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    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    As long as this has become a recurrent theme in a few threads...

    does any one remember 36t chainwheels, 7.5lbs frame, and 4pegs.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_-a_0STyQ&NR=1
    • CommentAuthorfilthpunx
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    FUCK YEAH!!! i dream about those days every night.i always get a good kick to when i take out the chrome dirtbike and remember how all my bmx bikes would weigh 40 pounds, were all fucked up loose and haggard and yet id still skip school and ride 30 miles away to ride some shitty ass spot haha god damn i miss those days
    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    i am just amazed that any of us could ever even hop off a loading dock with bikes that weighed 40 lbs. i am a small guy now and when i was 15-16 i probably only weighed 120lbs. slinging around a 35lb beast.

    that point i was also still using 3/8" rear axles and would end up swapping them out once a month.
    • CommentAuthorthe rabbi
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    i had three pegs at most. an odyssey modulever with a gyro, haro slim bars, a wtp kh-01 frame, everlast forks, odyssey hazzard wheels. oh the memories.
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    I had a mongoose hooligan in the early 90's. I loved that bike. It was so heavy. Home made steel pegs that were the size of beer cans. I miss it.
    • CommentAuthorjam guy
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    remember 12 piece bars and peregrine crazy 98's. Parts used to suck. Remember how shitty hubs used to be?
    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2009
     
    hubs were so shitty it was amazing. i've rebuilt so many bmx hubs i cant even count. just take some random parts an old axle, some smooth rocks and pack it in the hub shell with some white lithium grease and you are good to go.

    i will never forget s&m pitchforks with peg bosses i wanted one so bad. and a war pig.
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    I always wanted a first Gen. Haro air master. You talk about a tank!
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    I always wanted a first Gen. Haro air master. What a tank that thing was eh?
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    Hahahaha. damn. My Haro Backtrail or whatever the hell it was, with rusty chrome bars, four pegs, a seat with more duct tape than foam, and a gyro. God, that thing must have weighed damn near 40 pounds. I rode that thing till the tires were bald and all the grip pins on the pedals were gone. Now my BMX bike weighs 23 pounds. Sure has come a long way.


    That's back when riding was just about going out and having fun, just crusing, chillin at the dirt jumps. Now in all forms of riding, you have to faster, have the lightest bike, the cool shoes or whatever. I'd kill for those old summer days. Tangent......
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    Remember, it's not what you ride, it's the pleasure you get from the ride that count’s...
    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2009
     
    i sold my last bmx a little less than a year ago to pay rent and medical bills and i regret it every day....



    ****cry*
    • CommentAuthorjam guy
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2009
     
    Posted By: Aaron Ci sold my last bmx a little less than a year ago to pay rent and medical bills and i regret it every day....



    ****cry*


    Me too......... fuck. I am trying to buy another one.
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    Hahahaha, damn, I'm selling mine to pay for school. It's a sweet bike, but I need the money. I look at it and wonder how I can let it go, but I have to. Sad sad day.
    • CommentAuthorthe rabbi
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2009
     
    if i had to, i'd sell my fixed gear before i let go of my bmx bike. there are too many memories attatched to that thing.
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    36t? I don't think I've ever had a bmx bike with anything less than a 44t chainwheel, flatland bikes aside.

    I was in the constant cycle of saying "I don't need this thing", selling it, buying a new one, selling it, over and over again. I just sold my last two bmx bikes, and I think I might've finally kicked the habit. I would just hurt myself if I tried to do any of that now. I just need to built a burly single speed mountain bike instead
    • CommentAuthorfilthpunx
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2009
     
    haha yeah fuck those little sprockets i always rode 44/16 still do maybe im just stuck in the 90s haha
    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2009 edited
     
    you are right about that, 44 was pretty standard issue. 36 was kind of the bastard stage of gearing.

    the reason i started riding brakeless was because i dropped down to 30x11 right when that stuff was starting to be cool (i was so trendy, oh and switched to lhd). i turns out i was so cool with my tiny gearing that brakes wouldn't cleat on my old ass frame.

    i was also still running 180mm odyssey black widow cranks.
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    Posted By: Aaron CAs long as this has become a recurrent theme in a few threads...

    does any one remember 36t chainwheels, 7.5lbs frame, and 4pegs.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-_-a_0STyQ&NR=1


    Epic section.

    Used to love Vic Ayala's part in Animal 01 as well:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-hpLhTmLHU

    Feeble grinds on brick for life. Don't know why whoever uploaded it changed the music.

    While I'm reminiscing, Will Taubin in Neighborhood Superheroes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLcdAgZ_7XA

    I still run 4 x pegs (we stay street in the UK), but got rid of the 36t Tree and G-Sport Homer a while ago.
    • CommentAuthorAaron C
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2009
     
    mike aitken rules:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV6Ia86OkeA

    some solid riding:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6P6_7p5e5k&feature=related

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