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very cool bike bro, i love the colors. super clean

Great Rebuild..  Never seen 1 B4.. But I really like it..

WOW - this was my my bike as a kid, heres a little history. It was bought for me one christmas from my mums 'Empire Stores Catalogue' - it was cheaper (£129.99) than the gold Mag Burner on the 'better bike' pages.

I prefered this bike because of the braised on pegs at the forks and the platforms on the back, also the stand plate behind the seat post. I later (as was the done thing at the track) removed the pads, from the C-Dubs and the frame, always kept the 'knacker pad' around the stem, and covered every part that could be stood on in 'grip tape'

The original bike had OGK styles wheels - copies!

This bike maybe wasn't the coolest bike around at the time, but mine sure did take some knocks, - it sure was stronger than my wrist and my ankle!!!

I later replicated the colour scheme when I had my skyway quadrangle.

This is the only other pic i have......

I almost feel guilty posting this.

I had about five of those bikes. That is the generation one that was a knock off of the Haro freestyler. The generation 2 was a knock off of the GT pro performer.

As Mossy has pointed out these bikes were clones. They came with cheap Star X mags in all sorts of lovely colours. I had a white and lumo green one, a white and orange one and a white and lavender one. Only difference on all was the colour of the wheels/grips/tires.

They used to retail for around £80 depending on where you saw them. Falcon pro were mostly for sale in catalogues and or Halfords way back when.

There wasn't really anything wrong with them as a rule, but if you were riding one where I lived you would take the stickers off and try and pass it off as something more expensive.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-School-Bmx-NO … 27b0d4b9da

There you go. That's one of the original wheels it would have had.

And these are the pedals.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OLD-SKOOL-WELLGO- … 20b03621c3

AlurencatBMX wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-School-Bmx-NOS-Star-X-Mag-Wheel-Raleigh-Burner_W0QQitemZ170470455770QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR?hash=item27b0d4b9da

There you go. That's one of the original wheels it would have had.

And these are the pedals.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OLD-SKOOL-WELLGO- … 20b03621c3

The original wheels are the ones on the bike in this image, i have found others with the same type.

The pedals where also original orange wellgo in this image.

ATL wrote:

I still have these justnever put them back on as they look pretty awful! They are screwedinto the frame from the underneath so wouldnt come off easily!

Hehe they must have revamped them then. TBH that was my only gripe with the bike. Other than that it was a good bike.

These bikes were uncommon but readily available in the late 80s and sold by many of the home shopping catalogues.

Really nice job you have done....i have just purchased a Falcon myself and was wondering were you got the decals from.

Love the colour combo.