I was pulling into a convenience store gas station place today, and I see two kids on BMX bikes in the parking lot next door. I think to myself, "cool!".

Then I notice one of them is a chrome cruiser and I think to myself, "sweet, dude!".

Then I notice it's a looptail, and I put the car in reverse.

I pull into the lot where he and his buddy are riding and pull up to them. I see that it's a Hutch XL24 with GT cruiser bars.

"Hey, dude - you wanna sell that bike?"

The kid looks at me like I'm a circus clown with no head and says, "Naw man, I'm still ridin' it".

I offered him 100 bucks, and he refused. He then refused 200, and rode off.

Damn.

hey jaybay, you've got to try not to be the creepy old guy hassling the kid ! i'm not sure how, but that's just how they see us 'freaks' !

They probably related you to the man offering candy to them story.. hehe - whatever you do... don't follow them home if you see them again! ahhh the life of a Vintage BMX collector

or the bike was stolen and the kid thought you might be trying to get him to give it up so you could turn him in...

dude you have to talk kid-talk like i have a play station 2 or xbox to trade and a rider for ya!!! if he still wont budge give him your address tell him the offer stands and to bring his parents and the police!

LoL! You guys are hilarious

I had a black Torker Maxflyte with tuffs get away from me the same way years ago. Kids freak when you ask them about their bike.

It probably doesn't help my cause that my daily driver is a former cop car. Maybe I'll just go back over there to that parking lot to practice flatland and see if I can re-meet the kid and change results.

It probably doesn't help my cause that my daily driver is a former cop car. Maybe I'll just go back over there to that parking lot to practice flatland and see if I can re-meet the kid and change results.

Retired cop car...... Yap, they were probably thinking "somethings fishy"

I was at the park with the dog about a month ago and saw a woman and a couple kids on bikes. As I got closer, I noticed one of the bikes was an old bmx. Jump to the part where I give the mom my phone # so she can talk to her husband and get back to me(why I didn't even ask about getting their phone # still escapes me). She/they never called me even though she said they would. So now I'm totally kicking myself for missing a MINT condition RRS 20" frame and fork in candy red, although it had crappy parts I still hate thinking some kid is going to beat on it until he grows out of it and it's thrown away. aaarrgh, Sean

"Yeah dad... some wierdo asked me if I had a extra large one and offered me 200 bucks to have it..."

Yeah I had a kid look at me like I was a pervert the other week. He just looked at me with that "get away from me you freak" look on his face.

Try complimenting them on their bike like "Nice ride dude" or " Give me that bike you little sheooot before iI beat your ***" Always works for me !LOL

Buy a mini-van with now back windows, paint it flat black, and get custom tags that say mohlst. Kids will flock to you. Or priests will...

I think the ice cream truck/good humor man approach would work best. Then they will come to you...

might have been his dad's bike if he sold it he might have got his a** beat you dont give ''KID'S'' cand to do you. LOL

I know what you mean, I saw a kid in a wheelchair with graphite tuffs. I offered him $25 and said he could keep the rest of the chair. He wasn't interested in parting it out. It's a good thing 90% of kids are complete idiots, It makes it easy for us vintage guys to screw them over.

The latest for me was when all those "Street Beat's" were 'found'. I saw 6 on ebay in the middle of the night that went for $42 BIN. I'm still kickin' myself.

Heres a license plate that would do the trick on that flat black astro van - ITCHKDS


What do you think it reads ? I did see this in the parking lot of a school so I have to give the person the benefit of the doubt. Now, If I saw it in the lot of a catholic church during alter boy practice...

Thats a good one, I teach kids, BUT< sure loks like I touch kids too.!!!

Saw one the other day in my sons school, ****1 but i didnt get to see what she looked like.

ahh just play it cool and understand that if a kid is riding a oldschool bike with a bunch of differant parts that are what should be on a new school bike then the bike is probably stolen or he found it in a garage or his friends basement or it was his older brothers and he dont know if it is stolen or what the heck he is riding even. just gotta be smooth and act like it is a S**T box of a bike and you have a bike that is layin around your place you will swap him so he will have a newer bike. It works if you word it right i have recieved many bikes that way

You might try showing some cash. The visual works better, I think.

What would be weird if he said "my dad collects these and he built this one for me to ride out of some ol' parts laying around"

I loose a bunch on evilbay all the time!

When I sell my vintage stuff to a kid, the last one was a Mongoose Expert looptail, the first thing I tell him is: "Somebody may ask you to sell it. Ask your parents first." Not that I want to shut anybody out. I just don't want the kid to get ripped off. Most of the time they don't know what mom paid for it.