COOK BROS = GOLD!
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I've been thinking now is probably the time to sell my '76 Yamaha Moto-Bike, I figure the guys who remember the vintage BMX bikes are getting awful close to not giving a crap anymore!
Almost $4K and climbing
For a frame!!!!!!
For a frame!!!!!!
A.S.BOLTNUT
He who dies with the most toys ,still dies No Fear
I don't think it's anyone from our site. We are all toooooo cheap.
Crazy to see these go for so much and I will bet money there are a few roting away somewhere in a garage because the family has no clue what they have.
Or even worse they were thrown out beacuse they were in the way.
Or even worse they were thrown out beacuse they were in the way.
Brake bosses look suspect.
Oh man, that seller is gonna lose money on the shipping. It will be hard to ship it for only $20. Guess he is gonna have to eat the difference.
Ha, i was about to post a link to that auction.... yo beat me to it. $15k for an old cruiser; we live in strange times.
Just to put that in context:
http://www.cycletrader.com/dealers/.../1966-Harley-Davidson-ELECTRA-GLIDE-116836841
http://www.cycletrader.com/dealers/.../1966-Harley-Davidson-ELECTRA-GLIDE-116836841
I get it. It seems crazy. I am not really a street rider anymore. In that vein a Specialized S Works Venge has a retail of $12,900 which is more than 90% of most new Triumph motorcycles. I am a dirt rider and a new KTM or Husky 501 is less than the most expensive Specalized S Works mountain bike. To me that is crazy.
I live in Austin, TX and the Cook Bros. made some of those 26" frames for the knuckle heads here who liked to jump cars with them. I am not sure how many they made, and I would have to do some more research to figure out the exact serial numbers, but the ones they did make are a little beefier than the rest and some have extra gussets which may or may have not been "factory original." I know of three of those bikes and I covet them. I had the opportunity to buy one years ago but as reasonable as the price seems today, it was way more than I could spend on a bike at the time. I will now have to wait until one of those owners dies and hope that I have time to ensure that I befriend them enough to be included in their will. People don't talk about other bikes the same was as these bikes. I have a friend who owns four beautiful Champions. Not the new ones, but the old school originals. And friends with 80s Lagunas. But those Cooks have a special place, and if you don't have one, good luck getting one.
Imagine if you're last name was Cook, and you grew up in SoCal in the late 70's-early 80's and you lived, ate and breathed BMX!
All I wanted was a CBR frame, and when my 9th bday came, I was told that it was time to trade up from my Murray Tiger Cat to a legit bike. I showed the parents the Cook, and the reaction was "how much?, for just a frame?, keep dreaming". I settled for a Laguna, because they looked similar, and had several years of enjoyment.
Years before this OSBMX craziness, I kept thinking that I needed to track a CBR bike down, but never got around to it. And now it looks like I never will. I still have my one owner 20-inch Laguna, an 80-ish Redline 20-inch I traded another bike for back in '84, and a 80-81 Laguna 26 that I found disguised as a low rider for $70 bucks about five years ago. Still have the Tiger Cat, too. Those will provide me with years of casual BMX casual parts hunting so I've got that going for me!
All I wanted was a CBR frame, and when my 9th bday came, I was told that it was time to trade up from my Murray Tiger Cat to a legit bike. I showed the parents the Cook, and the reaction was "how much?, for just a frame?, keep dreaming". I settled for a Laguna, because they looked similar, and had several years of enjoyment.
Years before this OSBMX craziness, I kept thinking that I needed to track a CBR bike down, but never got around to it. And now it looks like I never will. I still have my one owner 20-inch Laguna, an 80-ish Redline 20-inch I traded another bike for back in '84, and a 80-81 Laguna 26 that I found disguised as a low rider for $70 bucks about five years ago. Still have the Tiger Cat, too. Those will provide me with years of casual BMX casual parts hunting so I've got that going for me!
