Top 10 Things I remember from the Mid-School era of BMX that were Crazy, Goofy or Just Funny.
The Sombra Hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQGnElpU5M
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TOP 10 GOOFY MID-SCHOOL BMX TRENDS
Top 10 Things I remember from the Mid-School era of BMX that were Crazy, Goofy or Just Funny.
The Sombra Hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQGnElpU5M
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Low bars and long back ends, if your back could take it you could literally pull up as hard as you could for a bunnyhop and not loop out. I could hop higher back then than now but maybe it’s cause I’m old now and not so much todays bikes!
Chill bro
When you talked about the fan boy times and the brands, I have an animal tattoo on my forearm 😂🤘🏼
begin cloned as fuck
"It's gonna be a scorcher today" that may be too early to be considered mid school.
All the riders in the first anthem video Taj & Joe, Chris Stauffer, Punjab, ground chuck.
I spent most of my time riding and maintaining trails in the late 90s-early 00s and watched that video thousands of times.
Not bad for a couple of fat chicks
Buck choklit to the back of the neck!
Aside from aluminum, 4130 is the only way to go.
This reminded me of a few things:
1. Incredibly thick grips. The Primo Degroot grip was probably the best example.
2. Primo's market dominance. Until about 2004, their parts seemed to be everywhere.
3. The impact of 'Can I Eat?'. Kids today will struggle to understand how transformative that video was. After it came out, everyone wanted to be Steven Hamilton.
4. Punk and emo music im videos. Until the Lotek video came out in 2006, almost all video soundtracks were very 'alternative'.
Custom plate on ur honda civic😂 yup thats me 😅
Video pops in the feed, never been more stoked. Litterly every number brought back some of the best memories. Still riding today and def repping mid-school style 🤘🏻
4130 may or may not be my phone pin.
At least most of the bikes back then looked unique. Now, everything is double-diamond frame with 2 piece bar. Sweet vid!
Is that a DK SOB?
I ride new-school and still run tennis balls
Stauffer aint got nothing to offer!
I think a lot of this stuff mentioned is just kids being kids.
The biggest trend I was obsessed with as a mid school was gyro brakes. Always wanted them, always broke, no one could repair them properly. I know they are much better now but I never want a set ever again
Don’t have a quote for you but my first bmx was a Fishbone Double Gusset. It had those small bars and was heavy as shit
Man this brings back some memories!
VHS, Props, etc.
Motorbike chain
Baggy jeans, ripped then cut to long shorts
Long steal pegs
Way too long cranks, hit ya foot on front wheel sometimes. In saying that my rear end is so short now I caint Run 4 pegs on l70s 😂.
Really long break cables…
People still ride BMX bikes ?
Things that were goofy was: a number of people riding 3 pegs. 2 in the front& 1 in the back on your grinding side. Running a good, sealed triple wall rear wheel, and stock unsealed in front. Rolling your right pant leg up. Running a good sealed wheel on the front(chrome plated) and an unsealed stock wheel, rear, only because, you found, stole, or someone gave you the better wheel. I'm sure I was looking and dressing like Garret Byrnes and Van Homan. Whatever frame I was on, I was set up like Van Homan's bike, with the exception of sometimes running front brakes. I went through a Dyno Detour, Mongoose Motivator, Haro Nyquist, 2 hip root down, Eastern Jane, Dk Eight Pack, & now still have a Premium 2004-Team. Haro Nyquist with Alex triple walls was nearly 40 lbs. Brand slogans, I liked Dk six pack& eight pack.
This was a really fun video to watch. A lot of great topics covered. I started thumbing through BMX Plus magazines in 95/96 when I was a teenager. Fast forward a few decades and BMX is still a huge part of my life.
Lol head set always loose.
Goofy products names that I've had or still use
1 Perv Fetish Frame
2 Dartmoor Feezer nylon pegs
3 KRK Masochist Knee and elbow pads
Buck chocolate & luscious lee Wade
Yea crazy you say our crappy bikes held us back is 100% true. I'm 6'5 so having a bike tuff enough to hold when I really wanted to go for it . Even now can't afford a bike I can ride for real and not be destroyed within a week.. would love a 24" Cult,DK,or PK ripper. I'm 42 and can still get just need a bike
From what I remember, I feel like everyone I rode with transitioned from Primo Tenderizer pedals to the Jim Cielencki's. Everyone had Chelencki pedals or however it was spelled.
I used to just call em Kalinki pedals lol They came in all types of colorways and limited editions like glow in the dark.
BTW I still have an Animal fitted from the early 2000's. Them caps were legit and came in all flavors. Shame to see them fall away.
I need to change my debt password!!
I swear you just mentioned everything I did. Did you also grow up in San Diego?
No mention of Jesus Wax
Ian Schwartz and Eddie Cleveland
SF free coaster no brakes style
I still ride it
But lol 😂 blessed to grow up in Houston with Danny Hickerson & Neil Harrington to lookup to…
Motorcycle chains and sprocket guards. 😅
"I can tailwhip, and I can jump the gap. So i should be able to tailwhip the gap"
I think the goofiest trend was the dropouts the size of dinner plates. I guess no one had figured out hub guards. They were supposed to protect your hubs durring grinds, but you would just end up landing on the dropout, fuck up your hub anyway, and flip over the bars cause you came to an immediate stop. After a while, everyone just had mangled rusty dropouts cause they had trimmed all the extra material off.
I think of primo meat tenderizers, I was so use to the Anaya 7x rim bending that I got 12 gauge spokes laced to Alex triple wall rim with perigrine phat jacks hubs. Motor cycle chain, we all rode everything, flat, vert, ramp, dirt. Grinding a small height ledge was looked at as lame. Everything was right hand drive.
I know its already sort of covered, but using motorbike chains, primary so you could crash your sprocket onto anything and everything. After the frame, the 2nd most heavy piece of gear on a bike. Fucking madness.
Lol i ran a tennis ball in my spokes , but it was slit open so i could stash my weed in it when i was street riding..
Ran a DK ironcross sprocket & copied Brian Castillos style. Always have loved Demolition & Volume. On a volume currently lol.
I remember specialised had a oversized seat post so people used a stem as a clamp 🤙 odysseys slim bars . Shorten your chain so much so it was easier to manual
Man this brings back a lot of memories, checked a lot of boxes in this one!
🙋🏻♀ I'm a 4130CULT MEMBER!! Also ran tennis balls in rims — mainly because we found them. Do you remember the PLASTIC SEAT?? JUST RAW HARD PLASTIC?? geezus
Having to smash your 415 chain back together with a rock 5 times every session.
Who do you think you are, Rick Molinterno.
I’m doing it for Albert street
Debit card and phone pin. Both 4130
Damn loved seeing baker and rat on the video in the background!
Is that a Mirra frame (white one)? Thing is beefy, I miss those days but don’t miss the 50+lb bikes tho 😅.
13:08 I still like rocking a basketball jersey when riding. It was and still is my favorite look from Nasty.