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Whoa, easy brother! This site isn't called the-best-bikes-money-could-buy-museum.com.
Merriam-Webster defines a museum as "an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest OR value". I wonder how many kids would have never learned how to ride a bike if it weren't for companies like Next or even Huffy? My first bike was a Huffy. And I have to be honest. It WAS a piece of junk. But I'll tell you one thing . . . that bike made me appreciate the GT Performer I got for Christmas when I was 13. If you've never had to deal with disappointment, you'll never know how good you've actually got it! So RealFox, if it gets you and your boyfriend riding, run with it!

Chris

Uhm..., o-k..., Raven, lol.

Thanks, Chris, I was poor as a kid, well, not poor-poor, but I never had a *brand-new* GT, Dyno, Diamondback(well, cept one) when I was young. Also, any bike I did get of good brand/quality was earned though A LOT of hard work. I can afford these things now because I actually have some cash now.

I kind of agree with both sides.

In one way, yes, it is a bmx bike... and there are no limits (yet) as to what gets into the museum... and why not 'document', if you will, the lower end bikes as well as any other bikes....right?

On the other hand.... it's safe to say that no one comes here to check out bikes like this.  And I have to agree, it's quality that makes this site quality!

There Definately needs to be an age requirement .

I think that there should be a Museum for the vintage bikes and just a thread for the other stuff...

Vintage meaning early 90's and older BMX bikes that are ridable or just Frame and forks. And if we have to have the Mountain bikes on here, do a thread.

But the whole point here is that some of us don't think that the Department store bikes belong in the museum cause they are all junk. I would never buy my kid a junk bike if he/she wanted to start racing. They are junk and always be junk.. and like I said above there is no place for junk in the museum. Plus when I think museum I think OLD not NEW.

As much as I personally agree with the fact that this bike is not museum - worthy

I have to make the following points:

Scott B. (SE Racing) I believe started on a (Team) Murray

Stompin Stu rode Huffy for a bit ( they probably paid good )
Huffy is the worst bike ever - but we all owned one, at least once in our lives.

There are street bikes, road bikes, freak bikes, bare frames, one-offs, incomplete bikes, all in the museum right now. In order to support this - I must view this site not only as a museum - but more of an online reference guide for bicycles.

No, hell no I'll never own a NEXT, or a pacific, or any of those. They all suck. If I get one I'll ghost ride it into the lake. But they are 'bmx' bicycles and therefore belong in the museum.

As much as I hate to say it.

- Saylor

i agree fox, but dont forget kent. i have said it before though, you remember the old huffy and murray, they had total crap parts on them. i just took apart a mongoose k.o, and it crazy what parts they put on the new dept store bikes. 3 piece cranks, double pull brake levers, 48 spoke rims with double walls. the quality of the low end bikes have inproved considerably. i have nothing against them.

skinnygmg wrote:

now the name museum does imply a certain level of quality.  they don't hang any old painting in world class art museums.  so i do understand the argument, but i don't care what other bmx sites, and thier members think.  i have accounts at several forums, but i'm here all the time, and i'm not going to leave because there is a Next on the site.

And thats what I dig about this site. Yes you dont hang just any old painting that ya moms made when she was all stoned out around the time of your conception. But if the museum was big enough, as in the space of some really big ass hard drives, you can!!.... show some rajulio hector de la hondo stuff.

Im saying. how is the industry to grow unless we can have some failures to look at. And instead of pretending thay didnt happen why not learn from there existance.  I learned that i cannot grind on a wooden ledge. at the time i thought the wood would be slick to move me forward faster, but i learned out the the horrible desision that it has far too much give to take the pressure of the pegs apex.  Now seeing that.. displaying the crappy bikes made and discussing them helps us all learn. (future designers/builders/riders.) what we can look for and expect out of what we see, know, and of course feel as we ride.

P.s. the fusion model is suprisingly made with clean welds. other than that garbage.
take the frame toss the rest.

(no.! i dont work for next)

Last edited by ems (2007-02-21 1:18am)

Gary screens all the bikes that go into the museum.  If he wants it in, it's in.  It's his site with an open invitation to us to become part of a community.  You don't have to look at every single bike in the museum.  Use the search function.  I've never looked at a bike I didn't want to.
If having bikes that Gary wants in the museum makes this site the laughing stock of the BMX community, I don't give a crap.  I've enjoyed every second of being a member here and have learned more and got more advice/leads/suggesstions than I could have ever imagined.  I've posted a Huffy, and plan on posting another Huffy and a Team Murray.  Those bike were part of my BMX history, junk bike or not.

if there weren't " crappy bikes" in the museum than what are you gonna do in 10 years when you "score a sweet deal" at a garage sale?  you'll have no way of knowing that you just bought a junk bike unless you have something to reference to.

just to let you know i have the best next ever yes it is the same as this but better im new to this site so its not posted yet it will be later on this week so be lookin forward to seein it.