Fixing beat up BMX "Rat Bikes" and putting them back in service!

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• MR

  @Mrlxpumaxl · 2 years ago

  I think I speak for all of us when I say, we need old school Seth BMX videos!

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• CA

  @casperbachjunckerkennild2592 · 2 years ago

  I was attending a small, experimental school. We built our own full size BMX track at the school, which were an old farm just outside the city - just next to the local golf course. We fixed a bunch of old bikes, we had for free and learned using tools - learning by doing. Now the area is a part of the local trail arena with more than 100 miles of trails and tracks for MTB. Back in the 90's in was a ruff patch of land. The local garrison had its training facilities there. We road our bikes there and in the winter season we went skiing there as well... Hikers and dog walkers used parts of the military training ground, and one day we pitched the idea of building a BMX track, and the military send an excavator and helped us with moving dirt. We used two or three days on building jumps and berms, while some of the students went to prepare the bikes. We started on a Monday morning - and Friday we had an opening of the track... We had the support from the local authorities. A fun and, on the same time, hard periode of my life. We attended the school for a reason. Some of us might have been in jail, if we didn't went to that school...

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• RA

  @RadJordy · 2 years ago

  I love how Seth doesn't age. Seriously, he looks exactly the same as he did in those old videos.

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• OS

  @Oscr71 · 2 years ago

  The fireman pole is the best addition to the workshop by far!

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• JA

  @jacobs106 · 2 years ago

  Ah yes, I loved the caveman era of tools including the air hammer (fast whacky stick)

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• TR

  @TravisDey97 · 2 years ago

  As a bmxer who follows this channel mainly for trail builds and riding videos. I gotta say I feel like this is a special thank you for sticking around all this time. Love ya seth, you're the best!

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• AL

  @alexford5214 · 2 years ago

  Oscar in time out. Thrown bike parking. Beating star nuts with wood and air hammers. Bikes names after famous rats. Epic crash at end. This has all the makings of a top video! Nice work Seth. This was both a learning experience and entertaining.

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• JA

  @jacobwilliams1165 · 2 years ago

  Seth, I would love to see more BMX content.

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• VU

  @vulpixgrant · 2 years ago

  My dad found an old Mongoose BMX at the thrift shop for I think $20 way back in the early 90's.  I must have had that for a decade, spray painting the frame and wheels and what not.  It's really the only bike I can really remember from when I was a kid.  Now I'm about to turn 40 and looking at a Mongoose Grudge 26 to add to my fleet of Bikes, an BMX with 26" wheels and styling like that when I was a kid.  It even has the foam top tube cushion, I saw somebody riding one on a trail and just a flood of memories came back to me!

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• TE

  @tedbailey7474 · 2 years ago

  In the 80's we 'fixed' our bmx bikes with crescent wrenches, slip-joint pliers, and a flathead screwdriver. When allen bolts started coming out we HATED them!  Bend a wheel? Put it in the bike rack at the park and twist it back into shape, then hope to god dad doesn't notice it. Now I service my kids' bikes to the hilt!

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• BL

  @Blitz_4K · 2 years ago (edited)

  Its soo satisfying to watch him do almost anything 😅

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• AN

  @Andy_Pengwin · 2 years ago

  Rode nothing but garage sale bmx all through my childhood (80’s-early 90s). Lots of fond memories wrenching with my dad, hanging out with my neighbors, and riding the janky trails all over Derby, KS (Crane Park). Man, we lived on those things. I only wish my daughter was into bikes like I was.

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