One of my favorites because of its path in life. In late 1979, one of my friends got this new Patterson and his Dad sold off his GT. After a few races, he realized he didn't like the Patterson and I had an older GT that was my thrasher bike. We traded the Patterson F/F for the GT F/F and I used the Patterson as a street bike with Tuff IIs for a couple of years.
In about 1983 or 1984, I ended up selling off the Patterson as a complete bike with Takagi Cranks, Brute Stem, etc. For the next two decades, I never remembered who I had sold the bike to.
Fast forward to 2003. Danny Garcher had told me that a new guy (old racer, now new racer's Dad) had shown up at one of the local tracks on an old Patterson and promptly broke his shoulder during a practice run.
A couple months later I ran into the same guy at that track and it turned out that he was a local kid from BITD. His Dad had actually talked DY and I into training him out at Riverside Park BMX back then and after all of these years the guy had remembered that.
When he sold me the Patterson back in 2003, it wasn't until he brought it over and we looked at the serial number that it dawned on us. It was his father that had bought that same bike from me in the 1980s. So, for the 19+ years that it was out of my possession, it was less than two miles from my house in the same garage that it had always been in (as this guy had bought his parent's house from them and now lived in it).
Somewhere along the way, it lost its cranks, seat, bars and wheels (they were all replaced by new school parts), but it did find its way back home.
1979 Patterson Frame and Forks
Redline Brute Stem
Redline V Bars
Ame Tri Grips
Uni Seat
Tange Seat Clamp
Takagi Cranks
Sugino Spider
Sugino Chainwheel
KKT Pedals
Dia Compe MX-1000 brakes
Matthauser Brake Pads
Araya 7B Hoops
Shimano Hubs
Cheng Shin C-183 Tires
[ May 12, 2006, 11:13 AM: Message edited by: Ken Pliska ]
