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I still have my 85 Freestyle quadangle from when I was a kid and I also rebuilt my childhood 86 Schwinn free form ex into my dream build of that bike that I had bitd

I am one of the lucky guys to have kept my last race bike from BITD.  I had a Diamond Back Turbo that was stolen when I was like 14 that I thought about recreating, but the cost of that project keeps me well away from attempting it.

I have rebuilt two of my childhood bikes.. My dad was cool enough to hang on to em and I loved every minute of making these shine again.

My 83 Expert



http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/mongoose/55709#.UQNM72f4KSo

My 85 Mach 1



http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/gt_bicycles/ … QNM_2f4KSo

i had let the ones go i had over the years. really regret that even though i have nos and mint replicas. still not the same

Just finished mine tonight.
Inspired by a VHS tape I found at my parents house (screen grab is my profile pic)

I'm also lucky enough to still have mine from bitd but, my air-uni got crossed with a t/a somewhere down the line, a.k.a., the "sky-uni." A member here was kind enough to offer me an air-uni f/f to marry up with the parts I kept.. for a measly $800 -no decals! Sheeeya right! Now, I'm pretty close to having the t/a built up as a racer, but I still don't know if I could ever part with the uni parts. (Not that they're that great.) It would be nice to complete the uni, but I never found one in the pink that I had and I doubt I ever will at a reasonable $. The t/a was my dream bike, so I'm pretty content to have that live on. The air-uni was sick, but a beast of a frame!

I did mine exactly.....and this is my original number plate too!  Yes, I raced with rotor!

Last edited by RL-20II Guy (2013-01-25 9:36pm)

Awesome rides

This is my actual childhood bike as I rode it as a boy. This is what got me back into this hobby.



I made a few modifications and here she sits now. Also, wondering how the h3ll I rode that Uni seat around for hours and hours a day BITD. That was the first thing to go.

My first decent bike was a US made green GT Pro Performer frame and forks.


Tried to replicate it exactly, but got carried away with a set of 401s and made an "upgrade"

I had the first Trickstyler. I worked at a little bike shop right by the Orange Circle in the OC. When the 1988 brochure came through it showed the 24k plated beast! It was a total pipe dream... My boss knew how bad I wanted that bike. He knew Richard personally and pulled some strings with out me ever knowing. Every week we got a truck with the bikes for stock and customers. I unloaded the boxes and built them up. I always unloaded MTB, Redline, Haro, and Hutch boxes. One delivery had the Trickstyler (about a month before it was released) my boss told me to leave it because the customer wanted to build it himself. That damn box sat there and fukked with my head BAD!I wanted to build it bad. He finally told me he talked the guy into letting me build it promising that I knew what I was doing and could build it with no probs but could not ride it after assembly. I was WAY cool with that! I opened it up and started building my dream bike. (My riders then were Judge, Windstyler, and Racer which was my fav! Tricked t out with standers, Rotor, etc)
My boss (Kevin) finally asked me how I liked it. (These things were like $800 if I remember correctly) I told him I wanted one more than anything (As I was sitting on it)
He said something like,.. You know the guy that bought this was worried about building it himself so bad because he really knows his stuff. He didn't want just "some guy" building it for him. I told him there was no better person to build that bike than me. He finally told me..... (How do you plan to pay me back)

I about shit myself! It was my bike. I tried to build it again and this is about close as I can get.

Listed in My Bikes

http://bmxmuseum.com/image/trickstyler1_lg.jpg

Seeing as I have my og bikes still I built a replica of my buddies bike from school. I always wanted one like his.
Now I do.