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...

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

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

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

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!

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.

Seth, I would love to see more BMX content.

In the 80's we 'fixed' our bmx bikes with crescent wrenches, slip-joint pliers, and a flathead screwdriver. When allen bolts started coming out we HATED them!  Bend a wheel? Put it in the bike rack at the park and twist it back into shape, then hope to god dad doesn't notice it. Now I service my kids' bikes to the hilt!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

The 90’s? How bout the rad 80’s? I can remember hammering a flat head screwdriver on my old Columbia and Huffy bikes to tighten headsets and bottom brackets around 1 piece cranks. Of course these bikes had banana seats and high rise bars and we jumped them off everything! A BMX bike was a huge upgrade!!

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 was always the mountain goat in my friend group, they all had BMX bikes for screwing around the downtown area, and mountain bikes to tool around the ATV trails in Maine before mountain biking really caught on up there, but I could only afford one bike so I went with a mountain bike. That too was very BMX though, it was cobbled together from bits and bobs that I either had laying around, or from donor bikes that I found at my grandfathers salvage yard. I didn't have the right tools to remove the bottom bracket so I learned how to weld and threw a big ol nut on the bracket to give me something to back it out with. Working on bikes and being creative with the way I fix them is what made me want to go into engineering, which it turns out I didn't have the patience for, but that same fire is what led me to be a product designer, designing kayaks for a living.

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.

Finding a new unlisted video upload in the playlist is like finding a diamond in the rough! So, here's something that'll age me... I had a BMX bike in the 80s, but I wasn't allowed to go near the tool chest at home. So for upkeep and repairs, I relied on a crudely made wooden mallet from a leftover piece of 2x4, and a set of Gemco Store branded wrenches and plier (on sale) - yes, that Gemco. Geez, I'm old.