1. you remember taking easy off oven cleaner to those annodized rims, then polishing 'em out chrome.
2. you remember spraying aqua net on your tires just before your moto.
3. you remember hammering wooden dowels into the ends of your handlebars for added width.
mike

A member of this site.

....you bought a saber plate knowing less wind resistance WILL make you faster.

Thats it ^^^

You need more than one chin strap.

your choice of number plate is square, oval or pie.

When your first bike weighed like 50#

the cruiser class consisted of "beach cruisers".

You know Mark Conley. Doahhhhh!

you raced in the rain, mud and snow...sometimes all at once.

You prefer vinyl snap pads to those new fangled nylon and velcro "lites"...

You still use words like Rad, Gnarley, Face plant, Lip skid, and Endo mumph

Refer to the "rhythm section" as whoops or "manualng" inplace of bunny-hopping and a NS kid has no idea what it is your referring too.

the entire moto actually went for air off the first jump.....no speed jumping.

When you get all your apparel from motorcycle mags....no such thing as BMX wear.

4. Your old bike is worth more than your portfolio.

Rubberband starts

When you have to squint to read those little new school number plates as they go by

Carlisle black wall 125's in the front.

....you remember who the 1975 Western States Champion was.

That's funny s#!t. When nothing on these light bikes is drilled out including the # plate, there's no bubble visor pro-tech helmets on the track and there aren't any files in the tool box for the pedals.You could ride your racer on the neighborhood trails and jumps that you built!

When you go to the shoe store to buy a pair of Vans, and you tell the kid behind the counter that this is the first time in your life that you had to pay for them and he looks at you like your crazy....True story!

You wish you could remember who the 1975 Western States Champion was

...You scratch off the tooth count on your sprocket so your competition can not figure out your ratio.

... You use an enormous front sprocket to throw off the competition. (ratios are ratios, not all are created equally!)

...A uni-seat was just that; no turbo, no mini. Just an old school Hammerhead!

The only rider at the track without clips and a full faced helmet. Not saying that its me, I'm just saying

Your the only rider with a Scott face mask.

you have over 120 riders in your class at a national.

Scott facemask; I thought all old school used Jofa?!

...Bill Walters Leathers.
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...Vans were bought out of a van at the track not the Mall.

you remember pulling your tube sock over your right pant leg.

Very Nice!

.....coaster brakes were the norm.
.....2.125 tires were used front AND rear.


"You wish you could remember who the 1975 Western States Champion was"

Sir, I remember like it was yesterday.......

We'll ask again in 10 years

Ask me 10yrs from now and I tell ya I remember it like it was last week....

You'll be that old guy on the block with a walker that wheres the worn out Webco jersey that all the kids in the neighborhood go to for cool stories of how we did it back in the good ol days huh?

There, fixed it for ya...

http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/index....1026396&hl=

Here is 17 pages of a like thread. Enjoy..

You'll have Playa covered and Rielley1 will have SD taken care of

Your first helmet was a glitter helmet.

ha..ha I had one of those with the long flat visor.

Glitter helmets, you say???
check out my buddys old school helmet he had Kustom painted- Mexican blanket pattern in metalflake!

Wow! That is SICK!

You hit up the local motorcycle shop for a cool looking Roger Decoster style rubber brake lever cover! In fact I think I'll get one for my new build!

You know...when you're payin' 30 times more for the parts you couldn't afford 30 years ago.
...you want your kids to behave so mommy will let you take them racing.
...your buddies dad welded a piece in so you could switch to hand brakes.

You ask guy at the BMX shop if they have any Oakley Goggles in stock...made with a bifocal lens?

That is one kick a** looking paint jog on that bowling ball, umm I mean helmet!!

...you're pretty sure you raced the "trophy top guy" and beat him.

...your first girlfriend raced "powder puff"

...you are compelled to do a one-legged start to this day (even when you're clipped in)

...your race bike doubled as your freestyle scoot with the quick addition or subtraction of axle pegs and rear platforms (the comp IIIs stayed on)

...you look forward to winter, longing to race indoor on cement.

...you missed most of the Fridays in Junior High and High School due to "flyaways."

...you could ride your bike into the terminal at any major airport, pop it in the bike bag, and usually con your way into having it fly for free.

...your mom (who was handy at sewing) sewed leather knee patches and hip pads into a pair of toughskins because BWs were way out of reach.

(the Easy Off trick has already been cited, but it is the ultimate old school maneuver and bears repeating...Gold was the easiest, and usually the cheapest).

...You'd ride practice with "walkman I" headphones under your helmet with AC/DC cranked so loud you could not hear the starter (thus nullifying practice almost entirely).

...you drilled out your ABA-issue rectangle plate for weight savings.

...there is a picture of you in the Grab On Balloon

...you appeared in BOTH Total BMX and BAD

...you still call it "ABA Action"

...you can't remember what your mom cooked at Thanksgiving for your entire childhood (but you have the menus at various Holiday Inns in Tulsa and OKC wired)

1] Standard racing attire consisted of jeans work boots and a tee shirt. And a helmet was not required!

2] The only logical choice for a race frame was a Schwinn Sting Ray.

1. Your mother had to break up a fight between your brother and you about who would be #27 and who would be #29

2. The colors of your race bike were dictated by whatever was left over in the spray cans after your dad's last project

3. You remember when helmets and long sleeve jerseys were optional, but shoes and frame pads were "required"

4. At your first race they fired a starter's pistol AND waved a green start flag AND waved a white "one lap to go" flag and waved a checkered finish flag

5. The racer on top of the first 10 trophies you won had mags and fenders and shocks on his bike

6. The rich kids had "store bought" numbers on their number plates and pads on their bikes

7. A big day was a trip to the Goodyear store, not to get new tires for the wagon, but to pick up some 2.125 Eagles

8. When someone mentions National #1 and you think of David Clinton table-topped flat as a pancake on a 35 lb. bike

What do you mean compelled to, I still do, OS or death

When you hung out at a bmx shop(not a bicycle store) and picked your bike out of a catalog with the components you wanted, all custom!!! You're buds you raced with 25+ yrs. ago and your kids are racing now. Your kids don't what a DG is but they can't wait to ride my survivors!
Nice thead!!!

A $300 bike was top of the line with the best of the best on it.

Changstar