Old School BMX: The Affordable 80s Bikes That Made Us!
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- Dive into a nostalgic journey back to the origins of our BMX passion in this episode of the Nostalgic Neighborhood. We're not just reminiscing about the high-end BMX models of today; we're celebrating the first bikes that introduced many of us to the world of BMX-those affordable, often overlooked department store bikes.
In this video, we explore the charming history of our first BMX bikes. From Huffy to Mongoose, Schwinn to Raleigh, and many more, these bikes were more than just entry-level rides; they were our first taste of freedom and adventure. I asked you on Instagram, "What was your first BMX bike?" and your responses were incredible, full of heartwarming stories and cherished memories.
🚲 Featured Brands: Huffy, Mongoose, Schwinn, Raleigh, Murray, Diamondback, GT, Dyno, Redline, Kent, and Haro...
Join us as we recount tales of these first bikes, from glossy department store specials to rugged hand-me-downs, and see how these bikes served as a gateway to a lifelong passion for BMX. Whether it was a shiny new Huffy, a sturdy Schwinn, or a sporty Mongoose, each bike has a story that helped shape us into the cyclists we are today.
💬 We want to hear from you!
What was your first BMX bike? Did it come from a department store, or was it a coveted model from a dedicated bike shop? Share your first BMX bike story in the comments below!
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My first bike that I would call a "BMX" bike was a 88 GT performer Maui blue with white tomahawk mags.. took me all summer detasseling corn at 12 years old. To this day best investment I've ever made.
Wow, that’s one heck of a first BMX bike!!! Such a classic, and the Maui blue is perfection ❤️ Wow, I can imagine the excitement you must have had when you realized that you’d processed enough corn to meet your goal. 🙌
My first bike was a new 1980 Huffy Pro Thunder that my grandmother bought me when I was 12. I put a lot of miles on that bike. Good times!
Grandma’s are the best. And it’s so cool that yours got you your first bike. 🙌❤️
My first BMX bike was a 1985 Schwinn Predator Qualifier. I still have it. I had to order the bike from a sporting goods store that sold Schwinn bicycles. I sold all of my Star Wars toys, my baseball card collection and saved every penny I had to buy that bike. My parents told me they were not going to buy the bike for me. A valuable lesson in life, as I always took care of my bike because of the sacrifices I made just to get it.
Oh wow!!! Baseball cards and Star Wars toys in 1985. Those were indeed some big sacrifices back then 🤯 So cool that you still have it 🙌❤️
My first BMX bike was a 1978 Huffy Thunder Black and Yellow with the heaviest steel mags.
In 1987 My parents ordered a GT Performer from my local bike shop, all white.... that arrived just in time for Christmas.
Awesome on both accounts. I gotta imagine that Huffy served you well until you got the GT. One heck of a Christmas present!!! 🎄💥😎
My first BMX was a Huffy Racing 150 or 500 ( i can't remember exactly). My parents bought it from Toys R US, and it was identical to a Stu Thomsen. Chrome frame aero seat, Oakley grips, Shimano hubs. I loved that bike, and I rode it into the ground. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Right on!!! I love hearing stories like these. Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
First and only BMX was an 83 Murray X24. The other kids had GT, Mongoose and Kuwahara, buy we all ride together and nobody clowned on my Murray cruiser. I did everything they did. My dad was medically disabled, so my mom was the main provider, and they all knew that. I miss the 80s. What a time to be a kid!
I’m sure the fact that you could do everything on the Murray that they did, earned you and your Murray respect from them. I miss those times too. Such great memories!!! ❤️
My first good bike was a Dyno Compe but i put a Detour sticker on it and i upgraded to the bullhorn handlebars 👍. I love the memories i have riding that thing.
Interesting, about swapping out the stickers. I’ve always been a Dyno fan! 🙌
Oh man it was a loooong time ago but my late 70's era BMX was Believe made by Huffy but came from a Firestone dealer with there own name which for the life of me cannot remember the model name but I think it had a number beside the name as well.
Yes Firestone sold bicycles as well as tires.
My Dad always went there and that's where he always purchased my bikes from. Never had a big name brand bike as there were no bike shops nearby.
Just recently purchased a MirraCo BMX from a young guy who lost his licence and needed some cash.
Great fun trip back in time for this old guy! 😅
That’s interesting about the Firestone dealer carrying bikes. I remember we had a Western Auto in n our small town and they carried some bikes and toys too. It’s cool that you recently got a BMX bike again. Dave Mira was such a legend 🙌
First bike was a Huffy. Got a Diamond Back Silver Streak next, Black Hutch Pro Racer (stolen 2 days after i got it when i literally walked in the house to use the bathroom and from behind my house no less) 85 GT Pro and ended up on a Profile. I absolutely loved the last 2.
Wow, that’s a great progression of bikes. That’s crazy about your Pro Racer. That must have been a real bummer! 🥲 Sounds like you bounced back with a couple great bikes though 🙌
My first “BMX“ was a Huffy Buckaroo (banana seat, ape hanger bars) that I spray painted...bought Lester mags and Walmart seat and bars for. A few years later I got my prized Huffy Pro Lightning!
Gotta love those old banana seat bikes! 🤣 And then Pro Lightning for the win! 🏆 ❤️
1987 or 1988 Huffy Sigma since Dad couldn’t afford a Haro Sport. Still loved it though! Finally on a Haro many years later!
Right on!!! Sigmas get sort of a bad rap, and from owning one back in the day, I get that they weren’t the best quality, but looking back, they are so iconic and classic ❤️ That’s awesome that you have Haro now. Love Haros too 👍
My first BMX was a red Aerolite (saint tropez) (mid 80s). Very fond memories.
Nice!!! I don’t recall that brand, you’re the first to chime in with one of those. I love learning about all these old bike. Thanks for chiming in 👍
I loved my Raleigh Super Burner. I wish I could have that bike back. Sooooo many fantastic time had on that bike!!!
Love it it! And love thinking about all those good times we had on our bikes 👊
My first "real" BMX bike was a Murray X20 my grandparents got me for my 12th birthday back in '83. It replaced a banana-seat Dallas Cowboys bike. Even though I loved my Murray, I had friends with Kuwahara, Redline and Diamondback bikes that were so much cooler. Eventually I managed to snag an '86 GT Performer and that was a huge step up. I do however still lust after original Skyways and PK Rippers though!
Team Murray 👊 Nice!!! I love that it came from your grandparents too ❤️ 86 Performers are still some of my favorites. So classic 💥
My first BMX bike was a rat-rod, Frankenstein something. It was a Huffy frame (maybe from a Cheater Slick) with a banana seat supported by those flat, iron “buddy bars” we made in metal shop. It had one of those pot metal, blocky, double goosenecks (nope, they weren’t called stems back then), and motorcycle handlebars with waffle grips. The wheels were 20-in stock spoked Huffy wheels with 2.25” knobby tires that belonged on a dirtbike.
The purple monstrosity survived so much, but couldn’t handle jumping over 15 aluminum trashcans (on their sides) without a landing ramp. I cleared them all and landed back wheel first. Alas, as the front end touched down, the overly stressed frame finally gave up the ghost. The head tube and forks completely separated from the rest of the frame. I walked the half mile home rolling the two bike halves behind me.
After saving ever penny I could I replaced the Huffy with a Mongoose Supergoose I. Good, good times.
wow, that’s one heck of a cool story. I love it!!!! That rat rod bike sounds like it was amazing. And dang, 15 trash cans 🤯 sounds like you were lucky to walk away from that crash! 🙌 And then a Supergoose… awesome!!! Sounds like good times indeed 👊
My first BMX bike was a Murray x20R, that thing was heavy and the 28 spoke steel wheels needed constant truing, fast forward a year and a half and I was building up an 85 ROBINSON Pro frame and fork set.
Wow, That’s quite the upgrade 🙌
Team Murray was first, at ten I got a torker 280x, my folks bought me! But just today my brand new torker mx26 was delivered to my front door!🤙🏻
Dude!!!! That’s so incredibly awesome. 🙌🙌🙌 Hope you enjoy the new mx26!!!
What a great topic!! My first bike was a yellow Huffy MX32 from a hardware store in Portland, OR. My mom worked 2 jobs and was a single-parent. Finally after asking for months, my mom saved enough to get me a bike. We took the bus to the store and back (with my bike) and I was over the moon!! All the neighborhood kids had Redlines and laughed at my yellow Huffy. But I didn’t care, that bike was my freedom and over the years went through numerous color changes, upgrades, and was eventually passed on to my cousins. My sister found it in our uncles basement a few years ago and I got the opportunity to restore it back to its original yellow glory! To this day it hangs on my wall to remind me of my family’s humble beginnings. I have a few bikes now (including Redlines), but that Huffy is my most cherished of them all. I still take it down once in a while and ride around the neighborhood. Thanks for bringing up these memories!! Appreciate all your videos!! 🤙🤙🤙
wow, such a cool story. So cool to have hose memories with your mom ❤️ And so amazing that you were able to get it back and restore it after all the years. I can see how it would be your favorite today, even with the new ones. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Love it!
Still wish I had my baby blue 1986 Schwinn Freeform Z. Best bike for the money hands down! 👊❤
Nice! Such a classic, and the baby blue color 🔥🔥🔥
My very first BMX bike was a Huffy that I got for Christmas from Toys R Us. I broke the frame within 2 days,they replaced it,then the square taper cranks stripped. They gave my Mom her money back. I convinced her to spend almost double and by New Years I was riding a Schwinn Predator from the local bike shop.
Whoa!!!! I bet that was a happy new year!!! ❤️
@TheNostalgicNeighborhood yes,it definitely was. My Mom really sacrificed a lot for my BMX career.
@@edwardvanwormer6993 Gotta love the moms and dads who worked so hard to take care of us ❤️
My first was definitely a department store Murray. Don't remember the name or model, but I rode that thing into the ground. Didn't actually get a name brand BMX until I had a job of my own and saved up $300 for a Specialized Flyboy model.
Let’s go Team Murray!!! You’re the first to chime in with a Specialized. ❤️
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Honestly, I wanted a Haro, but had a cousin who was buddies with a bike shop owner, so they hooked it up.
Great video....I remember having the chrome with blue tires..grips. seat and pads.. Murray fs200..I actually looked for one a while ago just to be able to have but have never found one
Silver Rampar R10. Bought it new in August 1978. Wish I still had it.
Right on. I wish still had my first bike too 👍
Hardware/General store Westpoint blazer. Blue and yellow. Still have it 40 years later.
How cool!!! I love that you still have it after all these years 🙌
I had a Team Murray 24" chrome and blue hand me down. So big at the time. Finally got a Grey and White Huffy Sigma. Now I have Haro's, GT's, S&M's, Redline Hutch Windstyler, Monza, etc.... it's a sickness😅
Yeah, 24” at the time might have seemed like a Mountain Bike at the time 🤣 I as much as I was stoked about getting a Dyno, I have more vivid memories riding my Huffy Sigma too. Dang! You have quite the collection now. 🙌🙌🙌🙌
1974...Duel suspension BMX called the Crossrider MX 500 probably a kawasaki or yamaha...super rugged bike could not kill it rode it for years...first BMX in my neighborhood ! Long before it was a trend...cost Dad 75 dollars.
Oh wow, that really awesome. I bet that bike was the envy of every kid in the neighborhood 🙌
Huffy Pro Thunder and i rode it til the handlebars snapped in half. By that time Back To The Future came out and my mind was blown by Marty McFly and his board. Went from Nash - Veraflex Ramp Rat - Vision Psycho Stick -Bones and Dragon Caballero P&P and on and til this day. I know this is a bike channel but skateboarding is everything..... I take that back... I saw the title and just started typing my reply then I noticed whose page I was on. You out of anyone knows where I'm coming from when it comes to that toy with wheels....
Ha!!! When you wrote, “I know this is a bike channel…”, I was like, “I hear you, that’s a sick progression of skateboards!!!” Yes, toys on wheels for the win 🏆 👊👊👊
Schwinn Predator Blue !!!!
Such a classic bike in one of the most classic colors. ❤️🙌
I had a Kent with green tires. Looked cool, but a real pos bike for sure. The first thing to go wrong with dept store bikes were stripped handle bars. EVERYTIME!!
No joke on the stripped handlebars 💯 I never had a Kent bike, but I had one of their scooters 👊
My first bike was a 1986 Diamond Back Viper.
Dang! What a great first bike 🙌
I had one too! Great bike!
87 Haro Master
Dang!!! You started off with a bang 💥 Such a classic bike 🙌❤️
Dang that was the Cadillac of bikes back in the day! Always wanted a Haro.
The movie RAD only made me want to get a Mongoose ASAP! The only problem, like you, was that it was hard convincing my parents to shell out the extra dollars for yet another new bike. I wish that Mongoose would get their act together and reissue some bikes with some nice retro mags/specs on them without a killer price tag. A few years ago, they did a cool job with the Stranger Things throwback Mongoose, it sold well, then they stopped making it....why? I did not get to get one. 😥
Nice!!!! They did a few more after the Stranger Things, but it’s been a couple years now. I think they did a Supergoose and a take on the Californian. And then rereleased some motomags after that. Those all return 404 page not found on their website now. Would be cool if they do some more 👍
Mine was an 85 red Raleigh Burner, I always wanted the Tuff Burner but they were unobtanium back then, you just couldn't get them, they were sold out everywhere you went. I eventually got one a few years ago and it draws too much attention. Everyone shouts out, "Hey, it's a Raleigh Burner" or "Is that a Burner? Nice bike!". People stop and stare, when it's parked up everyone gathers around it to take photos and touch it, This is why I don't take it out too much now.
Everyone in Britain has very fond childhood memories of the Raleigh Burner. It's an iconic bike here. Whenever I take it out it just puts smiles on everyone's face. They stop you just to talk about the bike and the one that they had. It turns grown adults back into children instantly. Not many things can do that but this is one of them. Truth be told, before I got my 82 Tuff Burner, if I saw someone riding one I would have reacted just the same as everyone else. Even today's kids love it. It's a timeless classic. Sadly, even though these people haven't seen a Burner in maybe 30 years, they'll never see another one being ridden again for the rest of their lives, however, just for that one moment, they were a kid again.
That’s interesting about the model being so popular back then, that even today, you get too much attention with it. But so cool how it brings them instantly back to their childhoods. I love it! Thanks for sharing this ❤️
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood One in Five children had one. If you didn't have one; one of your friends did. They were much cheaper than say a Skyway Street Beat so it was very affordable for a lot of parents. The most desirable was the "Tuff Burner". It was advertised everywhere and featured on TV shows like Grange Hill (Season 7 Episode 15) so a lot of kids wanted it but never saw one hence why everyone loses it when they see it today, They were so rare in the 80's and significantly even more now. It became a myth, a legend and an icon of British bikes then and now.
Schwinn predator. Still have it hanging in my garage
🤯 That’s so awesome that you still have it. Love this ❤️
Mine was Huffy Thunder Road it was fun as hell...
Awesome. It seems Thunder Roads were super popular! ❤️
Wow, had the Sting Ray with the crazy chrome spring fork. That fork would clank when you would land heavy on your frond end or endo almost springing you back to where you came from . Lol My next bike was a dark slate blue mongoose with the very light moto-mag wheels, and ended with my 82 Torker which I stIll have. Getting buried with the bike. Lol
“almost springing you back where you came from” 🤣 Wow, you had a lineup with some classic BMX bikes 🙌 So awesome that you still have the Torker after all these years 🤯
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood It's in a box and thought of selling it but can never bring myself to. Always had and will have a bicycle no matter what. Cheers
Mid 90s Specialized Fatboy, all aluminum blue frame, man that boy was so light I could carry it with a pinky!
Nice!!!! You gotta love a super light frame like that ❤️
I used to do a paper route on my brother “s Huffy pro thunder.. it did the job, that’s about it, heads and tails better than my abomination of my 10 speed back then.
That’s such a great perspective. 🙌 Huffy’s weren’t always the best BMX bikes, but they were TONS better than a lot of the alternatives!!!
my first bike was my dads 1996 haro group 1 in chrome and red decals it had a lot of upgrades on it
How cool!!! There’s something extra special about riding a bike that’s served a previous generation 💥🙌🙌
My first BMX was an 1986 Diamondback Viper. Gray frame with white Tioga tires, white grips & seat, and white Dia Compe brakes. My best friend had a Viper Two, which was exactly the same, except for Skyway Tuff Wheels and a laid back seat post. Definitely Rad bikes…at least we thought so! 😂
Definitely rad bikes!!! And the fact that your best friend had the same bike with some variations, had to make it even cooler when you guys rode together. 💥👊
I had a Kent bmx that was white and green with white mag wheels . Then that got stolen then I got a gt performer blue . Then after that I got into mountain bikes and first mountain bike was the schiwnn seira I really thought was king of the world then . Saved all money and put it on layaway greatest feeling to buy your first bike. And now I'm 47 I'm still riding mtbs to this day .
White and green with white mags is such a great color combo. And a blue GT Performer 🙌🙌🙌 It’s cool that you still ride MTB. I have a Salsa Timberjack hard tail MTB, but I’ve been riding my BMX and skateboards a lot more these days 👍
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood sweet good bike to have , I have a commencal meta mtb and then I have a transition pbj dirt jumper also I ride . Love my bikes and have gotten my son into bikes as well he is 10 and has 3 bikes already lol
@@danhart2411 Awesome 👊
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood 👊
Mine was a ROBINSON with the American flag decal in the ROBINSON name all chrome bike🤙
That’s awesome. Such a classic 🙌🙌🙌
My first BMX bike was a cheap huffy and the chain would pop off if I went to fast on it. My buddy's had sigmas and my mom would not get me one. Then I had the best Xmas ever and got a 86 Dyno Detour and I bet I put on over 100,000 miles on that lol now I have a sweet Dyno pro comp 29
Awesome 🙌 Dyno Detours for the win! 👊 Nice on the 29” Dyno. I’ve got my eye on getting one of those 👀
Dyno! I had a Compe which was basically a Detour with normal handlebars which I replaced with the Dyno bullhorn handlebars 👍. Odyssey gyro for a rotor, GT pegs in the back, gt fork stands for the front.
I only knew a few tricks but man, those were some good times 👍.
@@adrianfytr35 you should check out the Dyno 29 inch BMX it's a sweet bike makes me feel like I'm back in 86 when I'm riding it lol
Love all this.
Right on. I love it!!! Thanks 🙏
I’m looking for a bike I has in the late 70’s the bike looked like a motorcycle with front shocks and rubber boots. The rear has chrome shocks. It was heavy as hell. Lol
Right on!!! Was it a Huffy Monoshock?
Schwinn with skyway mags, then a vector. Then I got a hutch Judge. It was stolen out of my garage. Next a trick star. Then I won a gt from BMX action
Wow, that’s quite the line up of awesome bikes, and then winning a GT from BMX Action is the icing on the cake 🤯
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I mowed a lot of yards back in the day for bmx. But I just filled out a survey and mailed it and won. I believe it was a mach one? Chrome with gt hubs...I was skateboarding pretty heavily at the time and gave it to a friend to use and never saw it again 😭 what was your first BMX?Nice chatting with you sir, rock on
@@josiahmontgomery4860 my first bmx was a metallic blue Murray from around 82 or 83. Then I got a Huffy Sigma in 85, and then an 87 Dyno Detour.
Huffy Stu Thomsen! I just sent you a lil reel with a pic of me on my first day with that bike!! _ and now I just started reviving a 1986 Torker 2 - 280 Freestyle! (something I could have never afforded back in the day!
Thanks for sharing that reel!!! So much nostalgia packed in there 🤩🤩 I especially loved seeing the Hell Track map. So cool 🙌. And Stu Thomsen for the win 🏆 ❤️
Remember huffy tried to come back in the 90s sponsoring todd lyonns who snapped his signature frame during a run. That was the last hope of huffy
Yeah, it seems that they've been out of it for quite a while now. We'll see how this next iteration goes, they seem to have some momentum going this time around. 🤷♂️
Snapping the "wild man" frame (that was supposed to be there super tuff street and dirt high end setup) during the x games was the ender of all enders.
I had a Huffy Thunder Road, then an AMF with Troxel mags. First big one was a Mongoose Super goose. I bought my 86 Schwinn Predator Free Form EX new from landscaping jobs
Huffy Thunder Road!!!! 🙌And a Supergoose and a Predator. Nice! You had some classics ❤️
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I was lucky to find another Predator a few years ago and fully restored it
@@TheSupervillain316 I love it!! 🙌
My first love was a hi-ten black/red Raleigh BMX I bought at Woolco (Red Deer, AB) with my paper route money. I owned it for about six months before it was stolen :-(
However, my next bike would be the one I would race for about 3 seasons - a Diamondback Senior Pro. I still remember the older English bike mechanic who helped me pick out the bike and the maintenance tip he gave me at the time (which I still use to this day). I learned my lesson and that Diamondback lived in my bedroom when not out with me. To this day (at 55) when I close my eyes to go to sleep I still see (maybe imagine) shinny chrome glistening in the darkness.
I love hearing the stories about bikes purchased with paper route and lawn mowing money. The anticipation of all the hard work about to pay off when you finally get to drop the pile of cash and coins off at the store. ❤️ And the other hand, too many stories about bikes being stolen. What a bummer!!! 💔 I love the story about you sleeping with the Diamondback in your room, and how you can still remember/imagine it being right there with you today. How cool! Thanks so much for sharing :)
My first "BMX" bike would have to be a Team Murray. It was sometime the early 80s when I spotted this bike at a garage sale. I think it was maybe $50? I convinced my parents to buy it for me. It was chrome with black (Lester?) mags. It was my first true BMX style bike that replaced my banana seat Schwinn Stingray.
Let’s go, Team Murray!!! I love it. Sometimes those garage sale finds were the best!
My first was a mongoose mini Californian. It was nice and light!
I think that must have been one of the ideal starter bikes ❤️
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood It was nice, too bad I don’t still have it!
85” Redline 500A series 3. White with chrome bars. Ukai wheels.
Dang!!! What a sick first bike!!!! 💥🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood $225. And my last build was like $1500. How times have changed
@@DuhYaThink Yeah, inflation 🤣
I still my Huffy bike!👊
Oh wow!!! That’s really awesome. One of these days I’m gonna try and pick up an old Huff Sigma, but it’s so cool that you still have your Huffy 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodTo be clear, it's not a Sigma! Just a Huffy, with a couple of gears!👊
Growing up with little resources I learned how to ride on a random bike at 11 years old. From there on I begged my mom for a bike and a year later she saved up and bought me Wester Flyer. It wasn't a bmx bike, it had a banana seat and I still took it to the bmx track. Yeah kids on their Mongoose made fun of me, but I didn't care. I just wanted to ride and hit the jumps.
Bike didn't last long, soon frame was cracked, wheels bent and a total junk.
So I begged again for a bmx bike and this time I wanted a Mongoose, but my family couldn't afford it.
My dear grandma made a sacrifice and bought me a Huffy Nitro $89 at Kmart.
Boy did I have fun on that bike. I learned how to wheelie and jump on that bike. I was still looked down by some but other kids started to ride with me and give pointers on how to race and jump.
Well eventually I broke that frame too. That's when I learned you get what you pay for. So I was 14 years old at the time started working as a bagger at a grocery store saved some money and put a Haro FST on layaway. It took me almost a year to pay it off, I got really good at riding the half pipe and dirt jumps and some flatland trick. I am now in my 50's and still have my Haro as matter of fact I just restored it and bike riding it.
Wow!!! I love stories like these. Thanks so much for sharing. I love how your grandma sacrificed to help you keep going. And it’s so awesome that you still have the Haro and that you’re riding it. Rad! 💥
Over the years I had several bikes. I also had a Haro Group 1 from the 80's. That one was stolen from me a few times but luckily I was the only guy that had Haros in my town. Every time I was able to get it back. Last time I just found the frame and didn't feel like building it back, instead I bought a Specialized Fatboy Hemi that I still have to this day.
1987 Team Murray Street System 330 for me.
Nice! Let’s go Team Murray!!! 🎶 “Murray moves you faster...” 🎶
stock scrambler 3636
tricky cycle pro , killer bike
chrome STAR frame and forks and of course starbars ,
then i moved up to
turbo leary , araya bullseye takagi shimano dx , sweet ride
hutch racer
gt pro racer , the best of all, imo
white performer which i didnt like or need and sold for 250 , what i paid used / unused
lol
Wow, I think you’re the first person that I’ve ever heard say they didn’t like their GT Performer. But that’s a super interesting progression of cool bikes!
My first bike was either a 86 or 87 Skyway street beat, don't remember which
Oh man!!! 🙌 I loved those Street Beats!!! What a great first BMX 🤩
Murray X24 was my one and only BMX bike. I was the shortest kid in my class with the largest bike.
I never learned to do a wheelie on that thing but I rode over someone that wiped out in a bike-a-thon
Whoa! 😬 The bigger wheels probably made it easier to roll over the kid 🤣
I had a hand-me-down Schwinn Stingray that I put terrible BMX handlebars and saddle on (purchased at Grandpa Pidgeon's with money from recycling aluminum cans that I had the neighborhood dads save for me). I then briefly stepped up to a CYC Stormer that got stolen the same summer and then gave up and moved on to a hand-me-down 10 speed.
Dang, I totally forgot about Grandpa Pigeons! ❤️ Those CYC’s were cool bikes! I hate hearing how so many bikes got stolen back in the day.
CW California Freestyle in orange. Loved that bike. 🔥
Whoa!!!! What an amazing first bike. So rad!!! 🙌💥
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yep, walked the neighborhood before that. Worked hard for a whole summer to pay for it. I went to watch Dizz Hicks light it up on the CW tour about 45 minutes away from my house. 🙂
@@chrisf.9479 Dizz Hicks!!! 🤩 I love the stories about working all summer to get a dream bike like this. Such great memories
My first bmx was a huffy then went too a mongoose super goose, true freestyle bike early 80’s was the diamond back hot streak (grey) then moved onto the hutch trickstar (princess pink) later got the mongoose decade pro (magenta/ chrome)
Dang!!! That’s a really nice progression with some amazing bikes!!! I always wanted a pink Trick Star back in the day 🤩
My first "real" BMX was a 1983 FMSA. I had a Stingray before that.
So awesome!!! Thanks for chiming in 🙏
I scrapped aluminum cans to pay for my first bike, a red 1984 mongoose Californian. Later I moved on to freestyle and my brother “took” it college and never saw it again 😩
Wow!!! That must been a LOT of cans, but such a classic model ❤️ Sorry to hear your brother lost it 🥲
Mongoose Special Edition. Sweet bike. I wanted it forever. Then I got it and was hanging out behind the Burger King with a girl smoking weed. We went inside and ate, then I walked away with her and forgot my bike. I never saw the bike again, or the girl.
Dang! That must have been a bummer when you went back to look for it and it was long gone. 🥲
I always had a bike, but don't remember the models of any of them until high school, when I got a GT Mach One from Trend Bikes in Austin, TX. It was stolen a couple years later :((
GT Mach One, so classic 🙌🙌🙌 Dang it sucks that it was stolen, but at least you had a couple years instead of a couple weeks with it. 😔
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yep, but I was skating 98% of the time :P
@@TuesdaysTurn Ha!!! Yeah, once I started skating, I didn’t pay much attention to my Dyno anymore… so I hear you. But sorry it was stolen anyway 👊
1980 or 81 huffy pro thunder 5 then a robinson, best one was my pk ripper❤
Love the transition from the Huffy to the PK Ripper. So rad!!! ❤️👊
stu thomsen and john piant raced gt's with huffy stickers on it
oh wow, that’s really interesting! 🤯
John Piant, there's a name I hadn't heard in awhile. Grew up racing at Plantation raceway (NBL) in St. Louis county. Loved watching him race. Wish I had pictures of his 83? Toyota 4x4 he had when he got signed.
either 83 or 84 MT Racing then i saved up money washing dishes and bought a Haro Sport.
Love it!!! That must have been a lot of dishes! 👊
i had the lightest BMX bike made in the 80s, the DiamondBack Formula1. cost me 366 dollars in 1984 with a GT layback seat post, i didn't like the look of the Diamondbacks. it didn't have the brace at the curve like GT did. oh, and i bought the bike not my mom or dad, i through papers plus worked at 7-11.
Nice!!! I love the lawn mowing and paper route to save up for a dream bike stories like yours. 🙌. Diamondbacks are awesome 🤩
Did you even have a Columbia vote!? I made the best trick/bmx from a Columbia!
No, you’re the first to chime in from a Columbia. I love it ! 👍
Chrome and blue Takara Outlaw. With the small t, instead of the DG.
right on. Out of all the people chiming in here and on Instagram, I think you’re only the second one starting with a Takara. Interesting! ❤️
I had a used webco
Nice!!!! Those were some interesting bikes. It’s a shame the company didn’t last longer.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood yes to bad.
Love the channel! ... but you need a Rad 80's logo instead of the Sesame Street kids logo. Does not fit your channel brand IMO.
And add a 83 Predator (that got stolen) to the list :)
I hear you. When I started the channel, the idea was to do more 80s kid nostalgia in the context of a group of neighborhood kids. If you have ideas for a different logo, I’d love to hear them 👍
Ramper was not available in UK. RAleigh AMerica PARts = RAMPAR. Vaguely similar bikes (gusset with two holes, loop tail, very weird geometry) but nothing even close to what was in the UK. The UK Raleigh Aero Pro Burner (f&F made by Tange) in the UK was as good a bike as any available at the time at a considerably cheaper price.. I said it before & I will say it again.... build up that Hutch. Buy a cheap stem or whatever if required and put it together.
Thanks for the clarification about the Rampar and the Aero Pro Burners in the UK.
Takara. Probably a 1980 or 81'.
how cool!!! I think you were the first to chime in with a Takara 👊
dyno air
but my fav bike was a gt bump. thick boi
Awesome. I’ve always loved Dynos!
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodHell yeah, Dyno! Dave Voelker was king of the street riders back then and Dino Deluca was tearing it up on the ramps!
Can't believe those names stayed in my head lol.
Walmart BMX. Specifically Hyper Bike Co but the walmart class.
interesting. I think you’re the first to chime in with a Hyper Bike co. Cool!
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood first bike I actually rode for tricks at least, I did have a mongoose or two prior to it.
your thumbnail said "1885"
Oh wow, now that’s old school 🤣 Thanks for pointing that out, it was an easy enough fix 👍
Mongoose is not a high end bike. Never was. My first real BMX bike was a Schwinn Predator. My first real BMX was a Hutch Pro Racer.
That’s fair about Mongoose, but they were still a step up from the department store bikes back in the day. Dang, a Hutch Pro Racer 🙌🤩
@@UserUser-zc6fx That was me. I had a Murray and a Huffy, and my buddy’s Mongoose seemed like a Ferrari compared to mine 🤣
No doubt about them being a step up from a Sears bought Huffy. And I bought that Hutch and continued to modify it by collecting money from my paper routes, lawn mowing, snow shovelling, and as much work as I could get from my neighbors. Along with the money from the sale of my Predator. It was a labor of love.
Kent - 1974. RUGER
Awesome!!!
BMX 2000 ... first available department store BMX 1981 here in Germany. A few years later - after working all school holidays - i bought a lavender HUTCH Trick Start
Oh wow!!! A lavender Trick Star must have been amazing as a kid back then 🙌🤩