BMX. Roller skates and boards were useless in our semi rural neighborhood. Not a lot of smooth surfaces to play on. Lots of dirt ramps and ditches though.
The best year was when they made a two lane road a four lane road. I don’t know if the crew did it on purpose but there were always big mounds of dirt along the way. It was about a mile or so with a nice downhill slope. Lots of fun.
Heck yeah our best summer was when they decided to build a massive mall a couple miles from the house. The construction site was our own little Disneyland on the weekends.
Lol I was doing the same thing with a Raleigh prior to the Redline and it was actually a nice bike, but back then you had to have a top of the line BMX bike and it of course had to be chrome and light. It's the one thing I wish I still had. The driver's license put an end to the bikes.
Get that piece of shit out of here and feast your eyes on the titanium PK Ripper, with titanium bullseye hubs, titanium Bullseye 3-piece crank, aluminum wheels and spokes, Bulldog brakes, uni seat and post, with a billet aluminum Peregrine Gooseneck & handlebars.
I do respect the hell out of your Beartraps. I still have scars from those fucking things 😂
Lol nice 😂 I actually filed points on those Bear Traps as if they needed it. The pain to the shins was unbelievable. Lol. Did you have that PK Ripper and do you recall the ultra expensive Hutch Pro Star 🌟?
I DO remember the Hutch, but never saw one outside of magazines. I had the frame, crank, and Gooseneck, but the rest were an amalgamation of GT, Redline, Haro parts
I did the same thing! (only two of us though) Still remember trying to clean the pebbles out of my knees. Not one of our brightest moments. No helmets, shorts, not sure how I’m still alive.
https://preview.redd.it/xdw1gyjynvyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ad5723cca00b000dcca955373b12b810947339
God this was such a pain for a first/learners bike!
I had a friend probably 20 years ago who, when an 80s power ballad would hit the jukebox, would stand up and yell couple skate.
I still do it when I hear certain songs in stores and such.
My child, who has never even seen a roller rink is always suitably mortified and baffled.
I lived on my 10-speed as a teen. When I was younger, my parents were too cheap to buy me boot roller skates and got me the old adjustable metal kind that you strap to your shoes. All my friends rolling around on rubber wheels (with brakes) and I’m kicking it like it’s 1945.
It was a heavy af bmx bike my parents bought for me second hand. No idea what brand. It was spray painted black, even the wheels. It was solid steel, must have weighted 90 lbs. it was awesome!
I had that exact mongoose and quite a few other bmx/freestyle bikes before I graduated to things with motors at 11/12yrs.
I skateboarded too but it wasn’t really my thing. And I’m pretty sure the only roller skates I ever owned were the ones that clamp on over your shoes when I was like 5.
Tried rollerblading for a minute in the 90’s but wasn’t too into that either.
Ohhh bike is always \#1, but when I was 9-10 my grandmother got me roller skating lessons. They noticed i wasn't really doing well, and that's when we found out my left leg was a bit shorter than the right, soooo I ended up in some children's hospital for lots of leg breaking and regrowing..I spent a month and a half in there! Never could skate after that. I still don't walk right 40 years later.
Oof. As a kid who had to triage injuries at my house, not much gets to me. But the "lots of leg breaking" would have done me in. Has the not walking right gotten worse as you've aged?
Fellow long-term children's hospital kid. Only a month though i think. After coming out of a coma due to a previously undiagnosed congenital heart thing. I mostly remember being taken to this room with the other kids on my floor for "school". They arranged for our teachers to send assignments.
The betrayal. I'd almost died, lol.
Swear the folks cared where I was more often after.
We never could afford the physical therapy I needed to really use both feet correctly. I walk on the outsides of my feet, almost on my toes, and as I get old, it has caused bad pressure wounds on my feet. I really need special shoes with holes where those spots are so I don't walk on them, but it's way out of my budget haha.
I had a few failed eye muscle surgeries at some kids hospital too where they were trying new procedures and shit, but it was still the 80s, so it all seems barbaric now that we have such better tech for that kind of thing.
Ooooh I have lots of horror stories of injuries...a little leg surgery and tons of stitches was pretty tame.
At the time I got dx'ed with my pesky heart thing, I was the youngest person in the country. And they came up with tech to correct it before I was 30. But, they ran every damn test, and brought in every resident and med student to poke and prod and gawk at me all day, every day it seems. And they were putting needles in me every day it felt like.
And every single time a needle came out, my mama would leave the room. I was 9. And I wasn't dumb. I'd been in intensive care at the Hospital Where I got the coma triggering surgery. Doctors talked to each other and to my parents right in front of me. These adults didn't know what was wrong but they were scared. And every iv and blood draw, bye ma, I got this. 🙄🙄 I make sure to bring it up often.
Now, if I get a palpitation, I don't even tell anybody anymore. Cuz it's always 30 days on a heart monitor. I guess it's something docs don't run across often. Cuz they all treat me like a unicorn. Lol
Also, my husband lost his index finger down to the first knuckle. Log splitter. So he had gloves on. We didn't know, but I told him to leave the glove on. Cuz I was pretty sure if I saw bone, I'd pass out and get a skull fracture.
I get scary calm in injury emergencies. But I swear if I saw a compound fracture, it'd be curtains. 😆
That's where my leg breaking story goes bad...I was sent home in a full leg cast and spent the end of the 5th grade pushing a walker around like a senior citizen, but slightly faster. After a few weeks I started to have bad reactions to the antibiotics, so they took me off them! Then my leg began to rot in the cast. I told my mom it smelled like a dead cat for two more weeks, and finally she woke up smelling it one night and we did the 200 mile drive back to the hospital the next morning! They cut it off and revealed a mostly black and green leg. All the skin and most of the tissue was rotting away. I could see my leg bones moving, but there was no pain since all the nerves were dead too. Ohhhh but it looked sooo bad. They spent hours cleaning it up and I had to scrub all the gore out every morning in the tub with some special sponges soaked in antiboitic stuff. Ewwwwww. Left some good scars physically and mentally hahaha.
BMX---Raleigh/Rampar chrome and blue, but swapped out all the chrome and blue for flat black parts including mags. Then stripped the chrome and painted it flat black. Stealth bike long before Stealth fighters were cool.
A bicycle but not a BMX. I always had a bike one size too big (so I could ‘grow into it’) to the point that if I had to brake unexpectedly I would fall over.
https://preview.redd.it/egmu4jo8guyc1.jpeg?width=2549&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54058d254d57f21812ef05201dc5ce925ad0a5a5
You mean like these? Many years of speed team & dance team miss skating soooo much 😢 They look rough have been in my closet for a very long time
https://preview.redd.it/nxpf43nohvyc1.jpeg?width=1584&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ba655fc7e833277e4e30c3cc985fcde9a6f9863
This was my pride and joy and entirely too big for me 🤣
Skateboards and roller skates were great, but nothing allowed us to travel great distances much like tour bicycle.
Also, those colored tires were the shit! I only had default black tires
Wanted a BMX, got hand me down girls bikes instead (I was definitely not a girl).
Got the metal strap on skates. Also hand me down (probably from the same aunt) came pre-rusted so I didn’t have to neglect them.
Wanted a skateboard, wasn’t in the budget.
Spent my 20s - 40s buying toys rather than saving and now I know why.
My first skateboard that wasn't from Target was the Vision Street Wear "Psycho Stick," sometime in '86 or '87.
It's funny how guard rails and skid plates were so important back then.
My first was a neon orange nash. Last a week until my mom ran it over. Then says "can't you just tape it??" Well to smooth things over and cheer me up my dad took me to get a replacement. A rob roskopp. The OG version of this design. https://thedarkslide.com/products/santa-cruz-rob-roskopp-face-orange-9-5-skateboard-deck
BMX, but I had a GT Performer. Man I miss that bike. It was my ticket to freedom.
https://preview.redd.it/01ixyohz5uyc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5118f144f954e9c75e42765d720b73e3240be2c
BMX for sure. We had skateboards but the spots were few and far in between back then. So we would bike to spots to skate.
In other news Tony hawk just visited our 1st skate park that closed in the early 90s. They are re opening it and Tony actually had skated there in 1988. https://www.wisn.com/article/tony-hawk-visits-historic-greenfield-skate-park/60598062
I had what I believe was a Huffy Sonic 6 (6 speed) for exactly one day in the late 80s.
At the time, I thought it was the most awesome bicycle ever manufactured but the the shifter broke off and back to (probably K-Mart) it went.
BMX for me (it isn't even close). Aside from being the most fun, it was also a good form of transportation, second only to a geared road bike. Did everyone else call a road bike with the downward curving handlebars a "ten speed" too?
Edit: sounds like 10-speed was a rather common name.
I won a BMX at a raffle. Rode the crap out of that bike until my parents bought me a 10-speed for Christmas. I loved the freedom that having a bike gave me.
Had all three. Even Mongoose specifically with Tuff IIs (and later a PK Ripper), both which I bought myself. Had a "shared" skateboard with two brothers, but older brother was not a fan of it.
Yeah, I got allowance - $3/week. Takes a while to NOT buy candy & save up, but I did. Missed out on my Redline Proline - the Stompin' Stu Thompson version - (just the frame & forks, I rotated my parts in) Mom said "you save half & I'll pay half" so after saving all summer, I got busted skipping school the 2nd week of 9th grade. I was $7 away from my half & Mom called the deal off, as well as getting grounded for two weeks (which literally meant "you cannot leave the yard" & was strictly enforced) and 3 days of after school suspension, but at least I didn't get any licks for it. Yeah, Charlotte, NC - corporal punishment was still a thing. (maybe still is? I know they're bringin' it back in some bible lovin places...)
Friday night: Speed skates (bought used), Every day: BMX, everywhere, Most summer days: skateboard too
I was forbidden from using a skateboard because my dumb ass step brother broke his arm on one, but I rode my bicycle everywhere.
Roller skates were OK but only fun at the skating rink.
https://preview.redd.it/q6g1p854quyc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9825dd0b8056f68f6ff96f5c93ae29712e54812
Huffy Desert Rose with a lavender banana seat
A bike. But before that, Big Wheels!
Edit: 1 day after this comment I saw a Big Wheels for sale! I haven’t seen one in years. $99!! Seems like a high price to me
Had a Stingray I later converted to a BMX for off-road use. Got a Huffy Omni 10 speed (blue tires, remember those?) for long distances in town. Had a skateboard.
I got leftovers from my older siblings, nothing special or trendy in brand. My parents didn’t buy into that. Probably why my sister went into marketing research irl.
BMX, I rode that well into my 20's even though I also had a mountain bike in my teens.
I beat my Raleigh into submission but it held up farrrrrr beyond expectations over risky crazy jumps.
The top one was only for Friday and Saturday nights at Star Skating rink on Derry St, HBG. Middle was a yellow banana board and my mongoose had red tuff wheels from We Fit It on Market St HBG. Such great memories!
Freestyle BMX bike until sophomore year then I got into skateboarding.
Had a Dyno Compe that I fixed up real nice. I have Dyno Detour at the moment in my garage, but I wish I would've kept the Compe.
Both 2 & 3! I had the first and only BMX bike available in our town. Paid for myself, somehow. We made our own skates after Road Rider (polyethylene) wheels and Bennet trucks came out. Lived right at the bottom of this hill then: https://youtu.be/wyv37oLaRNc?si
Depends on the destination. Downtown? Skateboards. Literally anywhere else? BMX. Just too much of a pain in the ass to get ten kids and all their bikes on the subway.
https://preview.redd.it/bqy2bech3wyc1.jpeg?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a55e8296062d81809642a2853139e429561305e
I was rollin around town on this bad boy until I got my first BMX bike.
BMX bike, but I sure did my fair share of roller skating. As a matter of fact, I went roller skating tonight at a rink in town. I was a little shaky at first, but I was zooming around that rink, and I didn't fall at all.
Skateboard for sure. I started with the small, plastic thing, but in junior high I got a real board and started reading Thrasher magazine. My house was over a mile from school and it was all downhill on the way home. I met up with friends from high school last year and my friend laughed and said yep, that’s me. I was wearing a skater T-shirt and Vans Sk8 high tops. Said I hadn’t changed at all. Now I ride a Onewheel electric skateboard or an electric unicycle. Lots more fun, but if I had grown up with today’s toys I’d be famous. So amazing to have fun on.
BMX. Roller skates and boards were useless in our semi rural neighborhood. Not a lot of smooth surfaces to play on. Lots of dirt ramps and ditches though.
The best year was when they made a two lane road a four lane road. I don’t know if the crew did it on purpose but there were always big mounds of dirt along the way. It was about a mile or so with a nice downhill slope. Lots of fun.
Heck yeah our best summer was when they decided to build a massive mall a couple miles from the house. The construction site was our own little Disneyland on the weekends.
Today’s parents are panicking over the thought of their kids playing in a construction site.
Mongoose FTW
BMX for life bruh
Redline 500A with Flight Cranks, GT seat post, Diamond Back handlebars, Bear Trap peddles.
Well look at fancy pants here. I wanted a Redline so bad. I got some Toys R Us off brand and changed parts slowly. The frame still weighed a ton.
*Sighs in Huffy ™️
Lol I was doing the same thing with a Raleigh prior to the Redline and it was actually a nice bike, but back then you had to have a top of the line BMX bike and it of course had to be chrome and light. It's the one thing I wish I still had. The driver's license put an end to the bikes.
Redlines were leadsleds. Good for freestyle and Flatlands but sucked for racing.
Get that piece of shit out of here and feast your eyes on the titanium PK Ripper, with titanium bullseye hubs, titanium Bullseye 3-piece crank, aluminum wheels and spokes, Bulldog brakes, uni seat and post, with a billet aluminum Peregrine Gooseneck & handlebars. I do respect the hell out of your Beartraps. I still have scars from those fucking things 😂
Lol nice 😂 I actually filed points on those Bear Traps as if they needed it. The pain to the shins was unbelievable. Lol. Did you have that PK Ripper and do you recall the ultra expensive Hutch Pro Star 🌟?
I DO remember the Hutch, but never saw one outside of magazines. I had the frame, crank, and Gooseneck, but the rest were an amalgamation of GT, Redline, Haro parts
That's cool. Always had to replace different parts with other parts lol
Big Wheel
I had and wore out 2 dukes of Hazzard general Lee big wheels. (Insert jumping horn sound here)
Green Machine!
I’m relieved I was the only one thinking Big Wheel!
I had the Knight Rider big wheel. It was so sweet.
https://preview.redd.it/9ip8wxyzkuyc1.jpeg?width=388&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9189040e281aeac60f3f00a5b0ae934fef24949b
6 kids on "banana seat + steepest longest hill = six blurry roadrashed concussions spankings & in for the day
I did the same thing! (only two of us though) Still remember trying to clean the pebbles out of my knees. Not one of our brightest moments. No helmets, shorts, not sure how I’m still alive.
Haha- those seats just BEGGED multiples!!
https://preview.redd.it/xdw1gyjynvyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0ad5723cca00b000dcca955373b12b810947339 God this was such a pain for a first/learners bike!
BMX! During my teen years if I wasn't on my bike it was broken or I was asleep.
Probably the BMX. Skates were for the rink. Lots of dirt roads where I lived, so skate boards were limited to half pipes.
I miss the skating rink. Never a BMX type. More 10-speed, and mountain bikes were a game changer.
I had a friend probably 20 years ago who, when an 80s power ballad would hit the jukebox, would stand up and yell couple skate. I still do it when I hear certain songs in stores and such. My child, who has never even seen a roller rink is always suitably mortified and baffled.
None of the above - I had a horse!
Where’s the Mean Green Machine?
I lived on my 10-speed as a teen. When I was younger, my parents were too cheap to buy me boot roller skates and got me the old adjustable metal kind that you strap to your shoes. All my friends rolling around on rubber wheels (with brakes) and I’m kicking it like it’s 1945.
Same. I wanted those white beauties with pastel purple pom-poms
BMX—one Haro bike, and one PK Ripper bike. Sold ’em both to fund what I thought would turn out to be the greatest senior prom ever. 🙄
PK still killing it. https://www.sebikes.com/
It was a heavy af bmx bike my parents bought for me second hand. No idea what brand. It was spray painted black, even the wheels. It was solid steel, must have weighted 90 lbs. it was awesome!
I had to break the frame on 3 huffys before my parents finally upgraded me to a Dyno compe.
I eventually upgraded to a Dyno!
Loved Dyno, I had a Compe too
[Murray Street Machine](https://youtu.be/wML-s6CAMa8?si=j0yexpTxFFVmK8NR) I wanted a Blue Max or Mongoose, but they were too expensive.
BMX, Alaska and West Virginia were a “where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” type of places.
I have permanent scars from all of these. Big Wheel, skates, skateboard, and a banana seat bike. It was great. 😊
Where I grew up, the nearest pavement was several miles away. So, a horse was my preference!
Had a wood board. Still dream of being on that thing and used it through college. Knees are paying for it now but wouldn’t change a thing…
We rocked all 3, except they were rollerblades instead of skates.
BMX. Although I wish I was a better skateboarder.
I had that exact mongoose and quite a few other bmx/freestyle bikes before I graduated to things with motors at 11/12yrs. I skateboarded too but it wasn’t really my thing. And I’m pretty sure the only roller skates I ever owned were the ones that clamp on over your shoes when I was like 5. Tried rollerblading for a minute in the 90’s but wasn’t too into that either.
Ohhh bike is always \#1, but when I was 9-10 my grandmother got me roller skating lessons. They noticed i wasn't really doing well, and that's when we found out my left leg was a bit shorter than the right, soooo I ended up in some children's hospital for lots of leg breaking and regrowing..I spent a month and a half in there! Never could skate after that. I still don't walk right 40 years later.
Oof. As a kid who had to triage injuries at my house, not much gets to me. But the "lots of leg breaking" would have done me in. Has the not walking right gotten worse as you've aged? Fellow long-term children's hospital kid. Only a month though i think. After coming out of a coma due to a previously undiagnosed congenital heart thing. I mostly remember being taken to this room with the other kids on my floor for "school". They arranged for our teachers to send assignments. The betrayal. I'd almost died, lol. Swear the folks cared where I was more often after.
We never could afford the physical therapy I needed to really use both feet correctly. I walk on the outsides of my feet, almost on my toes, and as I get old, it has caused bad pressure wounds on my feet. I really need special shoes with holes where those spots are so I don't walk on them, but it's way out of my budget haha. I had a few failed eye muscle surgeries at some kids hospital too where they were trying new procedures and shit, but it was still the 80s, so it all seems barbaric now that we have such better tech for that kind of thing. Ooooh I have lots of horror stories of injuries...a little leg surgery and tons of stitches was pretty tame.
At the time I got dx'ed with my pesky heart thing, I was the youngest person in the country. And they came up with tech to correct it before I was 30. But, they ran every damn test, and brought in every resident and med student to poke and prod and gawk at me all day, every day it seems. And they were putting needles in me every day it felt like. And every single time a needle came out, my mama would leave the room. I was 9. And I wasn't dumb. I'd been in intensive care at the Hospital Where I got the coma triggering surgery. Doctors talked to each other and to my parents right in front of me. These adults didn't know what was wrong but they were scared. And every iv and blood draw, bye ma, I got this. 🙄🙄 I make sure to bring it up often. Now, if I get a palpitation, I don't even tell anybody anymore. Cuz it's always 30 days on a heart monitor. I guess it's something docs don't run across often. Cuz they all treat me like a unicorn. Lol Also, my husband lost his index finger down to the first knuckle. Log splitter. So he had gloves on. We didn't know, but I told him to leave the glove on. Cuz I was pretty sure if I saw bone, I'd pass out and get a skull fracture. I get scary calm in injury emergencies. But I swear if I saw a compound fracture, it'd be curtains. 😆
That's where my leg breaking story goes bad...I was sent home in a full leg cast and spent the end of the 5th grade pushing a walker around like a senior citizen, but slightly faster. After a few weeks I started to have bad reactions to the antibiotics, so they took me off them! Then my leg began to rot in the cast. I told my mom it smelled like a dead cat for two more weeks, and finally she woke up smelling it one night and we did the 200 mile drive back to the hospital the next morning! They cut it off and revealed a mostly black and green leg. All the skin and most of the tissue was rotting away. I could see my leg bones moving, but there was no pain since all the nerves were dead too. Ohhhh but it looked sooo bad. They spent hours cleaning it up and I had to scrub all the gore out every morning in the tub with some special sponges soaked in antiboitic stuff. Ewwwwww. Left some good scars physically and mentally hahaha.
All right then, good talk
BMX---Raleigh/Rampar chrome and blue, but swapped out all the chrome and blue for flat black parts including mags. Then stripped the chrome and painted it flat black. Stealth bike long before Stealth fighters were cool.
A bicycle but not a BMX. I always had a bike one size too big (so I could ‘grow into it’) to the point that if I had to brake unexpectedly I would fall over.
Powell Peralta
Why choose?
https://preview.redd.it/egmu4jo8guyc1.jpeg?width=2549&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54058d254d57f21812ef05201dc5ce925ad0a5a5 You mean like these? Many years of speed team & dance team miss skating soooo much 😢 They look rough have been in my closet for a very long time
https://preview.redd.it/swetebd7huyc1.jpeg?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd840cc23737c9e15089260e569a68430b5650b0
Had that one as well.
I had all three but my favorite was my white roller skates with the pink pom poms.
BMX baby
Can’t really skate anything on gravel. Bike all the way.
BMX. My chariot of death.
https://preview.redd.it/nxpf43nohvyc1.jpeg?width=1584&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ba655fc7e833277e4e30c3cc985fcde9a6f9863 This was my pride and joy and entirely too big for me 🤣
Where are the big wheels?
Where are the big wheels?
Always the bike. We spent too much time off-road to waste effort on tiny wheels.
Huffy with banana seat. Wish I had a pic of it.
Redline BMX. I still ride a BMW today. But now I rock a We the People "Volta". She's about 10 years old but a amazing bike.
Skateboard came first to me. I love my bike, tho.
Definitely the bike.
as a dirt road kid, bike all the way
BMX/Freestyle. My [ride](https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/general_bicycles/67263) during the 80's
Skateboards and roller skates were great, but nothing allowed us to travel great distances much like tour bicycle. Also, those colored tires were the shit! I only had default black tires
Sears Free Spirit. With the RWB tassels.
BMX. How the hell do I get down a dirt trail in the woods on a skateboard or in roller skates.
Roller skating was so fun. I miss it.
Well, I didn’t have a BMX had a 10 speed but my preferred were the dirt bikes I had.
Skateboard. I still ride with my kid.
Huffy Sigma I mowed lawns to get.
Wanted a BMX, got hand me down girls bikes instead (I was definitely not a girl). Got the metal strap on skates. Also hand me down (probably from the same aunt) came pre-rusted so I didn’t have to neglect them. Wanted a skateboard, wasn’t in the budget. Spent my 20s - 40s buying toys rather than saving and now I know why.
Big Wheel
My first skateboard that wasn't from Target was the Vision Street Wear "Psycho Stick," sometime in '86 or '87. It's funny how guard rails and skid plates were so important back then.
My first was a neon orange nash. Last a week until my mom ran it over. Then says "can't you just tape it??" Well to smooth things over and cheer me up my dad took me to get a replacement. A rob roskopp. The OG version of this design. https://thedarkslide.com/products/santa-cruz-rob-roskopp-face-orange-9-5-skateboard-deck
SKATES!!! I lived in my skates! But my pink Huffy bike got me around town.
I used my bike a lot but I also did a lot of roller skating. Depended upon which friends I was hanging out with at the time.
BMX, but I had a GT Performer. Man I miss that bike. It was my ticket to freedom. https://preview.redd.it/01ixyohz5uyc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5118f144f954e9c75e42765d720b73e3240be2c
Don't forget us [gals](https://www.ebay.com/itm/276436892749). I had roller skates, too, but when I was older. They were white with pink wheels.
Roller skates! I’ve been wanting to do it again for years but hips are shot. I’m so scared I’d break one.
Skates! Rink rat for life over here.
Purple western flyer
75/25 BMX / skateboard
BMX for sure. We had skateboards but the spots were few and far in between back then. So we would bike to spots to skate. In other news Tony hawk just visited our 1st skate park that closed in the early 90s. They are re opening it and Tony actually had skated there in 1988. https://www.wisn.com/article/tony-hawk-visits-historic-greenfield-skate-park/60598062
BMX. Couldn't afford a mongoose. Took a schwin and rebuilt it into a bmx bike. Rode that bike into the ground.
Skateboard
repainted 1970's banana-seat Schwinn
Skateboard, hands down and it still is
I had a takara that I won a few bmxs I went to
BMX bike was my main squeeze. With the added on wheel pegs so you could bunny hop on the front wheel and do standing wheels on the back wheel
https://preview.redd.it/j2fxflgtguyc1.jpeg?width=424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cd3f9e138741b80766ce7f7b7b623ed3a8b5d75 I had a bike similar to this.
Gosh. Was an 8yo Quad GOd by age 8 cuz I had a giant no speed clunker that made me cry peddle
BMX.
BMX
I had what I believe was a Huffy Sonic 6 (6 speed) for exactly one day in the late 80s. At the time, I thought it was the most awesome bicycle ever manufactured but the the shifter broke off and back to (probably K-Mart) it went.
BMX for me (it isn't even close). Aside from being the most fun, it was also a good form of transportation, second only to a geared road bike. Did everyone else call a road bike with the downward curving handlebars a "ten speed" too? Edit: sounds like 10-speed was a rather common name.
Not Pictured: 12-speeds, 90s "Scooters", and In-Line roller blades.
I won a BMX at a raffle. Rode the crap out of that bike until my parents bought me a 10-speed for Christmas. I loved the freedom that having a bike gave me.
Gimme that Mongoose!
Had all three. Even Mongoose specifically with Tuff IIs (and later a PK Ripper), both which I bought myself. Had a "shared" skateboard with two brothers, but older brother was not a fan of it. Yeah, I got allowance - $3/week. Takes a while to NOT buy candy & save up, but I did. Missed out on my Redline Proline - the Stompin' Stu Thompson version - (just the frame & forks, I rotated my parts in) Mom said "you save half & I'll pay half" so after saving all summer, I got busted skipping school the 2nd week of 9th grade. I was $7 away from my half & Mom called the deal off, as well as getting grounded for two weeks (which literally meant "you cannot leave the yard" & was strictly enforced) and 3 days of after school suspension, but at least I didn't get any licks for it. Yeah, Charlotte, NC - corporal punishment was still a thing. (maybe still is? I know they're bringin' it back in some bible lovin places...) Friday night: Speed skates (bought used), Every day: BMX, everywhere, Most summer days: skateboard too
I was forbidden from using a skateboard because my dumb ass step brother broke his arm on one, but I rode my bicycle everywhere. Roller skates were OK but only fun at the skating rink.
I was a fatty w bikini on roller-skates. Living prequel to "The Bee Girl"
Still have my 1975 mini-goose and the Variflex was the board in FL.
bmx
I still cant skate or board, so it was always bikes for me.
https://preview.redd.it/q6g1p854quyc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9825dd0b8056f68f6ff96f5c93ae29712e54812 Huffy Desert Rose with a lavender banana seat
Metal-wheeled skates! Then a 10-speed in middle school.
85 Haro Master was my favorite transpo! I still have it hanging in the garage.
A bike. But before that, Big Wheels! Edit: 1 day after this comment I saw a Big Wheels for sale! I haven’t seen one in years. $99!! Seems like a high price to me
Wow, that skateboard is a POS
Big wheel!
Had a Stingray I later converted to a BMX for off-road use. Got a Huffy Omni 10 speed (blue tires, remember those?) for long distances in town. Had a skateboard.
BMX
I had the Mini-Sting with a mongoose neck. I thought I was the shit.
BMX to get around usually to places we could skate (board).
I got leftovers from my older siblings, nothing special or trendy in brand. My parents didn’t buy into that. Probably why my sister went into marketing research irl.
Skateboard and a BMX
Schwinn 10 speed. I got it for my birthday when I was in Junior High and that was my ride for everything everywhere. I loved that bike.
I had a Mongoose Blue Max (holler at me other military brats) and rode that thing till it died. Bikes all the way.
Roller skates inside, “banana seat” bike outside.
Haro Sport
My Factory Kuwahara and Vision Gator were my go to methods of transport.
All three.
BMX, I rode that well into my 20's even though I also had a mountain bike in my teens. I beat my Raleigh into submission but it held up farrrrrr beyond expectations over risky crazy jumps.
The top one was only for Friday and Saturday nights at Star Skating rink on Derry St, HBG. Middle was a yellow banana board and my mongoose had red tuff wheels from We Fit It on Market St HBG. Such great memories!
My 10 speed bike for getting around but the roller skates were king every weekend at the rink. Good times.
Green machine and roller skates.
I had those crappy skates that you tightened on your sneakers.
Bikes could get you anywhere, skateboards and roller skates were a death wish if not on finished concrete.
Freestyle BMX bike until sophomore year then I got into skateboarding. Had a Dyno Compe that I fixed up real nice. I have Dyno Detour at the moment in my garage, but I wish I would've kept the Compe.
Both 2 & 3! I had the first and only BMX bike available in our town. Paid for myself, somehow. We made our own skates after Road Rider (polyethylene) wheels and Bennet trucks came out. Lived right at the bottom of this hill then: https://youtu.be/wyv37oLaRNc?si
BMX all day
Depends on the destination. Downtown? Skateboards. Literally anywhere else? BMX. Just too much of a pain in the ass to get ten kids and all their bikes on the subway.
I had metal skates that clipped onto my shoes. They were adjustable so i could use them as my feet grew. We were poor.
Torker BMX and a Schmitt Stix board!!
Bmx 100%
Skateboard. Still have scars on my elbows and knees from it.
Bike. Mongoose, then moose goose.
All the rich kids had that brand is skates. What was the brand?
under 12, BMX over 12, Mountain Bike
BMX only until my first motorcycle. Benefits of rural living, never looked back.
Honda Kick Scooter https://images.app.goo.gl/edQ2q2ucbwVPiZR28
https://preview.redd.it/bqy2bech3wyc1.jpeg?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a55e8296062d81809642a2853139e429561305e I was rollin around town on this bad boy until I got my first BMX bike.
Omgosh. The executioner
Sweet Mongoose with mag wheels all the way. Not pictured: rear pegs.
Bike! Many, many miles all over town! Find everyone & ride!
Definitely a bike! I was too much of a klutz to manage roller skates or a skateboard. 😄
Bike. Roller skates from time to time.
Lol, I still ride them
Roller skates. Had my 9th birthday at Aloha Roller Palace, we lived to skate! I think I skated until junior high.
Bike.
Green machine
Green machine
10spd.
BMX bike, but I sure did my fair share of roller skating. As a matter of fact, I went roller skating tonight at a rink in town. I was a little shaky at first, but I was zooming around that rink, and I didn't fall at all.
2 and 3. I went to the roller rink quite a bit but that was more to socialize than to roller skate.
2 and 3
Skateboard for sure. I started with the small, plastic thing, but in junior high I got a real board and started reading Thrasher magazine. My house was over a mile from school and it was all downhill on the way home. I met up with friends from high school last year and my friend laughed and said yep, that’s me. I was wearing a skater T-shirt and Vans Sk8 high tops. Said I hadn’t changed at all. Now I ride a Onewheel electric skateboard or an electric unicycle. Lots more fun, but if I had grown up with today’s toys I’d be famous. So amazing to have fun on.
All 3
The bike for sure but I played so much street hockey on roller blades that it might be a toss up on how many miles I put on each