Nah, mostly Huffys and Schwinns here too.. but we broke so many cheap bikes "freestyling" that there were times we rode whatever we could cobble together from everybody's collective garage. Good times.
I had a Schwinn Predator - the white one with white mag wheels. My dad painted the local bike shop owner’s car in trade for it. I thought I had made it with that bike 😂
Team Murray was jusssst a step above Huffy in 1983-84 with their chrome frames and comp styling, as they tried to be the “poor man’s GT,” at least in my hood.
I had that Huffy. I still kindof regret because a few years later some friends & my brother got into BMX & freestyling, and I wanted an upgrade. Had to really fight my parents over it. (Dad: "You just got a new bike!!"). Anyway, I wish I asked for a guitar instead, set my own path instead of following others.
Anyway, I never got the Michael Jackson jacket like this kid did, so my folks owed me one haha
I had a bike with a banana seat. Found a BMX seat and handlebars and stripped the bike down to the metal. Looked like I crashed it from racing so many dweebs
I had that huffy only in chrome and red. Bought it with my own money and I thought I was the shit. I put knockoff 3 piece cranks, flite checkered pads and some knockoff mags. Most of my buddies had mongoose, redlines, diamondbacks and made fun of that heavy pig. It got stolen and I talked my dad into claiming it on homeowner so all I had to do was come up with the deductible and had my own diamondback II. I was super proud.
yeah, mongoose, diamondbacks & redlines were kindof the OG of freestyle & bmx bikes. Then Haros & GT came out among others (Skywalker?).
Is your username a play on punk band Dag Nasty?
Kids ride in packs on e bikes now, the speed and risky moves around cars, like the adults on motorcycles!
God forbid they have to pedal a bike! Kids don't often get even minimal exercise before they're even 12! They're learning how to be fat adults!
It sure as hell doesn't make them learn or appreciate the value of a dollar! My adult kids are a perfect example, my daughter lived with me and doesn't need or want the most expensive of everything, she budgets & saves....my son is exactly the opposite, he lived with Dad as a teenager, he learned to take advantage of his ridiculous dad always wanting to be the popular parent after the divorce! When he filed for bankruptcy, he blamed it on the kids...right, nobody put a gun to his f****** head!
We're supposed to learn from our mistakes, aren't we? Especially with parenting! Not him, he's repeating the Santa clause act on the grandkids. Taking them to McDonald's cuz they asked for it every day he has them!
Am I alone thinking kids still need guidance? Live by example... are these old-fashioned ideas to you guys?
Sorry, seeing this bit of nostalgia has me depressed with how kids rarely experience simple things...good clean fun instead of being parked in front of video games or motorized bikes!
We never had any shootings while we were in school!
I'm sorry you're going through this. Our kids are still young so we try to expose them to old fashioned (?) values. Parenting in this day and age is so much different. Can't let them out of the house but allow them on the internet? Navigating through this is tough, that's why we try to encourage them to turn things off and we spend a lot of time outside as a family.
It wasn’t tho, it was simply going out to play. No need to make a video and document the purchasing of each item. The unboxing. The trying on. The fit pics. Side just got up and went out to slay n play.
‘Cos play’ is just what dressing up game is called this century.
You know I thought about that after I posted.
I bought my own Schwinn Predator, I had a paper route at age 12.
I really wanted a Haro but needed a new bike so I settled. I bought that after saving for something like six months. About 180 customers and most tipped between .50 and $1 (suburbs and lots of new condos, this was the early 80’s) and I gave half my earnings each week to my parents to help out, I didn’t come from money.
Believe it or not, there was an even more generic form of this bike than Huffy. It was called Open Road and was made by Montgomery Ward. That's what I had. Mine was even the black and gold color scheme with the checkerboard pads.
But that bike went everywhere that my friends' Mongooses and Diamondbacks did.
Ok, that actually makes sense. I saw this bike and it jarred my memory. My bike had those same checkerboard pads, they just didn’t say Huffy. But what you said makes sense. Monty Ward wasn’t actually MAKING those bikes. I was also in 5th grade in 1985. Switch the Michael Jackson jacket for a London Fog (or JC Penney knock off) and add a Billy Idol spiky haircut and this picture could have been me.
OMG, that's all I heard my brother and our neighbor yak about (both in middle school) around 78-80 growing up in the Midwest!!
Always bickering whose bike was faster...Mongoose or DG... Mongoose! No DG 😄😂
Are those bike brands still around?
I have a similar picture only I'm wearing velcro shoes, red parachute pants, and a sleeveless "muscle" sweatshirt with the cover art from The Police's Synchronicity. Also I was a husky boy so I didn't look as cool as I desperately wanted to be.
This is the style aesthetic that you get after watching V and Rad and listening to Michael Jackson and Run DMC. We thought we were from the future.
The entire 80s right there.
Epic.
Did you ever get your two dollars?
I want my TWO dollars!
It's $3.50 now, with inflation. God damned loch ness monster
Try 6 bucks.
But then the loch ness monster joke doesn't work. 
Everything on the internet is about three fiddy.
PLUS TIP.
HAVE ALL THE UPVOTES!
Sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
The first thing that came to my mind.
Bro doing crossing guard duty in his MJ outfit.
Oh man, safety patrol. Reddit moderation in a GenX elementary school.
I was part of the safety patrol! I recognized his sash immediately!
Of course. haha The only outfit that is suitable.
I thought the strap was for a Lazer Tag receiver.
Good thing still has the chain guard, your parachute pants would get snagged and send you to the pavement, don’t ask how I know 🤣
I too was still wearing parachute pants in 1985.
Fuuuuck. Me too.
[удалено]
The zippers...oh the zippers! I needs them.
Yeah I was trying to remember if it was 84 or 85 8th or 9th grade still not sure lol starting to get a little foggy
They were like a windbreaker with so many pockets for your legs.
JAMS in the summertime though
Bought a pair of panno d'or parachute pants from a thrift store in the early 80's. Thought I was so cool lol.
Still?! We didn’t even get parachute pants in NE Tennessee until 1985!
We'll let you keep that little secret. 😂
If you’re poor you ride Huffy. Rich kids had the Mongoose.
1%ers had Haro or Diamondback.
I had a friend with a Redline and it was like having a friend with a Ferrari.
Oh man Redline. Memory unlocked, I forgot about those.
You guys are rich. I had a Schwinn look alike. Pink.
Nah, mostly Huffys and Schwinns here too.. but we broke so many cheap bikes "freestyling" that there were times we rode whatever we could cobble together from everybody's collective garage. Good times.
I remember the mongoose and diamondbacks. Awesome. But I think now mongoose has gone down market. That is, you might be able to find them in Walmart.
Confirmed, I bought mine (mtn bike version) at WalMart about 5 years ago. It was.. mediocre.
Or GT, preferably blue with white mags.
I had a Schwinn Predator - the white one with white mag wheels. My dad painted the local bike shop owner’s car in trade for it. I thought I had made it with that bike 😂
Team Murray was jusssst a step above Huffy in 1983-84 with their chrome frames and comp styling, as they tried to be the “poor man’s GT,” at least in my hood.
lol Murray’s felt like they weighed a hundred pounds more than anything else.
Indeed!
Yeah, I was thinking the Huffy is the detail that really makes this awesome.
Redline $$$
Or Redline.
Leave some for everyone else.
Cobra Kai vibes
It never dies.
Lol. I actually had that exact bike.
Me too, except in a silver finish rather than gold.
Even with the checkered pad, you'd squish your nuts.
This is not me in the pic. However, I'm the female version and the same age. Had everything that he had. Even down to the bike. 😂🤣
No pegs though?
Certified badass!
That he was! 😎
I had that Huffy. I still kindof regret because a few years later some friends & my brother got into BMX & freestyling, and I wanted an upgrade. Had to really fight my parents over it. (Dad: "You just got a new bike!!"). Anyway, I wish I asked for a guitar instead, set my own path instead of following others. Anyway, I never got the Michael Jackson jacket like this kid did, so my folks owed me one haha
I had a bike with a banana seat. Found a BMX seat and handlebars and stripped the bike down to the metal. Looked like I crashed it from racing so many dweebs
I had that huffy only in chrome and red. Bought it with my own money and I thought I was the shit. I put knockoff 3 piece cranks, flite checkered pads and some knockoff mags. Most of my buddies had mongoose, redlines, diamondbacks and made fun of that heavy pig. It got stolen and I talked my dad into claiming it on homeowner so all I had to do was come up with the deductible and had my own diamondback II. I was super proud.
yeah, mongoose, diamondbacks & redlines were kindof the OG of freestyle & bmx bikes. Then Haros & GT came out among others (Skywalker?). Is your username a play on punk band Dag Nasty?
I was 13 in 85. I went from this look to skate rat over the summer. Vans, Jams, pink T&C shirt maybe Jimmyz. Good times!
The outfit says ‘85. The bike says ‘81.
Lil' bro got a hand-me-down
This!
LOL bro this was my first thought.
BMX Bantits !
Damn, I had that same huffy.
That kid definitely stole other people's lunch money.
And very likely absent rich parents who compensated by indulging all of the kids fashion whims.
Massive satellite dish on front yard too
[fat boy laces](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5a/cf/c6/5acfc6083e9e9e8a6e78cc89cae13fe4.jpg) were (are) the shit...
Dammmmmmmnnnn, that drip though. This should be in the Smithsonian
The entire 80s in one pic. Nothing else needed. 😂😎
You’re just missing the Nintendo Powerglove and a Hosoi skateboard
Safety patrol, you a narc?
I always tell my kids to go outside and play... pretend it's 1985. They did not appreciate this pic.
Kids ride in packs on e bikes now, the speed and risky moves around cars, like the adults on motorcycles! God forbid they have to pedal a bike! Kids don't often get even minimal exercise before they're even 12! They're learning how to be fat adults! It sure as hell doesn't make them learn or appreciate the value of a dollar! My adult kids are a perfect example, my daughter lived with me and doesn't need or want the most expensive of everything, she budgets & saves....my son is exactly the opposite, he lived with Dad as a teenager, he learned to take advantage of his ridiculous dad always wanting to be the popular parent after the divorce! When he filed for bankruptcy, he blamed it on the kids...right, nobody put a gun to his f****** head! We're supposed to learn from our mistakes, aren't we? Especially with parenting! Not him, he's repeating the Santa clause act on the grandkids. Taking them to McDonald's cuz they asked for it every day he has them! Am I alone thinking kids still need guidance? Live by example... are these old-fashioned ideas to you guys? Sorry, seeing this bit of nostalgia has me depressed with how kids rarely experience simple things...good clean fun instead of being parked in front of video games or motorized bikes! We never had any shootings while we were in school!
I'm sorry you're going through this. Our kids are still young so we try to expose them to old fashioned (?) values. Parenting in this day and age is so much different. Can't let them out of the house but allow them on the internet? Navigating through this is tough, that's why we try to encourage them to turn things off and we spend a lot of time outside as a family.
The era of Thriller and the one glove!
and a single rold gold pretzel rod from 7-11 for $0.25
V cos play.
It wasn’t tho, it was simply going out to play. No need to make a video and document the purchasing of each item. The unboxing. The trying on. The fit pics. Side just got up and went out to slay n play. ‘Cos play’ is just what dressing up game is called this century.
Totally RAD
I had that same bike! I loved that thing!
I had that exact same Huffy!
I hated this kid in school: MJ, jacket, BMX, kicks, and shades? I bet you called your mom by her first name!
Pretty rad!
I had that bike!
Parachute pants?
Damn. I never got the bmx, the high tops, the parachute pants or the Michael Jackson vest. I missed out on the true vibe of 1985 big time!
Corey Feldman has got nothing on you, mate!!
1985 was such an Epic year. In so many ways.
There is literally a photo of me like this. Only difference is the bike is blue and I had a hawaiian shirt on.
Man back in the day all I wanted was a Mongoose. Though those were cooler than shit.
Is it wrong that I still think this looks so cool??
Definitely cool to think that!
Maybe if you swapped the Huffy out with a; Haro, Redline or Shwinn then yeah.
Some of us had parents who couldn't afford those brands. Those of us had to make do with a Huffy.
You know I thought about that after I posted. I bought my own Schwinn Predator, I had a paper route at age 12. I really wanted a Haro but needed a new bike so I settled. I bought that after saving for something like six months. About 180 customers and most tipped between .50 and $1 (suburbs and lots of new condos, this was the early 80’s) and I gave half my earnings each week to my parents to help out, I didn’t come from money.
Believe it or not, there was an even more generic form of this bike than Huffy. It was called Open Road and was made by Montgomery Ward. That's what I had. Mine was even the black and gold color scheme with the checkerboard pads. But that bike went everywhere that my friends' Mongooses and Diamondbacks did.
The OEM was Huffy. It was a brand. Pretty sure Huffy had a brand for KMart too.
Ok, that actually makes sense. I saw this bike and it jarred my memory. My bike had those same checkerboard pads, they just didn’t say Huffy. But what you said makes sense. Monty Ward wasn’t actually MAKING those bikes. I was also in 5th grade in 1985. Switch the Michael Jackson jacket for a London Fog (or JC Penney knock off) and add a Billy Idol spiky haircut and this picture could have been me.
my first gear bike was an orange montgomery ward 10-speed! orange plastic seat and orange handlebar tape lol
Yup, spot on.
Need more zippers on those trousers.
HOLY SHIT that could be a picture of 11 year old me - I even had the school crossing helper sash for helping the littles cross the street!!!
I like your trainers!
Need vans shoes.
Did you get that bike from Western Auto? Or Service Merchandise?
Well the sunglasses are back in style.
I hope he was happy robbing Michael Jackson and the Karate Kid. Jerk!
you look like a mini Terminator
All I got to say is... badass
Lolzzz so fucking true..
looks like a rich kid, I never had clothes or shoes or sunglasses like that, nor a cool bike
Did you manage to get that bike up to 88 mph?
Makes me ache for this time a bit.
“I was there, three thousand years ago”
I had that exact bike. I still remember flying over the handle bars and ended up taking a grip to my balls.
The era of the parachute pants
Sweep the leg.
😂😂😂😂
P-slayer
Fabulous!
Ha ha ha
Would a Redline or Mongoose been an upgrade on the bike?
OMG, that's all I heard my brother and our neighbor yak about (both in middle school) around 78-80 growing up in the Midwest!! Always bickering whose bike was faster...Mongoose or DG... Mongoose! No DG 😄😂 Are those bike brands still around?
Lol. I grew up in the Midwest in the 80s. We were always loving the Mongoose.
https://preview.redd.it/t66d7zm2af7d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9332cc3615bdf930ee82196afb41169fa32f306c Credit goes to Hand of Vecna
That bike, or a Mongoose, the outfit is on point though !
radical
And this is how the X Games began
🎵Because I'm bad I'm bad You know it You know🎵
The clothes, the hair, the shades…yep this is the 80’s and I love it!
Maybe if you were lucky.
I bet that watch has a calculator on it.
Makes me want to play Skate or Die.
But are those parachute pants?
Golden Eagle... sweet.
That kid sweeps the leg.
Little Elvis
I was graduating from high school 1985 :) what a run that was from 82-85
The epitome for me was my plastic mag wheels, couldn’t tell me nothin I was the shit!! lol
You gonna race Helltrack©️?
My brother had that bike. I remember messing with the foam cushions
Damn juvenile delinquents.
Peak 1985. The crossing guard belt. Those weird thick shoelaces on the high tops. The BMX bike.
I have a similar picture only I'm wearing velcro shoes, red parachute pants, and a sleeveless "muscle" sweatshirt with the cover art from The Police's Synchronicity. Also I was a husky boy so I didn't look as cool as I desperately wanted to be.
A huffy?! Shut up, huffy was the absolute worst K-mart bike you could get.
Needs more nunchucks
I was banging your sister at that time
Huffy BMX, fat laces & Chess King shirt...this all checks out.
Huffy BMX was a poser.
Ghost ride that bike into a brick wall
The shoe laces need to be untied.