Best bike in the neighborhood growing up in the 80s was a Redline owned by a doctor's kid. I was so jealous of that light bike with the thinner tires. Yes! Redline video next! Subscribed.
You were a legend. That bike brought you glory. You must ride it into Vahalla on your last day. May you ride through the halls of Valhalla where the brave may ride Forever.
Mine is still at mom and dad’s house too. My mother worked in a huge bike store since the 70’s. She actually still works there. Sure was fun because we always had a sick bike or board. We had GT performers too. My best friends dad owned the store she worked at. He had a sick Auburn
IDK, when I was riding and racing in the 80"s, Mongoose was the work horse, a good solid bike, virtually indestructible but a bit heavy. There were other better bikes, Redline, Kewahara, SE.
Back in ‘83, I was 11 and worked all summer as a helper on my dad’s roofing crew. I got my dream bike, a Schwin Predator P 2200. My best friend, Todd, got a sweet Mongoose Californian and our buddy, Danny got a Redline. We thought we were the coolest kids in town until one of the older kids got a Hutch. What a great time to be alive.
I still ride my 1978 Mongoose Motomag that somehow survived 46 years of use and abuse. It has the magic power of time travel that briefly turns me back into an eleven year old.
I had a black/gold Mongoose in 1977 that I tricked out for street/racing. For everyday riding I swapped out the racing wheels for the yellow Tuff Wheels. I had that bike until I turned 16 and my mom gave it to a cousin without asking me first, so it ended up somewhere in Arkansas... My childhood friend Jimmy still has his 70's Race Inc. bike in storage.
I used to have a supergoose but my dad gave it too the Is neighbor kid To cut the grass and didn't even asked me I still wanted my bike before given it a way
In 1987 Mongoose did have Freestyle bikes. They made the Mongoose Decade edition. Built in rear frame standers, rotor system, Chrome-Moly frame, very sturdy, and excellent bikes. The bike I most regret losing was my Decade. Sky blue and white. Stolen from campus in the 1990's
I still have my mongoose expert pro with profile 3pc cranks, answer pro forks, rhino double walled rims, gt 4 piece bars and more. Still going strong after 28 years. Love this thing. Made is US. 4130 chromolly frame. 🤘
I was 22 in March '82 and rode on and off-road but I had officially bailed on 20" bikes a year earlier. Yet in a bike shop in San Mateo on the San Francisco peninsula, I bought a 26" single-speed Mongoose for the BMX cruiser class. And that was a perfect BMX bike for adults, as I considered it.
I remember back in 99-2000 mongoose was already known as a walmart bike. Alot of us were honestly more shocked when schwinn went to Walmart though😅 atleast my generation. Huffy had already been know as a WM bike for a while before that even. I was big into bmx so i was always researching bikes and i found something that supprised me and i still think about it. Huffy even at that time and early 2000's had pro made in USA bikes, like top of the line expensive non walmart bikes. I never got one but always wanted one just to be different and show my friends a pro huffy bike. Anyways it would be cool to see a video on huffy (if you havnt already made one) i just found the channel.
Those mid school Huffies were definitely not made in the US and were comparatively low quality vs other bike shop brands, as even top signature models (Jimmy Levan's for sure) used Cr-Mo for front triangle only ('tri-moly') . Same people that took over Bully were involved. The old school 80's Huffy race team were riding on custom US made frames, but I don't recall if any of the mid school Huffy freestyle/DJ team used re-stickered frames or had custom ones made on Huffy's dime.
That's it right there. They started selling at Walmart. Selling at a big box store will ruin any legit Bicycle company by taking a legit name and attaching a big box company name to it!
This brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Rolling around my neighborhood in the 90s with my buddies on our bmx mongoose bikes! Graduated to dirt bikes and never went back to pedal bikes, but still like to watch BMX dudes kill it on those bikes. Subbed, mad respect.
Thanks for a brief overview of this great company. I still have my 1st true BMX bike, a '76 I got for Christmas 1976. It's a restored display queen I get to look at every day...along with other '75 and '76 motomag bikes! My rider is a '78 motomag with original yellow paint and decals. There are still some early details I guess time wouldn't allow you to share.
The mini scooters were awesome! I wish those would have come back they were so well made and what was cool as they had these plastic five spoke rims on some of them and I discovered that if you ride it without the tire on it you had the world's first drifting action happening! Everyone in my neighborhood started trying it and sliding sideways wildly for up to 20 ft around corners! I still want one again to this day!
It was actually B.M.X. products originally, my first real bike was ‘78 Decoster, rebadged Mongoose, and I raced a sponsored Team Mongoose til late 81, switched to Kos Kruzer when 26 inch first started unsponsored and within months it went to 24 inch I couldn’t afford another build and hung it up.
Back in the 80ts my sponcer gave me a super goos then I got a GT FLIGHT CRANK AND BULLS EYE HUBS WITH A UNI SEAT. Gave her away early 2000 I'm 59 now loved racing that got me into mountain biking same time racing moto cross .now I ride KTM 990 R 😊
I remember the days of Mongoose being the bike we all wanted. Only one of my friends actually got one. BMX that is. Later on I had several of the mountain bikes. So sad when I saw one at walmart. Wonk Wonk
In the early 80s I had a black and gold store bought Columbia bmx styled bike......my best friend had a chrome and red mongoose which was pretty similar to my bike. A year later he got a teal and white PK Ripper which was an actual custom race/stunt bike........it was night and day comparing the welds the weight etc to mine.... I really loved my bike and I rode and jumped it everywhere. I will take those old memories over a high end bike any day😉👍
PK Rippers were so cool. I always wanted one. I rode one at a race one time and it was just to small for me. I got the Quad Angle instead, Still have it.
@@theshamanarchist5441 man,that was it,I remember it well,the price seemed horrific at the time,I remember my Dad saying so as the reason I wouldn't be getting one but what a machine!
Probably the most valuable thing I left in my parent's attic is a Roger DeCoster with Redline 401 Flight Cranks and Araya Z-Rims. Also has the original MotoMags and REAL old school Ashtabula drop-forged skinny fork sitting next to them.
3:17 That's not the original Supergoose. I had an original Supergoose and rear stays were like the original Mongoose. No holes and the slot angle was different. The Supergoose had other changes to the frame over time like the gusset at the back of the bottom bracket. The hole stamped into the two gussets by the head-tube also changed slightly. The frames constantly evolved.
My mother in law got me an L500 last year. I was looking to get a new BMX to get back into it from years ago. I mentioned I never had a new bike, all my rides were used. So she went and surprised me with it. I wasn’t exactly super excited as I had set my sights on a very nice used Fit Wifi for sale near me, and I knew Mongoose by now wasn’t what it used to be. But to be honest, it’s a solid bike for the money. Full Chromo, 2 piece cranks, half link chain, fully sealed everything, 4 piece bars the whole 9. Couldn’t get anything close to it in terms of quality and parts in a complete bike but still has that stigma to it to me.
MTB I had 2 Mongoose IBOC Pro like 1991 model. Had to donate them when moving. Everything was solid about it. Steel. Araya rm17 double wall rims. Components were Shimano DX which does not exist anymore but should. Green with white splatter paint, this wasn't a cheesy 90's paint. IT LOOKED GOOD.
9:57 Mark. That's the top of Repack Road in Fairfax California. 1.7 miles all down hill. I been there many times. In the cold of January with iced over puddles to blazing hot hot summer sun. We'd bury our beer in the sandy creek bottom at the bottom of the trail and enjoy it later. Good times.
I have Switchback 2019/20 27.5" orange and am thinking of swapping the Xposed Fork with Suntour XCR and keeping this bike for another 2-3;years, before switching to another one completely. Not an aggressive biker at all. What do you think?
I remember being sized for a mountain bike at a shop, walked out with a huge 21 inch Specialized. One year later went back to the same shop and traded it in for an 18 inch Raleigh as they looked at me like I was crazy and stupid, but I felt much more confident on the smaller bike (mid 80s). Still like an 18 at 5.11 Sorry for going off topic .
I loved my Mongoose! Skyway Tuff Wheels, a gold stem, and Oakley grips. I got it for my birthday at Cycle World, a true bike store. It still pains me to see them for at discount stores.
Hey man, that's cool you're in Charlotte (or close by). I heard "White Water Center" and "Catawba River" which took me by surprise. 😂 I lived in Charlotte for 15 yrs, starting in 1999. What a great place for cycling. I bought my first mtn bike at Sun & Ski Sports at the Outlet up 85N in 2000. So many great places to ride, especially western NC. Glad I found your channel.
I had a Mongoose - chromoly silver, webbed motomag aluminum wheels, reinforced top-tube to down-tube and neck - in or around 1977. i bought the top-tube, neck and crossbar Mongoose black pads.
I got my first Mongoose for Christmas in 79 ! it was badass , but heavy in 81 I bought a Scrambler with nylon mags , a much lighter bike. eventually I switched to a redline in 83
I remember those scooters, I wanted one but, never got one. My 63 year old friend bought his kid a Mongoose in the mid 2000's. at Walmart, I explained to him it was not the same quality as he knew as a teenager. He had his first kid at age 34.
I had a mongoose in the mid 80s. Half steel and half chrome molly frame. I always wanted a supergoose, recline, hutch. The one I really wanted was the cw lightning bolt though.
I have a Mongoose Motomag and, yeah, those wheels are heavy as hell. Bookending that I have a Y2K Mongoose titanium Softail MTB that's lousy with XTR and high end components. Please do a video on VDC who built plenty of bikes for other companies in addition to his Changas.
The mini scoot was a big deal in my town. Everyone I know got one for Christmas. Seems like all us kids put our skateboards in the closet and started riding those. Marvick, action sport, mongoose seems like everyone had a different one and as soon as we started breaking rims we ended up back on the skateboard or bikes.
Gary Fisher or just all the companies that Trek bought out and ran downhill. I still have two of them. One I turned into a single speed with metal studded tires for winter time and a HKEK in perfect condition except for a few scratches.
Klein. That brand currently defines vintage mtb more than any other for some reasons unknown to me. I suspect it’s because of their innovation at the time.
Dynasty bikes. You saw old road bikes everywhere in 1990's being used as loaded road tour bikes even old good Huffy models of Dynasty mountain bike of late 1980's early 1990's a Beach model and Mountain Bike was gone until a very unsafe bike was made in late 1990's to early 2000's. I had unsafe Huffy bought in early 2001 as a cheap under $110 including taxes special from a local True Value of all places before most if not all of the small True Value closed down in the 2000's. I stopped riding my later run of Huffy Dynamo Dynasty bike in 2008 when I noticed the wide welds were hiding gaps in frame when welds started opening up and apparently in early 2010's. I could have been part of a lawsuit where my parents could get money back on bike as well as if any medical expenses incurred by them or me riding bike. My brother had from a garage sale a late 1980 early 1990's version of the mountain bike and was way higher quality with the made in sticker saying being assembled in USA of parts made in Taiwan and China. Now these parts on older Huffy Dynasty (no Dynamo) are much higher quality of what would have been a $200--$300 bike in 2001 including a fork with crappy spring suspension encased in rubber and springs never working being too stiff unless doing very high jumps/leaps in a downhill ride and a hard tail as this was how some mountain bikes were made in early 1990's/. In early 1990's full suspension or mountain bike was not a thing as either fork or frame had suspension rarely both unless you bought a new fork for a suspension frame.
@@caseysmith544 I had a Murray X24 BMX bike that lasted me ten years and I left it at a house I was renting for someone else. The only thing wrong with it was a bent seat post. My dad took a pipe and pounded it in the same length as the old one and it was on there at least five years
Going down memory lane for me. Two of my favorite Mongoose bikes are their Road Bikes, the Bossberg and Koppenberg. I remember seeing them in the Performance store and thr POOF! Gone.
I'm in the UK. I remember when those scooters landed. We called them scootex over here. And in the 90s when mountain bikes first came through. My main childhood bike was a grifter, dont know if they were in the US, they were like a BMX but we called them tanks because they were chunkier and heavier. When I got older I became a mountain bike guy. I couldn't get on with BMX's because I would always bang my knees on the handle bars. Even to this day my go-to bike is a quality hard-tail mountain bike. cool video here though. It's good to revisit the eras and progression from those days.
When J was a kid my grandmother got me one of those "mini scoots". It was awesome. It really was the best if a scooter mixed eith a bike. The ride was good and the brakes were way better than any other razor scooter at the time.
I got a 2021 Mongoose Title Elite, and it is frickin awesome gem in the rough. My 97 Supergoose in admiral blue is a few ounces lighter. You do have a point about Pacific Cycles and the like. I have a 98 rogue/villian which was the last year of Mongoose was still it's on company(I think might be wrong),but it's a heavy tank compared to an 87 Decade pro. Great vid on the downfall of an American Icon.
Just picked up a late 90’s Mongoose Titanium Mountain Bike with a Fox F100 fork. Modernized it with a 1x10 drivetrain. On the fence about getting disc brake mount added on by a local frame builder. Trying to determine how rare the frame is before butchering it for purists.
somehow this was in my recommendations today after earlier, i was at walmart, walked passed by bikes, saw a mongoose bmx and thought "i had no idea they were still around". Also, im sure they are cheaply manufactured, but walmart uses 3rd party to assemble a lot of their bikes.
Great video! I use to race BMX in the 90s and I was hoping you would have talked about the Mongoose bike I rode. I had a unique Mongoose mini Bike.It had a feather like thin frame with those little skinny tires. I think that's right around the peak of Mongoose because my neighbor down the street had one too and they were popular like GT at the bike course tracks.
My dad was stationed in Biloxi ms and the BX (base exchange) almost exclusively carried the Mongoose Blue Max. I would’ve sold my soul twice to the devil to have one at the time. Every time I see a mongoose, it brings me back to my childhood nothing but fond memories.
Been riding bikes since '71, never thought that Mongoose was particularly good even at their best. I used to own #488 of the line, plus sold them for years .
Yea , my riding buddy had one in late 70s/early 80s and even though kinda heavy it held up...I rode a schwinn comp(frame used) and tricked it w best stuff from allowances and it was solid..jumped.cars,raced,and so on..wish I didn't sell it!
I would like a video on Kuwahara BMX bikes I had one my uncle gave me from his days in Southern California Only person to have on that I know here in Georgia in the early 1990s
I had a Mongoose mtn bike i tooled around on in '93 while in college. I dug it but mainly cuz it had saddlebags. It got stolen and I got a rock hopper..
Can you do a vid on Reust Factory? I remember when pro BMX rider Brian Reust started the company, He raced and sold the bikes. I remember hearing FreeAgent had some involvement in this. I dont know what really happened to either of those companies.
@@8barbies779 I have an 83 mongoose frame, forks seat clamp is all OG everything else is from something else. My other bike is 1976 Super X that is a true survivor. It has custom parts and 1976 hop ups. I’ve had an offer on just the blued steel arayas for $1000. The bike is priceless and I found both of them at a local scrapyard.
Waiting for video on Redline.
I miss my old 720. I lost in in Hurricane Katrina.
@@sole__doubt I am currently riding a 2015 Redline Monocog Flight 29er.
Best bike in the neighborhood growing up in the 80s was a Redline owned by a doctor's kid. I was so jealous of that light bike with the thinner tires. Yes! Redline video next! Subscribed.
Oh f me too. Seen so many of them at the track, no way they went broke.
Yep Red Line, Rampar and powerlite. Mongoose was a heavy frame.
The mongoose expert I got for Christmas in 1985 is still in the garage at my parents house, it’s been hanging up since about 1988.
Watch out, parents of 80's BMXers have a habit of tidying the shed and garage and taking valuable classics like that to the tip.
You were a legend. That bike brought you glory. You must ride it into Vahalla on your last day. May you ride through the halls of Valhalla where the brave may ride Forever.
Might be worth few bucks
Go and retrieve it..
Mine is still at mom and dad’s house too. My mother worked in a huge bike store since the 70’s. She actually still works there. Sure was fun because we always had a sick bike or board. We had GT performers too. My best friends dad owned the store she worked at. He had a sick Auburn
Growing up in the early 80,s , mongoose was the Bugatti of BMX Bikes , was the bike to have , if you had a mongoose you were the man
All the cool kids had a mongoose with a diamondback seat. 😂😂😂
I had a Honda cub frame my dad stripped down and put sprockets on. 😂😂
@@mattiemathis9549All the rich kids, you mean. Most of us only had one if we stole it from a rich kid.
@@jackgilchrist 😂😂😂
IDK, when I was riding and racing in the 80"s, Mongoose was the work horse, a good solid bike, virtually indestructible but a bit heavy. There were other better bikes, Redline, Kewahara, SE.
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Back in ‘83, I was 11 and worked all summer as a helper on my dad’s roofing crew. I got my dream bike, a Schwin Predator P 2200. My best friend, Todd, got a sweet Mongoose Californian and our buddy, Danny got a Redline. We thought we were the coolest kids in town until one of the older kids got a Hutch. What a great time to be alive.
I still ride my 1978 Mongoose Motomag that somehow survived 46 years of use and abuse. It has the magic power of time travel that briefly turns me back into an eleven year old.
Same. Tho it feels a bit small to these old knees now. 😂
There are two ways to look at bicycles, tools and many other consumer products:
• Pre-NAFTA
• Post-NAFTA
I have a picture of a ghost on a tv.
I had a black/gold Mongoose in 1977 that I tricked out for street/racing. For everyday riding I swapped out the racing wheels for the yellow Tuff Wheels. I had that bike until I turned 16 and my mom gave it to a cousin without asking me first, so it ended up somewhere in Arkansas... My childhood friend Jimmy still has his 70's Race Inc. bike in storage.
I have an original supergoose,ive had it from new since 82,raced it loved it,its still hanging in my garage.
that's sick. envy.
I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD A GARAGE SO MINE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SWIPED...
I used to have a supergoose but my dad gave it too the Is neighbor kid To cut the grass and didn't even asked me I still wanted my bike before given it a way
In 1987 Mongoose did have Freestyle bikes. They made the Mongoose Decade edition. Built in rear frame standers, rotor system, Chrome-Moly frame, very sturdy, and excellent bikes. The bike I most regret losing was my Decade. Sky blue and white. Stolen from campus in the 1990's
I had an FS-1 stolen from me in 88 or 89. It was a pretty cool bike. I worked my butt off on a paper route to buy it.
Please, do one on Redline BMX
I second that, Redline has quite a saga from flat track motorcycles to BMX, Cyclocross, the first mass market single speed MTB and several owners
I still have my mongoose expert pro with profile 3pc cranks, answer pro forks, rhino double walled rims, gt 4 piece bars and more. Still going strong after 28 years. Love this thing. Made is US. 4130 chromolly frame. 🤘
When I was a kid cruising the neighborhood on my Team Murray bike, Mongoose was the bike everyone wanted. A few kids had them, and we were jealous.
I was 22 in March '82 and rode on and off-road but I had officially bailed on 20" bikes a year earlier. Yet in a bike shop in San Mateo on the San Francisco peninsula, I bought a 26" single-speed Mongoose for the BMX cruiser class. And that was a perfect BMX bike for adults, as I considered it.
I remember back in 99-2000 mongoose was already known as a walmart bike. Alot of us were honestly more shocked when schwinn went to Walmart though😅 atleast my generation.
Huffy had already been know as a WM bike for a while before that even.
I was big into bmx so i was always researching bikes and i found something that supprised me and i still think about it.
Huffy even at that time and early 2000's had pro made in USA bikes, like top of the line expensive non walmart bikes.
I never got one but always wanted one just to be different and show my friends a pro huffy bike.
Anyways it would be cool to see a video on huffy (if you havnt already made one) i just found the channel.
Those mid school Huffies were definitely not made in the US and were comparatively low quality vs other bike shop brands, as even top signature models (Jimmy Levan's for sure) used Cr-Mo for front triangle only ('tri-moly') . Same people that took over Bully were involved. The old school 80's Huffy race team were riding on custom US made frames, but I don't recall if any of the mid school Huffy freestyle/DJ team used re-stickered frames or had custom ones made on Huffy's dime.
That's it right there. They started selling at Walmart. Selling at a big box store will ruin any legit Bicycle company by taking a legit name and attaching a big box company name to it!
I had the first gen mongoose with skyway mags till highschool. It was a heavy beast but handled everything i could dish out.
The Mags were so cool, so fn heavy. Tuff as hell!
This brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Rolling around my neighborhood in the 90s with my buddies on our bmx mongoose bikes! Graduated to dirt bikes and never went back to pedal bikes, but still like to watch BMX dudes kill it on those bikes. Subbed, mad respect.
Thanks for a brief overview of this great company. I still have my 1st true BMX bike, a '76 I got for Christmas 1976. It's a restored display queen I get to look at every day...along with other '75 and '76 motomag bikes! My rider is a '78 motomag with original yellow paint and decals. There are still some early details I guess time wouldn't allow you to share.
The mini scooters were awesome! I wish those would have come back they were so well made and what was cool as they had these plastic five spoke rims on some of them and I discovered that if you ride it without the tire on it you had the world's first drifting action happening! Everyone in my neighborhood started trying it and sliding sideways wildly for up to 20 ft around corners! I still want one again to this day!
I have a General and 2 GT performer scooters in mom’s basement still.
Loved mine. The AFA actually had a freestyle class.
my all new 83 pro class Supergoose with pro class rims was my proudest purchase ever.
Do DIAMOND BACK or ROBINSON next please
It was actually B.M.X. products originally, my first real bike was ‘78 Decoster, rebadged Mongoose, and I raced a sponsored Team Mongoose til late 81, switched to Kos Kruzer when 26 inch first started unsponsored and within months it went to 24 inch I couldn’t afford another build and hung it up.
Best BMX I had was diamond back Harry leary turbo..
Diamond Backs were heavy AF and quality
Back in the 80ts my sponcer gave me a super goos then I got a GT FLIGHT CRANK AND BULLS EYE HUBS WITH A UNI SEAT. Gave her away early 2000 I'm 59 now loved racing that got me into mountain biking same time racing moto cross .now I ride KTM 990 R 😊
I remember the days of Mongoose being the bike we all wanted. Only one of my friends actually got one. BMX that is. Later on I had several of the mountain bikes. So sad when I saw one at walmart. Wonk Wonk
In the early 80s I had a black and gold store bought Columbia bmx styled bike......my best friend had a chrome and red mongoose which was pretty similar to my bike. A year later he got a teal and white PK Ripper which was an actual custom race/stunt bike........it was night and day comparing the welds the weight etc to mine.... I really loved my bike and I rode and jumped it everywhere. I will take those old memories over a high end bike any day😉👍
PK Rippers were so cool. I always wanted one. I rode one at a race one time and it was just to small for me. I got the Quad Angle instead, Still have it.
Are PK ripper still around?
I remember Mongoose being the dogs when i was a kid in mid '80's Britain.
I used to drool over the Mongoose Californian advert in BMX Action Bike, circa 1984. They where the dogs bollox back then mate.
@@theshamanarchist5441 man,that was it,I remember it well,the price seemed horrific at the time,I remember my Dad saying so as the reason I wouldn't be getting one but what a machine!
I've had my mongoose bike for over 35 years! Greatest bike ever
Probably the most valuable thing I left in my parent's attic is a Roger DeCoster with Redline 401 Flight Cranks and Araya Z-Rims. Also has the original MotoMags and REAL old school Ashtabula drop-forged skinny fork sitting next to them.
ACS made Z rims. I still have some. Ashtabula made good cranks, I have a pair. The moto mags have got to be worth some money.
Araya. Wow I have nit heard that name in decades lol.
I had a mongoose FS1 until it was stolen out of my garage while I was on a family vacation. Then I got a mongoose expert.
3:17 That's not the original Supergoose. I had an original Supergoose and rear stays were like the original Mongoose. No holes and the slot angle was different. The Supergoose had other changes to the frame over time like the gusset at the back of the bottom bracket. The hole stamped into the two gussets by the head-tube also changed slightly. The frames constantly evolved.
My mother in law got me an L500 last year. I was looking to get a new BMX to get back into it from years ago. I mentioned I never had a new bike, all my rides were used. So she went and surprised me with it. I wasn’t exactly super excited as I had set my sights on a very nice used Fit Wifi for sale near me, and I knew Mongoose by now wasn’t what it used to be. But to be honest, it’s a solid bike for the money. Full Chromo, 2 piece cranks, half link chain, fully sealed everything, 4 piece bars the whole 9. Couldn’t get anything close to it in terms of quality and parts in a complete bike but still has that stigma to it to me.
I miss my old California model from the 80s. I bet its not nearly as comfortable to ride as my current BSD setup.
just picked up the Mongoose 'Reversal' frame. Can't wait to build it up this winter! 👍😎 #ForeverPatCasey
MTB I had 2 Mongoose IBOC Pro like 1991 model. Had to donate them when moving. Everything was solid about it. Steel. Araya rm17 double wall rims. Components were Shimano DX which does not exist anymore but should. Green with white splatter paint, this wasn't a cheesy 90's paint. IT LOOKED GOOD.
9:57 Mark. That's the top of Repack Road in Fairfax California. 1.7 miles all down hill. I been there many times. In the cold of January with iced over puddles to blazing hot hot summer sun. We'd bury our beer in the sandy creek bottom at the bottom of the trail and enjoy it later. Good times.
I have Switchback 2019/20 27.5" orange and am thinking of swapping the Xposed Fork with Suntour XCR and keeping this bike for another 2-3;years, before switching to another one completely. Not an aggressive biker at all. What do you think?
Man I grew up in 80s had mongoose...torker.....Murray and more. Love your videos.
I still have my 1980 mini mongoose. Any idea what it would be worth? Pretty good shape.
Behind schwinn?
When I was a kid (early 80's) the bike to have was an aluminum RaceInc, then Redline, PK Mongoose.
Wow super sad seeing Pat Casey as a Sponsored athlete for Mongoose still. RIP brother
I remember being sized for a mountain bike at a shop, walked out with a huge 21 inch Specialized. One year later went back to the same shop and traded it in for an 18 inch Raleigh as they looked at me like I was crazy and stupid, but I felt much more confident on the smaller bike (mid 80s). Still like an 18 at 5.11
Sorry for going off topic .
I still have a Mongoose Pro NX 7.1 police mountain bike. It’s almost 39 years old and going strong albeit the sprockets are worn down to nubs now.
I loved my Mongoose! Skyway Tuff Wheels, a gold stem, and Oakley grips. I got it for my birthday at Cycle World, a true bike store. It still pains me to see them for at discount stores.
Hey man, that's cool you're in Charlotte (or close by). I heard "White Water Center" and "Catawba River" which took me by surprise. 😂 I lived in Charlotte for 15 yrs, starting in 1999. What a great place for cycling. I bought my first mtn bike at Sun & Ski Sports at the Outlet up 85N in 2000. So many great places to ride, especially western NC. Glad I found your channel.
Good old days , I had an 84 mongoose California and an 86 redline with all bright green accessories including skyway tuff wheel 1s.
With 2 Olympians in BMX id say Mongoose is doing pretty good. the resurgence is strong!
I still have my 26" atb mountian bike. Stays in the shed most of the time. Many parts have been changed over time. Still have the owners manual LOL
I had a Mongoose - chromoly silver, webbed motomag aluminum wheels, reinforced top-tube to down-tube and neck - in or around 1977. i bought the top-tube, neck and crossbar Mongoose black pads.
schwinn, gt, mongoose, cannondale, huffy, etc all pacific cycles a division of Dorel. Dorel was a customer of mine.
Would have loved to have seen something on the Supergoose and the Pro-Class?
The mini scoots used the many unused lengthened fork tubes from the short lived and very rare Maxigoose.
I got my first Mongoose for Christmas in 79 ! it was badass , but heavy in 81 I bought a Scrambler with nylon mags , a much lighter bike. eventually I switched to a redline in 83
I remember those scooters, I wanted one but, never got one. My 63 year old friend bought his kid a Mongoose in the mid 2000's. at Walmart, I explained to him it was not the same quality as he knew as a teenager. He had his first kid at age 34.
I had a mongoose in the mid 80s. Half steel and half chrome molly frame. I always wanted a supergoose, recline, hutch. The one I really wanted was the cw lightning bolt though.
Had a k.o in 98 or 99... great bike for me at the tine
Whats the deal on HARO?
I have a Mongoose Motomag and, yeah, those wheels are heavy as hell. Bookending that I have a Y2K Mongoose titanium Softail MTB that's lousy with XTR and high end components. Please do a video on VDC who built plenty of bikes for other companies in addition to his Changas.
i still have an old chrome fishgill frame from the 80's hanging out somewhere. it was the shit back when i was a kid.
I just sold a brand new 24” yesterday for $50.
The mini scoot was a big deal in my town. Everyone I know got one for Christmas. Seems like all us kids put our skateboards in the closet and started riding those. Marvick, action sport, mongoose seems like everyone had a different one and as soon as we started breaking rims we ended up back on the skateboard or bikes.
Thank you all for the support!! What brand should we look into next??
Gary Fisher or just all the companies that Trek bought out and ran downhill. I still have two of them. One I turned into a single speed with metal studded tires for winter time and a HKEK in perfect condition except for a few scratches.
Klein. That brand currently defines vintage mtb more than any other for some reasons unknown to me. I suspect it’s because of their innovation at the time.
Dynasty bikes. You saw old road bikes everywhere in 1990's being used as loaded road tour bikes even old good Huffy models of Dynasty mountain bike of late 1980's early 1990's a Beach model and Mountain Bike was gone until a very unsafe bike was made in late 1990's to early 2000's. I had unsafe Huffy bought in early 2001 as a cheap under $110 including taxes special from a local True Value of all places before most if not all of the small True Value closed down in the 2000's. I stopped riding my later run of Huffy Dynamo Dynasty bike in 2008 when I noticed the wide welds were hiding gaps in frame when welds started opening up and apparently in early 2010's. I could have been part of a lawsuit where my parents could get money back on bike as well as if any medical expenses incurred by them or me riding bike. My brother had from a garage sale a late 1980 early 1990's version of the mountain bike and was way higher quality with the made in sticker saying being assembled in USA of parts made in Taiwan and China. Now these parts on older Huffy Dynasty (no Dynamo) are much higher quality of what would have been a $200--$300 bike in 2001 including a fork with crappy spring suspension encased in rubber and springs never working being too stiff unless doing very high jumps/leaps in a downhill ride and a hard tail as this was how some mountain bikes were made in early 1990's/. In early 1990's full suspension or mountain bike was not a thing as either fork or frame had suspension rarely both unless you bought a new fork for a suspension frame.
@@caseysmith544 I had a Murray X24 BMX bike that lasted me ten years and I left it at a house I was renting for someone else. The only thing wrong with it was a bent seat post.
My dad took a pipe and pounded it in the same length as the old one and it was on there at least five years
So much for the team 😔 RIP Pat Casey
Going down memory lane for me. Two of my favorite Mongoose bikes are their Road Bikes, the Bossberg and Koppenberg. I remember seeing them in the Performance store and thr POOF! Gone.
I still have a Mongoose full face Helmet from 2016...Cheap and Cheerful and still looks great.
Great video, but big miss in not mentioning Dennis McCoy.
I was thinking the same. McCoy on a Hooligan instantly made that one of the freestyle bikes to have in the early 90's.
🎉got a 14in moguse skoter in1987 still have only problem was drum brake 😢
Cool history of Mongoose. They (and GT) have a great BMX racing team here in the UK.
I'm in the UK. I remember when those scooters landed. We called them scootex over here. And in the 90s when mountain bikes first came through. My main childhood bike was a grifter, dont know if they were in the US, they were like a BMX but we called them tanks because they were chunkier and heavier. When I got older I became a mountain bike guy. I couldn't get on with BMX's because I would always bang my knees on the handle bars. Even to this day my go-to bike is a quality hard-tail mountain bike. cool video here though. It's good to revisit the eras and progression from those days.
Got about 42,000 miles on my Mongoose Artery Comp commuter bike. It fulfills my need for speed daily. Today is bike washing day 😁
When J was a kid my grandmother got me one of those "mini scoots". It was awesome. It really was the best if a scooter mixed eith a bike. The ride was good and the brakes were way better than any other razor scooter at the time.
Had mongoose back n 81 and pk ripper and redline ..powerlight also..
I think the downfall started when they stopped making them in the US.
Missed an opportunity to add in a Chris Akrigg clip. He was shredding these bikes for a long time.
I got a 2021 Mongoose Title Elite, and it is frickin awesome gem in the rough. My 97 Supergoose in admiral blue is a few ounces lighter. You do have a point about Pacific Cycles and the like. I have a 98 rogue/villian which was the last year of Mongoose was still it's on company(I think might be wrong),but it's a heavy tank compared to an 87 Decade pro. Great vid on the downfall of an American Icon.
I wanna know what happened to the Hutch brand still ride my wind styler today
Thanks for these, great trips down memory lane.... any chance for a Hutch video? Stay well.
In the 80's i had a black and yellow mongoose bmx bike . The spokes were thicker. I could not afford the mag rims.
As a teen in the late 80’s mine was jacked from the supermarket after some guy cut the lock never to be seen again.
I loved my mongoose California
Just picked up a late 90’s Mongoose Titanium Mountain Bike with a Fox F100 fork. Modernized it with a 1x10 drivetrain. On the fence about getting disc brake mount added on by a local frame builder. Trying to determine how rare the frame is before butchering it for purists.
somehow this was in my recommendations today after earlier, i was at walmart, walked passed by bikes, saw a mongoose bmx and thought "i had no idea they were still around". Also, im sure they are cheaply manufactured, but walmart uses 3rd party to assemble a lot of their bikes.
I had a '77 Mongoose then a '80 Supergoose. Those bikes were pretty much an extension of myself.
Great video! I use to race BMX in the 90s and I was hoping you would have talked about the Mongoose bike I rode. I had a unique Mongoose mini Bike.It had a feather like thin frame with those little skinny tires. I think that's right around the peak of Mongoose because my neighbor down the street had one too and they were popular like GT at the bike course tracks.
I had an Ammaco Freestyler with white wall tyres and chrome frame, and everybody's nightmare metal peddles lol
My dad was stationed in Biloxi ms and the BX (base exchange) almost exclusively carried the Mongoose Blue Max. I would’ve sold my soul twice to the devil to have one at the time. Every time I see a mongoose, it brings me back to my childhood nothing but fond memories.
can you do one on the history of Pon, the owner of how many brands?
Been riding bikes since '71, never thought that Mongoose was particularly good even at their best. I used to own #488 of the line, plus sold them for years .
Yea , my riding buddy had one in late 70s/early 80s and even though kinda heavy it held up...I rode a schwinn comp(frame used) and tricked it w best stuff from allowances and it was solid..jumped.cars,raced,and so on..wish I didn't sell it!
I remember getting a mongoose FS-1 in the late 90's. I loved that bike. Wish I still had it.
WAS IT STOLEN???
@@leonIdas002 yes
I would like a video on Kuwahara BMX bikes I had one my uncle gave me from his days in Southern California Only person to have on that I know here in Georgia in the early 1990s
The nickel plated frames were awesome
I also had an aluminum DG. That was a lightest bike I’ve ever seen.
As a kid i was a redline person but dam had a soft spot for mongoose . The company in Australia ... went alittle all over the place after about 05
99 Mongoose Menace 25th anniversary. It was a crazy metallic green color.
I had a Mongoose mtn bike i tooled around on in '93 while in college. I dug it but mainly cuz it had saddlebags. It got stolen and I got a rock hopper..
"Torker" just reissued their BMX frames. Best one I ever owned.
Miss my Rampar ...tank it was
Can you do a vid on Reust Factory? I remember when pro BMX rider Brian Reust started the company, He raced and sold the bikes. I remember hearing FreeAgent had some involvement in this. I dont know what really happened to either of those companies.
I have a 1983 for sale right now…only offer I’ve had was for $80… the re pops are killing it.
Livnglrg - hey buddy, what model? i'm trying to find a couple to recreate my childhod bmx/skating memories, love to hear some details.
@@8barbies779 I have an 83 mongoose frame, forks seat clamp is all OG everything else is from something else. My other bike is 1976 Super X that is a true survivor. It has custom parts and 1976 hop ups. I’ve had an offer on just the blued steel arayas for $1000. The bike is priceless and I found both of them at a local scrapyard.