The forks on this didn't last that long & ended up raked out quite badly, I wasn't happy & Colin Get Pedalling who was just the best dude/shop keeper EVER, agreed to swap them over for anything else I wanted so I ended up with one of the 1st batch of Hoffman 'Condor' frame sets to arrive in the country! Can you say STOKED!!!
Sboy returned to the ranks around this time & he was the driver on all of our old road trips around the country, some great days out were had by all of us :-) We would be at Mon's ramps every weekend/fine evening.
FALCON BMX CRACKED
Mine was yellow & it cracked at the seat-tube top-tube weld after a while so I sent it back & Hot wheels said it was just the paint & they would get it chrome plated for me.About a month later (bastards) I got it back & after 1 session the chrome plate cracked in the same place as the paint had done before (double bastards) so I exchanged it for a nice neon orange Haro Air Master. It had chrome slam bars (well what do ya know!) Superpro 48’s & all good quality components… Next up for me was another custom build, shit I was earning money now so I ploughed a load of cash into an S&M Dirt Bike. We all just fell back into our old ways & started riding again. I paid a visit to Tone-Loc’s place & he just looked at me when he saw me riding a BMX again & I knew he was down for getting another bike -) Soon after I bumped into BobK & Wakey in Town & they too were fired up to get back into it.
FALCON BMX HOW TO
Well, to say that was a catalyst would be an understatement! I think within a month I had bought a GT Vertigo complete with bash guard from SS20 in Oxford (I remember Shaun Goff threatening to beat me up if I didn’t collect it after begging him to order it on the fone without paying a deposit) I was good to my word & handed over the £200 & walked away (they didn’t know how to set up the bike!) a happy man & the fire inside was burning once more… After leaving school I got into all the usual stuff that teenage working blokes get into & BMX was no longer something that I was into… I had a good few Mountain Bikes, which carried me up to about 1989-90 when by chance I was in the newsagents & saw a magazine called Invert.