What BMX Factories/ Companies Are or Were In Your City?
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San Diego,Ca.
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*BACK IN THE DAY
DG Green Duck
JT Racing USA
Seca Side Plates
Dirt Slinger
Bobco Designs
Wheels N' Things
JAD
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*CURRENTLY
Haro
ATI
Avent
Bomb Shell
Phantom
Formula

[ March 22, 2006, 03:52 PM: Message edited by: JohnnyJohnson OMAS DirtSlinger ]

We had Madison and Super LA (Aussie bikes) but i don't think that any of you guys from the US would of heard off em...
Super LA made a realy nice bike that was a copy of an alloy Race-Inc...

I stole this pic off the Aussie bikes thread in Worldwide BMX.... This is a SLA(Super Lite Alloy)

sbs,( redline) kenda tires. and the flow skate park.

Los Angeles Area

JMC Racing - Azusa, CA
GT Racing - Azusa?, CA then Huntington Beach, CA
Cook Bros. - Santa Ana, CA
SE Racing - Signal Hill, CA
Pro Neck - Pomona, CA
- I worked for Pro Neck one summer when my brother raced for them. Will Sr. was a great guy.
Vera's Leathers - Irwindale?, CA
Bill Walters Leathers - ?, CA
Oakley Grips & Goggles - ?, CA
AME Grips & Goggles - Pomona?, CA
Van's Tennis Shoes - Anaheim, CA (accross from Angel Stadium)

[ March 22, 2006, 01:55 AM: Message edited by: Liam Haselhorst ]

Hayward, Ca: Champion / Speedo / Patterson

Phil Wood comes to mind for me

do you know the way to San Jose?

Take a left at Alberqueque

Originally "we the people" was created in Cologne/Germany.

Bitd we got all the good stuff from US.

Cheers

Oliver

Competition Developments who made our Quicksilver had a factory not far from my town.

Speed Unlimited (I grew up in NJ).

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Grand Rapids, MI

SlingShot
Nuke Proof

Thruster Factory

MCS in Pompano Beach FL.

Crit Plate when I lived up in New England

L.A. Area continued:
Liam,

Oakley was in Laguna Hills
Bill Walters was in North Hollywood

Tuff Neck - San Dimas
Mongoose - Chatsworth
Redline - Chatsworth (the Newberry Park)
Diamond Back- Newberry Park
ACS- Covina
Johar (cal-lite) - Gardena
Flite- Laguna Hills
CW- Brea
Torker-Fullerton
Bullseye - Burbank (back in the day)
Star Products - Garden Grove
Race Inc- Gardena
Son-Lite- Huntington Beach
Kuwahara- Listed as Torrance
Robinson- Chatsworth
Shimano- Sun Valley (San Fernando)
Neal - Torrance
SST - Garden Grove
GHP - Garden Grove
Mushroom Grips - Torrance
Jag- Westlake Village
Powerlite- Orange
RRS- Riverside
MAX - Fullerton
Aero - Torrance

I grew up in York, PA and the local anodizer did all Hutch's stuff for a while. I also met the guy who owned Direct Link at a nearby skatepark in 85 or 86. York is an hour north of Baltimore so it was like Hutch central.

St. Louis: We had Action BMX and for a little while Gt

bmx products inc.
rick's bike shop
t&t dist.

Here in Toowoomba (Queensland, Australia) we had a factory making "Cobra" bmx bikes and "Condor" 26 inch mens and ladies bikes in the '80s.

The Bmx bikes were mongoose ripoffs, except the Team guys rode sweet japanese imports (made by Hoizumi - I think.) Which were almost identical to DB Snakes.

I think I have half of the Cobra production in my back shed - Including one team bike, One 26" Cobra Cruiser and recently swapped a Cobra Freestyle bike with a guy in Town here.

(See the Aussie Bike thread in Worldwide BMX for some pics)

-Pete.

Zeronine in the Chicago area

DK Started in Dayton now in Franklin.

I think Hadley was in El Cajon, CA.

According to Mike Devit the first SE bikes (STR-1) came out of Escondido, CA

I GREW UP IN SAN DIEGO. I THINK LINN KASTAN WAS IN NATIONAL CITY FOR AWHILE ANYWAY. SE STARTED LONG BEACH/SIGNAL HILL THEN CAME DOWN TO SAN MARCOS. DIAMOND BACK IN EL CAJON FOR AWHILE, MAYBE?

Sandy Finkelman had a bike shop called "Wheels n' Things" in El Cajon. Don't recall DB ever being there otherwise Johnny Johnson and Reilly would have known about it...

A lot of people BITD thought Diamond Back was in East San Diego cause Sandy Finkelman/ Wheels N' Things (Fletcher Hills, almost El Cajon).
Diamond Back was a subsidiary of Centurion (I believe Japan) which was distributed by Western States Imports in uh.. North L.A. (Newberry Park).
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Lynn Kastan did and possibly still lives in San Diego. But his shop for Kastan was in (I believe) Tijuana Mexico. Right across the border from San Diego.