Now That's Midschool _ Ep 4.1 featuring Jonathan Sherwood
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2023
- In this installment of the Jonathan Sherwood episode of Now That's Midschool, we take a more detailed dive into some of the bikes in the collection. Be warned! graphic content of the 4130 variety in this episode!
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Absolutely incredible.
There's a couple more bikes to go 8n the next episode plus talk of the frames. Thanks man!
Keep up the good work mate, I'm loving your content
Thanks Robert! I appreciate your good words! 🙏
I'm enjoying your conversation about these bikes and re the 'crudely made' reference to the Hoffmon frames, I think it is all the eye of the beholder and these days there is a lot more time for eyes to closely look at every frame and flaw. But as one who did the original Sting-Ray to BMX bikes transition in the Seventies, plus rode motocross and street motorcycles and 10-speed bicycles, it was a marvel of modern manufacturing that a multitude of BMX bikes suddenly appeared on the market and tho' I was a teen military dependent in Frankfurt in '76, I was the happy recipient of a mail-order CYC Stormer with Skyway Tuff-Wheels--I had responded to a little ad in the pages of Dirt Bike magazine and it wasn't expensive and that, too, was incredible--BMX bikes were tough enough for the job and they were affordable and it was really a perfect combination. And thanks to the Schwinn Sting-Ray for getting everything started with its strength and style and crazy variety of colors and high-rise bars and banana seats. 😀
Oh wow! You were really integral to the development of BMX bikes as we know them! I'm glad to have you has viewer! Returning to the "crudely made" conversation, there's certainly no malice in Jonathan's words. Matt and the Ramp Room guys were DIY forerunners I guess, along with the guys at S&M and Standard. We'll certainly by the middle of the 90s at least. Prior to that, those guys were farming out the construction to fabrication shops or existing bicycle manufacturers. But you know that anyway. I guess that Matt at Hoffman bikes was more of the philosophy of "function over form". "Let's make bikes we want to ride and make them so they don't break so much". In that respect, they succeeded.
And it's one of the tings that I love and want to showcase on the channel.....the products had real identity. Characterful even. That element went the way of the dinosaurs by the mid 00s sadly. But what bikes lost in physical identity, they gained in performance.
Thanks for your input man. I really appreciate it!
I’m just eying up that line of 4 signature codes. GB code is a dream for me!
Yeah, it's a bit of kit alright!
So freakin rad!
I couldn't agree more! Thanks for tuning in! 🙏
It took me like 5 years of wearing down my local BMX shop owner on his GEN to ramp room love handles, in black, and with removable grip tubes. 5 years and 650 $ later and they are on my 03 pro team condor
The Hoffman thing was interesting, makes sense, I havent seen a Hoffman bike in the wild for about 20years
It really does seem to stand up that theory. I'm just glad that they're back in the game to some degree. 🙏
So cool collection!!!
Agreed! Mega collection!
Agreed! Mega collection!
I hope you have more to post. I feel luck I have my s&m dirtbike from 2001, and my redline proline from 1999
The final part if the Jonathan Sherwood show drops at 19:00 GMT and I have a couple of guys I'm talking to right now about visiting. Thanks for watching and dig those midschool beasts out!
Dates are a bit off 😆
Mid school doesn't start until the advent of aheadset, the bikes were still the same, they snapped were unreliable and poor manufacturing tolerances. I had the S and M Mad Dog that invert tested in 90, and that was no better than my Robinson from 88. In acual fact that cracked quicker, at the headtube, because the headsets always worked loose. Until aheadset came along, the bikes were just the same old school crap.
I guess it's all subjective. I agree with the very early "midschool" stuff being basically oldschool stuff repurposed/rebranded etc. I'm Episode 4.0 with Jonathan, we talk about his Carboard Lords frame that featured a 1 1/8 head tube waaaay before any other bmx company thought about it. But yeah, it's very subjective. There isn't one person that is 100% correct and there never will. That's midschool all over! 😆
Woww that CBL emancipator is rare, the seat stays are welded into the seatube and not pierced into the toptube rear end as the other emancipators
Yeah, like REALLY rare!
T1 progression
1st generation Progression too. 👌
You put a Profile Whippet sprocket on everything??!! I had a whippet for a while and then went Imperial.
That's the thing about midschool bmx and bmx in general I guess. It's so individualistic and about personal preference. I ran a Imperial for a minute. I'd ordered a SS through my local bike shop but a Imperial turned up instead. I never liked it and swapped it for a SS as soon as they hit these shores. Thanks for watching!
😁 P r o m o S M
S&M, Hoffman, Wilkerson, Reynolds Racing.....the list goes on with Jon's collection. Enjoy 4.2! Thanks for watching!