So I am at Fridays and there is a 1990 Haro Group 1. I was like damn. I asked the waitress if I could buy it, she said...........uhhhhh duhhhhhhh, I have never had a request like that before. SHe was hot so I can imagine the requests she has had.
So she went and asked the manager and he called the GM. No dice!!!!!! While this is happening my wife is looking at me like I am on crack. Whay other Friday bikes have been sighted?!?!?! I think I am going to hit all the local ones and post the pics. Kinda like a scavenger hunt.
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I brought up the same subject about 2 weeks ago. Mine had a early/mid 80s Hutch Pro Racer. If you approach it like you would exchange that bike for another one like it, it goes further than just buying it outright. Thats their decor, they could care less how much you want the bike, but if you offer a trade, they still have their decor which is all they really care about. DMs are funny, some may work with you, some may not even give you the time of day. I would contact the DM directly.
I missed the rest of the Hutch TGI post, how did that go?
If I remember right it want a little something like this:
We will call you when we change the Decor.
....Jay
We will call you when we change the Decor.
....Jay
Oh...I guess I didn't miss anything then.
I saw this bike in the TGIFridays in the American Airlines terminal at DFW awhile back...
They just remodeled the TGI in Rockford last month and it just re-opened. I'll have to go see what is hanging in there. I'd die if they somehow had my old Haro.
Just wait. We'll end up seeing an old Pk or something with holes drilled through the frame just so they could bolt it to the wall.
now this would be an intersting idea:
everyone near a tgi fridays, go and have a beer and get a picture of the bike. do this for all the locations near them.
another idea would be to see how many people can work a trade with the dm's for the rarer bikes.
everyone near a tgi fridays, go and have a beer and get a picture of the bike. do this for all the locations near them.
another idea would be to see how many people can work a trade with the dm's for the rarer bikes.
There's a Redline on the wall at the Fridays in Hagerstown, Md. It has a screw going right through the side wall of the rear Z rim anchoring it to the wall.
excuse my ignorance, but why have Friday's suddenly remodelled with BMX?
Its part of a nostoligic setting that apeals to pushing 40 year olds like us, lol. Its an 80s theme, not the entire resturant but in one particular section. The Hutch in my town has skateboards and Star Wars masks nailed up around it.
so you mean to tell me that these guys have actually done their homework, and got the period right?
wow - I'll try and get an inside scoop of the next phase of remodelling if you'd like (I'm a restaurant designer) - we can maybe findout when they're slated to be taken down
wow - I'll try and get an inside scoop of the next phase of remodelling if you'd like (I'm a restaurant designer) - we can maybe findout when they're slated to be taken down
So is there one company that does their decor, and where are they finding all of these bikes? There are probably several hundred T.G.I.'s....That's alot of vintage bikes!
I imagine it's all done in house - difficult to say, but I'll see what I can dig up
with 550 tgi fridays accross the u.s., i think a picture of each locations bike would be a pretty neat thing to see.
It'd be even cooler to arrange a VBMX donor plan to be set in place as the remodelling begins!
My TGIF has an Amtrack.
I'm trying to get a job their so it may mysteriously disappear. HEHE
I'm trying to get a job their so it may mysteriously disappear. HEHE
if "huntcart" is the buyer for the decor of tgif, then i wonder which location is getting this one:
oh my!!!! TGI is getting a Cooks?!!! Those are some nice parts too!!
quote:no kidding.......
I'm trying to get a job their so it may mysteriously disappear.
so now the game could be: "what tgif is your bike going to be at?"
here are a couple more.....
ok, pk ripped, that's not the only cook's either........
I am going to tgif this weekend to check this out
take your camera too!
Wow, HUNTCART has a cool job.
As long as they don't destroy the frame or the components in the process of hanging the bikes, I think its pretty cool that TGI Fridays has them. At least they're kept out of the elements while being on display. While you're at your local TGIF having a beer and scoping out their bike, you may want to let the manager know you are intersted in the bike when they change their decor and leave your name and number. Who knows, you may just get a call back sometime.
I have sold them 5 bikes so far and have had contact via e-mails after the sale of the 2nd bike about the way they were mounted.They agreed to change their way of mounting the bikes and apoligized. (to the collectors and builders for the pain they felt when they saw them drilled to the wall) I told them that collector's would stop selling them their bikes if they kept destroying them when they mounted them in their store's. They agreed and said a chain hanging kit would be sent out with all the bikes.The guy buying the bikes has a small collection of his own bmx bikes and seemed prety cool.A lady named Michelle runs the decorating company and they are buying all the decor for the TGIF chain, not just bmx bikes.
peace,brett
[ June 08, 2005, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: BMX2112 ]
peace,brett
[ June 08, 2005, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: BMX2112 ]
cool , I'am going to check out all the T.G.I.F. around here, this weekend, i'll post what i find.
i think it would be cool to see who's bikes ended up where.
call it the "TGIF museum".
call it the "TGIF museum".
Aside from the rear Z-Rim that was drilled to the wall, what other horror stories does anyone have about the way the bikes were initially mounted at TGIF?
I went to the other Fridays and saw a yellow torker hangin, complete with black Tuffs.
It was funny, the hostess said where do you want to sit? I was like I need to peep that bike. There was a table full of people right under it.
I think the idea of the Fridays picture thing is cool.
It was funny, the hostess said where do you want to sit? I was like I need to peep that bike. There was a table full of people right under it.
I think the idea of the Fridays picture thing is cool.
I decided to check out the one in Anchorage to see what was there, and as it turns out, we got the bottom of the barrel. I should've known!
We have the stylin Huffy track certified (with Thruster Judge style gusset) complete with generic looking 6 spoke mags, and other low budget accessories. I guess I won't be giving them my name, or offering a trade any time soon.
I was just a little bummed, because I had pictures of JMC's, SE's, and Cook Bros in my head.
Iceman
We have the stylin Huffy track certified (with Thruster Judge style gusset) complete with generic looking 6 spoke mags, and other low budget accessories. I guess I won't be giving them my name, or offering a trade any time soon.
I was just a little bummed, because I had pictures of JMC's, SE's, and Cook Bros in my head.
Iceman
Sorry Ice, I can't stop laughing!!!!!!
F#@* Huntcart..some collector??F#@* TGIF they are destorying them bikes and hording them too ...snatch up the bikes and torch them all to the ground!!! I'll never eat in there again..some things just aint right!!
Someone said 550 stores? if they got 550 vintage BMX bikes out of circulation, can we blame the high prices for bikes on TGI's? I'll bet Rockford has a Murry.
Look at it this way...they are not destroying the bike's anymore when hangin them. Guy's are seeing them in the Friday's and might try to get back into it like we all did. which will make them dig out their old bike stashes and help our hobby bigger. Also, in 5-6 yrs. they will re-decorate and all 550 bikes will hit the market again,It will one big flood of good stuff up for grabs. just my 2cents.
peace,brett
peace,brett
That brings up a good question... Will all the bikes be pulled down at the same time? At the rate they're buying them, it's a fairly slow process. The reverse might also be true.
Being in retail for the last 20 years, I have always noticed remodels happen one district at a time and some newer stores may not even get a remodel. Once it starts, it can take as long as two years for all the stores to get done.
bumped for tone!
and again
thanks guys!!!!!!!
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