Tioga Rhino III Frame Ad

Very cool Tioga Rhino III frame and fork. Was wondering if anyone had one of these and found this: http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=657

Good 'ol Comp III

The old Comp II has been with me for a long time. It was getting a bunch of attention at the trails the other day. Find one and get it. Install on front wheel and enjoy. 2.125 tan for life!

John Tomac and Greg Herbold

Found this picture on the Mellow Johnny's Twitter stream. What a thing of beauty. So many of the downhill guys were running those Tioga rear wheels. Herbold and Tomac where the first two that come to mind. I still prefer Eddie Fiola and his Uni disc wheel covers though.

Now if you can get through the crappy music in this edit. There is no denying that John Tomac is a bad ass.

New tires finally.

Finally picked up some new tires for the cruiser. Tioga City Slickers in 1.5 wire beaded. Really not into the black wall, but for the price it was pretty hard to pass up. Hell, it doesn't look to bad with the black walls on it. 

A dollar will do.

Had a flat a while back, bad enough that it blew a hole in the sidewall of my tire. I know my tires are getting a little up there in mileage but at that point it was just a matter of getting home. Patched the whole in the tube and managed to shove a dollar bill between it and the inside of the tire where the hole was. Good enough to get me home. Hell! I have gotten another 200 miles out of this set up. And yes, I am ordering more tires today.

BMX Action April 1980

Before Eddy Fiola was crowned King of the Skateparks, Bicycle Motocross Action had already named Tinker Juarez as the King. This iconic cover of Tinker laying out some style at the Lakewood Skatepark is ranked up there in my top ten covers from this time frame.

Not too often will I post up one of the editorial pages from any old publication. But when it includes artwork by Mr Bob Haro himself, I just had to get it posted. Here is a link for a bunch of his awesome drawings. Go get yourself a new desktop image.

I had run many a set of these Tioga Comp ST tires, I feel kinda lame for not knowing that the ST stood for Stadium Tire. I get a black mark for that against my old school knowledge. Good to see the overall design of the Comp ST didn't change much over the years. Great tires.

Tinker Juarez may be known to most people as a winning mountain bike racer. But his roots run deep into BMX history. This spread of him tearing up Lakewood Skatepark is proof of that. And I really could care less if anyone says anything about his knees in that table top picture. Awesome style on a bike that has wheels that weigh more than my whole bike now.

Freestylin' July 1985

This was such a good issue of Freesylin' magazine. So many good pictures and articles. And the coverage from that Del Mar contest was so crazy. It also looked like it might have been the starting point for the world take over by Skyway. Their riders were all over this issue.

Two Skyway riders on the cover. Not bad. You know, as soon as everyone saw those orange Tuff Wheels on Scotty Freeman's bike, they were going to go out and get a set. I opted for the lavender.

Objective Rad? Sure. Vector Bars might have been cool (I had a set or two), but every set I had and I think every set everyone else had cracked. And as much of a game changer as the "Rotor" was in the BMX industry, you would have thought they could have used something better than an exhaust c-clamp as a cable stop. Good for them for only letting this go for a short time and coming out with that headset cup that had the stop built into it.

 

Del Mar Skatepark  was always such a cool looking place. With it's crazy long snake run, and all of the different bowls. Bummer it was kinda of the younger stepbrother to the Pipeline Skatepark. I wish it would have gotten more coverage before they bulldozed it. Did Jeff Carroll land in that frame stand, or did he go back to the pedals before landing?

Classic Hugo Gonzales. This is the reason I would set up 3 foot tall pieces of plywood by a ditch and learned 360's over them. Hugo is the man!