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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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.

I came from the "midschool" era, and just within the past few years, have been building BMX bikes. Oddly, your videos (which don't have a lot to do with BMX) inspired me to start wrenching on them for kids in the community and to treat it as a leisure, and not as a frustrating affair with hammers and the worst tools possible like I did in my youth. Sooo... Thanks? I'm slowly convincing myself to join the MTB cult because of your videos.

Seth, I would love to see more BMX content.

Ohhh yeah this definitely brings me back to the early 2000s building skate ramps in the garage, reading RideBMX, and figuring out shade tree wrenching. I sold my BMX bike last year and have been contemplating another since.

Great Video Seth, I have several BMXs and I'm 61, In love riding trails on them and oftem get looks of wonder and amazement from people seeing an "Old Guy" 6'4" riding a BMX. Ride like your still young and you'll stay young. More videos like this please. Maybe more pump track videos too

I rode hard back in the late 80’s early 90’s and we never fixed anything! I honestly don’t know how we survived. We all had sloppy headsets, bent wheels, and shoved our feet into tires for braking. But it is still some of the best memories I have from my childhood. I just recently got a pedal bike again for the first time in over 30 years. I would never try what I did back then but it really is nice to be on a bike again!

Its soo satisfying to watch him do almost anything 😅

I rode BMX through the 80s and my favorite tools were a hammer and crescent wrench. It wasn't until years later that I even realized there were specific tools made for working on a bike.

My favourite bike ever (still is) was a blue bmx my father got out of a skip for me. We put new peddles and tyres on it and then I shredded (atleast in my head) on it hard for years.

Back in the early/mid 90's I had a Frankenstein BMX with a Diamondback frame, Elf fork, DK XL stem, Redline forklifter handlebars, Odyssey triple trap pedals, Odyssey pitbull brake and lever, an Araya rim in the back and mystery rim in front and generic 3 piece cranks. 😄 I loved that bike.

Entertaining video. Reminds me of when I was a teen, I brought my BMX bike up to my bedroom with some basic tools, hammer, screw driver, and some wrenches to replace the bottom bracket and crankset. Had zero clue what I was doing, took it all apart, had the new parts, and hoped for the best that I assembled it back together correctly and without damaging the new parts. That race bike may feel a wee bit small because while it's a 20", it appears to be a "Junior" sized frame, being race bike designed for a child. A "Pro" or "Pro XL" frame may be better your size. :)

your BMX hack videos are what got me into the channel and helped me learn bike maintaince and learn to 360 with your tutorial. back when it was seth's bike hacks . i no longer ride but those skill transfer in parkour / free running . learning how to bail also transferred over and 360s.