Do you have a cut off year? nothing after 1984? Do you only collect 70's stuff? only a couple of brands?
Or do you look at anything from any era?

I myself am interested in most of the 70's - 80's stuff but really dont have much after 85'. I respect freestyle bikes but dont have any.

I collect anything that catches my eye. I have everything from an early Panda, to a Firemans Texas Cruzer. If I like it, I try to get it.

Doug

For me -- anything 80's really. That was my hey-day. I started riding a bike in summer of '79 and rode 20's until '89 when I purchased my first road bike. The first real BMX bikes I really ever saw were my friend's older brother's Hutch, my neighbor's RAMPARs they got for their 9th birthdays, and another Friend's DB Silver Streak he got in 4th grade. Anything BMX after 88 or so, I know nothing about and really don't have much interest in.

My personal quest, like many others here, is to recreate a few of my bikes from BITD starting with the one I never got rid of... my 83 T/A.

Lee

for the most part, i stop at 1985 (i'll go a year or 2 later with some freestyle stuff, but that's a lesser focus anyway, for me).

the main reason for my cutoff is after that period i feel that most companies no longer were unique. most were now mass-produced overseas by the same manufacturers that made everyone else's stuff. they weren't a company anymore, just a marketed name.

i do have a few exceptions all the way up to the present - if it's something really interesting or unique.

if it looks RAD,and i have the $$$ its mine.

I'm into 80's up to early 90's but if something looks cool and it's chrome i'm taking it home.

anything up to 1984 or so. I was done and gone with bikes by 1984, so I am pretty much clueless about later stuff.

right now, the late 1970's fascinates me!

Mid-70's to 1985, focusing on '79-'82. The Cruiser debate (whether 24" or 26" wheels would take over the Pro class) had me worried, as I really didn't like them at the time. So I focus on 20's. Also, pitbikes became popular around 1980, so a few have found their way to my house. I kept racing until '93 when I switched to DH MTB, so Free Agent and Reynolds Racing grab my attention, too.

I do 76 to 85 mostly, but have had numerous midscool SE bikes as well.

85 and older. Race bikes.

1979-1984 SE, Hutch, Redline, Skyway, GT

Pretty much the items I lusted after as a child. I have found great pleasure in this as a hobby.

Late 70's to about 84 for me. I was done by 84 so after that doesn't do it for me.
In saying that, I'm currently building a 76 model monoshock and a 92 model Mosh racer!

[size=2]For some reason I just like the retro's.... I got a few Haro's... 2004-5-6 Mongoose... retro... and Hoffman evel Knievel... These bikes are stoke...Check out the bike I just got today...

Profile, SE, and stop at 86.

I'm with Wagonguy, if it looks cool, unique, rad, etc. I want it. Considering I never left bmx, I stayed close to all eras of the sport and my collection reflects it, 70s, 80s, 90s, present.

late 70s thru early 80s cruisers. thats it. (although i love the way some 20"s look)

I'm with Coasty,

from the time I saw dragsters turn into mx bikes to bmx's I was done by the end of 82 so bikes after that don't really do it for me. was never into the fluro stage of bmx. However I got back into it mid to late 90's and have a couple of post 2000's one S&M and a FBM.

getting right into mid 70's at the moment.

My interests are very late 70's to very early 90's. The beginning of SE Racing and the Sting to the end of my riding days. I totally appreciate high end bikes from the mid to late 70's, but don't feel the desire to own any. I do have a couple late 90's SEs and a Starsky as my main riders.

I tend to stay in the 81-86 era. As that is when I did most of my riding, and remember most of the bikes. A few things might catch my eye after 86 but nothing into the 90's.

Currently, my oldest in an '85 and my newest an '07.

For the most part, if I like it, I'll buy it. That said, I have very little interest in anything from 1990-early 2000's. It needs to be old school or new school (or retro new school). And ALL of it has to be race bikes.

I stopped racing in 1988 and got back into it now. The only newschool stuff I want is if I am going to be racing it today.

I second both things you said. 70's bikes are the best (IMO) and I was done and gone in late 83. I think FMF, DG, CYC, Speedo stuff, Champion, etc are just plain cool and define OS bmx.

I think after 84 things changed as far as the bikes go. I consider 84 the end of the beginning. It was the start of a new Chapter in the sport. Just my feelings and its re-invented itself many times over now. I think possibly the only good thing that came from the 70's was bmx... LOL!

Yeah I guess most people are into the era they rode in BITD. I really stopped looking for a new bike around 85' (i realised my original Quicksilver was the bike for me) and my collection reflects that. The one bike I didnt know much about back then but had to have now is the Kuwahara Exihibisionist I now own.

For me, it started with anything that had unique geometry-ie Quadangle. from there it stemed into a fascination for frames that had extra tubing ie: Titan,Thruster, Profile, Champion, etc. Now, its all about anything that looks cool. I dont descriminate between years.. I have an early Patterson all the way up to an 07 Staats expert. If I like a frame in 20" size and I find out there is also a 24" version than I must have it. but my order of preference is as follows:

-Unique frame design
-Older classic BMX items-simply for the history and collectability- generally more dough than I want to fork out- but occassionally I get lucky
-SE stuff
-Zeronine stuff

~T

I don't really have a collection at all, but I just thought---I cover 4 decades right now:

'70s Vista Duo tandem

'86 Pro Performer frameset, and early '80s Powerlite 3 bar cruiser

Early '90s Mongoose Expert

'06 T-1 Ruben and '07 Cannondale F7 MTB

Imagine that...And that's pretty much all the bikes I own now, LOL!