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"So what are you doing in April MMX?"
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:24, Reply)
I may do that too because I hate people and everything they say and do. Damn people *shakes fist*
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:26, Reply)
Just start with a low ramp on a couple of bricks. Always wear your helmet and pads.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:25, Reply)
I still have my Chrome Burner. Although being a Raleigh I was always mocked by the kid with a Mongoose (the BMX, not the snake eating mammal).
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:27, Reply)
and has bought himself a Raleigh Burner. He had a Mag Burner when younger, and my other bro had a Night Burner.
He's also got an authentic 80s Skyway.
would have been awesome if we were still very young. now it is just sad.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:31, Reply)
the mag burner is the one everyone had. The Gadget show did a thing on it a while back.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:33, Reply)
great bike. it was bright blue with yellow trim and mags.
don't remember the night burner having a gold chain. my bro's one was black and red. think they may have changed over the years though
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:35, Reply)
my brother had a poster back in the day with all the different "burners". I also thought the "Night Burner" sounded cool, like "Knight Rider" mixed with "Street Hawk".
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:38, Reply)
that sounds likely regarding the chain. I had a Striker before the bmx. The younger sibling of a Grifter. Can't even find a pic of it on google
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:41, Reply)
It was purple and then my tool of a brother painted it green
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)
It stayed purple. I didn't deface things.
Your brother was naughty.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:49, Reply)
he still holds that against me
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:52, Reply)
Followed by a Falcon Pro.
Yellow and black to attract the fecking wasps.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:36, Reply)
I couldnt even do a decent wheelie. My mate Eliott could ride around doing a wheelie. Git.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:40, Reply)
just can't do it. it makes me feel like less of a man
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:41, Reply)
I feel your pain
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:44, Reply)
I could only do one-handed steering.
I was black and blue! I was very good at cycling up very steep hils. Even better than some of the boys.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:42, Reply)
dammit, where were you when I was growing up? We needed a girl to form the "BMX Bandits" (which sounds kinda gay now...)
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:45, Reply)
Nobody else had yellow and black.
But our shed had earwigs so I used to have to shake the earwigs out of the pads and brake-handles before setting off each morning.
I was a mong.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:48, Reply)
He was the UK's first professional BMXer back in the 80s.
If you search for him on YouTube you can see him winning BMX Beat and getting a trophy from Gaz Top.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:47, Reply)
The Chemical Brothers, a BMX Champion...err...dave the coke dealer...
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:51, Reply)
Why I bother with you proles is beyond me sometimes, it really is.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:52, Reply)
It rides OK. I was going to scratch off the 'oose' part of the logo, but thought perhaps even by my terrible standards that might be a bit much.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 10:37, Reply)
I found a BMX in a bush, honest. It had been constructed with the remains of about 10 different bikes and was therefore completely unique. I took it home and explained how i had found it, but I was told in no uncertain terms to take it to Police Station. So, in a huff, i did, and was told if nobody claimed it in 3 months, it would be mine.
3 months came and went and there I was, standing in the police station, tattered receipt in hand. The cop actually laughed when he saw the bike I was there to claim. By now the chain had rusted and it was in need of being buried to be honest. Still, i never had a bike and this, Frankenstein's Monster of a machine would make my life infinitely more enjoyable.
And it did, until one day i was pushing it through town and this older guy from school raced up to me and shrieked that I had stolen his bike, and that i had better give him it back with the utmost haste. I calmly told him the story and explained the bike was now mine. He threatened to choke me, but in the face of adversity i stuck it out and he left, on foot, while i cycled off into the sunset. Every time I saw him thereafter he would threaten me with massive amounts of violence, but I didn't give a fuck, I had my bad boy BM-Wrecked.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 11:08, Reply)
Having the right bike when you were a teenager was of enormous importance. Having a jury rigged deathtrap that attracted the unwanted attention of bikeless bullies wasn't the wisest of moves.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 11:27, Reply)
I'd have bawked and then given him the bike. Then gone home and vomited and cried.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 11:30, Reply)
I had a police receipt and everything to prove it. When he said it had been nicked from his front garden I asked why he hadn't went to the police station, because that's where it had been for 3 months. He didn't have an answer to that.
Cock smoker.
(, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 11:33, Reply)
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