I have been looking for a haro fork circa 1982 .... to go with my first gen frame, but I have been told that haro didnt make a fork for this frame? ... is this true as I have seen first gen framesets with haro forks.

Thanks

anyone?

i may be completely wrong on this, but something makes me think they actually had a fork before the frame came out.

I don't really know a ton about the '82+'83 Freestylers. What you said about no forks in '82 kinda makes sense of a pic a guy posted the other day of a frame-only displayed at a trade show in '82: web page
If that's the case, I assume you'd be safe with Bottema forks. If you are looking for Haro, all the '84 Master, Sport, and FST forks are the same as the '83 Freestylers.

my frame has matching fork
graeme

I phoned Alans in the UK after I was tipped off that they might have forks (thanks graeme) ... I spoke to alan himself and he told me that Haro first gens didnt have forks made for them .... hmmmm

he then said he had some copy framesets with similar forks that were identical to haro forks .... which is where I get confused as he just told me 20 seconds before that haro never made forks for their original framesets .....

He also didnt know if or where he had them and didnt really give any indecation if he would look for them as such and I sugested emailing him , which he seemed to say ok , with a hesitation.... ?

It was a slightly strange phone conversation, and i must say I didnt really click with him as I was kinda lost on his responses.

So are the 83 forks that are commonly seen with 1st gen frames the first haro forks that were produced?

Thanks

Mark

The Haro freestyler that i had was an 82-3 and had the stock fork . I often wonder if there is any way to tell the difference between the earlier US made ones and the Sport/master Asian ones though.

Hi all from another newbie. Been watching from the sidelines for several weeks waiting 'til I could make a contribution, but with so much seriously stunning OS knowledge it's been a bit of a wait - some of you guys know TOO MUCH

Anyway, your question about the Haro fork sent me scuttling to the few BMXAs I still have and I reckon Mr Coasterbrake has it right ... the forks came out before the frame. In the Jan '83 issue there's the Haro ad for the yellow Series One plate and in the product bundle at the bottom of the ad there are the forks. The copyright is for Haro 1982 so I guess they came out in 1982. No mention of the frame in the ad.

I spent the summer of '83 working on a construction site (school holidays) and at the end bought a new Freestyler frame from Brian Merry at Hotwheels. Took it back home and was the first in the area with a genuine Haro. I'm guessing from that that the frame was launched in '83 (hey, it was over two decades ago, a lot has happened since!) Rather gutted several months later when it cracked under the front gussett - but at least a guy with an MX II was willing to do a trade.

(I seem to recall a pic of some guy doing a tiny aeriel out of Harrow in OBMX or BMX Bi-Weekly - or whatever, one of the Brit mags - and he had Haro forks on the front of his MX II, just like I had on mine. Looked cool and a little more special than the standard Redline forks, though it's almost heresy to say that now )

So can we have the definitive date for the launch of the Haro frame? The forks were around in '82, but was the frame there too?

Cheers,

Craig

from all i know and remember the frame was also 82, i cant remember the f+f being available seperate.
graeme

Here is the ad Craig mentioned, i found it in BMX Plus! Nov.'82 and BMXA March'83. Identical forks to the well known 1st. gen Freestyler. But where is the Frame ? Does anybody has an ad for the 1st gen.Freestyler ? Just curious...