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Woof! BMW Park Bike and Spooky Metal Head were two bikes I truly lusted after back in the late 90's/early 00's.

a friend of mine growing up had a park bike. rode so awfully (super high bb) and weighed a tonne :( never meet your heroes

Haha - I hear you Swedee, I hear you.

Used to also love the TMX which looks beyond ridiculous and unpractical for a teenager growing up in the burbs of North London!

Probably a re-post but this is a great article
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/article852.html

@swedeee : Have you ever tried one?

Need those one day:

@EstelleGetty got some Park Bike (the old one) and I love it. Super fun for Dirt use and cruise around.

Parkbikes are great fun - seems to depend a lot on build choices.

a parkbike? yes I rode it numerous times. yes the BB is high. yes it does weigh a tonne. although I recall he had 100mm travel forks on it, handling would have been better with some 80mm (or even 65mm) modded forks

they are fun, but all DJ bikes are fun - compared to other frames aimed at the same market at the time they werent up to it.

as you can see up there on the raw park bike, the BB is way higher than the axles of the wheels (although yes the shivers do not help). made the bike feel very unstable (was designed this way to accomodate for F+R pegs)

Ouch !

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surely a semi easy fix?

Yeh, Thats not fatal

That was pretty inevitable with that bike really

Wtf iz dis shit..

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Jeez... When I think how much BMW stuff I've given away, or sold cheaply over the years, and now people are asking such ridiculous prices. I could have been rich! :)
I gave away 1st and 2nd generation shinburgers, Doc bars, 1st generation stems, saddles, sold my Park bike cheap, my race link cheap, my big air suspension bmx cheap, my big link was stolen... My 1st generation gangsta is the only bike I still know the whereabouts of, and is thankfully being loved by Tomsvaboda. :)
The only thing I still have left is a pair of the Adidas 'merckx' sneakers, still immaculate as I never wore them. :)
I sincerely miss the early BMW days!

it's like that supreme clothing brand
some idiots will pay £100 for a cap

Trus me. My dad used to wear supreme. Dafuq

https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2136181/

side pull cantis??? what the fuck

got me aroused

lol at the price above. I think I sold 70mm os stem for 25e or smth

lol 'got these from my old friend...time to flog them for a ridiculous amount of money!'