RAD THE MOVIE CRU JONES DREAM BMX BIKE BUILD
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2022
- Finally building my dream BMX. The 1985 Mongoose Californian from the 1986 film RAD. The bike that was owned by Cru Jones. It has taken some time to gather all the bits. But the time has come. Thank you to all who support my strange hobby. Enjoy the build and the ASMR goodness.
Thanks to Bill Allen and family for the Autographed number plate. You can get his book. My Rad Career at
myradcareer.com/
Thanks to McGinty Media for the Music.
“Neon” written and performed by McGintyMedia.com
mcgintymedia.com/
MURRAY TRIBUTE BIKE
• 1983 MURRAY BMX RESTOR... 
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Similar in my hometown, we had BMX, Skateboards, and Surfing. So RAD, Thrashin, and North shore were our movies! This bike turned out beautiful 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
One of my all time favorites. I recently bought the bluray steel book, it holds up. My 5 yo son loves it.
Work of Art from a great era!
Had to watch on mute because of that water and birds was so distracting. Love the build and thanks for doing it! Rad for life! Bmx for life! Skate for life!
I got my first My first BMX in 1981 for my communion present; twas a used Black Mongoose, with red Araya rims, from what I remember. The frame was probably 79, or 80: by the time the movie RAD came out I had a chrome, and white Haro sport . My friends and I watched that movie every single day, afterwards, we then went outside to practice the tricks from the movie.💫 RIP Tommy.
I had a 16” diamondback mini-viper in the late 80s early nineties and my sister had a viper with powder blue confetti paint it was sweet I wish I still had them my nephew has the mini viper I think
My first bmx was a gt Mach two I had a red gt piston headset put on it and odyssey y-bars it had red mohawk hubs, then I had a 2011 specialized pro series it got stolen I got it back then it got stolen again now I have a specialized Sirrus-x 2.0 gravel bike
Cru Jones singlehandedly reignited the superhero movie genre.
Alright dudes, let’s walk this sucker!
Awesome build!
Cool. I remember my first bike's colors but not the brand. My white Predator is the one i remember most. I had another but it got stolen. We'd watch this movie & then go out & try tricks. We werent successful...but fun times
Love this lol the goosebumps when the chorus kicks in. Watched this movie a million times back in the day. You gotta do the dance scene now too.
i feel 35 years younger after watching you video! brings back memories for sure. I myself is a fan of RAD and a bmx rider before. Its so cool to see other people from other places who has the same love and passion. Thanks for the Video! Awesome job for the build!
Love the drone footage at the end and the music, agree the movie is cheesy but the BMX tricks are RAD! Bike is Sickkk!
A spit..😁
Awesome bike, brings back so many memories, my dream bike is a Hutch Pro Star, but this is totally rad.
Still have my '86 GT Performer. I want a PK Ripper. 🤘
CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT BEAUTIFUL BIKE ....BRINGS BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES...THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO ❤❤ I WANT ONE 👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I was obsessed with this movie..everything about it…my parents bought me a chromoly GT performer with pegs and I rode the crap out of it! Learned every trick I could! It WAS my childhood
Harbor Freight sells Evapo Rust. I used it on all the rusty hardware on a Diamond Back I restored for my son, and it made the hardware look brand new.
I have a 1986 Californian I totally forgot about this thanks for the memories I’m gonna grease and polish that thing right now it needs new stickers it only has the one ont the top tube that says Californian
Nice build, and nice backyard too! Suggest lowering that seat post about 10 inches so the frame seat tube doesn't crack.
no thats how they're meant to be its 1980s bmx
@@3.000ft Many frame seat tubes cracked in the 1980s because the seat was too high (increased leverage). Especially with a laid back seatpost shifting the weight further back.
Totally Rad! Great idea. 💯BMX 🏁 🌞BIKE ZEN 🌊
this is great - I'm collecting parts now for my own build. great work, man!
Wow i remember one of my friends in the neighborhood in the 80s had a lower end mongoose but not as nice as this Californian. Very cool build ,nicely done up.
Rad! Any mongoose is cool. Thank you 🙏 for watching and the compliment!
@@ahickBro! Awesome!!! 💪🏼
I had a chromoly Mongoose with round holes in the rims that went all the way around the inside and with red inserts. I think the wheels were red as well. Sure wish I could have that bike again.
Great video! Really cool bike - looks like I need to go find Rad and watch it. Music is awesome too!
🙏 thank you so much for watching!
And the great comment!
Great build Awesome video. Love Rad, Grew up with a GT Pro Performer trying to master all of the tricks. Nice choice in watches as well!!!!!
Awesome build!
Thanks!
I really Appreciated this Video BMX Build was Awesome.RAD The Movie is an All Time Cult Classic of The 80's.And I'm glad to be a Product of that Era.😎👍🏾
This is like a ASMR video. I fell asleep twice already 😴
I thought the movie was cheese but I liked it anyway's! The bmx trick are sick!
best bmx movie ever... we used to have the VCR in the motor home playing on repeat during the motocross days back when my feet didn't touch the ground on the 80cc bike I raced my dad would place a wood block under my foot at the starting line lol.. we'd all be watching Rad if we were we'd be on 20in bikes or dirt bikes .. those were truly the "golden years " back when the only negative part of life were crashing which just ment ud be side line with the chick's lol even the worst case scenario was a best case scenario lol
Very nice 🎉
Much appreciated! Thank you 🙏
Love this movie and still watch it with my kids to this day. I had a Skyway Teardrop and an Elf back in the day. Loved those bikes!
I just brought the blue ray disc one of my fav movies of all time
Beautiful!
Murray X20 FTW!
I just picked up an all.original 84 californian off offer up in salem nh for 150.00 bucks . Nice build 👍
We love this movie to this day! I can still do a rock walk, wheelie-cat walk, rear tire 360, and other tricks, but they’re actually easier on my mountain bike for the most part. The Cru Jones Murray can’t be confused with a mongoose due to the rear end. Mongoose used a single tube bent into a U rather than tubing being welded together to the rear axle drop ins.
When there’s thunder in your heart
Absolutely love it, I’ve got a Haro frame sitting in my garage collecting dust for the last 30 years I wanna do the exact same thing with. We grew up wearing out RAD VHS with all the other buddies in the neighborhood
Thats cool really cool nice nice build
I have 2 1984 Skyway TA’s, Mongoose Pro Class, and 2 Hutch Pro Stars, and 1 Hutch Trick Star that my brother and I have had since new in the 80’s. All original chrome finish, we never had painted bikes from that time. We liked and wanted a Haro Group 1 RS1, but our parents said we had enough. We also had a 1986 Mongoose Miniscoot that we should have never gotten rid of.
Man the wheels makes all the difference, without them it just looks like every other bike I've owned growing up, but with them it looks like a entirely different animal
I used to pretend I was Cru on my paper route. Doing rock- walks and rollbacks with my paper bag on the handlebars.
Cool vid.
Ride on 🤘
Nice, if you're ever in Vegas. We should ride
sick build brother!
This was my first real bike in 85 but had Pro Class rims!
Great build came out nice
Thank you 🙏
Beautiful bike nice job looks amazing.....Stay RAD!! .... ✌️
Has to get a follow for the RAD intro. Pure awesomeness.
Thank you 🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ive always wanted this bike
Nice dude!!! Here a big fan of rad 😊
I miss my old bike. I had a old redline from 1984. I had that bike forever. man I miss it
I love the movie and it was good to see you build Cru's bike. I have always wanted to build one like that but I don't have the funds. So seeing you build it was Rad.
I've watched this movie hundreds of times.... I still watch it once a year ish now 🤣
Now. Go do some back flips on it. 😂. Rad build !
So good! ❤
Shoulda lowered that 40” seat post for the cinematics tho. 😅
That is perfect congrats.
Badass!
Very nice build there. Well done.
Thank you 🙏! Much appreciated!
I really love this cool video and how fantastic your RAD replica Cru Jones bicycle turned out for you to ride !
Thank you so much 🙏! It is amazing to ride. I felt like I was 12 years old again.
33 an peps still sleep !its been goin on since day one . GEMATRIA is your friend my foes
BAD ASS!!!!
This wa My bike! Bought it off a neighbor who was getting his license.
Sold it to me for thirty bucks. My. Favorite bike!
great work. bike looks great. fun to ride i am sure. i do rad themed edits also. i talked to cru on the phone once. super nice guy. i was supposed to do a event with him 2 years ago but it got canceled during covid .
Nice edit.
It was actually filmed in my neck of the woods, northwest Calgary (bowness park) and Cochrane, Alberta (just north of Calgary)
Sadly few people here know that
I actually wanted either the Redline RL2A or the Haro Master. Instead my parents got me a Columbia because it was florescent green...LOL!
Edit: was such a let down when I first saw Mongoose and Diamondback being sold at Walmart...
Looks amazing but damn you need to lower that seat a little bit you're going to snap that pole right off😮
great build a replica is on my to do list and I hope I'll be able to do it soon
Thank you! Any questions let me know.
@ahick only one question and I'm kinda nit picking but why not go with some aluminum wheels and sealed bearings???
@@yardsalecycles I’m planning on getting some of the new rerelease proclass wheels. So these were just some budget wheels I found that were chrome.
Damnit ...!!! I miss these days .. bad a%$ bike.
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I’ve had/have pretty much every component on that build other than the farm and fork, and the spider.
Nice
This movie was in this big ass video rental mechanical box in our variety store when I was a kid and was always rented out by me or my friends which all rode! Gave us great inspiration and would tear up the streets after a watch! Great memories, would love to have this bike on my wall! I had a chrome Kuwahara with red rims,seat with red and white checkered pads for my first "real" bmx in 86. Still have my Redline but not riding anymore due to disability but will never sell it!
You have earned my subscription today 🙋🏻
🙏 thank you for subscribing!
@@ahick You know it🤟🏼
Nice video. Rad is one of my all time favorite movies.
Also, your yard screams southern AZ suburbia. Am I right?
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👍 Engineering work....
Thank you 🙏 for watching and commenting!
I never did dig Rad. Freestyle or Flatland was not for me. Though I did have a GT Pro Performer lol! But I liked riding my CW BMX bike more. The 80's was about Cross ups and Tabletops. Salute from San Diego BTW killer build
Rad. Was a redline guy myself, but yeah
Can’t beat a redline! I love the old skyways and GT performers too! Thank you for watching! 👍👍👊🏻
A little surprised there weren’t 3 piece cranks on that bike.
Back when Mongoose wasn't a Walmart brand 😢
man, I remember those pedals.. If your foot slipped off them they'd tear your shins up lololol
Bro in '86 that 'goose would've been stolen in less time than it took Cru to land that 'AirWalk'😂😂😂
💥GR8 BUILD
💥PK RIPPER 4life😂😂😂
Do you happen to know the axel size? Having a hard time figuring if the 3/8" is what I need or is that for new school.
Awesome build!
Where did you get the chain ring from?
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Well you got the frame and fork right. I guess that’s something.
Was wondering where you got the blue power plate from?
Trying to track one down myself for ages...
I road BMX since 1981 and the only part of Rad I wanted was the girls with Bart Taylor.
That zebra print was amazing!!
So 🔥 🥵
I hope that's a 22.6mm diameter seat post instead of a far more common 7/8" (22.2mm) diameter seat post. You'll damage your frame if you clamp a 7/8" seat post in there without a 22.2-to-22.6mm shim. If it is 22.6mm, where did you find it? Also, you have it adjusted really high. Is it inserted to the minimum depth marking?
You can get Pro Class lookalike rims from BMXGuru for $40-something each, and you can also get a pair of full wheels built around those rims for around $200. It would be great to have originals, but they are big money, especially if you want ones that are new or like new.
Pro Class rims aren't the only things you're missing, by the way. Those handlebars are wrong too. The handlebars that came on Mongoose loop tails for several years in the 1980s had a very high cross bar, about as high as the grips, and Cru's bike had those stock handlebars. His two best friends' bikes had them too, because they were Blue Max brand, which was just Mongoose under a different name (made by BMX Products, Inc., same as Mongoose).
Your XC-II style bear trap pedals are wrong too. Cru's bike had the stock platform pedals (SR P-468), complete with the stock reflectors still attached.
Your Viscount Dominator seat is wrong. Cru's bike had the stock seat which was a Selle Royal Aeroyal lookalike.
Your hinged Dia-Compe seat post clamp is the right type, but it was silver on Cru's bike (which is the stock color) rather than blue.
Your A'ME Tri grips are wrong. You can buy officially licensed reproductions of the stock Mongoose grips which were made using the original molds, for about $30, from the same place that I assume you got your reproduction decals from.
And it should have small diameter axle pegs on the back. Remember the scene where Cru's sister was riding on his pegs?
Beautiful tribute. I just picked up an 84 and am looking to do the same. Do you have a build sheet for this bike?
Thank you so much @lewis8281 🙏 I do not have a build sheet. Mostly
Purchased piece by piece on EBay and BMxmuseum.com . The crank for example is a reproduction I found from Australia. It is a fun hunt.
@ahick Thanks anyway, Yup. Found the crank set in Australia as well. I'm trying to find some nice comparable bars.
Awesome build! I'm building a Californian...do you happen to know if both front/rear calipers are marked 1000a or is the front a 900a?
You did a great job with the bike and your video!
I believe they are both 1000a. I will double check tonight. Great question.
Yes they were both 1000a
@@ahick thanks for the info! Very appreciated!
Need some drilled pro-class wheels for it :)
You have a parts list?
Dam I need that bike lol 😂 I’m only 46 I can still ride
Where did you get all the parts?
Always loved the Cru bike but imho still doesn’t touch the bikes from the movie BMX Bandits 😅
Does anyone sell a kit to build this exact bike like you built? Thanks
What brand rims did you use?
_I had a GT m1 and it blaci and chrome with 5 stars rims and my Best Bro had gotten his hands on a Skyway that is the Lightest Trick Bike in the world But anyway i heard my dog in the back yard barking up a storm and i went outside where my bike was at on the front porch and i was too late yo These cats had ganked my bike and allready riding over the Lakes Dam of one my familys Lake and it was a connector to a dead end that connects to the neighborhood thats butted up to my neighborhood and I was so Mad the one day that didnt put my bike in the backyard or sometimes i would just bring it into my bedroom because the GT was one of the baddest trick bikes Expecially after we all watched the movie rad yo Rad was my favorite movie ever then gleaming the cube was a good movie _
Wait, no Spintek Gyro for double sided cherry pickers?
My dream build:
1983 Cooks bros. Bmx Racer