One Of The Rarest Bikes That You Never Knew About Till Now. 1982 Super X Mongoos

Description: It’s a 1982 Suoer x made by racer x . (SUPER RARE) try to find one , I could mot after searching all day. This is all original, could use some reconditioning, however, I’ll leave that for new owner . Read this fantastic description I borrowed from BMX Museum BMXmuseum.com Forums Forums / BMXmuseum.com Bikes RARE Racer's Engineering BMX Products Super-X og nickel frame with Ashtabula parts motomag 1s in super mint condition found like that on a survivor redline. 1st gen mongoose pads from robv. Racer's Engineering Super-X Excerpted from Vintage Bmx: These mild steel frames Racers X came out before Mongoose. Chuck Smith and Hoppy Brooks had started Racer Engineering (RECO) well before the first Mongoose bicycles appeared in the second half of 1975. The Mongoose was essentially designed upon the "Racer X" frames. The "Racers X" frames were always a mild steel frame and the "Super X" was merely the long version of that frame. Much like the original Mongoose frame (called a "Shorty" today) also came in the "Long" version. The major difference between the "Racers X and Super X" frame design and the "Mongoose", was that Mongoose frames had a front "Tri-Moly" construction design, essentially making them a much stronger "higher end" true racing frame. Bobby Encina's Racers X/Super X that he raced the Southeast Nationals on in 1975.Racers x/Super X was a mild steel frame design based off the original Mongoose with different decals. Very few first versions were made. Lynn Wilson (a women) was selling them for a short time through motorcycle dealers in the early stages. The "brand" was continued (with some slight variations) through BMX Products as an economical version of Mongoose for a few years thereafter. Some more interesting details: - The 2 piece metal crown (or gussets) in the front portion of the Mongoose frame had a step up and step down design for the hole which was a safety feature, so little kids wouldn't cut their fingers in it - "Certified Cad" did the Nickel plating on early Mongoose frames and it cost Skip and Chuck $1.00 per frame! This was one of the very first ever bicycle frames to be Nickel plated and was copied from the motorcycle parts Chuck had been involved with - All the Original decal designs were done by Chuck and were made by "Pacific Die Stamping" in North Hollywood - RECO (Racers Engineering) was a company name that Hoppy Brooks came up with and was kept alive by Skip and Chuck to "make Hoppy happy" - Chuck's former boss who was V.P. for Bell Helmets was unhappy that Chuck was getting involved with BMX, Chuck made a request for Skip to buy him out of the BMX Products/Mongoose venture - Chuck stayed on with Skip as a loyal consultant and friend and continued to work with Skip right up until the late 80's View Bike In Museum [img]http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx144/se666/HPIM0764.jpg[/img] #2 2017-02-09 9:30am TEX-3 Member Signed up: 2015-01-01 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X beautiful bike! Great write up on this,thanks #3 2017-02-09 2:42pm Brix Expert Signed up: 2010-02-08 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X Faved! Love it. :cool: #4 2017-02-09 4:31pm zman0803 Museum Addict From: Central IL. Signed up: 2011-11-07 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X One of the absolute coolest bikes on this site! #5 2017-06-23 3:35pm RadicalNick Pro Member 100% Retro From: North Cackalacky Signed up: 2011-09-25 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X That is one awesome piece of history. Thanks for sharing. :cool: 44t BMX Club - NC Chapter "Two hundred years of American technology has unwittingly created a massive cement playground of unlimited potential. But it was the the minds of 11 year olds that could see that potential." Craig Stecyk - Skateboarder Magazine - 1975 #6 2019-01-04 2:00pm se666 Pro Member 'Da Pineapple' From: Nor-Cal Signed up: 2009-11-28 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X My memory is clouded as I get older LOL. But to the best of my recollection it probably was Christmas 1977 when I got a 1978 nickel Super X from the parents of the family I was working for doing a paper route in Kahaluu on the island of Oahu. I rode and learned to jump on that bike until it was stolen summer of 1978. Late in 78 my mother bought me a 1978 red team Mongoose with White Tuff ones from Kailua bike shop. The following pictures are from Hokaloa Park in Kahaluu across from Valley of the temples. There's the jump from the ditch after riding down the rolling grass Hills into the ditch and jump out the other side down the hill. There was a time when a bunch of us jumped over an old Datsun pickup truck parked below the jump. Someone on Oahu probably still has those pictures. [img]https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.bmxmuseum.com/user-images/37299/201 Last edited by se666 (2021-03-05 7:41pm) [img]http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx144/se666/HPIM0764.jpg[/img] #7 2019-01-22 6:22pm ChaseDyno-Bmx Banned Signed up: 2018-12-25 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X :cool: #8 2020-11-21 2:34pm bobafett Intermediate From: United Kingdom Signed up: 2008-07-11 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X Love it :cool: mongoositis - an expensive disease........ #9 2021-03-05 2:25pm LIVE TO RIDE Pro Member From: Los Alamitos, CA Signed up: 2008-03-31 Offline Re: 1978 Racer's X Super-X Such a RAD build!!!Man I hope you find those Hawaii jumping pics! Momma Says "bikes Are The Devil !!" NEVER TURN DOWN A CHANCE TO LIVE Jump to Home / Contact / About / Links Site By Clixel

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