Well, I must admit to getting a bit older and well greyer as well. But I am a man who seems to want to get back to his childhood.
So, over the last few months I have been going roller skating again as a new rink opened up late last year. I had an old pair of skates that were ruined and the wrong size for me, so I have spent the last few months on ebay hunting down and building up several pairs of original old school Bauer hockey skates.
Now I have completed these I feel done on this and will enjoy them, but I appear to have moved on with this bug and am now looking at 1984 BMX bikes and now plan on recreating my last one.
Am I mad is it just me or are there other with the same insane need to do this? Is this the new midlife crisis as I already have the Lotus and no desire for a motorbike!
Get into cycling.The carbon fibre stuff is amazing.I built myself a Parlee road bike which only weighs 13.5lbs and have a carbon framed hybrid as well.It is relatively safe and you will get hooked.
Why don’t you video yourself on rollerboots and yer BMX, watch it back and if you think you look a twat, stop and put it all on ebay. Post it up on Vimeo and no doubt we’ll all have an opinion too 
[quote=ade]Well, I must admit to getting a bit older and well greyer as well. But I am a man who seems to want to get back to his childhood.
So, over the last few months I have been going roller skating again as a new rink opened up late last year. I had an old pair of skates that were ruined and the wrong size for me, so I have spent the last few months on ebay hunting down and building up several pairs of original old school Bauer hockey skates.
Now I have completed these I feel done on this and will enjoy them, but I appear to have moved on with this bug and am now looking at 1984 BMX bikes and now plan on recreating my last one.
Am I mad is it just me or are there other with the same insane need to do this? Is this the new midlife crisis as I already have the Lotus and no desire for a motorbike! [/quote]
That’s just brought back a whole load of memories… if I remember correctly you could upgrade the axles (651’s???) too!
Mongoose was the bmx to have in my street - I think I ended up with a cougar with mushroom grips and skyway bars though… Those were the days! 
GT Pro Performer was my bike Skyway Tuffs and Redline Flight cranks
[quote=Benja]Why don’t you video yourself on rollerboots and yer BMX, watch it back and if you think you look a twat, stop and put it all on ebay. Post it up on Vimeo and no doubt we’ll all have an opinion too
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I realise I might look a twat, but what the hell
I had my retro revival a few years ago …
When I was a young teen I was heavily into model flying…
After a 25 year lay off I bought a high end 3D plane .
Thinking I wouldn’t be able to fly it I wad pleasantly surprised that I hadn’t lost the gift!
Soon got bored and sold it tho ,probably because I was also flying full size at the same time.
id been toying with building an Orange P7 bike with magura hydro rim brakes
Good call, but I wouldn’t fancy going back to rim brakes, all those nasty grinding noises from mud on the rims and having to decouple the brakes once you’ve bent the rims too much…or is that just my riding 
Wouldn’t anything other than a 3D plane, simply be a drawing of a plane???
I had a falcon pro flyer bmx, she was a beaut. Got a orange evo 2 that has bein sat in me shed for the last 12years. Think my biking days are over.
Rick
Damon built a few old school BMX bikes up…I think some of them can be worth silly money…
BMX bandits…there was a great film… ok, ok, it was pretty shocking really.
you are right he did, might have to hunt down some of his posts
Nicole Kidman’s break through movie
now looking at prices, I’m not sure this is going to be financially viable to do! 
GT pro , I would of killed for one of them In my Fila Kappa days .
A mate buys and sells them , some of them are worth a fortune now , he had a mint original Mongoose that I fancied but it was to pricey for me .
Now all this BMX stuff is good but who really remembers the early Tamiyas? The Sand Scorcher and Rough Rider, followed by the Willys Jeep and then the mammoth Toyota Hilux with 4WD and a actual gearbox. True retro Petrolhead stuff.
And then came the CB radio. One nine a copy good buddy.
[quote=Huskydog]Now all this BMX stuff is good but who really remembers the early Tamiyas? The Sand Scorcher and Rough Rider, followed by the Willys Jeep and then the mammoth Toyota Hilux with 4WD and a actual gearbox. True retro Petrolhead stuff.
And then came the CB radio. One nine a copy good buddy. [/quote]
don’t you will get me started on my next projects early, have an Exige RC car, I need a tamiya sand scorcher and plan to build (never fly) a large RC helicopter