I wish I could do that! When I was young may be 9 years old, I had a red bmx with the coastal break, which the freewheel will do the break if we roll it backward. Really cool at that time,I just love do the slide breaking all the time, I had both my knee bled and still had the scar to prove it.hehe..
Then when I was 13 years old, I had another bmx, this time , I bought it bits by bits and put it together, a chrome body, with a pair of blue alloy rims, blue head set with alloy handle bar, white saddle, black crank and blue hand break.At that time, kuwahara was a so popular for a bmx brand. Mine had no brand. I tried to do stuff with that bike, bunny hop, endo, wheelie, barhop, sailing boat but at that time, I can't do much due to no exposure and limited resources(no internet, means no youtube..hahaha). I only had a chance to read the bmx plus mag(so damn expensive-imported) when I had enough money to buy it in the town. And only one shop had it, Rakesh's bookstore behind Hankyu jaya in Kota Bharu where I also buy the dandy and beano comics. I also can't do much of the freestyle thing due hard to find equipment such as the pegs and the gyro-rotor. I only manage to the pegs when I was in form 2(also involve the money problems), but that time there are only two bmxers in my kampung. So we only cruising in the evening and try to bunny hop stuff such as the aluminum can and plank.hehe..
Then, I saw a plastic with four little wheels attached on it in one of the supermarket in kota bharu. I knew right away that I wanted it. I managed to save some money and bought the small skateboard and it was plastic and pink! and the rest is history. (Skateboard story another time.)
As for the bmx, I used it as the transport to go to school, Sekolah menengah Jalan Bayam(at that time, now change to Sekolah Ahmad Maher), I think it was the whole year when I was in form 2.
Just imagine what if I had the right bmx for street at that time! I wish!
I'll try to look for my old bmx photos.
BMX rules!
also influenced by movie, ET, bmx bandits, karate kids and a malay movie "bujang senang",karate kids wannabe.
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