To old for BMX??

I am Peter Pan

Hi, having never ridden a bmx since my youth, is it acceptable to start riding one at grand old age of 30!!??
I have my 6 year old son to accompany me! (thats my excuse anyway) kinda like when you want to see a kids film and you pull them along just so you can see it! haha

supersonic

30?! Whippersnapper! Get riding!

nicklouse

LOL

1mancity2

Up until last summer I was restoring 80ies bmx and riding at the grand age of 40! they are a little small but still fun.

delcol

does Matt hoffman say that before he gets his bike out or Dave mirra..

just get out and ride, and you will enjoy.. oh what i would give to be 30 again.. :P

1mancity2

Some inspiration for you 1983 supergoose,



1987 Mongoose Decade freestyler,

spongtastic

1mancity2 wrote:

1987 Mongoose Decade freestyler,

Ahh the freestyler with the step on the back!

I may or may not have been seen riding my daughters BMX on monday night whilst wearing full suit and tie!

1mancity2

spongtastic wrote:

1mancity2 wrote:

1987 Mongoose Decade freestyler,

Ahh the freestyler with the step on the back!

I may or may not have been seen riding my daughters BMX on monday night whilst wearing full suit and tie!

Wish I still had it sold it to do the supergoose, very twitchy to ride but still fun.

I am Peter Pan

Cheers for the replies people, when I told the wife I wanted a BMX she just kinda laughed at me!! haha

1mancity2 how much time and money did you spend restoring them??
Had a red and yellow raleigh burner when I was younger! wish I still had it!

1mancity2

I am Peter Pan wrote:

Cheers for the replies people, when I told the wife I wanted a BMX she just kinda laughed at me!! haha

1mancity2 how much time and money did you spend restoring them??
Had a red and yellow raleigh burner when I was younger! wish I still had it!

Depends on bike really, I did Raleigh burners could pick one up for 80 and spend next to nothing doing it up, most of it is time related, polishing etc. Best one I had was a Redline with flight cranks etc that cost over 1000 to finish!!

Have a look on radbmx to see what the guys can do.

Chunkers1980

Flight cranks - I remember them - they were the daddies.

All I had were one pieces that bent and snapped.

1mancity2

Mongoose cali 1986,



This is the decade before restore,



will try and find the other photos!!

delcol

Ali please tell me you done a PK RIPPER...

those were silly money when i was a kid... and i could only dream..

1mancity2

delcol wrote:

Ali please tell me you done a PK RIPPER...

those were silly money when i was a kid... and i could only dream..

Nope, still silly money especially the 80ies ones!!

Worst is Skyway Ta cruiser they go for £1000 a frame!!

mel d

ahh pk ripper loved mine till i cracked it
off to look on ebay.

tenfoot

Lovely pics of the old Mongooses.

I always wanted a Mongoose, a PK Ripper or a Diamond Back Harry Leary Turbo, but had to make do with my Ultra Burner (which was a faux BMX really - didn't even have a cro-moly frame)

delcol

never did get a pk ripper we were to poor... :oops:

did get though (some time later in the 90's) strated with a torker then a haro sport, then a standard shorty (with gt 3pc cranks) miss those bmx days.. getting told off for grinding that park bench or waxing that high kerb or wall to grind..
even got a ticking off for building dirt jumps in the local woods.. (cant think why)

tenfoot

We had a figure of 8 race track set up in our local woods which had a couple of jumps, and if we were feeling brave, we'd have a small fire and jump that.

Sometimes people would knock down the jumps, and once we found a load of tacks down, but generally we had no problem. I remember getting up there at 9 in the morning and not going home til 5 in the evenings.

Happy days.

1mancity2

tenfoot wrote:

I remember getting up there at 9 in the morning and not going home til 5 in the evenings.

Happy days.

Yeap excatly the same, every day during holidays and you had a Mr freeze for food and liquid with maybe a wham bar chucked in if you were flush..

trasher

Never too old
1983 GT Pro Performer