LOl !!! i used to have a budgie :thumbsup:, bloody thing was lethal ..
i used to pull wheelies and because it as so light on the front i used to flip backwards all the time . think i went down A&E 3 times due to cracking my head open with that bloody bike ....:(

and most with the revolutionary 3 speed rear hub OMG three gears ya awsome

used to do hedge hopping, car jumping (walking over cars ha ha ha lol), canal jumping, lining 5 mates up at the end of a ramp and jumping them with my bmx. sitting on skateboards and going down huge steep hilss, wearing the ankles of our shoes and ripping the skin of our palms.

its was good beign younger, i know im only 16 but its better younger.

not entirely sure that's very funny at all !!
you wait till you start trying to run a car a pay the insurance premiums .... and then having to claim off your own insurance because some kid wanted a laugh and put dents all over your car !!!!!

well i rarely did it tbh anyway, but we never ruined any car jus walked over them to see how many they could do in a chain,

i will tell my mate that it isnt a very funny thing to do at all.:thumbdown:

Bars straight across the top with mushroom grips. Was watching some bloke on you tube the other week doing some free style it was ace would like to say I was as good as that but I was shit. The mag wheels where those with the little holes in wearnt they.:thumbsup:

I had some sykway tuffmags, they could go in the freezer to straighten them. As for walking/running over cars, i'd have loved to see you do that to my old mans car back in the day, your legs certainly wouldn't be doing much for a while.
Anybody for a good old fashioned game of conkers, NO HELMETS of coarse:lol:.

i had a raleigh bomber it was ace my mam got me it on tick from the bike shop £1 a week :woot:..remember cow horn handle bars :D no good for going down allyways them things :thumbdown:...when i got to 16 thing progressed to jumping fires on my honda xl 125 :o

certainly explains ya orange offroader lollollol :D

and i had a chrome raleigh styler complete with black mags when my bro had his burner ;)

CW bars I seem to recall. They were the nuts. Good choice of grips too - mushrooms were way comfy. Always wanted a Mongoose but had to settle for some cheap steel copy with OGK Mags.

My best mate had a Curtis Freestyler complete with Tuff 3s (alloy hubbed) with the coaster rear brake. Way cool at night to lock the rear wheel without having to use any finger brakes but a right nightmare to camel hop on cos you ended up locking the brake as you tried to weight shift to flick the rear end up. Looked v. silly on a number of occasions crashing into a kerb that I was trying to hop up:woot:

Andy Ruffell - that's a blast from the past...

BTW - Bear traps or platforms? DX platforms all the way for me:D

god i remember mushrooms lol and for street i always used platforms as they were way more comfy but when jumpin it was beartraps all the way and a good set of shinpads just incase :D

:)So your the one's responsible for all the old gits on the roads these day's that impede my progress doddering along in their Rovers & Micra's?
Shame on you.:)

Platforms all the way.

Still use them today on my MTBs - a C'dale Prophet with more suspension travel than an E-maxx on steroids and an Orange P7 for those old Skool 'steel is real' moments:lol:

Can't abide the thought of clipless pedals - need to get as far away from the bike as possible when you trash it. Sod the pedalling inefficiencies when going uphill - who wants to pedal uphill anyway - that's why God invented chairlifts.:thumbsup:

Mind you - there are no hills in Essex anyway...