Has anyone here purchased another mans trophys before from bmx racing? I have a chance to buy some form a guy dont know if i should get documentation pictures stuff that wouldnt make me look like some scab buying another mans accomplishments

why would you want to buy someones trophys?

thats what is stuck in my head. For there vintage reasons if he is going to sell them may as well be someone who cares about BMX than be someone that just had the money to blow just to see them torn up

I have, oh, at least 200 around the house -- if you're buying!

My son gave around 1500 to the local rec center, They changed the plate and the top and reissued them. But sell them, no and don't think he would!

Trophys never get didly squat on ebay, every once in a while some bozo tries selling all his old stuff thinking its worth bundles.

I gave over 500 trophys to the local 4-H many years ago. They cleaned them up, put horses and pigs on top and they were used for local 4-H compititions. They invited me to their awards banquet and sent me a nice thank you letter signed by dozens of kids.

If your buying them to display, whats the point? they are someone else's accomplishments, and unless it was the trophy that Paltryman won at the race where the famous loop tail tuck picture was taken, it probably doesn't have much collectable value.
However recycling them by selling or donating them to the local track is way cool! Our track buys second hand trophies for $1 each My son and I have donated several hundred to the track. Most any track that recycles trophies will gladly exchange them for future entry fees.

bmxmom1 or anyone else for that matter that wants to recycle trophies (and of coarse is willing to carefully box them up) can contact me. northidahobmx@hotmail.com.
We'll buy them and pay for shipping bulk amounts of clean recycleable trophies.

Randy.

thanx guys I was confused on to why someone would sell there accomplishments. I will never sell my trophys and remember when i get each one. I guess i will discuss this with him and if he wants to get rid of them i can recycle them give them to a use rather than just saying no and seeing them meet a not so great fate.

I've never heard of old tro's bringing any kind of money. Not worth much, except mabey to those won them. Mabey.
I pretty much left all my big trophys (20 or so) in the old Schwinn shop in Herndon, VA by the K-mart. (they kind of sponsored some of us) When they pulled out I don't know if they took them w/ them or tossed them. I tossed all my small ones myself at one point.

rcain..........fyi jp' last name is spelled palfreyman, and i have that trophy you mentioned wonby jp on the rbs looptail.
sorry not for sale.

I raced for almost 20 years, i would never sell my trophy I won. It means a lot to me....

LOL reilley1...


They dont age all that well either. The fuzzy stuff gets ishy, the gold plastic gets pitted, metal gets rusty.

But....The wood burns good in bonfires.

The metal rods recycle.

The marble makes good surface plates for sanding, soldering, and weighing down model airplane wings during building.

The plastic parts, and plaster bases, make the garbage man happy.

And the whole process makes room for more stuff like bikes.

Rick
thanks for the spelling correction, I was winging it. lol.
I just had a feeling that someone had that trophy.

My one and only bmx trophy(1st place) that I won in 1981, somewhere near New london ct. was stolen by my roomate at the time(st. thomas moore prep school). His name is doug charette from ct. if anybody knows him, or if by chance he is reading this..I WANT MY TROPHY BACK YOU @$$WHOLE!!
Cant get much lower than that, can ya?