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I ALWAYS loved that choice of red that Haro had gone with for the FST. I'm looking forward to watching this thread. Will you maybe go with the old 1984 Sport, and have it painted red, then put FST decals onto it? I coulda sworn Blyther rode Ukai rims on that....

Doesn't look like he was running anything exotic....  That's a true marketing genius (on Haro's part)

Last edited by ChrisHunt (2012-01-17 8:03pm)

That bike is a stock red FST. I keep in touch with Brian and have soken a few times with him about his set up. He actually quite often rode a 84 sport painted up as a FST as the FST Frame was a little short for him. Sometimes you can see him riding a bike with a gusset behind the bottom bracket which is the tell tale sign its a sport.

Stock FST Information -
http://www.harobmxcollector.com/wp-cont … -Track.pdf

In early 85 he also rode a chrome sport. Haro recieved a number of prototypes from Anlen in February/march although they were sports and masters. On that bike he rode woody itson bars and probably a tuff neck stem.

I can add more to this if aybody needs more information.

OK Sorry to hijack here. Ill add more FST info later so this thread is useful to NOPOSERS. I have some good shots of BB on that bike.

I spent some time in the US in September staying with Bob, Ron W and Blyther. Ron and Brian gave me over 1200 of their own photographs taken on tour during the 1980's. Also some amazing shots from the pipeline.

Heres a few shots of the trip that i took with Stephan Prantl (we the people founder and BMX Masters event organiser). A few from the Baldy pipe and various places as well as the olympic training facility in Chula Vista. The benefit of turning up with Mr H and some VIP behind the scenes access

I know during the early days Brian ran my bars on his bike.  For that matter so did Mike D, Wilkerson, and Rich Sigur.  It wasn't until Haro kind of pushed the issue that they started running Haro bars.  Good luck on your build.

Ill dig into some pictures later and post some up. I think Woody is correct, the 85 Haro line up were marketed heavily as completes and Blyther joined late 84 when models were changing, so started riding a prototype sport frame in chrome that he probably spec'd himself with parts. As soon as the 85's started landing from taiwan in around May its highly likely he was asked to ride factory parts.

I've also seen some shots of Blyther in 85-86 Freestylin' -  riding a red FST or Sport - with Red Haro Group 1 Race bars.
I'll have to try to dig that image up.

DOMPHIPPSIO wrote:

when he first joined Haro he rode a white 2nd gen 84 sport with red woodies as well. I have a ton of pictures, ill hit photobucket later on.

My God, man - those personal photographs from BITD are quite literally jewels & gems - moments in this sport's history that have never been seen before.  I urge you - beg you - to post some of those images for all of us who have literally memorized the photos in all the magazines and yearn for some new imagery to fill our mental image banks with...!  Unbelievable, Domphippsio....

My apologies for this blatant hijack, but come on....unreal.

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Alot of cool info here...thanks guys.

Brian back in the day............
This thread could help you........
http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=363466