Name: Christophe Detandt
Hometown: Pont à Celles - Belgium
Started riding BMX in: 1984
Number of bikes in the collection: More than 40, I don't know exactly...
Do you remember the moment that you decided to start collecting BMX memorabilia?
Christophe Detandt: Yes, when I removed dust off my old 1985 GT PRO laying in the garage in 2006 ... the memories came back quickly and I took a look on the net and I discovered that there were some guys who were collecting BMX bikes... One month later, I bought the first bike of my collection, a Skyway Streetbeat!
Revealing a very rare BMX bike | Goodyear BMX by Rad BMX Builds
John Paul Rogers & Kim Boyle // Feel My Leg Muscles, I'm A Racer // by 1991 Snakebite BMX
John Paul Rogers & Kim Boyle // Feel My Leg Muscles, I'm A Racer // by 1991
BMX COLLECTION FOR SALE!? This is crazy! by Rad BMX Builds
OVER 50s results by Neil Waddington
Austin Texas Road Trip // Soul Video Mag // #16 // 2001 by Snakebite BMX
How did we get here? I had a brief conversation with Chris about potentially co-hosting a month or two ago and we landed on a single name: Harold McGruther. A true icon behind the scenes. Intelligent, polarizing, hilarious, and after 40 years of growing, building, and marketing brands, he's a true wealth of crazy stories, historical facts, and insight. Truly an honor to have McGoo sit down and run through his timeline and scratch the surface of his long history in the BMX industry....
Skyway T/A | Building a BMX icon by Rad BMX Builds
The Redline RL 20 II Prostyler tube set remains one of, if not THE, most innovative and complex of any BMX frame, fork, and handlebar combinations ever designed. The first (of many) steps in the manufacturing process is "swaging" or, in non-engineering language, "tapering" the USA made 4130 tubing to achieve the sleek aesthetic the Redline RL 20 II Prostyler is revered for. Our raw tubing begins its journey in San Diego before heading north on the 5 Freeway to south Los Angeles, to take its new form in our proprietary swaging dyes. The material is literally forced into its new dimensional profile in a rotary swager. And the complexity doesn't end there, as we create custom pressure and bending dyes to enable the tapered tubing to be adequately secured in the bending
Round 5: BMX Beat International Freestyle Competition, 1986, OLD SCHOOL BMX! by Splendid BMX
Round 5: BMX Beat International Freestyle Competition, 1986, OLD SCHOOL BMX! Riders in this round include: Neil Stevens, Andy Shohara, Terry Jenkins, and Nick Martin.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.