Who still rides BMX (Mid-School Modern)

this.

although a good service and its better than a no-name bike for someone wanting to dabble in bmx again.

No worries, the earlier ones do have a certain cleaner sleeker feel about them (hence i.m keeping the skyway rep on the basis that one day i'll find the right frame...)

Good luck and my tip is make sure you look at the pics carefully ( i may or may not have ended up with a kids Dyno once...)

Its a universal turbo mag i found behind dumped at and old work place... (still have the fake skyways somewhere)

It was completely blasted and powdercoated though before i used it. I'll try and dig out some before pics later

Ammaco used to do this to their forks...



Have a look at BMX Museum

If you come across a Ammaco 202 let me know, i have a mate whose been searching for one for yrs...

Took my El Camino on a 150 mile jaunt around the M25 on Sunday to pick up a 24" BMX frame I won on ebay. Annoyingly it was the first auction that ended and I was winning on about five others which were great bikes and an absolute bargain. It seems clear not many people are bidding on ebay at the moment.

But anyway this one won first, so I had to resist maintaining my lead in the final minutes of all the others because my wife would kill me if any more bikes show up. The back garden currently looks like an Evan's Cycles outpost.

It's a Felt brand midschool 24" apparently. I did really want to do a proper old school build... gusset, side caliper brakes, one piece crank etc. But you cant win them all. I'll semi-oldschool this one with a period correct paint job, some 24" Skyways I've got first dibs on, some CW flat top bars and a braced laidback seatpost.

Once stripped to bare metal I might explore spot welding a gusset in just for purely aesthetic purposes, and I might also grind off the stays for the modern brake cables and calipers for a smooth 80's look. But I need to buy a wheel first to see if the rear hanger bridge can be drilled for a side puller that will actually work on the rim.

If all that comes to nothing though I'll simply paint this one up, add as many 80's components as I can and then sell it and do another one.

If i knew you were going to go that route that you could of had the spare frame that matches the Mongoose but is Dyno branded and could do with refinishing and saved yourself the joys of the M25...

I thought you were after a fully working one, not another project....



ps. got some fake skyways with red tyres that'll match the paint

I'm fairly sure they are 20's but I'll double check and let you know.

I've actually sold my entire collection of bikes in a mad flurry of activity to clear some space and also make the cost of importing new brake parts for my car a bit easier for my wife to swallow.

My Pashley Tube Rider sold for less than I had hoped but ebay is awash with the more modern factory made versions, so the fact mine was a first generation 1994 bike and frame number 119 of the entirely hand-constructed first run of frames had no traction at all on the global superhighway. It was competing with cheaper modern versions for as low as £200. One bloke even had a frame and fork set for sale saying he'd found it in a skip and wanted £20 for it. That kind of knocks the kudos out of things somewhat.

However my self-built chrome cruiser on a custom chromed Schwinn frame, which looked like it belonged in a 1990s Kid Frost video, more than compensated for the Pashley's poor performance. People were fighting over it and it unexpectedly earned me a pretty penny. Not bad for a bike I threw together out of spare parts in San Diego in 1996 purely so I could hit the beach quicker.

The other three bikes were unremarkable machines of no known provenance, and sold unremarkably but swiftly.

So having sold off all my cruisers and purchased new brakes for my car, I've restocked with just one bike, which arrives tomorrow... a total bargain on ebay because the daft curse word selling it had (a) spelled the name wrong, (b) put it in the wrong category and (c) neglected to mention it's a 24" BMX rather than the more standard 20", so it wasn't showing up anywhere where interested buyers would find it...



SE Racing So Cal Flyer. 2018 but with some original components missing (namely it has a Mafiabikes seat right now). Original crank and headset though. I hope they are original wheels but time will tell.

The So Cal Flyer is a slightly taller frame but essentially the same as the Floval Flyer. The Floval is specced for pure racing, the So Cal has a slightly lower spec for street riding and mild shenanigans. It's not a ramp bike, but it's only 27lbs light and it will bunny hop old ladies with ease and generally get into mischeif on the hand rail outside the post office. It's not a racing bike but it's geared for a decent speed whilst also being usable up hills.

I will be hitting the local skate park at the weekend.

I anticipate breaking an arm or shattering a knee cap in 5, 4, 3....

I still intend to do a full frame and fork strip on the Felt Brink 24" but now I'm not in a rush to do that as I have this to ride. The Brink will be more of a ramp thrashing machine as it's a more durable frame for that and I can add whatever components it will take. So that's now my winter project rather than a panic project for the rest of this summer.