1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle 
#1 2008-09-08 9:30am
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1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Made in 1984-5. Super rare, possibly the only one in existence. Kept hidden and unchanged for 20 years.
Got from long time friend, who went to school in St. Cloud and was roomates with an ABM employee. The frame was blue powder coat but was stripped and polished bare soon after it was purchased. This bike is unchanged from then except I replaced the bent DK stem and bent hollow bolt, and put on the DK platform that he gave me. Specs: Twin top tube aluminum frame, adjustable head tube, Redline freestyle fork with low pegs, Skyway EZ Bars, DK stem and platform, Redline flight crank, Hutch pedals, GT laid back seat post, Viscount Aero seat, Tuf Neck seat post clamp, Yo! grips, Bulleye hubs, Z rims, Schwinn Yo! tires, Dia Compe brakes, Odyssey RX-3 levers, Paramount cables. A new paint job is next, otherwise it will stay the same. Serial number FH3***2009- replaced Redline crank and Hutch pedals with Maxy Cross and Shimano that came in a box with the bike.*** 
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#2 2008-11-02 8:40pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
in 1996 american was talking about comming back and went as far as getting AA PRO Brandon Taylor and myself Beau Martin (16x) then to ride for them at the U.S. Open in CA. we were given a ton of jive grips and number plates and stickers as well as prototype cranks,hubs,brakes... after the company did not start back up Brandon and I gave all the parts to friends and local kids at out home track (Roadrunner BMX) in Texas
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#3 2009-01-20 7:37pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Wow i love the frame design kinda looks like two exaust coming out the back lol
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#4 2009-02-13 9:26am
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Awesome, i've never even heard of a race tech f/s. 
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#5 2009-05-27 12:01pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
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#6 2009-09-27 10:39pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
way cool bike!
Show bikes are nice. but bikes wear ment to be Petaled
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#7 2010-01-14 2:48pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
pretty neat , i love the one of a kind or very rare stuff like this . if you ever part with it please hit me up . id rather add something like this to my collection any day over a master or a trickstar 
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#8 2010-03-30 4:44pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
I worked for ABM for many years. I owned the original Interbike show bike and rode it often. It was the double tube free style bike painted metallic green with a white mag in the rear and a white z-rim with a SA drum brake and an early pots mod. The bike had all white and raw aluminum accessories. It was super cool. I rode it for a number of years and gave it to Fred's son when I was done freestyling. Fred got the idea to get into bike frames when he saw how much my friends and I were paying for our race bikes. The first few prototypes of the BMX bikes (not the free stye) actually used my racing parts. At about the same time Mountain bikes were really taking off and that is the direction ABM moved to shortly after. The mountain bikes were a thrill and I was the one who sold the only fully built Beryllium bike. The other prototype frame was stolen and as far as I know it was never found. I owned on e of the Race Tech bikes but sold it back in the day. I have a friend who currently owns a NOS Race Tech frame and would love to sell it to an enthusiast.
This picture is spring/summer 1985. I owned the bike for about 10 years before I gave it back. What a cool piece!
This is a great site the info and pictures really brings me back...
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#9 2010-04-25 4:53am
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
How does the adjustable head tube work? I can see bolts but cant quite imagine whats going on up front. Any description or additional pix?
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#10 2010-09-20 4:30am
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Love that bike. The platform Stem is awesome. Lovin this Bike bro.
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#11 2012-03-02 8:46am
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Wow a double barrel shotgun styled frame!! Thats super OG.... looks cool.
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#12 2012-06-19 7:21am
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
momo_torker wrote:
How does the adjustable head tube work? I can see bolts but cant quite imagine whats going on up front. Any description or additional pix?
I know this is from 2010 but here is my guess.
Aluminum cracks a lot easyer than steel so in order to prevent it from cracking at the head tube they made it adjustable. That way you clamp the head set cups rather than press them in.
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#13 2012-10-29 8:38pm
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Glad to see this thread going, and fasturd's story - Fred told me about how you were the catalyst for him building bikes. I think I had your original bike, was it black? I still have what I believe is the second BMX frame - a prototype that was built to my spec as the final prototype. I raced it for a couple as their factory racer.
I designed the freestyle frame with American's engineer Brian Andersen in 1984 or '85. I built it up pretty much as you described your green bike - with the exception that I had a Race-Lace coaster hub on the back instead of the tuff wheel. I can't remember if that first frame was painted or not - I thought is was hard anno for some reason. It also had the first DK freestyle stem, I asked them to make it for the first build.
Here's a couple of photos from a shoot we did with Marty Schlesinger back when he was riding on my FS team. I have a few more pics from this shoot that I need to scan. I also have pics of my old race frame, I'll post that on the race frame thread.
I also have an American Alien Face road frame and a early mountain bike too. I will buy any American frame.
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#14 2012-11-29 9:23am
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Re: 1985 American Bicycle Manufacturing Race Tech Freestyle
Bling! Bling! wrote:
momo_torker wrote:
How does the adjustable head tube work? I can see bolts but cant quite imagine whats going on up front. Any description or additional pix?
I know this is from 2010 but here is my guess.
Aluminum cracks a lot easyer than steel so in order to prevent it from cracking at the head tube they made it adjustable. That way you clamp the head set cups rather than press them in.
noooooo, if you look at the headset top nut its off senter. so if you undo the bolts on the front then then stem boltand turn the whole shim 180 degrees and it would give it may be half an inch longer wheel base.
wanted british bmx's bits frames anything
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