Had to watch on mute because of that water and birds was so distracting. Love the build and thanks for doing it! Rad for life! Bmx for life! Skate for life!
Wow this just brought me back to my childhood in the 80s watching RAD a hundred times over and although I wanted a Diamondback, GT Pro Performer, Dyno, or Mongoose my family could not afford it but I had the next best thing and that was the ability to slowly hook up my HUFFY SIGMA to make it most BMX-like as possible with the gooseneck seat, rotors back pegs, front forkstanders, crossbar and most importantly free-wheel spokes vs the pedal brakes ... Those were some of the best memories from my childhood!!!
I also built mine from scratch with parts from a local family run bike shop, man it meant everything to me not just buying a bike but actually picking and choosing the parts and putting the time into it to make it perfect. Getting into Rad, it almost Rekt my life! Living only 2hrs from where most of it was shot my heart was into it and I believed! One day on the way to school we were approaching tunnel park. ( a park with hills and tunnels and stuff, basically a bmx track with grass and called a park) I got a stupid urge that I could do a backflip... Ended in the hospital with a pinched spine and a concussion. I have had a lot of spills over the years especially in motocross but for some reason that one was the most traumatic.
I still get that feeling I got as a kid every time I hear the opening music and that Haro launches...80s were such a sick time for BMX. - Great build video.
@@鐽 Many frame seat tubes cracked in the 1980s because the seat was too high (increased leverage). Especially with a laid back seatpost shifting the weight further back.
i feel 35 years younger after watching you video! brings back memories for sure. I myself is a fan of RAD and a bmx rider before. Its so cool to see other people from other places who has the same love and passion. Thanks for the Video! Awesome job for the build!
This video just made my day. RAD is my favorite movie of all time. Awesome bike build btw. I miss my GT Mach One! I used to tear it down and rebuild it all the time. The camera work and music on this video was great too! Totally RAD! "OH MY HEART A BACKFLIP, HULK HOGAN EAT YOUR HEART OUT" :-)
Wow i remember one of my friends in the neighborhood in the 80s had a lower end mongoose but not as nice as this Californian. Very cool build ,nicely done up.
I had a chromoly Mongoose with round holes in the rims that went all the way around the inside and with red inserts. I think the wheels were red as well. Sure wish I could have that bike again.
Similar in my hometown, we had BMX, Skateboards, and Surfing. So RAD, Thrashin, and North shore were our movies! This bike turned out beautiful 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
I was obsessed with this movie..everything about it…my parents bought me a chromoly GT performer with pegs and I rode the crap out of it! Learned every trick I could! It WAS my childhood
I really Appreciated this Video BMX Build was Awesome.RAD The Movie is an All Time Cult Classic of The 80's.And I'm glad to be a Product of that Era.😎👍🏾
Cool. I remember my first bike's colors but not the brand. My white Predator is the one i remember most. I had another but it got stolen. We'd watch this movie & then go out & try tricks. We werent successful...but fun times
Absolutely love it, I’ve got a Haro frame sitting in my garage collecting dust for the last 30 years I wanna do the exact same thing with. We grew up wearing out RAD VHS with all the other buddies in the neighborhood
best bmx movie ever... we used to have the VCR in the motor home playing on repeat during the motocross days back when my feet didn't touch the ground on the 80cc bike I raced my dad would place a wood block under my foot at the starting line lol.. we'd all be watching Rad if we were we'd be on 20in bikes or dirt bikes .. those were truly the "golden years " back when the only negative part of life were crashing which just ment ud be side line with the chick's lol even the worst case scenario was a best case scenario lol
Man the wheels makes all the difference, without them it just looks like every other bike I've owned growing up, but with them it looks like a entirely different animal
We love this movie to this day! I can still do a rock walk, wheelie-cat walk, rear tire 360, and other tricks, but they’re actually easier on my mountain bike for the most part. The Cru Jones Murray can’t be confused with a mongoose due to the rear end. Mongoose used a single tube bent into a U rather than tubing being welded together to the rear axle drop ins.
I have 2 1984 Skyway TA’s, Mongoose Pro Class, and 2 Hutch Pro Stars, and 1 Hutch Trick Star that my brother and I have had since new in the 80’s. All original chrome finish, we never had painted bikes from that time. We liked and wanted a Haro Group 1 RS1, but our parents said we had enough. We also had a 1986 Mongoose Miniscoot that we should have never gotten rid of.
Awesome build. Your handlebars look different from the bike in the movie. I watched it religiously as a grom. I remember many race bikes had tiny seats back in the day. I would think having it raised so high would interfere with peddling hard and getting lower in the air off jumps
I love the movie and it was good to see you build Cru's bike. I have always wanted to build one like that but I don't have the funds. So seeing you build it was Rad.
I have a 1986 Californian I totally forgot about this thanks for the memories I’m gonna grease and polish that thing right now it needs new stickers it only has the one ont the top tube that says Californian
great work. bike looks great. fun to ride i am sure. i do rad themed edits also. i talked to cru on the phone once. super nice guy. i was supposed to do a event with him 2 years ago but it got canceled during covid .
This movie was in this big ass video rental mechanical box in our variety store when I was a kid and was always rented out by me or my friends which all rode! Gave us great inspiration and would tear up the streets after a watch! Great memories, would love to have this bike on my wall! I had a chrome Kuwahara with red rims,seat with red and white checkered pads for my first "real" bmx in 86. Still have my Redline but not riding anymore due to disability but will never sell it!
Thank you so much @lewis8281 🙏 I do not have a build sheet. Mostly Purchased piece by piece on EBay and BMxmuseum.com . The crank for example is a reproduction I found from Australia. It is a fun hunt.
Thank you for the comment. It’s not too difficult if you have the funds to spend. Some parts like the proclass wheels and the crank can get expensive. But the frame can be picked up for a couple hundred. eBay and BMX museum are a great source for parts.
@@ahick Dipped into this quickly and purchasing a frame on BMX museum. The crankset you used looked to be factory packaged, but I could not see the label. Would you be willing to advise on that?
@@alexlehnhoff8356 the crank was a repopulate from Australia. You can find it here bmxworks.com.au/ . Everything else I got off Ebay or BMX museum. Would love to see the finished product. Have a RAD time!
It was actually filmed in my neck of the woods, northwest Calgary (bowness park) and Cochrane, Alberta (just north of Calgary) Sadly few people here know that
I hope that's a 22.6mm diameter seat post instead of a far more common 7/8" (22.2mm) diameter seat post. You'll damage your frame if you clamp a 7/8" seat post in there without a 22.2-to-22.6mm shim. If it is 22.6mm, where did you find it? Also, you have it adjusted really high. Is it inserted to the minimum depth marking? You can get Pro Class lookalike rims from BMXGuru for $40-something each, and you can also get a pair of full wheels built around those rims for around $200. It would be great to have originals, but they are big money, especially if you want ones that are new or like new. Pro Class rims aren't the only things you're missing, by the way. Those handlebars are wrong too. The handlebars that came on Mongoose loop tails for several years in the 1980s had a very high cross bar, about as high as the grips, and Cru's bike had those stock handlebars. His two best friends' bikes had them too, because they were Blue Max brand, which was just Mongoose under a different name (made by BMX Products, Inc., same as Mongoose). Your XC-II style bear trap pedals are wrong too. Cru's bike had the stock platform pedals (SR P-468), complete with the stock reflectors still attached. Your Viscount Dominator seat is wrong. Cru's bike had the stock seat which was a Selle Royal Aeroyal lookalike. Your hinged Dia-Compe seat post clamp is the right type, but it was silver on Cru's bike (which is the stock color) rather than blue. Your A'ME Tri grips are wrong. You can buy officially licensed reproductions of the stock Mongoose grips which were made using the original molds, for about $30, from the same place that I assume you got your reproduction decals from. And it should have small diameter axle pegs on the back. Remember the scene where Cru's sister was riding on his pegs?
Awesome build! I'm building a Californian...do you happen to know if both front/rear calipers are marked 1000a or is the front a 900a? You did a great job with the bike and your video!
I actually wanted either the Redline RL2A or the Haro Master. Instead my parents got me a Columbia because it was florescent green...LOL! Edit: was such a let down when I first saw Mongoose and Diamondback being sold at Walmart...
I never did dig Rad. Freestyle or Flatland was not for me. Though I did have a GT Pro Performer lol! But I liked riding my CW BMX bike more. The 80's was about Cross ups and Tabletops. Salute from San Diego BTW killer build
Had to watch on mute because of that water and birds was so distracting. Love the build and thanks for doing it! Rad for life! Bmx for life! Skate for life!
Alright dudes, let’s walk this sucker!
Awesome build!
Cru Jones singlehandedly reignited the superhero movie genre.
Work of Art from a great era!
Wow this just brought me back to my childhood in the 80s watching RAD a hundred times over and although I wanted a Diamondback, GT Pro Performer, Dyno, or Mongoose my family could not afford it but I had the next best thing and that was the ability to slowly hook up my HUFFY SIGMA to make it most BMX-like as possible with the gooseneck seat, rotors back pegs, front forkstanders, crossbar and most importantly free-wheel spokes vs the pedal brakes ... Those were some of the best memories from my childhood!!!
I also built mine from scratch with parts from a local family run bike shop, man it meant everything to me not just buying a bike but actually picking and choosing the parts and putting the time into it to make it perfect.
Getting into Rad, it almost Rekt my life! Living only 2hrs from where most of it was shot my heart was into it and I believed! One day on the way to school we were approaching tunnel park. ( a park with hills and tunnels and stuff, basically a bmx track with grass and called a park) I got a stupid urge that I could do a backflip... Ended in the hospital with a pinched spine and a concussion. I have had a lot of spills over the years especially in motocross but for some reason that one was the most traumatic.
@@pudlmaker Yea it was nothing like the local neighborhood bike shop hehe... Wow, i wouldn't know what to do if I grew up near you ;-)
Awesome bike, brings back so many memories, my dream bike is a Hutch Pro Star, but this is totally rad.
Still have my '86 GT Performer. I want a PK Ripper. 🤘
I still get that feeling I got as a kid every time I hear the opening music and that Haro launches...80s were such a sick time for BMX. - Great build video.
Love this lol the goosebumps when the chorus kicks in. Watched this movie a million times back in the day. You gotta do the dance scene now too.
Hey....Great....nice idea....spectacular.....RAD zone...best time...💪🏁👁
Nice build, and nice backyard too! Suggest lowering that seat post about 10 inches so the frame seat tube doesn't crack.
no thats how they're meant to be its 1980s bmx
@@鐽 Many frame seat tubes cracked in the 1980s because the seat was too high (increased leverage). Especially with a laid back seatpost shifting the weight further back.
i feel 35 years younger after watching you video! brings back memories for sure. I myself is a fan of RAD and a bmx rider before. Its so cool to see other people from other places who has the same love and passion. Thanks for the Video! Awesome job for the build!
Totally Rad! Great idea. 💯BMX 🏁 🌞BIKE ZEN 🌊
This video just made my day. RAD is my favorite movie of all time. Awesome bike build btw. I miss my GT Mach One! I used to tear it down and rebuild it all the time. The camera work and music on this video was great too! Totally RAD! "OH MY HEART A BACKFLIP, HULK HOGAN EAT YOUR HEART OUT" :-)
CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT BEAUTIFUL BIKE ....BRINGS BACK A LOT OF MEMORIES...THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO ❤❤ I WANT ONE 👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love the drone footage at the end and the music, agree the movie is cheesy but the BMX tricks are RAD! Bike is Sickkk!
A spit..😁
Great video! Really cool bike - looks like I need to go find Rad and watch it. Music is awesome too!
🙏 thank you so much for watching!
And the great comment!
Wow i remember one of my friends in the neighborhood in the 80s had a lower end mongoose but not as nice as this Californian. Very cool build ,nicely done up.
Rad! Any mongoose is cool. Thank you 🙏 for watching and the compliment!
@@ahickBro! Awesome!!! 💪🏼
I had a chromoly Mongoose with round holes in the rims that went all the way around the inside and with red inserts. I think the wheels were red as well. Sure wish I could have that bike again.
Similar in my hometown, we had BMX, Skateboards, and Surfing. So RAD, Thrashin, and North shore were our movies! This bike turned out beautiful 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
One of my all time favorites. I recently bought the bluray steel book, it holds up. My 5 yo son loves it.
Most underrated movie ever!
Awesome build!
Thanks!
I was obsessed with this movie..everything about it…my parents bought me a chromoly GT performer with pegs and I rode the crap out of it! Learned every trick I could! It WAS my childhood
this is great - I'm collecting parts now for my own build. great work, man!
I really Appreciated this Video BMX Build was Awesome.RAD The Movie is an All Time Cult Classic of The 80's.And I'm glad to be a Product of that Era.😎👍🏾
Cool. I remember my first bike's colors but not the brand. My white Predator is the one i remember most. I had another but it got stolen. We'd watch this movie & then go out & try tricks. We werent successful...but fun times
This is like a ASMR video. I fell asleep twice already 😴
Love this movie and still watch it with my kids to this day. I had a Skyway Teardrop and an Elf back in the day. Loved those bikes!
Very nice 🎉
Much appreciated! Thank you 🙏
Great build Awesome video. Love Rad, Grew up with a GT Pro Performer trying to master all of the tricks. Nice choice in watches as well!!!!!
Absolutely love it, I’ve got a Haro frame sitting in my garage collecting dust for the last 30 years I wanna do the exact same thing with. We grew up wearing out RAD VHS with all the other buddies in the neighborhood
best bmx movie ever... we used to have the VCR in the motor home playing on repeat during the motocross days back when my feet didn't touch the ground on the 80cc bike I raced my dad would place a wood block under my foot at the starting line lol.. we'd all be watching Rad if we were we'd be on 20in bikes or dirt bikes .. those were truly the "golden years " back when the only negative part of life were crashing which just ment ud be side line with the chick's lol even the worst case scenario was a best case scenario lol
Man the wheels makes all the difference, without them it just looks like every other bike I've owned growing up, but with them it looks like a entirely different animal
Great build came out nice
Thank you 🙏
Beautiful bike nice job looks amazing.....Stay RAD!! .... ✌️
We love this movie to this day! I can still do a rock walk, wheelie-cat walk, rear tire 360, and other tricks, but they’re actually easier on my mountain bike for the most part. The Cru Jones Murray can’t be confused with a mongoose due to the rear end. Mongoose used a single tube bent into a U rather than tubing being welded together to the rear axle drop ins.
I have 2 1984 Skyway TA’s, Mongoose Pro Class, and 2 Hutch Pro Stars, and 1 Hutch Trick Star that my brother and I have had since new in the 80’s. All original chrome finish, we never had painted bikes from that time. We liked and wanted a Haro Group 1 RS1, but our parents said we had enough. We also had a 1986 Mongoose Miniscoot that we should have never gotten rid of.
That is perfect congrats.
Has to get a follow for the RAD intro. Pure awesomeness.
Thank you 🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥
Awesome build. Your handlebars look different from the bike in the movie. I watched it religiously as a grom. I remember many race bikes had tiny seats back in the day. I would think having it raised so high would interfere with peddling hard and getting lower in the air off jumps
I used to pretend I was Cru on my paper route. Doing rock- walks and rollbacks with my paper bag on the handlebars.
Cool vid.
Ride on 🤘
I just picked up an all.original 84 californian off offer up in salem nh for 150.00 bucks . Nice build 👍
I love the movie and it was good to see you build Cru's bike. I have always wanted to build one like that but I don't have the funds. So seeing you build it was Rad.
Nice edit.
sick build brother!
I've watched this movie hundreds of times.... I still watch it once a year ish now 🤣
I really love this cool video and how fantastic your RAD replica Cru Jones bicycle turned out for you to ride !
Thank you so much 🙏! It is amazing to ride. I felt like I was 12 years old again.
Nice, if you're ever in Vegas. We should ride
So awesome man! Ive watched it 50+ x minimum since it came out and most of my friends have tons of inside joke quotes we still use
I have a 1986 Californian I totally forgot about this thanks for the memories I’m gonna grease and polish that thing right now it needs new stickers it only has the one ont the top tube that says Californian
I thought the movie was cheese but I liked it anyway's! The bmx trick are sick!
This wa My bike! Bought it off a neighbor who was getting his license.
Sold it to me for thirty bucks. My. Favorite bike!
I miss my old bike. I had a old redline from 1984. I had that bike forever. man I miss it
Thats cool really cool nice nice build
You have earned my subscription today 🙋🏻
🙏 thank you for subscribing!
@@ahick You know it🤟🏼
great work. bike looks great. fun to ride i am sure. i do rad themed edits also. i talked to cru on the phone once. super nice guy. i was supposed to do a event with him 2 years ago but it got canceled during covid .
great build a replica is on my to do list and I hope I'll be able to do it soon
Thank you! Any questions let me know.
@ahick only one question and I'm kinda nit picking but why not go with some aluminum wheels and sealed bearings???
@@yardsalecycles I’m planning on getting some of the new rerelease proclass wheels. So these were just some budget wheels I found that were chrome.
I just brought the blue ray disc one of my fav movies of all time
This movie was in this big ass video rental mechanical box in our variety store when I was a kid and was always rented out by me or my friends which all rode! Gave us great inspiration and would tear up the streets after a watch! Great memories, would love to have this bike on my wall! I had a chrome Kuwahara with red rims,seat with red and white checkered pads for my first "real" bmx in 86. Still have my Redline but not riding anymore due to disability but will never sell it!
Very nice build there. Well done.
Thank you 🙏! Much appreciated!
Harbor Freight sells Evapo Rust. I used it on all the rusty hardware on a Diamond Back I restored for my son, and it made the hardware look brand new.
Beautiful!
This was my first real bike in 85 but had Pro Class rims!
So good! ❤
Shoulda lowered that 40” seat post for the cinematics tho. 😅
Murray X20 FTW!
There's a thunder in you heart for sure buiding such a bike. Any ass -sliding area around there? Rad Racing would be proud!!!
Now. Go do some back flips on it. 😂. Rad build !
Was wondering where you got the blue power plate from?
Trying to track one down myself for ages...
Where did you get all the parts?
You have a parts list?
Love those bikes, but I was more of a Skyway or PK Ripper kind of guy in the 80s.
Does anyone sell a kit to build this exact bike like you built? Thanks
Do you happen to know the axel size? Having a hard time figuring if the 3/8" is what I need or is that for new school.
What brand rims did you use?
Awesome build!
Where did you get the chain ring from?
👍 Engineering work....
Thank you 🙏 for watching and commenting!
Wait, no Spintek Gyro for double sided cherry pickers?
Beautiful tribute. I just picked up an 84 and am looking to do the same. Do you have a build sheet for this bike?
Thank you so much @lewis8281 🙏 I do not have a build sheet. Mostly
Purchased piece by piece on EBay and BMxmuseum.com . The crank for example is a reproduction I found from Australia. It is a fun hunt.
@ahick Thanks anyway, Yup. Found the crank set in Australia as well. I'm trying to find some nice comparable bars.
I have a wild hair that I want to a Cru build. How difficult was it to track down all the parts?
Thank you for the comment. It’s not too difficult if you have the funds to spend. Some parts like the proclass wheels and the crank can get expensive. But the frame can be picked up for a couple hundred. eBay and BMX museum are a great source for parts.
@@ahick Dipped into this quickly and purchasing a frame on BMX museum. The crankset you used looked to be factory packaged, but I could not see the label. Would you be willing to advise on that?
@@alexlehnhoff8356 the crank was a repopulate from Australia. You can find it here bmxworks.com.au/ . Everything else I got off Ebay or BMX museum. Would love to see the finished product. Have a RAD time!
Looks amazing but damn you need to lower that seat a little bit you're going to snap that pole right off😮
I’ve had/have pretty much every component on that build other than the farm and fork, and the spider.
You put the clip for the master link backwards. It need to be positioned when you pedal it moves in the direction of how you clip it on.
What did the build cost
Around $800
How much did this build cost?
Nice video. Rad is one of my all time favorite movies.
Also, your yard screams southern AZ suburbia. Am I right?
What bike model?
Ive always wanted this bike
Badass!
It was actually filmed in my neck of the woods, northwest Calgary (bowness park) and Cochrane, Alberta (just north of Calgary)
Sadly few people here know that
I hope that's a 22.6mm diameter seat post instead of a far more common 7/8" (22.2mm) diameter seat post. You'll damage your frame if you clamp a 7/8" seat post in there without a 22.2-to-22.6mm shim. If it is 22.6mm, where did you find it? Also, you have it adjusted really high. Is it inserted to the minimum depth marking?
You can get Pro Class lookalike rims from BMXGuru for $40-something each, and you can also get a pair of full wheels built around those rims for around $200. It would be great to have originals, but they are big money, especially if you want ones that are new or like new.
Pro Class rims aren't the only things you're missing, by the way. Those handlebars are wrong too. The handlebars that came on Mongoose loop tails for several years in the 1980s had a very high cross bar, about as high as the grips, and Cru's bike had those stock handlebars. His two best friends' bikes had them too, because they were Blue Max brand, which was just Mongoose under a different name (made by BMX Products, Inc., same as Mongoose).
Your XC-II style bear trap pedals are wrong too. Cru's bike had the stock platform pedals (SR P-468), complete with the stock reflectors still attached.
Your Viscount Dominator seat is wrong. Cru's bike had the stock seat which was a Selle Royal Aeroyal lookalike.
Your hinged Dia-Compe seat post clamp is the right type, but it was silver on Cru's bike (which is the stock color) rather than blue.
Your A'ME Tri grips are wrong. You can buy officially licensed reproductions of the stock Mongoose grips which were made using the original molds, for about $30, from the same place that I assume you got your reproduction decals from.
And it should have small diameter axle pegs on the back. Remember the scene where Cru's sister was riding on his pegs?
33 an peps still sleep !its been goin on since day one . GEMATRIA is your friend my foes
Love RAD
Awesome build! I'm building a Californian...do you happen to know if both front/rear calipers are marked 1000a or is the front a 900a?
You did a great job with the bike and your video!
I believe they are both 1000a. I will double check tonight. Great question.
Yes they were both 1000a
@@ahick thanks for the info! Very appreciated!
BAD ASS!!!!
I actually wanted either the Redline RL2A or the Haro Master. Instead my parents got me a Columbia because it was florescent green...LOL!
Edit: was such a let down when I first saw Mongoose and Diamondback being sold at Walmart...
A little surprised there weren’t 3 piece cranks on that bike.
When there’s thunder in your heart
Always loved the Cru bike but imho still doesn’t touch the bikes from the movie BMX Bandits 😅
I never did dig Rad. Freestyle or Flatland was not for me. Though I did have a GT Pro Performer lol! But I liked riding my CW BMX bike more. The 80's was about Cross ups and Tabletops. Salute from San Diego BTW killer build
❤❤❤❤❤
Well you got the frame and fork right. I guess that’s something.