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Edit: Too many people have only read the first sentence then replied thinking this post is about squeezing money out of bikes. Read on, the post is just the opposite of that.

Do you ever wonder what your late 70's or 80's BMX bike will be worth in ten or twenty years?

Most of us in our late 30's to late 40's know what we have in our possession and what we have is coveted by others in our age range . For me it's a Hutch Trick Star, for others it's CW, Robinson, Profile, GT, Redline, and the list goes on and on. I ask this because no one at the skate park knows what an awesome bike that I ride, I have to tell them that it is a top of the line bike from 30 years ago. My bike is cool looking, is light, I G-turn, bar rides, rock walk, infinity roll, back yard, tail whip, squeaker, and do a couple of other tricks on it (I honestly don't remember their names). I'm very gentle with my Hutch Trick Star rider, no bouncing tricks, no high jumps, or anything else that I think may crack the frame. So everyone at the skate park knows me and knows that I do some cool tricks... tricks that happens to be old school but are new to them, but none of them knew of the name Hutch let alone Trick Star.

So back to my original question; Do you ever wonder what your late 70's or 80's BMX bike will be worth in ten or twenty years? My answer is 'Yes, I do! As long as my bike is in my possession, no matter what any current rider doesn't know about it, my bike will always be priceless to me." I'm totally stoked to have another bike like the one I rode when I was a kid. I'm going to ride this bike until I break a hip.

History:

I rode in the early 80's until the late 80's. Life happened and I didn't ride for 25 years. My son saw pics of me doing a bar ride, a gut lever, and a back yard, and got interested. I bought two cheap-o Walmart bikes and he started doing well. We looked into affordable modern flatland bikes and I ended up getting him a St. Martin Darwin. That left me with a tank of a bike that was too long, too heavy, and with way too much rake, and with no brakes (re-learning the bar ride demolished my brake levers, so I just got rid of them completely to keep on doing bar rides.), so I set out to find another Trick Star to ride. I searched google site:www.craigslist.org for anything HTS... I saw some cool stuff, but eventually found a frame on bmxmuseum.com and built it up with midschool stuff.

I'm totally happy about my bike and I'm stoked to be a member here, and my bike is priceless to me! Thank you for reading.

Last edited by EthanBoyle (2012-11-03 5:44am)