Ebay sent me a "birthday" card wishing me a Happy 5 year anniversary to Ebay, woohoo! I was thinking back to when I first started in the hobby and here are a few things for those who remember and to those now who may laugh at this:
- We were still trying to figure out the colors of RL20-II's and how they were built.
- Ditto on Haro's..... forget 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation Master, we barely knew '84 from '85.
- Nobody was reproducing decals
- All the exotic framesets were basically 'undiscovered'
- We would shop here and pay these crazy expensive prices:
http://www.alans.co.uk/oldschool/new.html- If 5 of us were on the boards, it was crazy. 10 people meant 5 were tired with bmx and came over to read/laugh/mock/taunt/color tires, lol.
- Axlepeg was the man with his pics..... and still is.
- If you told the bmx guys a pink bike would win best of show at Rockford, there would be an 8 page thread full of "LOL! LMAO! Hahahaha, just threw one out, color tires!, etc..." Bob O said it best a year ago at the banquet table
- And most importantly, there were more threads about "Just built this....check it out"