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In 1987 Mike moved into the house down the street from me in Chino Hills, CA. As a little 13 year old BMX groom, it was about the coolest thing in the world! I was a hang around Groom, even getting to help build the half pipe in the back yard. I'm in several of those old mag layouts, either sitting on the deck with mike or Brian airing over us, or just hanging on the slope watching them shred! Mike gave me a used, blue, Strike Zone frame and hand signed it with a Silver paint pen for me. That bike was my pride and joy until i got my driver's license! I literally think about that bike weekly! Wondering if its still out there somewhere, wishing i was smart enough to never let it go! Eventually the constant huge crowds, the extreme house parties, his cars (at the time a slant nose Porsche, and a blue imported convertible VW Bug.) Pissed off enough of the neighbors so much they forced the home owner to not remew the rent agreement and made them move out. *Mike, if you happen to see this, thank you for being such a cool guy to me and my friends! And I swear my parents were not the ones that made you guys move..lol. Thanks for the video! Nice Job! 🤙
Loved this, took me back. I had a Hot Streak then later bought a Mike D Strike Zone hot pink/magenta. Bought cheap from a kid that got his drivers license. Now at 50 years old, I have my unicorn. Black and blue Haro FST! You can take the kid out of the 80’s, but you can’t take the 80’s out of the kid!!😜
Great job at putting this together sir,,,I’m 49 and rode flatland in 86,87 the rad yrs lol..Eddie fiola was my idol and I was all about Gt…I just got back into freestyle when Covid hit us in nyc….I’m going to see Eddie next week for my 50th bday..at porkchop in Georgia where I’m entering my fiola tribute build in their show…great meeting someone like yourself from my era that still has the passion…I saw mike d in wyane nj afa show in 87…..rad rad rad
I had that same '87 DB Mike D frame & fork. I got it from a friend when he "upgraded" to a GT PFT F&F. I LOVED that frame. The geometry was similar if not identical to a Haro Sport, but I loved that the rear frame standers were in front of the drop outs and not below them like Haro bikes. I was into street riding and mini-ramps, and the Haro rear standers didn't work as good for peg grinds. I swapped out the forks for some old GT's that I had, but the main custom I did was sawing off the rear brake studs. For some reason I couldn't get that Suntour U-brake to work, but I could dial an Odyssey Pit Bull to stop on a dime.
Great video I too was a huge Mike Dominguesz fan got to ride with him Dennis McCoy, Woody Itson and a few others throughout NYC after a AFA event back in 1986 or 87.
oh man, this brings back memories.. I had many different parts bikes as I would often break things catching big air and coming down hard even though I was a scrawny but tough kid... I was well known in my town for doing table tops and all tricks off of curbs, catching really big air street jumping. I got a full front page shot from our local paper in 1983 when the movie ET came out. Friends had a track with quarter pipe, etc.. I cracked many frames (mongoose, red line, diamond back, etc..) and skyway sent me a replacement wheel for free for cracking one (they were advertised as unbreakable).. I pretty much bent all cranks, and would strip out 3 piece, so stayed with 1 piece and replaced those periodically... I remember free wheeling my bear claw pedals into my shins a few times.. Never wore a helmet growing up, and never got hurt bad ever, but honestly I had to give up mountain biking in my mid 40's cause the 14 year old instinct in me was still too free spirited and I have a family to take care of as the agility wore off from 25 years of IT work, even though I am in still really good shape @ 54.
Bro, 58 y/o fart here. and, you remind me of me! 😂Seriously, your childhood was identical to mine. Broke everything (all frames including he 3 PK Rippers cranks, pedals ect). LOL. Got into riding motorcycles in my early teens. But, kept on riding BMX till 20 y/o. Road motos up until 10 years ago and started racing MTB downhill. I've have since retired from MTB DH, but still ride motos😎And, gonna ride till I die!🏍 I, also still have that 14 y/o instinct, but I'm mature now. I've been a gym rat all my life so I'm in hella shape for an old fart. Retired from MTB DH cuz i can't afford both expensive ass hobbies. Awesome childhood we had bro! Cheers!
When I was a kid we had a big ramp which was a re worked ww2 bomb crater in the forest which I believe is still there today. On day this young kid came blasting though and got more air than we had ever seen but his angle was wrong and instead of missing the platform and landing on the down ramp like we all went for, the kid hit a tree in mid air! The noise was insane and like a cartoon where he stopped dead and dropped to the ground, he was pretty badly hurt but was back a few weeks later, hats off to his balls!
in roughly 1982, a few of us kids rode our bikes about 8 miles (from buena park to whittier) to skate city.. we met mike dominguez and eddie feola.. also, grew up 1 street over from martin aparajo.. since the midish 70s, we all pal'd around at my old elementary school.. in the back there were piles of dirt (placed there by Knott's Berry Farm).. martin used to build jumps. I cant stress enough how insane it was to see this dude flying off these jumps.he was so much more advanced than anyone else was at that time. i was horribly terrible myself but i loved the bmx life
I am that guy, and have had same growing up 💯👍, This channel was a excellent idea. 👍 I miss those /my bikes which I had, I had Dyno compe, GT pro performer, Redline RL 20, and CW California freestyle..😢 still follow freestylers from that era and bike collectors.. that was a great time to be a kid. 💯👍🙏🇺🇲
This brings me back to my younger years all I had at the time was a huffy frame and forks went to the bike shop and bought all GT and diamond back parts for my bike. I can say my bmx was a mutt 🤣 but looked cool.
Awesome Video Mike Dominguez and Woody Itson brought there show to our Favorite BMX Track Peachtree City Ga. in late 80's. Mike was getting Insane Height off such a small ramp they had brought
I had an early 90's Diamondback Tailwhip. It had the same front brake, levers, tires & gyro with the frame extended under the sprocket, knee saver bars and the standard mags. Great bike, but to be honest it was ridiculously heavy
Man that's wicked cool 😎. I grew up in the 90s and skating kinda took over everything but, I was always a BMX guy. I was never great either but man do I miss being that flexible lol 😆
Glad to find this video (a year later) / channel, brings back many memories. I'm 49, still have my 1986 Blue Strike Zone from Christmas '86. I ride it nearly daily around the neighborhood. 100% stock (with the Fu-Kong seat) aside from new tires and chain. The upright riding position is more comfortable than any other bike I've ridden. You can chill, don't have to ride in the half a push-up position.
Wow. Wish I had the video of our backyard halfpipe around 87. Looking back, our parents were amazing to let us tear up the yard like that. They were smart to keep us active and close to home doing such dangerous things. You guys riding through grass to get across to the other ramp is the impressive. None of us had the perfect setup but at least we were flying! 80s rules! I also have a couple bikes that Ive rehabbed and ride around.
In the early 90's my neighbor worked at a factory that either assembled them or shipped them (don't exactly remember) he sold me 2 Diamondbacks that i LOVED!! Other favorites I had were a nickel plated chrome Hutch, GT Performer, Dyno Comp. BMX is 100% responsible for me growing up to be an accomplished Auto Technician! I would fix everyone's bikes back in the day and accepted Butterfinger BB'S and pepsi as currency!😂😂😂 AWESOME episode Derrick!! Hit me right in the feels!
The ‘87 bikes were so cool to me!!! Osborn Pro, Bravo Pro, Pro Freestyle Tour, Pro Compe (my favorite freestyle bike), Sport and Master, Decade Pro, Strike Zone, RL 20 II, Trick Star, Street Beat, Predator Free Form Pro, Magician Pro
I had a DB Cool Streak w/ Dominguez bend bars,bent post,gyro,compact disc sprocket,gumwall tires,and some kinda rear hub that would lock,coaster or free wheel that I can't remember the name of. The bike was beautiful baby blue powder coat. I think the whole set up cost a little over $300.
That was my life. I rode for haro, (haro sport) in the 80s. I still have it. then bought a car to transport my bike. And then years later I got into car audio. Worked for Rockford, then moved to Boston in early 90 to work for a/ds/
I'm an 80s kid to and we would race at our local track and then go put on shows at our little town summer fair. We had a couple of wooden jumps and do some flatland tricks. Just like the movie Rad. These kids nowadays have no idea
@@wal2 Unreal, good for you. Proud of that person for having the balls to sell it, for I'd simply keep it. Thinking about getting one of these 24-26" re-pop BMX bikes from our childhood.
I have two of these bikes. The hot streak Im going to do a refab on it. Have a new sticker pack just needs sanded and Powder coated. My Strike zone is near mint. I Ride both bikes.
I have my old 1985 diamond back BMX bike that I got new and I never rode it and it stayed in my parents outbuilding up until 2 years ago and I brought it home but I'm putting it out there for sell and it's a all chrome bike also and it will need the back tire replaced due to it severely dry rotted but the rest of the bike is still like New
most, if not all of the individual parts on your bike have date codes. There's been a ton of research into it and a lot of the codes are known so you can figure out when your parts were made. Dia Compe is well known.
Why didnt we ever see a cornflower blue model for consumers? Seems like that was only his and didnt have an acs rotor. I love the cornflower blue with the black mags and white tires but they didnt offer that color option.
Three piece cranks were not intended to be used on BMX/Freestyle bikes at that time. They bent, broke or cracked the arms way to easily for a Pro level Bike. That's why you could find Murray's and Schwinns with 3 piece cranks for half the price of a Diamondback/GT/Haro/Hutch/Mongoose/Redline without 3 piece cranks at Target.
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Video Index:
0:00 Intro
0:30 The Freestyle Bug
1:39 Mike D Early Career
2:42 Diamond Back Sponsorship
3:35 DB Freestyle Bikes
3:48 1986 Strike Zone
4:22 1987 Strike Zone
4:46 Mail Order Shopping
6:13 87 Strike Zone Overview
9:58 My Progression
10:18 Mike D 900 Attempt
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In 1987 Mike moved into the house down the street from me in Chino Hills, CA. As a little 13 year old BMX groom, it was about the coolest thing in the world! I was a hang around Groom, even getting to help build the half pipe in the back yard. I'm in several of those old mag layouts, either sitting on the deck with mike or Brian airing over us, or just hanging on the slope watching them shred! Mike gave me a used, blue, Strike Zone frame and hand signed it with a Silver paint pen for me. That bike was my pride and joy until i got my driver's license! I literally think about that bike weekly! Wondering if its still out there somewhere, wishing i was smart enough to never let it go!
Eventually the constant huge crowds, the extreme house parties, his cars (at the time a slant nose Porsche, and a blue imported convertible VW Bug.) Pissed off enough of the neighbors so much they forced the home owner to not remew the rent agreement and made them move out.
*Mike, if you happen to see this, thank you for being such a cool guy to me and my friends! And I swear my parents were not the ones that made you guys move..lol.
Thanks for the video! Nice Job! 🤙
Change the name back to Wheelie Williston and do only these videos on this channel from here on out! Absolutely loved this one.
Agreed
Loved this, took me back. I had a Hot Streak then later bought a Mike D Strike Zone hot pink/magenta. Bought cheap from a kid that got his drivers license. Now at 50 years old, I have my unicorn. Black and blue Haro FST!
You can take the kid out of the 80’s, but you can’t take the 80’s out of the kid!!😜
It was a very impactful period for those of us who grew up in the 80’s
BMX......,Walkman and Break Dance Music... perfekt Oldschool memories😎👍🆙️
Great job at putting this together sir,,,I’m 49 and rode flatland in 86,87 the rad yrs lol..Eddie fiola was my idol and I was all about Gt…I just got back into freestyle when Covid hit us in nyc….I’m going to see Eddie next week for my 50th bday..at porkchop in Georgia where I’m entering my fiola tribute build in their show…great meeting someone like yourself from my era that still has the passion…I saw mike d in wyane nj afa show in 87…..rad rad rad
I had that same '87 DB Mike D frame & fork. I got it from a friend when he "upgraded" to a GT PFT F&F. I LOVED that frame. The geometry was similar if not identical to a Haro Sport, but I loved that the rear frame standers were in front of the drop outs and not below them like Haro bikes. I was into street riding and mini-ramps, and the Haro rear standers didn't work as good for peg grinds. I swapped out the forks for some old GT's that I had, but the main custom I did was sawing off the rear brake studs. For some reason I couldn't get that Suntour U-brake to work, but I could dial an Odyssey Pit Bull to stop on a dime.
Great video I too was a huge Mike Dominguesz fan got to ride with him Dennis McCoy, Woody Itson and a few others throughout NYC after a AFA event back in 1986 or 87.
oh man, this brings back memories.. I had many different parts bikes as I would often break things catching big air and coming down hard even though I was a scrawny but tough kid... I was well known in my town for doing table tops and all tricks off of curbs, catching really big air street jumping. I got a full front page shot from our local paper in 1983 when the movie ET came out. Friends had a track with quarter pipe, etc.. I cracked many frames (mongoose, red line, diamond back, etc..) and skyway sent me a replacement wheel for free for cracking one (they were advertised as unbreakable).. I pretty much bent all cranks, and would strip out 3 piece, so stayed with 1 piece and replaced those periodically... I remember free wheeling my bear claw pedals into my shins a few times.. Never wore a helmet growing up, and never got hurt bad ever, but honestly I had to give up mountain biking in my mid 40's cause the 14 year old instinct in me was still too free spirited and I have a family to take care of as the agility wore off from 25 years of IT work, even though I am in still really good shape @ 54.
Bro, 58 y/o fart here. and, you remind me of me! 😂Seriously, your childhood was identical to mine. Broke everything (all frames including he 3 PK Rippers cranks, pedals ect). LOL. Got into riding motorcycles in my early teens. But, kept on riding BMX till 20 y/o. Road motos up until 10 years ago and started racing MTB downhill. I've have since retired from MTB DH, but still ride motos😎And, gonna ride till I die!🏍 I, also still have that 14 y/o instinct, but I'm mature now. I've been a gym rat all my life so I'm in hella shape for an old fart. Retired from MTB DH cuz i can't afford both expensive ass hobbies. Awesome childhood we had bro!
Cheers!
When I was a kid we had a big ramp which was a re worked ww2 bomb crater in the forest which I believe is still there today.
On day this young kid came blasting though and got more air than we had ever seen but his angle was wrong and instead of missing the platform and landing on the down ramp like we all went for, the kid hit a tree in mid air!
The noise was insane and like a cartoon where he stopped dead and dropped to the ground, he was pretty badly hurt but was back a few weeks later, hats off to his balls!
😳
in roughly 1982, a few of us kids rode our bikes about 8 miles (from buena park to whittier) to skate city.. we met mike dominguez and eddie feola.. also, grew up 1 street over from martin aparajo.. since the midish 70s, we all pal'd around at my old elementary school.. in the back there were piles of dirt (placed there by Knott's Berry Farm).. martin used to build jumps. I cant stress enough how insane it was to see this dude flying off these jumps.he was so much more advanced than anyone else was at that time. i was horribly terrible myself but i loved the bmx life
This is awesome man. I was born in 1975 and I lived this life from the age of 9 years old...
I am that guy, and have had same growing up 💯👍, This channel was a excellent idea. 👍 I miss those /my bikes which I had, I had Dyno compe, GT pro performer, Redline RL 20, and CW California freestyle..😢 still follow freestylers from that era and bike collectors.. that was a great time to be a kid. 💯👍🙏🇺🇲
Yeah it’s so cool today to see our childhood idols online and being able to communicate with them 👌
I forget how much I loved your channel! Those were the days! Everybody had bent cranks laying around!
This brings me back to my younger years all I had at the time was a huffy frame and forks went to the bike shop and bought all GT and diamond back parts for my bike. I can say my bmx was a mutt 🤣 but looked cool.
Appreciate this Dereck, I'm a 80s kid too that grew up on skateboards and BMX. Had a few Redlines and GT's. Always wanted a PK Ripper.
Awesome Video Mike Dominguez and Woody Itson brought there show to our Favorite BMX Track Peachtree City Ga. in late 80's. Mike was getting Insane Height off such a small ramp they had brought
Man this brings me back. Showing off memorabilia makes me wanna break out my 80's toy collection.
Do it. Check out Retro Rick
This brings me back when I was building bikes out of various parts lol.
I had an early 90's Diamondback Tailwhip. It had the same front brake, levers, tires & gyro with the frame extended under the sprocket, knee saver bars and the standard mags. Great bike, but to be honest it was ridiculously heavy
Man that's wicked cool 😎. I grew up in the 90s and skating kinda took over everything but, I was always a BMX guy. I was never great either but man do I miss being that flexible lol 😆
Glad to find this video (a year later) / channel, brings back many memories. I'm 49, still have my 1986 Blue Strike Zone from Christmas '86. I ride it nearly daily around the neighborhood. 100% stock (with the Fu-Kong seat) aside from new tires and chain.
The upright riding position is more comfortable than any other bike I've ridden. You can chill, don't have to ride in the half a push-up position.
Wow. Wish I had the video of our backyard halfpipe around 87. Looking back, our parents were amazing to let us tear up the yard like that. They were smart to keep us active and close to home doing such dangerous things.
You guys riding through grass to get across to the other ramp is the impressive. None of us had the perfect setup but at least we were flying! 80s rules!
I also have a couple bikes that Ive rehabbed and ride around.
In the early 90's my neighbor worked at a factory that either assembled them or shipped them (don't exactly remember) he sold me 2 Diamondbacks that i LOVED!! Other favorites I had were a nickel plated chrome Hutch, GT Performer, Dyno Comp. BMX is 100% responsible for me growing up to be an accomplished Auto Technician! I would fix everyone's bikes back in the day and accepted Butterfinger BB'S and pepsi as currency!😂😂😂
AWESOME episode Derrick!! Hit me right in the feels!
Awesome 👏
I used to spend as much time taking my bikes and skateboards apart as riding them
@@gregblau8082 YES!!! me too!
The ‘87 bikes were so cool to me!!! Osborn Pro, Bravo Pro, Pro Freestyle Tour, Pro Compe (my favorite freestyle bike), Sport and Master, Decade Pro, Strike Zone, RL 20 II, Trick Star, Street Beat, Predator Free Form Pro, Magician Pro
I had a DB Cool Streak w/ Dominguez bend bars,bent post,gyro,compact disc sprocket,gumwall tires,and some kinda rear hub that would lock,coaster or free wheel that I can't remember the name of. The bike was beautiful baby blue powder coat. I think the whole set up cost a little over $300.
Love theses 80s stories and reviews of the peak bmx in my opinion I’d love to hear more similar stories of GT or Hutch
I love this! Could watch videos like this all day. Thanks Big D for posting :)
I remember the Redlines and Kuwahara Z design on the frame...awsome bikes...
That was my life. I rode for haro, (haro sport) in the 80s. I still have it. then bought a car to transport my bike. And then years later I got into car audio. Worked for Rockford, then moved to Boston in early 90 to work for a/ds/
Oh man! Awesome 👏
Reminds me of RAD, great movie growing up. As for BMX, I have my Dyno still from late 90's.
Awesome 👏
I miss my white and splatter paint Huffy Freestyle Pro bike. Was heavier than it ever needed to be. But, man it looked the part.
I'm an 80s kid to and we would race at our local track and then go put on shows at our little town summer fair. We had a couple of wooden jumps and do some flatland tricks. Just like the movie Rad. These kids nowadays have no idea
Yessir it was amazing!
Cool video I always like seeing old school bmx.
Such an awesome video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge,and videos of you riding. I still have my 84 trickstar from back then. Good times. 👍
Oh man that bike is worth a MINT!
That's the good old days 😊
In 88-89 I had a Mongoose freestyle. I currently have a mid 90’s Dyno GT.
👌😬👍
I'm rebuilding my '86 PK Ripper right now. Needed an old school "push", thanks.
Go for it!
Nice video. Building a 1987 CS now.
I mowed a lot of lawns to buy a Dyno Pro Compe with my own money when I was 11 years old!
Then I donated it just before I joined the Air Force.
Thank you for your service!
I had the Schwinn Predator freestyle with rolling seat. I wish I never sold that bike.
I had the same green haro, except I swear my was a sport. Solid green, no chrome. Miss it.
Wow, you got this off Marketplace a year ago? Nice find, and yeah Dominguez 900 was legendary.
Yes and it was local too 👌
@@wal2 Unreal, good for you. Proud of that person for having the balls to sell it, for I'd simply keep it. Thinking about getting one of these 24-26" re-pop BMX bikes from our childhood.
Great video!
I have two of these bikes. The hot streak Im going to do a refab on it. Have a new sticker pack just needs sanded and Powder coated. My Strike zone is near mint. I Ride both bikes.
That’s awesome. I’m too big (tall and heavy) for the 20” bikes but I do ride the 26 and 29’s
This was a great video.
I had the Huffy Z2 back in the 80s and thought I was cool!
👌😬👍
Thank you
I have my old 1985 diamond back BMX bike that I got new and I never rode it and it stayed in my parents outbuilding up until 2 years ago and I brought it home but I'm putting it out there for sell and it's a all chrome bike also and it will need the back tire replaced due to it severely dry rotted but the rest of the bike is still like New
Haha I still have the original vhs tape of the first clip you started with
Nice bike
Thanks for watching and commenting!
most, if not all of the individual parts on your bike have date codes. There's been a ton of research into it and a lot of the codes are known so you can figure out when your parts were made. Dia Compe is well known.
Yes I was referring to the time duration when the standard rotor vs pro rotor was offered on these. I’ve seen both
i LOVED my diamond backs. i had a strike zone and miss it all the time.
Nice mags
Them days.
Dude, if you see the price of an 87 pro freestyle tour team model these days, your looking about $10k. This retro hobby has gone through the roof.
Yessir I keep up with the values. It’s crazy 😲
Why didnt we ever see a cornflower blue model for consumers? Seems like that was only his and didnt have an acs rotor. I love the cornflower blue with the black mags and white tires but they didnt offer that color option.
Was there a Haro moment too right?
I HAD A 87 DIMONDBACK MIKE DOMINGUEZ STRIKE ZONE.....I WILL BUY ONE OFF OF ANYONE WHO HAS ONE IN MAGENTA
Three piece cranks were not intended to be used on BMX/Freestyle bikes at that time. They bent, broke or cracked the arms way to easily for a Pro level Bike. That's why you could find Murray's and Schwinns with 3 piece cranks for half the price of a Diamondback/GT/Haro/Hutch/Mongoose/Redline without 3 piece cranks at Target.
The Redline Flight and Hutch cranks were like unobtainium for me as a kid but they were so dope
I gave my heavily modified diamondback viper to my little cousin back in the day..oops
We have one to a cousin as well. It was the right thing to do at the time
👍👀👍
Dominguez on Hutch just seemed right
900..900..900
You forgot Ron Wilkerson from Haro freestyle. Just saying.
But Matt Hoffman came along and that was the end of all us riders.