Anyone Else Into Old School BMX

I snapped that puppy in half and forced my parents to get me a bmx bike with motomags that weighed more than I did lol

 

Not a Sting but I do have an old Kent in that colour

 

Finally scooped up a General Lee..2013, so the Walmart sort but I'm happy with it and the price was right. Need to build it now to my liking..

 

Old school?
The transition from Stingray. Tuff 1 on the rear, and Tuff 2 up front. The main trouble we had was with the gooseneck. Stockers couldn’t take the jumps. Screech! And your bars slid forward. The Tuf-Neck solved that. Diamond frames, fluted seat posts, and anodized everything came to us soon after.

The OP’s Mongoose is kickass, by the way. Redline, Kuwahara, and Mongoose - those were the bikes we wanted.

 

That’s badass! Lol

 

Found this old pic from USA BMX website. Jumping the water jump at the Nationals in Fredericksburg, Maryland circa 1996. My Dad always said I would win more races if I didn’t jump so much. All the other 16 experts were too scared of the water jump. This was my first race back after 3 years of no racing when my Dad moved us from SoCal to Delaware. Moving to Delaware pretty much ended my BMX career.

 

Watch out for that Gator!!!

 

Back in the 70's we would cut off the forks off a huffy, pull the front wheel off a sting ray, hammer the tube style forks onto the flat stingray forks to make a chopper.
Found this newer bike at a swap meet this last summer and now have all sorts of mods in mind for it! Already put some old 8"tall x 21"wide BMX bars on it(would like to go with even taller/narrower bars if I can find some).

 

^^^I remember we would take the ape hanger handlebars and bend them together to get a real chopper look. That's a pretty cool project!

 

I've had this Hutch Trick Star at the house for a few months. Belongs to a friend & been going thru it, cause he'll be riding it, not just a wall hanger.

 

Holy crap. That looks even original paint..and that stem..

 

This is a nice piece of nostalgia

 

That is awesome!

 

I'm so tempted just because it was my favorite childhood movie
RAD Series 29 - BMX - Bikes (gtbicycles.com)

 

I'm leaning towards a 29" Big Ripper. It's a 7 speed. Couple years back I bought a Skyway 24" with tuff wheels but forgot what a bitch a one speed bike can be when you live in the hills...

 

That's absolutely gorgeous

 

Local group of collectors got together to put on this show today. 50+ bikes turned out

 

This is awesome!

 

Some really nice stuff out here.