BMX - been a bit quiet..

[ibi sum]

> >> Banana floaties for the win!!
> > What are banana floaties?
> Bmx seat. 


I had two BMX bikes when I was a kid, both lost too soon.  

The first one, a cheap Aussie 70's clone with a banana seat and floaties
(fat sand-happy tires), I let go into blue space mid-jump over the side
of a massive, cliff-like sand-dune, and found it too dangerous to
venture and retrieve, as the sand was moving fast and like a wall.  It
sank and I scrambled not to follow it.

I had ridden it quite gleefully all day up and down a more tamer section
of a dune system I knew as "The Wall Which Moves", which had exceptional
limestone banks in dodgy places, but finally, me and that bike hit the
edge.  I bet it is still there, under the wall.

The second bike I rode round the hood of Subiaco, and had plenty of joy
with it on those streets and parking lots.  Well, I didn't 'hoon' too
much, as it was the 80's, and I had instead to get my skates on, so that
bike was given to my neighbor after a summers dis-use, a Vietnamese kid,
who rode the hell out of it and left it on the train tracks one bad
day ..

After that, I got my first motorbike (Yamaha, of course) and have been a
'bike lover' forever.

I currently have a super-cruddy mountain bike which I will now go
outside and ride unless it breaks, but I don't think I'll get much
proper BMX'ing done.  

I like the pics of yours, it reminds me of the super-hot 70's!  You know
what I mean!


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