OK, bid and won a "Schwinn Predator pit frame" 1983
Technically a score at $5, shipment was $20 but I arranged local pickup. Just came back from picking it up and after driving round trip 2 hours in back country said frame was a regular Predator 1983 20 inch.
I hit my head against the steering wheel at least ten times on my way back. AAAARRRGGHH.
In seller's defense he thought it was a pit frame because the top tube measured 17 in. In the pictures it certainly looked small. He is just not a bmx guy.
Full Version: Your biggest disappointment
Thats bad luck, I drove across town on a promise of an old Diamond Back with Yellow Tuffs. When I got there it was a mid 90's DB with ACS Stoker mags. Wasnt too bad, got the mags for $20.
Selling off a bike at a VERY discounted rate cause I was low on cash in order to purchase a new (to me) bike. But when I go to get the "new" bike I find out it was already sold out from under me. Now I'm out my original bike but only have like half what its worth. THAT my friend is very disappointing.....
Bought a set of Race Inc bars and some first generation Dura Ace cranks off the site here for NOS prices that were listed as a "shipped" price. Contacted the seller to arrange the purchase and he added some additional cost for shipping. I figured no big deal, I'll cough up a little more, should be worth it and I didn't really mind. Received the parts and they were very used. The bars were scuffed and will never be able to be salvaged back to show and the cranks came in a bag full of grease. Looks like they were taken directly off a bike that had been raced for years and thrown in a baggie. Ultimately this was my fault for trusting this member but I was still very dissapointed in what I received. Another lesson learned I guess.
Bought a 1980 mongoose off of ebay. I asked the seller what the serial numbers were, He said" I can't find them." I told him where they were, he said, "I don't see them." The bike is described as good condition. Get the bike and the serial numbers were obviously ground off with missing paint and the bike was in terrible conditon. it had been stolen and painted over. I couldn't salvage much from it.....good thing I didn't pay too much.....
I bought a chrome CW Phaze 1 for $200, a good price for a used bike in decent shape right? Guess where it was obviously cracked... Seller wouldn't take it back. It was just a kid and his mom was a $#@!$ so I ended up selling it at a loss because I sold it with the correct description.
I agreed to a trade with a member here. I sent off a set of Powerlite cruiser bars but never received my package.
No offense Carlito, but that Predator definitely doesn't look like a pit bike frame in the seller's pictures. But in your defense, the wording of the auction ("Another one of my collection") would lead a bidder to believe that the seller is a collector who knows what he has. Apparently not.
My biggest disappointment is every time someone calls or emails to tell me they have a bike to sell, and then drops off the face of the earth.
My biggest disappointment is every time someone calls or emails to tell me they have a bike to sell, and then drops off the face of the earth.
Where do I start?
Seriously, for every BMX find disappointment, there has been a couple extraordinary BMX finds.
I can't complain.
Seriously, for every BMX find disappointment, there has been a couple extraordinary BMX finds.
I can't complain.
As a kid I'd dreamed about owning a PK Ripper. Everyone knew it, including my mom. As an incentive for good grades and stuff, she said she'd up my next bike to a PK if I met all the requirements she'd layed out.
The big day came--had been going nuts waiting for this day--and we got to The Bike Gallery to have one built up exactly as I'd dreamed. The guy there flat out told me I was too big for a PK and would break it in weeks... He told me I needed a Moosegoose...
Not much more to say about that...
The big day came--had been going nuts waiting for this day--and we got to The Bike Gallery to have one built up exactly as I'd dreamed. The guy there flat out told me I was too big for a PK and would break it in weeks... He told me I needed a Moosegoose...
Not much more to say about that...
Sold by '82 DB Senior Pro to a family friend in '86. Contacted them in about '97 to see if Ithey still had it and if I could buy it back. Did the deal on the phone and had visions of my immaculate race ready baby back in my hands.
It was great to get her back - and still in good condition - except all the original stickers except one were gone, as was : My early white Haro Series 1 plate, black Oakley .5 grips, black MX1000 caliper, Cal lite pad set and black Kashimax MX saddle. D'oh!!!
It was great to get her back - and still in good condition - except all the original stickers except one were gone, as was : My early white Haro Series 1 plate, black Oakley .5 grips, black MX1000 caliper, Cal lite pad set and black Kashimax MX saddle. D'oh!!!
offering primo cash for a couple things, only to be told "trade only". so, reluctantly agreeing as a last resort to trade a major item i didn't want to let go. then seeing that item on eBay 2 weeks later, and to add insult to injury, selling for less than my original cash offer to the guy.
what the hell?
[ November 01, 2006, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: TIM ]
what the hell?
[ November 01, 2006, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: TIM ]
Dave Muggleston you are right, I saw it pretty small and the words "from my collection" enticed me.
I think my main gripe is all the time I spent after looking for that fork, those pit wheels, that kashimax etc, etc and myself showing it to my friends once completed. I feel like a kid without the candy, mang it hurts! and my head is hurting also from hitting it against the steering wheel.
I think my main gripe is all the time I spent after looking for that fork, those pit wheels, that kashimax etc, etc and myself showing it to my friends once completed. I feel like a kid without the candy, mang it hurts! and my head is hurting also from hitting it against the steering wheel.
Buying a chrome Mongoose Pro Class on eBay just to have it turn out to be a mongoose californian.
Visiting a bike graveyard in BFE alabama...the guy had THOUSANDS of bikes and they were all kmart/wal mart type stuff...not a single good bmx.
Visiting a bike graveyard in BFE alabama...the guy had THOUSANDS of bikes and they were all kmart/wal mart type stuff...not a single good bmx.
I've never stayed at a Holiday Inn
Getting a Looptail Floval Flyer frame and fork sight unseen and finding it was cracked in several places and had been rewelded
Never mind, I sold it to SE Mark and he's gonna fix it up
Never mind, I sold it to SE Mark and he's gonna fix it up
Won the redline cup in 2000 in 2001 had my torker stolen with the rl cup plate in it. A week later, to my suprise, i see my torker at the track. Stickers off it but otherwise in good shape. But to this day I dont have me rl cup plate to show off. Alaways wanted to be #1 as a kid and Than i was and couldnt show it off. Oh well.
About a decade ago, before i really knew anything about early 70's bikes, I saw an ad for a "old Redline". Hoping it was a MXII or a Proline I went there, checked it out, it looked funny, thought it was a Murray with Redline stickers. Didn't buy it. A while later, realized it was an old squareback. The guy wanted $25 for the whole bike. DOH!!!!!
Seliing my cook bros after quiiting racing and quitting racing.......
The FM Flyer project.
(In the retro section)
(In the retro section)
Had the chance to buy a VDC Gorilla at a damn good price and didn't (I was new to collecting then, and didn't know the value), then called back, and the guy decided to keep it...
Selling off a whole collection of Azusa's (I know...Retros) to purchase my old car back and to have it sold out from under me. Oh well. I bought more bikes and a different car to build.
Most of my disappointments have been the items I didnt buy. Hutch Rad Kaps for $60....dang
NOS GT Pro frame $75....d'oh
GT Pro with Hutch mini stem $175...arrghhh
I could go on for hours...........
NOS GT Pro frame $75....d'oh
GT Pro with Hutch mini stem $175...arrghhh
I could go on for hours...........
Rockford '05
For me, it is when I get ripped off which has happened three times in two years. Plus some small other things like parts arriving that were not described correctly and couldn't return....I don't know why there are so many dishonest people who are into this hobby. Thats my biggest dissapointment, dealing with dishonest people
Spotted what I thought ( I was new) was a Torker frame ready for a Fiola tribute bike and finding out it was a Taiwanese copy POS. I still built a bike with it for my son to learn on.
damn knock-offs ....... soakin' in the irony .......
Well it's not really a POS' it's just not what I wanted. It was cheaper and built just as well as the real thing. See what I'm sayin' ????
Before getting back into BMX I gave my mom permission to sell my first generation OM Flyer complete for 50 bucks to the handyman that saw the bike in her attick. The guy was like "gee lady, my son would really like to have a bike... he would just love that baby blue one in your attick... do you think your son would sell it to me?" In retrospect I think he knew exactly what he was getting.
i offered a guy $100 shipped for a single gusset webco frame, he said yes, i sent the money. he refunded the money to me later and said he got a better offer. maybe my offer was too cheap but i did pay him.
nope ....
mr. ed you an my son were the only ones to win the gold cup that year from bensalem didnt they give you two plates that year cause they gave my son two one big one an one small one.
Ya I have the other one hanging in my basement. I'm over the loss. It was that next year when i was racing i would have liked to have one on my bike. The small one didn't look good on my bike so i didn't run it. sall goood
1) Getting a call from my wife at 06 Rockford telling me that my cherry survivor Race Inc had been stolen from my garage in Peoria az, I knew I should have taken it with me, but was worried it might have gotten stolen on the trip. 2) Getting sniped numerous times trying to gather parts to reserect that bike. 3) Selling or passing up numerous bikes and parts before my quest to relive my youth like the rest of you. BUT BIG PLUS getting some big time help from Leadsled1 (Jess) and Reilley1 (RickG) for getting my Race Inc reserection project off the ground.
looks like cheez's actual big dissappointment was his 2nd grade spelling teacher -- resurrection --
just kidding --- and i am truly sorry to hear you had your rig swiped - i remember hearing about it at Rockfish this past year .... hopefully you were as drunk as i was most the time to let it bother ya !
just kidding --- and i am truly sorry to hear you had your rig swiped - i remember hearing about it at Rockfish this past year .... hopefully you were as drunk as i was most the time to let it bother ya !
quote:Something that happens less often as we get older
reserection
Coincidentally, it is somehow related to my biggest dissapointment in BMX: Pam Koble, Rancho 1978
[ November 07, 2006, 09:19 PM: Message edited by: Reilley1 ]
biggest dissapointment.........back in late '81 i ordered a Redline ProlineII frame and fork set. most of the components i had at that time were low to middle budget. over a couple of years i managed to update that set to a very reasonable bike, including 401's, arayas with bullseye hubs etc. i loved that bike but in the small town where i lived peer pressure became intolerable (18 year olds don't ride kids bikes) so i sold all my bmx gear and totally got out of the sport, 1983 from memory. five years later i had my first daughter and decided to re-enter the sport for fitness and surprise, surprise i found my old proline for sale. when i saw it i couldn't believe it was the same bike that i had meticulously built a few years earlier. i guess some kids really don't understand the value of things when they obtain them through well heeled parents. i proceeded to buy the bike with full intentions of restoring it to the way i had it. i raced it for a couple of years and thoroughly enjoyed it. then a bell ringer, the big divorce happened and so most of my wordly posessions, which included my bike, were removed from me through greed.
now i have another ProlineII project that i am building to the same specification, that if i am able to remember and obtain parts, of that original bike i had.
the biggest dissapointment is not having my original frame and fork set to do it with.
now i have another ProlineII project that i am building to the same specification, that if i am able to remember and obtain parts, of that original bike i had.
the biggest dissapointment is not having my original frame and fork set to do it with.
Rick, you still rock!....lmao....
Poor Pam, If she only knew what she missed out on....lol
Poor Pam, If she only knew what she missed out on....lol
1 for Dr Frank, 1 for Reilley, Cheez 0, LOL
Not a bike deal but.......
A few years ago I bought a 1969-1/2 Superbee 440 6 pack 4 speed car (1 of 316 built) that was represented as a numbers matching car I got for a decent price. I had decoded the tag and everything seemed right. I went to sell a couple years later and had it advertised as a numbers match car and I get a phone call from a guy named Galen Govier who is the foremost Mopar appraiser out there (His stamp of approval adds value for sure) and he tells me about a car he appraised in Florida that had the same VIN as mine and that the engine block was not a true # match. It had been replaced at some time with a correct year and model block but that the build month of the block was 2 months after the build date of the car. It was probably a dealer replaced warranty block because it didn't look like the serial number pad had been ground to remove an old number, it just had my vin hand stamped like they should have done at a dealer.
I was pizzed, this was a difference in value of thousands of dollars. It was represented to me as a # match car after Galen told the owner that it was not.
In the end I still made good money on the car as it sold during last spring's Mopar feeding frenzy, but it would have been an additional 8-10 grand if it had the original engine.
Dave
[ May 06, 2007, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: MoGas ]
A few years ago I bought a 1969-1/2 Superbee 440 6 pack 4 speed car (1 of 316 built) that was represented as a numbers matching car I got for a decent price. I had decoded the tag and everything seemed right. I went to sell a couple years later and had it advertised as a numbers match car and I get a phone call from a guy named Galen Govier who is the foremost Mopar appraiser out there (His stamp of approval adds value for sure) and he tells me about a car he appraised in Florida that had the same VIN as mine and that the engine block was not a true # match. It had been replaced at some time with a correct year and model block but that the build month of the block was 2 months after the build date of the car. It was probably a dealer replaced warranty block because it didn't look like the serial number pad had been ground to remove an old number, it just had my vin hand stamped like they should have done at a dealer.
I was pizzed, this was a difference in value of thousands of dollars. It was represented to me as a # match car after Galen told the owner that it was not.
In the end I still made good money on the car as it sold during last spring's Mopar feeding frenzy, but it would have been an additional 8-10 grand if it had the original engine.
Dave
[ May 06, 2007, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: MoGas ]
Getting ripped off on the Bay for 2 gussetted Powerlites last year. They just showed up last month on the Bay. One was rechromed and the other was fresh powered blue. The guy switched names but he was selling the same stuff. OS bmx and trading cards(baseball/basketball). Thought about returning the favor but he will get his in the end.
Old-skull
Old-skull
1994 ABA Worlds, walking into the arena and seeing the track. Very small, had to do 2 laps and it was 90 degrees inside with a lot of humidity. Still was a fun race and track was fun, but just not what I expected for a "World" event.
Changstar
Changstar
Not giving birth to Bill Gates.
By far my most regretable moment (disappointed in myself!) was realizing at some point in my life I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted my PRO CLASS race bike back that I sold in 1989!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just about throw up everytime I think about it...
I just about throw up everytime I think about it...
A 26" Mongoose, now how cool is this?? I actually had a builder who agreed to do this for me but someone beat me to it. It's an awesome bike,one of the best retro builds to date.
the only disapointments for me in this hobby are people that agree to buy things then don't follow through and never let me know
OZ leaving !!!!!!!
Never beating Richie Anderson in a moto or main unless he wrecked. Had him on a couple front straights but he railed the turns and made me look like a beginer. Big disapointment but had alot of fun trying. Maybe someday Rich will make it back to bmx and I can give it another try.
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