I have ridden bmx and motos since i was 3 yrs old, I got pretty good on the motorbike, 80 90 foot jumps etc. Currently riding a yz 125. And i do a heap of mountain bike riding. Currently riding a NORCO KOMPRESSOR 07. As for bmx, A very good bmx rider called cam white lives up the road from me, and i have taken some awsome pics of him, Check out some of this air time, and the link down the bottom. check them out:










ALSO CHECK OUT THIS LINK, ITS THESE JUMPS, AWSOME

Cam white hillside dirt jam

Hey mate to use pic's from myspace you gota cut of a utch of crap. just finde the bit's that start "http." and end in ".jpg" or if ti from photobucket use one of the other option's

i had a mongoose FUZZY pro

i hurt myself alot more on my bmx then i did on my moto.... is this wierd?

the bmx is easier to flick around and doesn't have the sort of load on it as a trailie so loosing front grip was too easy

I had to chuckle Dodgeman,
you bikes were made of tube from, Hawker DeHaviland..my Grandads Dinghy was a Hawker DeHaviland, we still have it, (it's been thru 5 motors in it's time)
the first two were for power upgrades, the next two it outlived, sadly the Chrysler 15 was replaced with a mariner, almost chose a "Force" (a rebranded Chrysler)

Quote: As mentioned before, the main frame tubes were 0.049" thick in regular models but 0.037 in the two pressurised tubes in the Helium.
The first few frames that were made used the tubing from Hawkers for these two frame tubes & it is apparently US sourced. They liked it because it was a higher grade of tubing than the Jap sourced stuff but had a textured surface & since the Helium came in chrome finish only, it was necessary to polish the texture out of the surface of the tubes before welding it into the frame so that the chrome finish would come out right.

The remainder of the frame components were made under contract with Japanese tubing & it arrived at the factory for welding into a frame as packaged kits.
The Japanese tubing was not as high a spec apparently, nor did it need to be, but the surface was much better finished & did not require polishing prior to electroplating.

Hawker DeHaviland Australia at Bankstown are a clever lot. They made aircraft from rag & tube, Stressed monocoque in alloy & even a quantity of Mosquitos from plywood, so I guess that a small but sturdy & long lasting boat should not pose too many problems for them.

I was into BMX's in my mid teens (Early 90's) before getting into cars. I never had the luxary of fancy brand name stuff. I bought bikes of kids at school who had abandoned theirs and gone to mountain bikes. Then built my bike out of the best bits. Wasn't into racing, just riding off stuff. I broke forks, bent cranks, buckled wheels (at least one a week) and ussaully one puncture a day. Well more a popped tyre than a puncture. Good fun, but I DONT miss getting hammered in the shim by a nice sharp beartrap pedal. Sometimes I think I can still feel the bumps on my shins from that....

If someone had a few Mongoose bmx's in the garage... Would you refer to them as Mongeese?

Yeah and they make a killer stink and a hell of a noise!!

Ooh Bmx thread, much better than skateboarding and fruitbooting.

First bike was my next door neighbours old alloy race mongoose with twisted cranks and full forward swept h/bars YAH!

My last one was a standard, with all the good bits, regretfully sold that around 2000 and I've put on a couple kg's a year since.

Good times on the deadly treadly, riding around causing nothing but trouble.