I already forgot their names and screen names. Can someone help me? Would like to PM them.

Thanks

We are here
Don & Chris Campbell
GT350 and riderippers

waiting to hear from you

Hey Chris, it was nice meeting/talking to you and your Dad Saturday. Great display!

that slingshot mini was the nutz!

The presentation was top notch. I heard many a person stating they didnt think that many Slingshots even existed!!

Guys,

We really appreciate all of your comments. The bikes are great, and it has been fun building them up. It took me twenty years to finally build the red square frame one.

What is even better than the bikes or the display is that most of the riders form the original team helped us in some way or another with the display.

We had help from:

Mark Groendal - Original owner of Slingshot - Provided us with a first generation Slingshot T - shirt.

Gordy at Freewheeler Bike Shop in Grand Rapids - one of if not the first dealer to sign on to sell Slingshot, either with the history of the company, timeline, finding bikes etc.

Brent Walk - Tema Mgr and AA pro. He sold us the 24" curiser weeks ago after we made him aware of our intention and upon learning that we did not yet own a 24" along with promotional material on the bikes. Even one of his old team jerseys and number plates

Kevin Nawak - Gave us some early brochures. stickers, and promotional material regarding the slingshot action.

David Hill - Helped with some historical information and authorized the use of his name

Joe Tindall - team rider authorized us to use his name

David Spots - Team rider authorized us to use his name

Ted Reys - team rider authorized us to use his name.


Top Notch team and people all around. Maybe next year the Mini will win its class! It is one of two ever made!

It really is a tribute, like many of the bikes at rockford, to the riders, team managers, and past team owners.

Thanks again, RideRippers (Chris) GT 350 (Don)

That was an awesome display! It was so cool to see all of those together. That's a great collection you guys have there!

Heck yes the Slingshots were AWESOME! It was nice talking with you guys and thanks for the history lesson. I still wanna ride one.
Good people for sure. ~MX-III

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Nice bike, I cannot tell is it 20" or 24", do you have any history of this bike?
Don



Sorry I guess it's listed as 24". Are those Vector Bars?

YEP VECTOR BARS..
IT WAS GOLD WHEN I GOT IT FROM JEFF HANEY DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY. I'M LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 24 THO..ANYBODY HAVE ONE FOR SALE?

I also have one, It was originally Brent Walks, SlingShot Factory AA Pro's bike, I got it from him last year. It has been raced by my son this past season. Hope to post it to BMX Museum site soon, would be nice it you could post yours there as well. SlingShots at the site are very rare.

I was looking at buying a 20" slingshot I found and I was told in the process that slingshot is the only bike that ABA ever outlawed. Is that correct?

UNFORTUNATELY I CANNOT CONFIRM OR DENY THAT. I READ IT ON THE HISTORY SITE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. WILL ATTEMPT SOME LOCAL RESEARCH. HAVE SOME PRETTY GOOD SOURCES.

It just struck me as humorous that perhaps a researcher having discovered that at one point the "Slingshot" was banned by the sanction(s) assumed that it was a reference to the bike brand.

There is a 20" near where I work, In the past few years I've seen a mid 20 year old guy riding it around several times. I've tried to stop him and ask about the bike but for some reason he looked at me like some old stalker dude that wanted to steal his bike and he just nods and bolts. I figure it probably wouldnt help my case if I chased him through the parking lot.
I'll see him again someday.

Maybe he'sriding it like he stole it?

I worked on a 26" Slingshot frame a while back and offered to buy it off the guy he's coming back to the shop next month to buy a new bike so i'm hoping he might want to talk turkey when he does then i may own one.