Old school bmx
Anyone got any old school bmx bikes they ride/built/have in the garage?
After cruising another forum i frequent, and checking on ozbmx.com i have decided to build up a bmx just for shits and giggles.
Not going to be anything fancy/expensive, just basic frame, bars etc. but im def getting some new skyway tuffs rims (or decent 2nd hand ones if they are the right price)
Unsure of the colour scheme i iwll roll with, at first i was going to do Jayz on Kanye (black on black) but now not so sure…
These are the Skyway Tuffs wheels (middle shot shows a 6 spoke variation but the 5 spoke is the usual combo);
It’s so rad that you can still buy Tuff wheels!
Just watched BMX Bandits the other day!!!
It was mine to own for just $4.99 on DVD !!!!!
Ahhh the memories 
Just watched BMX Bandits the other day!!!
It was mine to own for just $4.99 on DVD !!!!!
Ahhh the memories
man i loved that movie i remember as a kid use to watch it all the time..
there was another movie with skateboarding just cant remember the name.
Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater by any chance?
Just watched BMX Bandits the other day!!!
It was mine to own for just $4.99 on DVD !!!!!
Ahhh the memories
man i loved that movie i remember as a kid use to watch it all the time..
there was another movie with skateboarding just cant remember the name.
THRASHING!!! killer movie, RAD the bmx movie was pretty awesome too, he wins the race at the end by doing a backflip, ground breaking stuff back then!
Oh yeah, Thrashing…........... they cut the roof off the big ol yank tank to make it convertible.
In the Bones movie, Animal Chin, they did a take off of the same scene.
and in RAD, they were trying to land a loop to loop or backflip from memory. Had a hot chick, I think she ended up in the sitcom Full House. ??
Gleaming the Cube with Christian Slater by any chance?
I’ll see that, and raise you one viewing of the original “Skateboard” movie, starring Leif Garrett, at a drive-in as a kid.
Man I wanna watch all of these…
P.S. My mates rode their BMX’s 90km in the Sydney to Gong last November… they were pretty freaken quick too. I am going to join them in November this year on a BMX and do it as well!
BMX Bandits is one of my most favourite movies. I can actually recite it pretty much verbatim when I watch it.
The scene where they take their bikes down the waterslides at Manly was the dreamiest thing of my childhood. When I was at uni we got to go there and I was the happiest kid alive that day!
I love watching it now and seeing that it is obviously a bloke with a red curly wig on doing Nicole K’s stunts for her. Never had a clue when I was little. I wanted a blue Mongoose like Goose’s one so bad!
P.S. My mates rode their BMX’s 90km in the Sydney to Gong last November… they were pretty freaken quick too. I am going to join them in November this year on a BMX and do it as well!
Dude! THAT’s impressive!
Were there any hipsters doing the Gong ride on fixies?
@Azz - Gleaming The Cube and RAD - I LOVE THOSE F%$&*NG Movies!!! Christian Slater had some really good character specific roles, Wouldn’t it be great to have a mate that can tow you on a board behind a pizza hut delivery truck to stop some huge injustice?!!
Specially when that mate is Tony Hawk !!!!!!
Pretty much the whole bones brigade were in the film. I think it was Mike McGill (dude that invented the McTwist) that was the stunt double for the under the truck bit.
@Chucky the worst thing about Melbourne is all the damn hipsters…