Mid school "collecting"

[ss1980]

i went through a 3 year 'collecting' stint from 2010-2013.  collected all the parts/frames i couldn't afford and wanted at one time or another.  the shit i drooled over in the catalogs. era would be '98 to 2004ish.

i came to my senses and sold mostly everything that i collected and put the money back into my riders.  i do swap frames quite a bit still, but have a 1 in, 1 out rule. i kept some of the cool smaller parts though... barends, stems, seats.

i do have a barcode i rebuilt exactly the way it was in 2002.  mainly for beer drinking nostalgia reasons...  it sits and collect dust in the basement which is fine with me. 

[lifeloveregret]

I have amassed a collection of mid-school Primo seats. I must have ten or so. 

[mattywatty]

I wouldn't call myself a collector, but I had a couple of cool gems at one point. Unfortunately they were all at my mom's house and she threw them out years ago. The two highlights were my old Angel of Death frame that I rode when I was 14, and one of Bob Scerbo's old Animal OG sprockets that was actually given to me by Grimaldo Duran in 2004 when I was 13. In hindsight, I wish I'd saved more of my old parts, especially my gray Primo Pentagon seat, original aluminum railed Primo Balance seat, original metal Cielincki pedals, and a few others that I can't think of right now.

[skateparkrider]

So bad ass that a green box is in order.  But since those rights have been stripped from us....  This will be your green box:

[condrbkr]

Found a Hoffman Super fork with peg bosses from my first bike.

[ralph wiggum]

Got a box of stems and sprockets, old Standard pegs, Kastan-built Mosh cranks, complete Kink Fiend, S&M Holmes, my S&M Challenger XL with 990s that was my street/park bike in the early 2000s, Rob Wise's Mirraco and some frames kicking around. I had a bit more stuff but sold a lot a while back. Ideally I would like to do a "bike shop" in the basement to actually display the stuff. That should be happening in the not so distant future.

[cmc4130]

. . .  I guess mid school is a subjective term, but to me it would be around 1995/96-2003/04.  Basically to me, right when bikes started going to 1 1/8" threadless head tubes up to the point where everything started hitting the light weight phase. 
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I would backdate mid-school to 1992, with the criterion being thick dropouts made to withstand street riding, and STANDARD's development of an axle that could withstand street use of pegs.

There were definitely "mid school" bikes with 1" head tubes--the Standard Shorty & Lengthy, Hoffman Condor and Big Daddy, etc.   Even with S&M, early Dirt Bike and Holmes just had two dropouts tacked together--but when S&M switched to a serious thick dropout for the OG Dirt Bike and Holmes, I'd call that mid-school.
: )

The mid-school bikes I still have are an S&M Widowmaker 24", Homeless Macks '92 and '95, and a 1" headtube HB Taj.

[NWO_FJK]

I'm currently in the process of building my sta that I rode a decade ago with an og redneck stem, a Suzue hub with a ti axle, og scerbo bars, a hemorrhoid seat with a rod post w/Marvin's guts. I have been keeping my ears to the ground looking for the old chromoly demolition cranks so hopefully I can get my gritty hands on those.

[montymitch]

This thread is pretty useless without pics, but I guess that's what bmxmuseum is for.

[skateparkrider]

There you go. 

[montymitch]

[badlight]

Looking at that Barcode makes my back hurt.

[peggiesmalls]

Looking at that Barcode makes my back hurt.

it makes my dick hurt

[milhous]

Pictures.

[dude...]

now im hard