What happened to Redline bicycles?
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Today we are taking a look at the history of Redline Bicycles and how to became one of the premier bmx brands in the 70s and 80s.
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You should look into the Girvin/Proflex history, I think you'd get a kick out of it. Bob Girvin was a very cool dude- a true 'genius'- who just sort of wound up in the bike world.
@@floydblandston108just added it to my list. Thanks!
Just watched this video and it was awesome. I always wanted a Redline when I was a kid, but could never afford one.
I just watched the Mongoose video you made and never realised they made a freestyle scooter. There was a kid in my neighbourhood when I was growing up who had a General Sidekick Scooter that looked a lot like the Mongoose one.
I would love to.see a deep dive video on General bikes. When frestyle bmx hit Australia, it seemed like everyone was riding General bikes.
Thanks for making these videos, they're great.
Now to watch the GT video! 😊
@@TimBullasI appreciate the support. I added general to my list of companies to look into!
I recently pulled 2 Redlines out of storage. 79-80 usa frame with full wrap flight cranks, and an early 80s usa frame with z rims on it. Haven't riden them since the 90s, and am restoring them. This is a great video with history I never knew. Thanks!
Please do an episode on SE Racing and its founder Scot Breithaupt. Thank you. 🏁
First thing that comes to mind when I see Redline BMX is Stu Thompson
My buddy Brad Keith had a 1979 Redline, I had a 78 Mongoose and my lifelong childhood friend Jimmy had the 78 Race Inc. Jimmy is the only one who still has his bike, but we ALL loved Stu Thompson and wanted to be him.
as a child of the 70s and 80s, these videos bring back so many memories. My family couldn't afford these bikes, I ended up with a Huffy while all my friends were riding on the premium brands.
I remember when Stompin’ Stu rode for Redline in the first part of the 1980s, everyone I rode with wanted a Redline. Good times back then.
I owned a Redline square tail, sure wish I still had it!
Also had a 500a, bought new in the early / mid 80’s.
Redline was the bike brand of my dreams as a kid, and we lived for BMX.
I had a 2007 monocot which was awesome. I also had a kastan 24 cruiser. It had the box chain stays. Awesome bike too.
Haro, Hutch, and Redline were my favorite bikes in the 80’s. I have a PL26 for mid-life crisis nostalgia. It’s a nice cruiser -turns heads and I see others say oh yeah. More fun than a beach cruiser
Thanks for this history lesson and thanks for showing that it was kids on Sting-Rays who preceded and prompted the creation of an entire segment of the bicycle industry. And I nod in respect to all the promoters who staged those races for those crazy kids. But it was California and we couldn't help it. It was auto racing and off-road racing and cars and motorcycles and Evel Knievel, too. And we couldn't wait to get out there and do it ourselves, and the Sting-Ray was tops for a good decade but it was even better to suddenly have BMX bikes which were seemingly custom-built for us in the mid-'70s. And my last BMX bike was a Redline in the early '80s and it looked like a Ferrari, red frame with gold-plated bars and brakes and rims and maybe cranks, too, I can't remember. And my first was a CYC Stormer, which I received via mail-order in early '76 after waiting for months but it had to be shipped overseas because I was a 16-year-old American teen military dependent in Frankfurt, West Germany. And that bike had Skyway Tuff-Wheels and I needed those for stairs and jumps. Thanks again for this report on the pioneering work of Redline, incredible to think their first frame was a Christmas present in 1973 but that, too, was California back then, motor sports were wildly popular and this gentleman was fabricating flat-track frames and, well, kids were pretending to ride their bikes like those racers, too, after seeing On Any Sunday on the big screen. .
Linn Kastan even mentioned On Any Sunday being an inspiration for the BMX industry. Those original skyway wheels are worth a fortune now!
Thank you for the back story I f an important part of my history. Very early 80 or 81 my older brother who died a few years ago now had a Redline BMX bike he used to let me ride it on occasion on our bowls and tracks. I took it out on one time and cracked the down tube on landing never lived that one down.
I'm curious to know the history lesson of Verde and Eastern BMX... Thanks for sharing 🙏
Most Definitely for Eastern!!
I have a Redline PL 26 that I bought online. Love the bike! No complaints thus far.
I bought a 26" square back cruiser a year ago or so; aluminum frame, chromoly fork, double pinch flights, etc. Being a BMXer from the 80's it makes me feel like I'm 12 years old again, good quality as far as I'm concerned.
I bought a redline mx24 last year. I was told by many older bmx riders that it's a solid entry level bike. I've had 0 issues with it.
Your bike history videos are great-thank you!
My pleasure!
@@MossieRidesBikes Excellent work. I never heard much about Redline back in the day it was harder to get inside information.
Oh yes you made the Redline video. I miss my 720 from back in the early 90s. I lost it in Hurricane Katrina and didnt replace it. It had Peregrine rims and the flight cranks it was my nicest bike when I was kid. I like BSD setup better though, modern steel and geometry rules.
Thanks for this. A Haro documentary would be great! I really appreciated Bob’s design element and wish he’d stuck with bikes a bit longer.
Found your channel yesterday now a new vid today, great content keep up the good work thanks for posting.
Thanks and welcome!
Thanks that was some interesting history. I bought a pair of Redline forks for my bike in the mid 80's when i started racing
Love the history stories especially from my youth. Sticking with BMX, how about a deep dive into Stroker BMX bikes? They were popular in the 80’s in So Cal. Keep up the great content.
What about Hutch and Patterson? Both big name brands back in the 80’s. Speaking of Redline, I still have my oldest sons Redline Mini from the early 2k’s. Going to rebuild it for my grandson with my sons help. Flight cranks were the bomb, if you had them on any bmx bike you were balling back in the 80’s.
Wish I still had my Hutch TJ from back in the day
They did make a really cool mountain bike, the Monocog. I used to race single speed class in the late 90s and early 00s, and sometimes the single speed wave was almost a contest to see who could place the highest on the cheapest bike. The Monocog was really inexpensive, so a lot of people raced on them.
I remember being at Action Bikes in Universal City, TX and seeing the Redline Conquest cyclocross bike. It would be 20 years before I actually got one. One of my most fun bikes I've had, even though it is a tad big.
I got the new Schwinn Predator (chrome/lime green) in the 80’s when it dropped while in Jr. High as my first real bike and still remember the commercial with the kid riding a trail through the woods and knew I had to have it! I had a neighbor that was 20 at the time and needed a gocart for his kid. I traded my one seater gocart with a 5hp Tecumseh engine for his baby blue GT Performer bike (mint) w/white mags and I kept them well into my early 30’s. I sold both bikes to buy my daughter a new (black) Honda TRX 90 quad (we still have) once she got to be bored with her Mongoose bike. I miss those 2 bikes terribly and finding now that bike cost the same as a new Honda quad. Still wish I’d kept my bikes and saved for her quad. At the time all the neighbor’s kids got one and I felt terrible that I couldn’t afford what she wanted. We make sacrifices for our children as my parent’s did for me. It’s what you do because we only live once. Enjoy your toys and move on!#BMX❤#DadLife
Great video. Nicely done.
how about a video on the history of Gary Fisher? Or maybe there are too many already...
Never enough of Gary Fisher.I am still a fan and ride it!
The reissue late 80's freestyle bikes look great!
I started riding a stingray & dreamed of a redline. Finally owned a set of redline cranks. Soon after owning a frame - best times as a kid. 60 now 🎉
I have a 2020 MX24. Put over 2k miles in it cruising around the city. Zero issues. Still great product but they have a very small selection of bikes now and no parts or accessories online so Redline accessories are hard to find. I Would love to support them more but they are pretty much a ghost operator. They have no social media presence and no team riders. I can’t even buy stickers on the website. So in conclusion great bike but tough to rally behind the brand
I tried to find Flite chainwheels during the pandemic, because they used to be good but inexpensive. Shocked that I could only find them used and NOS at scalpers' prices on ebay. I tried to find a sticker set for a Proline 24 too, but could only find repros.
Great video. I had no idea Redline had such a deep history. Could you possibly do a brief history of Cycle Craft?
Thank you and what about looking at CW BICYCLES or SKYWAY
What a great story for which you told well.
Dive in to
Race Inc. and Bill Bastian
The first production aluminum bmx frames
got the 24 inch love it got my 26 quad angle stolen they stop making the quad so got the redline but love it
On any Sunday, it probably helped add to the hype back in the day. Motocycle & bicycles are joined at the hip in their respective journeys & advancement. Great content 👍 would love to see a video on obscure smaller Mounatain bike innovators like Bob Seals (Retrotec) or Jeff Lindsay (mountain goat), Paul Price (paul components) all of these guys started their thing in Chico California. Skyway bikes would be a good video choice too.
If you bought a bike from clover, Kmart ,or Woolworths it was a huffy , Murray or Colombia in 80 were heavy mild steel never sold big bmx brands there only bike shops😮
I wish I knew what ever happened to my late 80’s early 90’s Redline. It wasn’t one of the top of the line bikes, but it was sweet. I got it second hand and rode the wheels off of it.
I have a Redline Asset. It's holding together nicely. The only stock parts left are the frame, forks and cranks. Everything else I upgraded but overall a good starter bike.
I still have my Redline single speed MTB down in my storage unit. Got me started on single speeds. I don't have any hills to go to work so why bother shifting
And less to maintain!
have had plenty or redlines had a proline as a kid, a couple cx bikes later i still have. they made a pimping sscx frameset with old school logos i had to have it. great bike
You might as well keep going please, Hutch and Haro.
Bought a 24” cruiser in 2023 and the quality surprisingly good
Great vid
Bought one second hand a few years ago as a little project. Found out it was a 2000 bike. Full steel heavy tank but in the end it's just for strolling some trails nearby.
Would love to put some Skyway mags in it but they just cost to much in western europe :(
Norco rider here. How about a deep dive?? Something about a chicken coop?? Love the channel!👍
So, there's a connection between the Kastan BMX frames of the 1990s and Redline?
I used to read issues of BMX PLUS cover-to-cover several times over, and I keep learning stuff they left out.
John Purse won a bunch of #1 titles in BMX in the late 1990s, some of them with Redline.
I have a 1996 Proline 24 cruiser that I bought in 1999, long before the recent big bike revival, if you can call it that. I don't think cruisers were ever really popular until just recently. I had a Balance Killer B too, the bike that Purse rode before switching to Redline.
Post Linn Kastan Redline had one big MTB innovation. The Redline Monocog was the first mass produced 29" single speed at a time when the majority of those bikes were custom builds. It als o inspired the Surly Karate Monkey.
Do something on Skip Hess. I met him at a trade show when he was with Giant in the early days of Giant selling under their own name in the US.
Working in a bike shop back in the early 80s while in high school I remember seeing my first redline. I couldn’t believe how many dads were forking over what I thought was big $ for a bike their kid wouldn’t take care of😂
I could imagine! The redline frames retailed close to the same amount as a complete stingray
@@MossieRidesBikes your vids are awesome bro!
DiamondBack !!!!!!!!!!
BMX started in the San Fernando Valley.
Back in the 80,s a redline crank was £150 sterling,around £600 in todays money,if you had one on your bike,you were loaded!
My first BMX bike,,, until it was stolen,,, went into track bikes, road and back down into good times BMX ,,,,
I still have my rl540 and love it. These newer bikes are so cheaply designed, even the high end bikes are weak compared to the older ones. Today is all about quantity not quality!
Linn did hang around after kastan bmx the kastan factory produced bikes for giants - mosh and a few others. And kastan engineering makes plane parts i believe.
SBS did exactly the same thing with torker bicycles.
What do you know of CW Racing? I had an CW California Freestyle that I loved.
You didn't talk about the early 2000s when they had Tyrone Williams and Kevin Corelli
I'm sitting on 2 recline top of stem caps.1977 ????
K2 has to be next right?
Another one bites the dust.
Look into Kastan BMX. That is what Linn did after Redline.
Early 80’s…..I had a redline mxII…….
Do diamondback
Does the Yamaha branded BMX bike tuck into this story somewhere?
I'm not sure, it didn't come up when I was researching for this video but now I'm curious
What happened to Redline bikes?
Mine got rusty😞
same
Still ride my 2005 Redline Monocog. Love it. Kick myself for not buying the flight version. Also have the 2004 Conquest cyclocross. Great bike, too.
Deep dive 💫 Danny MacAskill? 🤔🧐
V - bars
Redline was a premiere brand under the original ownership. The brand changed hands and went down with each change of hands. Those new owners were in it for the money, not for the passion in bikes. Market junk, loose the AAA bike company status. Pretty simple...
Oakland Boss racing frames ,,carlo welded for dug for a minute
P.K. Rippers next
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Kona
R.L. Osborne was Redline to me.
Venture capital companies have destroyed many a company.
Ok RiPPER.😺
"Inhaled most of it." I don't get it...🙄
Cocaine
Redline is now a department store brand at Canadian Tire. today they are bicycle shaped objects..
They died just like gt, haro, mongoose, Schwinn, and most other BMX companies
Nice vid👍🏻
15:04: Leave in the comments the next company you think I should do a deep dive on …”
Definitely Kuwahara please⁉️🙏🏻
I raced back in the early 90’s, I remember a bike company kasten which was had a one-of-a-kind single leg fork. I assume this was the same guy. I can’t remember them lasting too long. Very unique though.