What makes you build what you build? One of my first builds was a Hutch. But i started noticing people's JMC builds. They looked awesome. So next i went that way. I seen peoples Redline's so naturally........ So i guess i'm somewhat of a trend follower of sorts. What drives you??

It just happens. Something catches your eye, your thinking machine starts churning, you imagine possibilities....

You don't choose the build... the build chooses you.

usually starts with a cool part that i must find a frameset to bolt it on.

I guess it depends. Early in my collecting days building bikes I wanted as a kid were easy. I aways had a few going, picking ebay and friends for parts I liked rather than specifically needed.

The last 3 bikes I built were either replicas or stock versions of bikes I actually owned as a kid. Building these were some what of a personal mission I forced on myself to see if they would hold a deeper feeling once finished. Bar-none, building or better still owning your old bike is like no other fu-fu pretty boy bike all the money can buy.

I guess I'm sayin, build the bike you once had. Thank me later.

no disrespect to those that enjoy fu-fu pretty-boy bikes

I just remembered a bike that I wanted badly when I was riding- now I am pursuing a build.

nothing mysterious- Since I have been out of the loop since about 1990 my dream bike is a Haro Sport with knee savers, on Peregrine 48's

Now I am in pursuit, and accruing the pieces as I can find them. I guess it is no surprise that I am also already thinking about my next bike, which I believe will be a replica of my built out Dyno...

This is going to be expensive...

I’m still in the middle of my first build now; I’m rebuilding the first BMX bike I had as a kid. My next build will be the bike my best friend had as a kid. I’m just going from memory. It takes me back and puts a big smile on my face. The third build…who knows, whatever pops into my memory at the time I guess.

This is an easy one for me. The Kashimax Aero.
My goal is to build a bike in every single color Kashimax ever sold. (I do mostly freestyle bikes) None of my builds will repeat the same color seat.

So far Ive done:
black
blue
red
yellow
orange
green
lavender
pink

White is my next project and I don't even have the seat yet!

I built a replica (from memory) of the Hutch bike that I raced as a kid. I recently finished a replica (from memory) of the GT bike my brother raced as a kid.

I could not build exact replicas as I do not have any pictures of us with our bikes from those days gone by, so I did a best guess type build. I'm sure they are nearly right on.

I built a quadangle because I remember wanting on as a kid.

I built a Hutch mini because not many people build minis and I think they are quite cool.

I'm working on a project right now that is kind of a 'tribute to other peoples builds' but done in the way I like it. It's about 85% complete.

After that....the only other thing I would really WANT to build in a 1980 Mongoose. The bike I began racing on when I was 11 years old. Once again, it would be a from memory build.

[ March 30, 2006, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Keep_It_Warm ]

Building from memory must be tough!

I am doing one of my childhood freestyle bikes as we speak. I have several photos of it and I am suprised at some of the parts I put on it. There is no way I could have remembered some of this stuff. Perhaps it's just MY memory that is slipping though!

Depends on what people give me....

I go for the bikes that I had back in the day or just drooled over in the shops. My first build was meant to be the bike I owned as a kid (85 GT Pro) while looking I found this site, then started searching ebay. The frame I wanted didnt surface so I just kept looking. As a kid I always wanted at Hutch, and even got to borrow a Hutch Cruiser for a few months. So when an XL24 came up on ebay a few years ago I snagged it. In the mean time of still searching for the 85 GT I built another XL24.

A month ago my grail finally surfaced, and with most of the parts that I ran, since I built the GT up from scratch. After this build, I will probably switch over to building bikes that I drool over now. Like an OM Flyer, Patterson 24, etc...

But like Randy said

"I guess I'm sayin, build the bike you once had. Thank me later."

He speaks the truth as the GT means way more to me than either of the Hutches.

Hey Flip, you might be interested in this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...Y_BID_Stores_IT
I'll be damned if I don't need those forks pretty badly.
Money is about the only thing that keeps me from completely going overboard.
I mainly just try to build the stuff I liked as a kid which coincidently I still like as a big kid.

Building from memory sucks! Ha ha But I have no choice. I ask parents, brother, and my old riding buddies for help. Like I said, I think I got it pretty much accurate.

And if I were ever to FIND the pictures, I would make any corrections that can be identified.

I'm lucky, I still own my old TA which I rode back then.

Other projects just belong to my BMX history.

A friend of mine had a black noname frame BMX with a really fat chrome fork. We knew it's a BIG TUBE fork.

The name GJS the manufacture, I heard just about three years ago. Half a year ago I finally bought a BIG TUBE frameset. Since then I didn't even knew, how a BIG TUBE frame looks like.

Building bikes out of your mind is difficult. Since I still have my original one there's no need to. Beside that I had another bike, but I guess I would not build up one of thos again. Or does anybody know, how to get a "PMX AERO" !? Looks a bit like a Skyway TA.

Some parts which I really wanted back in the days like a Hutch Pro stem, didn't mean to much to me now. I bought a NOS one couple of years ago, but finally sold it again - didn't liked it.

Browsing eBay, stumbling across a ratty looking frame that needs a refinish, and thinking "Oh yeah!", copy and paste into AuctionSniper.

I've got 6 frames lined up to do...It depends if i have more parts 4 that bike or not...

my goal is to have a "race" and a "freestyle" bike from each decade, starting with thr 80's.
So far:
84 pl20
86 performer
93 dyno vfr
no 90 freestyle yet.
05 Dk rage
06 haro sport