In the interest of seeing whether or not I can keep the Branded in the 80s podcasts flowing, here’s another episode that’s dedicated to some of my memories of the various bicycles I had growing up. I talk for a little bit about my first two bikes, a hand-me-down yellow beauty that had a girl’s frame an a great banana seat, and my first dirt bike, a Huffy that was white and black with red trim and a cushioned upper handlebar that saved me from cracking my skull open on a few occasions…
…as well as the bike love of my life, my 1987 baby blue GT Performer that had great white and pink trim. Unfortunately I don’t have any personal photos of that bike, but below there’s an almost identical representation. Mine had black dice for air nozzle caps and a set of white metal pegs that attached to the hub of the back wheel, but it’s pretty much exactly like mine…
I also talk about the wondiforous 80s BMX flick RAD, Eddie Fiola (pictured in the GT Performer ad above), Bart Conner (who played Bart Taylor the semi-evil BMX god that rode for Mongoose bikes in the Rad flick), Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, John Farnham (who gave us some great 80s anthems in Rad), and of course the infamous freestyle BMX dance sequence from Rad…
If you enjoyed this podcast and if you haven’t read it, here’s my more in depth review of the Rad movie, and here’s some Rad trivia from star Bill Allen’s site. Also, if you’re enjoying my rambling podcast then I’d also like to point you to the other show I’m doing now, the Saturday Supercast over at Sugary Serials.com where I’m joined by co-hosts Jerzy Drozd and Kevin Cross (two great comic artists.) We deconstruct our favorite cartoons of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and the first two episodes are available for download (parts one and two of a discussion on the first G.I. Joe mini series from 1983.)
