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* Audio now fixed, sorry about that * Another bonus for anyone interested in where the UK scene came back from in the early 90s?

Name: Jim Fisher
Hometown: Gaines, MI... Denver area now.
Started riding BMX in: '79
Number of bikes in the collection: 20 plus

Is your focus on BMX bikes from the period you raced in mainly?
Jim Fisher: Mainly '79-'84, I have to say I’m more a collector today than I was a racer back then. I just had and rode a few of these bikes when I was a kid/teen in small town MI. We didn’t have a track but we had a couple sweet bike shops and lots of places to ride like maniacs and we did. I dreamed of moving to California getting a Toyota 4x4 and racing with the pros back then.

Did you manage to get the bikes that you really wanted when you raced?
Jim Fisher: I was blessed to have some nice bikes... I followed BMX thru the magazines and got to know the guys at the local bike shops so I built up a few really nice bikes back then.

Name: Rod Miles
Hometown: Indy .... Georgia since '84
Started riding BMX in: 1977
Number of bikes in the collection: 20+

Is your focus on BMX bikes from the period you raced in mainly?
Rodney Miles: Yes, I have a thing for the smaller companies and East coast brands MCS, Thruster, J&G Cheetahs and White Lightning.

Being away from California, did you manage to get the bikes that you really wanted when you raced?

This is from the Pro Flatland class at the wolrds in Cologne 1996, both qualifying and the finals. Phil Dolan won.

Name: Sean Stiddard
Hometown: Bristol, England
Started riding BMX in: 1980
Number of bikes in the collection: Now 14, I had 37 at one point. But I scaled back as to leave the bikes that either meant a lot to me (i.e. my original bikes) or ones I just plain loved too much to let go. I remember once a long time ago my wife (who was my girlfriend at the time) asked the dreaded
question “Exactly how many bikes and frames do you have?”, my reply was “You know about the 20 bikes in the loft, well I have 6 frames at work, 2 frames in the back of my car, 4 being chromed, 2 at my parents and 1 in the mail that I purchased yesterday”, I think that is when she realised she had a love rival in the relationship.

Name: Mohamad Al-amin Abdullah
Hometown: Perlis, Malaysia
Started riding BMX in: BITD mid 90s, and came back to BMX in about 2016.
Number of bikes in the collection: Since 2016 until 2021 I have owned 150 complete old school BMX bikes ('70s-'90s) and more than 250 frame & fork sets. Last year I started to sell a few things from my collection (already sold around 60-70 BMX). I sold some to other local collectors and just tried to move a few items in order to cover the costs of the container. With the help of some friends in the UK and USA, I have stockpiled some parts and bikes, which I then ship in a container back to Malaysia. It is very common in the old school scene for sellers to refuse international shipping. So, we try to have an

Born in Chatsworth, California, Redline BMX got its start when Linn Kastan created the first tubular Chromoly Redline fork in 1974, with the first production of Squareback frames soon after. Fifty years later the Redline brand continues to be a staple of the BMX world, with a rich legacy of accomplishments from the world’s best riders.

Name: Brad Nash
Hometown: Winchester, England
Started riding BMX in: 1983
Number of bikes in the collection: Currently 6

What was the first collectable bike that started it all for you?
Brad Nash: In early 2000’s I got my hands on an '83 Mongoose Californian and that was it...

Do you have a closer feeling to bikes you did own back in the day or badly wanted when you were racing BMX?
Brad Nash: Badly wanted is more like it. I had a rubbish BMX as a kid. Mum swears it was an American import but I think she meant from Halfords. I never raced BMX. We did have a mud track locally that kids

Name: Donnie Platt
Hometown: Borelando, Florida
Started riding BMX in: 1982
Number of bikes in the collection: 10 completes

Do you remember the moment that you decided to start collecting BMX memorabilia?
Donnie Platt: I’ve always been into old school bikes. I always kept them around even as I got new bikes. I decided I wanted to start racing again in 2005 and decided to fund it by selling off a bunch of my old school parts. That was when I realized that there was a real scene there. I wasn’t the only one that liked that stuff. I sold off a bunch of stuff (including the Boss cruiser I’d had since 1992 which I tried to buy