email sent...how do i post a picture??? i want to put together a little rebel display....help will be appreciated...

For some reason the name Brock Bruce comes to mind. He was a pro from Houston and he at least rode for Rebel. Does anybody know if he was more involved in the company?
I raced a kid named Micheal Hill that rode for Rebel. He was fast.

Hey Don you ever tried photobucket and tried to host your own...give me shout and I'll help you out. All the OS guys are showin' up since the site is on the fritz.

Cool bikes. Why don't you guys post a few pictures ? Carbiz has an awesome Rebel.

I thought Rebels were manufactured by the same factory that built Hutch (Florida?)...I remember them looking exactly the same, just as a Profile did but with the extra cross tube.

I thought the only bikes that looked exactly like Hutch were Robinsons.

oh Donnie boy...send me the pictures...this young buck will post them for ya....he11 has frozen over guys....don is here!!!!!!!

p.s. lets get this trade going....i need a spindle homie!!!!

Jon

pedal...9/16 home slice...get to it....we ain't got all day!!!!! and send me some pictures so i can get them up for ya...v-bmx wants to see some REBELS!!!!!!!

Jon

Hutches look like Robinsons for a good reason - because Hutchins could only copy existing designs, instead of coming up w/ his own...

Hey seedoit, I grew up in Victoria back in the day.
I'm Greg Tait, aka Noodles.
I was friends with Jimmy Taylor up until about 6 or 7 years ago. I'm not sure where he went. I used to ride with him along time ago. Along with Melvin Langenberg, Chad and Colby Cardosa, Trey Ganem, Gaylen Payne, and the Corn brothers. By the time 1986 rolled around, I was about the only one left still riding.

Anyway, I had a couple of Rebels. Broke 'em both. I had the older Johnny Reb with the looptail and also had a General Lee with the Cyclecraft rear end.

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yo greg,i remember you very well and i am sure if you saw me you would remember..yeah my rebel came from the langenbergs....crossroads bmx every saturday...still talk with the corns,and see trey ganem almost daily....jim tomlison and the half pipe ramp..remember that???white camaro...dude we need to hook up....i guess you do the austin thing...is melvin there??i have treys skyway t/a,and chris moores titan....i will get pics up soon

Who are you?
The Camaro days with Jim T. and Kevin Schaefer were crazy.
I see Melvin every now and then. He's got a little boy and I have a 3 year old boy. I've been in Austin since 1992 and still ride just about every day. It keeps me young.

donald stewart...aka stew.....what up gangsta....nice shot...i have a few pics of you and jimmie[not taylor] riding in the detar parking lot...last time i saw you as a matter of fact....i still have my gt and a few others from bitd...as a matter of fact the proracer i have also came from galen bitd i traded him a vector for it..

Rebels were first welded in san antonio , they had normal looking dropouts like a GT or CW or something, then they had that second generation that looks like the mcs or cycle craft or zeronine with the dropouts under the chain stays, those later frames could very well have been made in florida by then.

does anyone know how many rebel 24 were made??thanks for the info so far...how do i post photos??so they never were made in arizona??were they affiliated with the aba..why were they sold at the tracks??was that a bernie type deal??if so than some of the history i think i know is wrong...

did you get that at the mathis tx track by corpus??

click on my e-mail above and e-mail photo to me and i will post it

I could have sworn the old ones were looptails. I might have a picture of one somewhere.

I remember you, Stew. That's cool you're back into bmx. There's mad old school knowledge here.
I've got a sweet '87 Sport, an '84 TA, an '86 GT Preformer and some other crap.

Lionel a.k.a. carbizguy has a 24" rebel...b1tchen bike. I'll try to get him to post some pics for all to see.

sent a email with pics to pquinn...back into bmx???never really stopped..just added to my hobbies.yeah mine is a looptail ,as is the basket case 20 i have...i know read here alot,just never posted..mad knowledge is correct.

yeah, i meant the drops are looptails,like robinson/hutch. i forgot about that, till he sent me the photo. i knew they were not like the mcs/cycle craft till later like 84 -85

thanks for posting the photo...so the dropouts changed in 84 ?? i think mine is a 81,i have a pictre from 82 and it is in the background..i have seen carbiz rebel...very nice...different decals than i have ever seen...i know of 1 other 24 like this in houston.matthis track?? the only one i remember is cc supercross it was like behind a school bus yard..i bought this from our local track..crossroads bmx...

Here in Bama, more specifically the Montgomery area, there was either an east factory team or a support team which was run out of here. Billy Boyett was the main guy that I rememeber. He was an older expert in the early 80's, but because of him and a few others on the team, Rebel frames were all over the place in Montgomery, Alabama in the early 80's. Then they just seemed to fade away as the sport got more popular through the mid 80's.

There is I believe a 20" frame and fork hanging in the wharehouse down at the ABA offices. Thumperpilot ( Shannon Guilette ) should go and take a pic of it and put it in this thread.

Parnell rode for Rebel bitd down in San Antonio in the early 80's.

Look at all the rebel shirts here, Eddie Siegmund gave me this to scan. It's San antonio at some track, I think cibolo or lone star.

I have been waiting for a Rebel thread to come up here. I have not seen one in ages.

I thought they were another "borrowed" Robinson design too.

I remember liking them bitd when I saw them. But you are correct, they were few and far between in the midwest. Minnesota knew Tahoes, and Texas knew Rebels....Both very localized companies. Being that the owner traveled with the ABA, I think Rebel was spread a little better, but not by much.

I'd like to see some pix and more data for sure!

I was talking to Bernie Anderson of the ABA last weekend at a big state race in San Antonio. It was like 95 degrees but I was sweating like a pig and turning red and pink and purple. I made a comment that this Iowa boy can't handle bmx in Texas. I then asked him if he remembered the time he was in Des Moines, at Vets auditorium, at the big national, 1980 or 1981. Rebel was set up in the corner, very prominently. He said that he thought he {rebel} sponsored that race. I think so, there was rebel there like crazy. on a side note: It was concrete and wood, with the big triangular first jump that said, "ABA" all over it. Denny Davidow got pushed wide and totally missed that jump but bunnyhopped air and kept going and did not get dq'ed.

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I thought Bandito was ABA affliliated as well?

pquinn......I remember that well!....That was THE place I remember seeing them, and the only instance that I remember seeing them in the midwest in any real numbers! lol....I was there too...It was like, hey, who are these Rebel guys? Wow, something new!

....One big showing, here and gone, in the midwest, far as I can remember....

More pix to jog the memory cells please!

Ted, do you remember Denny Davidow bunny hopping air? Also, team Skyway was there and this was before they made the T/A and the factory riders chose whatever frame they wanted, some rode GT, some Rebel, some Patterson.

Thats my Uncle Scotty in the middle of the picture.
Thats Cool. Thanks Eddy!

cool pic pquinn.....i would love a rebel history lesson..i hope to get the complete story one day.i keep hearing about a few that exist in austin,a buddy is going to bring one home or so he has been telling me.this guy he golfs with said he used to weld and work for rebel and had a good # of frames and forks.i am yet to see these but keep my fingers crossed everytime i see him.i have only seen 1 other 24 like mine,it is in houston.do the serial # mean anything??maybe you could ask bernie next time you talk??do you guys have any more texas events before summer ends??

Does Racer Yoemens ring a bell as a Rebel rider from twenty five years ago?

Hell yeah, I remember that guy...
I remember you too Mark!
You probly knew my Uncle Scott Patterson, Or my Cousin Kevin Patterson or Jerry Patterson.
Was Racer Yelmans? (Sp?) from San Antonio too?
Also didn't Parnell Haley Ride for Rebel? I know he was from Corpus Christi Tx-5

I can't remember but did Jim Chankin ride for Rebel too?

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Rebel was the Team to beat out of Texas. I remeber at a race in Beaumont every time one of their racers won they played the Rebel Theme song on the team motorhome. They were strong. Jimmy and Lea Chankin, Steve Haynes and Racer really stand out for me. Steve was fast enough to give the 17 and over experts fits at the nationals all over the US. Smokin Steve is right Brock Bruce's family had some form of managment with the team around 1983-1984 and Richard Lamb was on the team.

Steve Haynes. Didn't he live in the Lufkin area. Super fast skinny guy!

I do not remember parnel racing for Rebel

I remember him riding in red and white JT racing uniform prior to Free Agent / He might have riden a rebel bike

Jay Davis rode for rebel, Eddie Siegmund, Todd Mitchell, Patrick Alley, Richard Lamb, Matt Perry,


Kelley

i remember parnel on powerlite...what sticks out in my mind was his name painted on the downtube of a white powerlite at rivercity bmx in san antonio

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