep it up.

I thought GT was gone years ago 😢

No one races those bikes 😂

Gt was Just Dorel industries. A multi national conglomerate!!!

Kids don't ride bikes anymore... can't remember the last time i saw a group of kids riding bmx's around.. Now they just stare at phones within a reasonable distance of mom... .

The 80s were a defining time in my life. After school was out, I was riding bikes with my buddies, trying new tricks, exploring back roads for dirt patches to jump. Bought parts for my first build with proceeds from my first summer job at age 15 in 1989. Frame & Fork was a chrome Pro FS Tour - i was too poor to buy a full bike. Even spoked my own 48-spoke wheels with Araya chrome rims. Still ride the bike today with many of the original parts intact. I'm grateful for that time in my life and saddened at how things went downhill. Hopefully GT will come out of this with a renewed vigor but I'm not holding my breath. Other iconic brands from the era have since bit the dust or are no longer relevant (e.g. Vision Street Wear, Airwalk).

Look at the prices these bike companies want now.... f em