Post up some early Red-Line photos and ads from 74 - 79

here Ken, I'll start with this.

microline , mx-II , Proline.

75

76

77

78 Proline

79 Proline

80 Proline

81 Proline

osrlracer... Umm... One word... SICK!!! You always freak me out with your stuff! Killer all the way. Now I'm afraid to post my one and only Redline (which you've seen before).

Oh well, here goes nothing! Ha!

First official BMX publication which shows Redline forks. The forks that changed bicycles forever... Thank you Linn!



The killer stem... Another iconic change for BMX. I have one coming in soon from (of all places) OKC!!! Ha!



My own rider... The "Randy Lewis Special":

Oh those Redlines are sweet OSrlracer. I have to have a Proline one day.
This is an ad I hadn't seen before until just recently.

Some cool ones here:

Awesome guys! Full early revolution on display....front and center! WoW! Thanks for sharing.

Osrlracer, The significance of this post cannot be understated. You have a fabulous collection, my man.

Dang Tommy! That's a great collection. Plus all of your other bikes are so cool as well...! Impressive!

These are some great bikes; it makes my 5 Red-Lines seem insignificant.

I was trying to post photos of mine but I am a computer idiot and can’t seem to figure out how to resize them. I can’t upload them the way they are.

I have a
74 Squareback, serial number 235
76 Squareback, serial number 49xx
77 MX II, serial number 59xx
77? Pro-Line, serial number 84xx
Late 79 MX II, serial number 343xxx

Does anyone have any literature on the 74-75 Red-Lines?

Here is my 77 MX II (original nickel)

my Pro-Line (original paint and decals)

my 79 MX II (original paint and decals)

Sheeesh... More stunning early Redlines! Lovin' this thread...

Really nice stuff there Ken. Glad you got the picture thing happening... What's the status on your '74?

What else can I say?


I still own the same bike and the same jersey.

many thanks all. Dennis , you just made my day !!!!!!!!

I’m Speechless!

Dennis Dain, the man!

dennis, on the cover shot it looks like hitting that jump would be like hitting a wall. what was that like?
mike

It was like hitting a wall.

And if you thought that was bad, you should have felt what it was like to hit the one just out of frame here. The first one was probably 2 feet high, this one is about 4 feet. At least we landed on grass. Check out Brian in the Mongoose gear getting out of shape. A split second after this shot he drilled me into the fence. Good thing we were friends.

Why.....................because Dennis is proof there is hope that you can fit into your old jersey?

I wonder if Harry's Profab forks survived that landing?

Who's on the Mongoose looking like they are about to eat it? TURN LEFT, TURN LEFT!

thanks red, i guess it was a good time to have redline forks. how did you fare in that race or was that the main?
mike

this is my old redline bike

I have the f&f all cleaned up, I need Northridge decals for it though. Does anyone have any for sale???

I have to think about what wheels I’m using now; someone stole my idea and used Webcos on theirs.

1974 Squareback, my childhood bike



1975 Stu Thomsen Squareback featured in BMX News of him doing a "Helicopter"



1976 Squareback with Simi Motomag I's



1979 Dennis Dain replica with his plate, seat, seat clamp, chain ring and spider



1980 Greg Hill replica

The Mongoose rider was Brian Curnell. Since he embarrassed me then, I will return the favor now.



We both launched off that jump, he landed out of shape (heading my way) and his only method of correction was to bounce off me. The impact pushed me into the fence and did manage to straighten him up. Turnell Henry (Jag) went inside both of us and won.

This event was an exhibition race before a Rams/Dallas playoff game. Only 70.000 people in the stands.
Here is a picture (practice) of the jump in the last straight. After I crashed in the race I hit this jump and did something like this. I did get a rise out of the crowd with it.

How cool is this thread getting?

Dennis, great stuff! More please!

It's getting really cool. -That's how.

You can see more Redline stuff at my site http://redlinebmx.wordpress.com
Sometimes you will have to clik on headlines to see the whole story or click on pictures to see them larger.
I have other links to my other fan sites and sites like Vintage on all my sites.
Long live Linn Kastan.

"Don't encourage him..."

I love it when I get a second angle on a picture I already have. This next picture came out of a box of pictures Scott Briethaupt gave to a friend.



And then, of course there is the Redline frieght train. My caption for this is, "If you are not the lead dog, the view is always the same."

red, david clinton's in front, you in the back, who's in between the two of you?
mike

Greg Hill and Jeff Ruminer.

Dennis, I am not blowing smoke. You guys are a treasure to us, as is this website. There are lots of cool things to see on this site, but occasionally a thread comes along that embodies the true meaning of "Vintage". You are not forgotten and thank you for sharing your pictures with us.

Thanks. I appreciate that.

Bump... More please!

You guys are picture whores.

This was one of those 'made for race day' tracks in a rodeo arena in Central California, Visiala. Needless to say it was less than fun to race on. Now that I think about it, we raced on some pretty shabby, make shift tracks back then.





Now you guys go easy on these...

Great stuff! Dennis, we want to see them ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol.

We really do. - Did you just call me a whore? I resemble that remark.

Dennis, did you have the longest hair in BMX BITD ? When and why did you cut it off? Sort of reminds me of Troy Polamalu but red! Any stories?

I started to answer your last questions, but then I thought differently. This is a Redline thread, not the Red Baron thread.

Some other time, perhaps...

Wow, one of the few pictures in existence of Frank on Patterson. On a Pamongoose, or is it a Torkerson.. That track looks vaguely familiar, can't quite place it.

Ahhh..Grass Valley?

Never heard of it. Must be a ghetto, I don't even see any stores or Starbucks. Nutn but trees and old mattresses.

Randy, I don't think my wife would appreciate that comment.

That was the third day of the Centurion (I mean, Redline) Grand Prix. We all must have been really tired the way we were sprinting for that mattress in the first turn.

???

What are guys talking about? Sounds like a bunch of PM's...

Yea...but...

...I got nothin...

...what were we talkin about?

ABA Hall of Fame Award winner Marvin Church Jr. recently sent me some great pictures of a '76 Squareback Frameset he has. I thought some people here would like to see it.

I really love seeing the OG decals on these old frames. Marvin sure has some pretty incredible stuff not to mention great stories about the early days of BMX. He also has a 1st run Squareback frameset given to him directly from Linn Kastan. Ken, I thought you would like to know that it has no serial number whatsoever.

Among some of the other incredible things Marvin has kept, is arguably the very first straight tube BMX frames ever made which were constructed by his father, Marvin Church Sr. For those who may not know, Marvin's Dad was also one of the first people to create long cranks that could be run for BMX racing BITD. Obviously, a true innovator and iconic BMX pioneer, Marvin's father was quite the guy. It's always a blast to hear all the cool stories from Marvin. One of the nicest guy's ever.

One of Marvin's OG '76 Squareback with OG decals:




Bonus pic... "Mirror mirror on the wall, which Squareback has the most reflective sprocket of them all..."

Sorry to "double post" here (it's one of my skills! ) but Ken, if you haven't read this interview yet, you should. That goes for everyone who loves Redline stuff and wants to learn more from the master himself...

http://www.fiodan.com/vintage/kastan_interview.pdf

I have read it, I actually printed it out. There is some great info in there but he contradicts himself in a few answers he gave, I have done quite a bit of research on Linn and Red-line, and I have found other info on him that has quotes from other interviews that he has done where he gives different answers to the same questions. I figure allot of the questions that he has been asked to answer is from 30+ years ago and he is human and is answering them from memory so I look at all the info I have before I come to any conclusions on accuracy.

One of the biggest misunderstood pieces of info I see is when the Pro-Line came out and what the rough welded head tube means.

i hope you gave PK the chicken wing.

Ha Ha Steve! Actually it looks like I am on the receiving end of the 'chicken wing'.