Cool I dig this! I'd love to hear more stories about back in the day.
Thanks for posting this.

Brian I was only 13 when I started riding for Cycle Craft and I thought it was called the Weed Wagon because they parked it in the weeds. LOL

Here are some pics from back in the day.

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This is Columbus Ohio. Me, Gary and Mark after the world championships in Belgium 1988.

i have a question,when were they first made or introduced to the public??i thought 1985,but may have been 1984?
i remember my friend mike showed up at the track in may 1985 with full uniform,helemt,and a baby blue and white frane and fork..he looked sooo cool back then..

Betty,
This thread is full of quote worthy lines about the you and your family. The respect is not only obvious, but very well deserved. My son still has and rides his CycleCraft Black and Silver 20" and the cruiser he got while at dK. The BMX world does owe you more than it can repay.
Mike

Hey where is my t shirt- This topic is on fire LOL

I agree with you ANT DOG

I might take it to the track tonight.

i just bought a blue one just like yours two nights ago todd and i AM taking it to the track tonight! i love it!
mike

i geuss mike does not like me lol

dusted off my 87 grabber blue CCXL and rode around the hood the other day, still feels nice

I had a cycle craft pro xl... my favorite 20" frame ever. I just took it out of storage and put my 13 year old son on it. Great bikes

I could also use a set of stickers for the frame... anybody know where to find any?

Contact Cyclecraft via the website www.cyclecraftbmx.com They have splatter and Daytona style stickers.

Happy Landings,

Brent

Please will you...pretty please Betty do a small time line on manufacturing dates?

Glad to find this thread . I dont know much about the CC history so this really helped out . I quit racing in 1985 so I missed the CC evolution . I can tell you this the founders and builders would be very proud of the next generation of Cyclecraft bikes . The team will be hitting alot of races this year so keep an eye out for us . The baby blue and purple are back .

here's my 95-96 pro xl

Some may have seen this on BMXMuseum but if not, here is my 88/89 24" CC

Am due to get it resprayed, white with red and blue splats all over it, have red splatter stickers on their way from Patrick @ CC as well as my new CC 24" frame, also in white with red new school splatters...

See what I've done there.......

bring back vector that would be very cool,2010 Vector.
peace

I think just the shear number of people who responded to this proved there is more respect out there than you thought.

The only other thread w/ more responses is the STR-1 thread....

and that thread became aggressive in some manners.

Just my $.02

Rob

Weird the STR 1 is owned by a former CycleCraft employee. CycleCraft in the 80's was so much more than just a bike manufacturer the Martinos helped support racing by vending at nationals and encoraging people to try their best. I think they were worried more about the sport and their riders than the products they made, anybody can put tubing together. The employee's of Cyclecraft enjoyed the work and took pride in the bikes we built. Have the team hanging around the shop during the summer was a blast. I hope that the current incarnation of CycleCraft can have the same positive effect on the sport.

Still have the uniforms..

I gotta get a shirt for this the topic is almost 5 years old LOL

This Thread Needs More Pictures.

My daughter loves this one....







She thinks it's cool that it was raced BITD by a girl, (if I remember right...Laura Leiber(?) in Bensalem Pa).



Steve

chris,

do you still fit in those uniforms? -j

I'm gonna start building my XL up soon, and I'll post some pics.

I also raced for the Martinos. I raced for the Factory Vector team in 84 and 85. They have done more for the sport of BMX than most realize. They were always friendly and would do anything for there riders. I thank them for allowing me the honor to race for them.

Craig Allen

not old, but new!! Old and new...... my pair of CC's. Yellow to be done white with old red splatters when I can afford it.

great read....lots of memories in there. I remember racing BJ Gant in my 16-17 cruiser class at Peachtree city WOS in 88 or 89 and he took me out in the first turn breaking my collarbone. CC had a TON of awesome guys.
Brian Richards
Freewheel Bikes

Don't make them like that anymore but they should!
The 80's are back in a big way!

The martino"s were awesome people.I had the chance to meet them and got a loaner cruiser f/f.How many people do u know that would loan a kid a bike that u know was going to get banged around.

Man I don't know, love the bikes but could do without all the pink, purple and baby blue mixed together. A little too Flock of Seagulls for me

Here's the pics of mine. Just getting started.

This thread will be 5 years old at the end of august, where is my shirt LOL, j/k

I loved my Cycle Craft and won many races on it. I remember my first Cycle Craft was a Matt McCullough<<probably misspelled that last name there. Anyways that was an aluminum frame with titaniam forks and I loved that bike. Here are a couple pics of me racing it. You will notice that the colors are backwards on the frame between the pics. Look closely at the World Cup photo I was in gate 8 and you can see the frame is yellow in the front and black in the back and the other 2 shots its the opposite. I had just got the new frame and fork right before the World Cup in 1987 and had only raced it a few times at my local track. I had just gotten used to the bike becuase it was so light. Anyways when I flew to Cali for the big race the guys from cyclecraft were there and had a new frame for me and wanted to swap me out becuase my frame wasnt reinforced at the head tube and apparaently they had a few of them break. I refused to let them touch the bike until after the race becuase I was afraid it might be different in some way. Anyways ended up taking 2nd place after a mishap in the main on the last turn and they swapped out the frames afterwards. That was the best bike I ever raced. I have a Pro size F&F hanging in my garage and plan to build it someday...

Back around 1988 I knew a guy that raced a CycleCraft. It was pink and a 24" cruiser. I remember he was really fast on it. Weird story; some jerk off stole it out of our friends shed, and a month or two later I bought it at a flea market off some old guy. It was repainted red/silver. Lance saw my cousin riding and immediately recognized the pads and brakes/lever as his bike. I was 16 at the time and didn't realize CC were rare and expensive so I never even thought it was Lance's bike. Naturally we let him have it back, he was stoked about getting his ride back. Now as an adult I realize I should have got some info from the guy selling it to give to the police since they filed a report the day after it was stolen.

You guys all know that CycleCraft is back right? www.cyclecraftbmx.com They sponsor our racing team and I am a dealer for them.

my favorite frame and fork set ever . ..i have about 5 still ..great thread .just read the whole thing...!!