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Rocketman
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We stopped at Jim's new house over Christmas. He got the house cheap because the previous tenants
had trashed the place, and left all their junk. They left 4 parts cars, 2 motorcycles (basketcases),
and a big pile o' BMX frames and parts. (!) The stuff was legally his, and he was getting rid of it
*that day*.
I picked through the BMX stuff pretty good, even though I was in my Christmas dress clothes, and it
was like 20 degrees F, and the wife was hovering over me with the "we need to be at so-and-so's in
15 minutes" nag. A hauling crew had already started to toss all the junk into an awaiting dumpster.
I had to just about tackle one of the guys to get a big box of BMX parts he was ready to dump.
I know a lot about MTB's, road bikes and such; but BMX is another world. I was guessing about some
stuff that looked proprietary (cranks, funky rear hub, gyros). We only had room for one bike's worth
of parts in the car, so I had to pick a good one from the 8 frames, 5+ wheelsets and 3 big boxes O'
parts. I ended up with an Oryg frame - huge oversized tubing, friggin' bombproof steel frame, with a
U-brake. It has pretty decent parts hung on it: Profile splined 3-piece forged chromed steel cranks,
decent looking rims, sweet old-skool handlebars. This bike could withstand a nuclear holocaust.
I got the loot home and bolted together something resembling a bike; but it's not quite ready to
ride. It looks pretty sweet. Damn, bro! This bad boy is *heavy*! It's gotta be heavier than my CrMo
SS MTB. All of the frames in the pile were friggin' heavy.
I used to ride BMX before it existed as a sport. I remember reading about BMX - the new sport - in a
magazine, and noticed that the bikes looked a lot like mine. I hung up that good ol' bike in 1975,
after many years of dirt jumping, wheelies, drag races, ditch slalom, you name it. That bike took me
everywhere. I rode it till the wheels fell off. Now I have a modern version of a BMX bike almost 30
years later. All those years I've never ridden one. Maybe I'm too old for BMX; but it will bring
back some memories to ride it around a little, maybe take a few drops and hop some curbs. I don't
have any kids to give it to; but I'm sure I can find one somewhere.
Rocketman
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had trashed the place, and left all their junk. They left 4 parts cars, 2 motorcycles (basketcases),
and a big pile o' BMX frames and parts. (!) The stuff was legally his, and he was getting rid of it
*that day*.
I picked through the BMX stuff pretty good, even though I was in my Christmas dress clothes, and it
was like 20 degrees F, and the wife was hovering over me with the "we need to be at so-and-so's in
15 minutes" nag. A hauling crew had already started to toss all the junk into an awaiting dumpster.
I had to just about tackle one of the guys to get a big box of BMX parts he was ready to dump.
I know a lot about MTB's, road bikes and such; but BMX is another world. I was guessing about some
stuff that looked proprietary (cranks, funky rear hub, gyros). We only had room for one bike's worth
of parts in the car, so I had to pick a good one from the 8 frames, 5+ wheelsets and 3 big boxes O'
parts. I ended up with an Oryg frame - huge oversized tubing, friggin' bombproof steel frame, with a
U-brake. It has pretty decent parts hung on it: Profile splined 3-piece forged chromed steel cranks,
decent looking rims, sweet old-skool handlebars. This bike could withstand a nuclear holocaust.
I got the loot home and bolted together something resembling a bike; but it's not quite ready to
ride. It looks pretty sweet. Damn, bro! This bad boy is *heavy*! It's gotta be heavier than my CrMo
SS MTB. All of the frames in the pile were friggin' heavy.
I used to ride BMX before it existed as a sport. I remember reading about BMX - the new sport - in a
magazine, and noticed that the bikes looked a lot like mine. I hung up that good ol' bike in 1975,
after many years of dirt jumping, wheelies, drag races, ditch slalom, you name it. That bike took me
everywhere. I rode it till the wheels fell off. Now I have a modern version of a BMX bike almost 30
years later. All those years I've never ridden one. Maybe I'm too old for BMX; but it will bring
back some memories to ride it around a little, maybe take a few drops and hop some curbs. I don't
have any kids to give it to; but I'm sure I can find one somewhere.
Rocketman
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