TIM

Just one. My son's Peddlepower. Larock just took a sweet Dan Gurney from my garage a couple weeks ago.

I'm not dead, ya know.

I've owned 2 of Scot's Reynolds 531 OM's in the past... 1. The "SI" serialed baby blue frame previously owned by Bill Ryan, who got it from Scot; 2. An original custom chrome Reynolds 531 complete bike that Scot used as a race bike then as a daily rider till he sold it to me. Jeff Haney currently owns both of them as far as I know..

$100? I'da grabbed it just for the killer frame insert.

Perry Kramer tearing up when his rebuilt Team Mongoose was unveiled at Sodbuster's house one sunny SoCal afternoon. Hands down #1 good memory. PK is the coolest dude in bmx, old or new. Sodbuster. nuff said. Yapping with Bill Curtin on the phone. Cool dude. Good people. The 26"er sharing a room at Rockford one year. I slept nights, he slept days... not sure we ever crossed paths. Snickering at shinglehead's annual reaction to getting robbed in Rockford voting. Always made a point to sit next to him at the banquet to hear his reaction up close. (sorry dude!) Jeff Haney's good ole boys who came out to load and drive everything back to Georgia. Hard drinking, hard living, funny as hell. Not exactly bmx, but the annual dirt jumping contests at the Huntington Beach pier. Those boys live very very dangerously.

when OM saw it at my house he was irate... he claimed he had donated the frame to the ABA. the explanations i got over the years ranged from "we gave it back" - "it isnt the same one" - "that old druggie doesnt remember shit". i have always believed it was OM's personal frame. well... you asked.

post em up Shingle!

Damn... that pic of JU's JU is getting my building juices flowing. That build was one of the two most enjoyable projects I ever did (PK's Team Mongoose the other), because I really worked with JU and PK to get them just the way they remembered them. (JU and his expensive Cook Bros taste!) Now I wish I had Perry's goose back...

LOL, shingle! i knew the frame came from you, couldnt remember if the bike came complete. and you just know i had to put that chocolate brown fork on the BD, what with my love of mismatched f/f's. i used to keep a ledger with the origin of every part and its particulars (nos, etc). the ledger went to jhaney with everything else.

memories are fading a bit, but that tuff fork on my old JU was original and mint condition. i don't remember where i got it, but could have been the one originally found by Shannon; i've never seen another one. The BD-III had an original finish chocolate brown Cyclepro fork.

That rust will come right off with Deco Aluminum jelly and an SOS soap pad. Those old steel rims have great chrome. That wheelset screams early Webco.

nice build Grey... but tell me you didnt take the factory Shimano decals off....

Yep, mild steel. Original finish and decals, including a couple Ralph's Bike Shop and some kind of gold trim wrapped around the fork legs. Mismatched forks, in both brand and color, were a common theme in my builds. I just like the look.

mini-scrambler type thingies