Rebel Racer and Skyway

[sleepercell]

This is a couple of pictures from my days as a retro bike builder before it was fashionable, in the 80's I rode a Raleigh Burner and always wanted a haro or skyway but parents wouldn't pay out. So when I was 16 and BMX had gone out of fashion I found I could pick up old school bikes for next to nothing and I started restoring them, found some real gems and most of the bike shops had great NOS parts going cheap. I also had a ex pro racer living a couple of doors down who used to give me parts for nothing.

I ended up with about 6 bmx never really knew what I had just enjoyed building and riding them, sold most of them on to mates etc. But wished I had kept them all.

 

[BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN]

bottom one could be a DP FIREBIRD

nice rides and would be proud to have them


both sort after frames :cry:


B

 

[sleepercell]

Had a look around for DP Freestyler photos and its was defo one of those. never heard of them before were they any good? I do remember putting the skyway stickers on it at the time coz i had them lying around.

 

[BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN]

DP's (Dave Parks) are sort after as getting rare and price's go up

http://www.dpfirebird.co.uk/#

have a look here as well

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/dp/

 

[losidan]

who was the pro you lived near then?

 

[sleepercell]

Forgot his name, lived in Lincoln at the time.