Riding at skateparks, learning and performing stunts and tricks
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Ultra-beefy frame and wheels, pavement-ready tires, cable-detangling headset, axle pegs but depending on the product and how well the service is, sometimes it is better to pay the extra little bit for the longer mile to support local shops that brands like Haro supported and sold these shops there product, and would fix a wrong if it wasn't right to not make a bad name for themselves while eating cost for the love of the sport.Knobby tires, lightweight frame and parts, strong rear brakeĭirt-track racing, going fast off road for short distances The price differs because the balance of sales or how they run the business. So an example of my opinion on this note is comparing prices on a 2 liter of pepsi cola at your local gas station/convenient store to a 2 liter at the local grocery store. like you see the Premium CK aftermarket frame retail for over $400 on some mail order bmx sites, but also if you check into Haro's website they have some pretty smokin deals on cranks or other solid quality parts. I think haro has different ways of pricing or order of business. It's just the curl of the burl in the bmx world.
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I remember Premium products taking off like no other when they started selling completes mostly on mail order websites, some good some bad. To me, Haro was a good stepping stone for serious bmx riders who already knew not to buy the cheapest end crap. but could you blame them? Everyone else was doing it too. Then later on they started making frames/parts out of cheaper materials. So I guess hats off to those shops, but for the whole Haro topic I still think they had top notch quality for the whole mid-school era. so anyways along with local motorcycle shops carrying complete bikes and some aftermarket parts, they were still cool enough to work on a handful of other brands that the stores didn't even carry, which made local business a huge plus. 15 years ago here in western PA, there wasn't really many bicycle shops around unless I could travel to Pittsburgh, but that was never really an option for me because even earning my own money for my bikes, my family or friends sort of avoided the city unless it was for a legit reason. making it pretty cool to have the option to further get into the hobby of bmx. Local motorcycle shops sold the brand, along with Redline anywhere from low to high end. Not only was it one of my first real bmx bikes, but much like Redline, Haro was a huge hit around my area for a while when I was a lad.
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The innovation being done today is much less because we have worked out all the kinks needed to make a bmx bike function for the type of riding being done.Ĭompare S&M to Haro? Why is S&M so much more popular? There is a reason. It's easy to make a frame that functions today.
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Haro stopped producing frames that were designed to hold up to the progressive riding in the 90's.Īs I said, today, if you took any pro level Haro frame and put any company sticker on it, no one would know (other than their Sport or Master frames that are unique). How many Haro's did you break? (or GT's, Redline, Mongoose.) GT gets credit for being the first to build an 1 1/8 frame/fork. I know this because I was still very much involved in riding. They WERE NOT progressive or designed for the riding that was going on at the time. In the late 80's into the 90's, Haro was NOT producing quality frames. People were doing tricks on bikes for many years before that. The big four just don't fit in.īob Haro gets the credit for 'inventing' freestyle but he didn't. bmx has always been a tight knit, small group family.
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for the reasons listed above, I won't support them.Īs to why the younger crowd doesn't buy them? Simple. In my opinion and from my perspective, as a person who was killing himself on a bike in those years, those big four brands abandoned the very people that made them huge.ĭo those brands make modern bikes that will hold up to todays riders? sure. S&M, Standard, Kink, Solid, etc were owned by guys that were actually out in the streets riding. This is why riders took matters into their own hands and started building bikes for the riders. Those brands were slow to innovate for the way bmx freestyle was progressing. Their bmx frames came with stickers that said, "not for stunt riding" (lawyers were now involved). In the early 90's, these brands were now focusing on the new sport called mountain biking. The owners got rich (I hope, i'd do the same thing, haha). Young riders supported these four companies by buying their products. They built products designed for progressive riding. GT, Haro, Mongoose and Redline all started in bmx.