Best bike in the neighborhood growing up in the 80s was a Redline owned by a doctor's kid. I was so jealous of that light bike with the thinner tires. Yes! Redline video next! Subscribed.
You were a legend. That bike brought you glory. You must ride it into Vahalla on your last day. May you ride through the halls of Valhalla where the brave may ride Forever.
Mine is still at mom and dad’s house too. My mother worked in a huge bike store since the 70’s. She actually still works there. Sure was fun because we always had a sick bike or board. We had GT performers too. My best friends dad owned the store she worked at. He had a sick Auburn
IDK, when I was riding and racing in the 80"s, Mongoose was the work horse, a good solid bike, virtually indestructible but a bit heavy. There were other better bikes, Redline, Kewahara, SE.
Back in ‘83, I was 11 and worked all summer as a helper on my dad’s roofing crew. I got my dream bike, a Schwin Predator P 2200. My best friend, Todd, got a sweet Mongoose Californian and our buddy, Danny got a Redline. We thought we were the coolest kids in town until one of the older kids got a Hutch. What a great time to be alive.
I still ride my 1978 Mongoose Motomag that somehow survived 46 years of use and abuse. It has the magic power of time travel that briefly turns me back into an eleven year old.
In 1987 Mongoose did have Freestyle bikes. They made the Mongoose Decade edition. Built in rear frame standers, rotor system, Chrome-Moly frame, very sturdy, and excellent bikes. The bike I most regret losing was my Decade. Sky blue and white. Stolen from campus in the 1990's
I used to have a supergoose but my dad gave it too the Is neighbor kid To cut the grass and didn't even asked me I still wanted my bike before given it a way
I had a black/gold Mongoose in 1977 that I tricked out for street/racing. For everyday riding I swapped out the racing wheels for the yellow Tuff Wheels. I had that bike until I turned 16 and my mom gave it to a cousin without asking me first, so it ended up somewhere in Arkansas... My childhood friend Jimmy still has his 70's Race Inc. bike in storage.
I remember back in 99-2000 mongoose was already known as a walmart bike. Alot of us were honestly more shocked when schwinn went to Walmart though😅 atleast my generation. Huffy had already been know as a WM bike for a while before that even. I was big into bmx so i was always researching bikes and i found something that supprised me and i still think about it. Huffy even at that time and early 2000's had pro made in USA bikes, like top of the line expensive non walmart bikes. I never got one but always wanted one just to be different and show my friends a pro huffy bike. Anyways it would be cool to see a video on huffy (if you havnt already made one) i just found the channel.
Those mid school Huffies were definitely not made in the US and were comparatively low quality vs other bike shop brands, as even top signature models (Jimmy Levan's for sure) used Cr-Mo for front triangle only ('tri-moly') . Same people that took over Bully were involved. The old school 80's Huffy race team were riding on custom US made frames, but I don't recall if any of the mid school Huffy freestyle/DJ team used re-stickered frames or had custom ones made on Huffy's dime.
I was 22 in March '82 and rode on and off-road but I had officially bailed on 20" bikes a year earlier. Yet in a bike shop in San Mateo on the San Francisco peninsula, I bought a 26" single-speed Mongoose for the BMX cruiser class. And that was a perfect BMX bike for adults, as I considered it.
I still have my mongoose expert pro with profile 3pc cranks, answer pro forks, rhino double walled rims, gt 4 piece bars and more. Still going strong after 28 years. Love this thing. Made is US. 4130 chromolly frame. 🤘
This brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Rolling around my neighborhood in the 90s with my buddies on our bmx mongoose bikes! Graduated to dirt bikes and never went back to pedal bikes, but still like to watch BMX dudes kill it on those bikes. Subbed, mad respect.
That's it right there. They started selling at Walmart. Selling at a big box store will ruin any legit Bicycle company by taking a legit name and attaching a big box company name to it!
Thanks for a brief overview of this great company. I still have my 1st true BMX bike, a '76 I got for Christmas 1976. It's a restored display queen I get to look at every day...along with other '75 and '76 motomag bikes! My rider is a '78 motomag with original yellow paint and decals. There are still some early details I guess time wouldn't allow you to share.
The mini scooters were awesome! I wish those would have come back they were so well made and what was cool as they had these plastic five spoke rims on some of them and I discovered that if you ride it without the tire on it you had the world's first drifting action happening! Everyone in my neighborhood started trying it and sliding sideways wildly for up to 20 ft around corners! I still want one again to this day!
Probably the most valuable thing I left in my parent's attic is a Roger DeCoster with Redline 401 Flight Cranks and Araya Z-Rims. Also has the original MotoMags and REAL old school Ashtabula drop-forged skinny fork sitting next to them.
Hey man, that's cool you're in Charlotte (or close by). I heard "White Water Center" and "Catawba River" which took me by surprise. 😂 I lived in Charlotte for 15 yrs, starting in 1999. What a great place for cycling. I bought my first mtn bike at Sun & Ski Sports at the Outlet up 85N in 2000. So many great places to ride, especially western NC. Glad I found your channel.
It was actually B.M.X. products originally, my first real bike was ‘78 Decoster, rebadged Mongoose, and I raced a sponsored Team Mongoose til late 81, switched to Kos Kruzer when 26 inch first started unsponsored and within months it went to 24 inch I couldn’t afford another build and hung it up.
9:57 Mark. That's the top of Repack Road in Fairfax California. 1.7 miles all down hill. I been there many times. In the cold of January with iced over puddles to blazing hot hot summer sun. We'd bury our beer in the sandy creek bottom at the bottom of the trail and enjoy it later. Good times.
Back in the 80ts my sponcer gave me a super goos then I got a GT FLIGHT CRANK AND BULLS EYE HUBS WITH A UNI SEAT. Gave her away early 2000 I'm 59 now loved racing that got me into mountain biking same time racing moto cross .now I ride KTM 990 R 😊
In the early 80s I had a black and gold store bought Columbia bmx styled bike......my best friend had a chrome and red mongoose which was pretty similar to my bike. A year later he got a teal and white PK Ripper which was an actual custom race/stunt bike........it was night and day comparing the welds the weight etc to mine.... I really loved my bike and I rode and jumped it everywhere. I will take those old memories over a high end bike any day😉👍
PK Rippers were so cool. I always wanted one. I rode one at a race one time and it was just to small for me. I got the Quad Angle instead, Still have it.
MTB I had 2 Mongoose IBOC Pro like 1991 model. Had to donate them when moving. Everything was solid about it. Steel. Araya rm17 double wall rims. Components were Shimano DX which does not exist anymore but should. Green with white splatter paint, this wasn't a cheesy 90's paint. IT LOOKED GOOD.
My mother in law got me an L500 last year. I was looking to get a new BMX to get back into it from years ago. I mentioned I never had a new bike, all my rides were used. So she went and surprised me with it. I wasn’t exactly super excited as I had set my sights on a very nice used Fit Wifi for sale near me, and I knew Mongoose by now wasn’t what it used to be. But to be honest, it’s a solid bike for the money. Full Chromo, 2 piece cranks, half link chain, fully sealed everything, 4 piece bars the whole 9. Couldn’t get anything close to it in terms of quality and parts in a complete bike but still has that stigma to it to me.
I had a Mongoose - chromoly silver, webbed motomag aluminum wheels, reinforced top-tube to down-tube and neck - in or around 1977. i bought the top-tube, neck and crossbar Mongoose black pads.
@@theshamanarchist5441 man,that was it,I remember it well,the price seemed horrific at the time,I remember my Dad saying so as the reason I wouldn't be getting one but what a machine!
Going down memory lane for me. Two of my favorite Mongoose bikes are their Road Bikes, the Bossberg and Koppenberg. I remember seeing them in the Performance store and thr POOF! Gone.
I remember the days of Mongoose being the bike we all wanted. Only one of my friends actually got one. BMX that is. Later on I had several of the mountain bikes. So sad when I saw one at walmart. Wonk Wonk
I loved my Mongoose! Skyway Tuff Wheels, a gold stem, and Oakley grips. I got it for my birthday at Cycle World, a true bike store. It still pains me to see them for at discount stores.
I had a mongoose in the mid 80s. Half steel and half chrome molly frame. I always wanted a supergoose, recline, hutch. The one I really wanted was the cw lightning bolt though.
Great video! I use to race BMX in the 90s and I was hoping you would have talked about the Mongoose bike I rode. I had a unique Mongoose mini Bike.It had a feather like thin frame with those little skinny tires. I think that's right around the peak of Mongoose because my neighbor down the street had one too and they were popular like GT at the bike course tracks.
I got my first Mongoose for Christmas in 79 ! it was badass , but heavy in 81 I bought a Scrambler with nylon mags , a much lighter bike. eventually I switched to a redline in 83
I remember being sized for a mountain bike at a shop, walked out with a huge 21 inch Specialized. One year later went back to the same shop and traded it in for an 18 inch Raleigh as they looked at me like I was crazy and stupid, but I felt much more confident on the smaller bike (mid 80s). Still like an 18 at 5.11 Sorry for going off topic .
3:17 That's not the original Supergoose. I had an original Supergoose and rear stays were like the original Mongoose. No holes and the slot angle was different. The Supergoose had other changes to the frame over time like the gusset at the back of the bottom bracket. The hole stamped into the two gussets by the head-tube also changed slightly. The frames constantly evolved.
I remember those scooters, I wanted one but, never got one. My 63 year old friend bought his kid a Mongoose in the mid 2000's. at Walmart, I explained to him it was not the same quality as he knew as a teenager. He had his first kid at age 34.
The mini scoot was a big deal in my town. Everyone I know got one for Christmas. Seems like all us kids put our skateboards in the closet and started riding those. Marvick, action sport, mongoose seems like everyone had a different one and as soon as we started breaking rims we ended up back on the skateboard or bikes.
When J was a kid my grandmother got me one of those "mini scoots". It was awesome. It really was the best if a scooter mixed eith a bike. The ride was good and the brakes were way better than any other razor scooter at the time.
I'm in the UK. I remember when those scooters landed. We called them scootex over here. And in the 90s when mountain bikes first came through. My main childhood bike was a grifter, dont know if they were in the US, they were like a BMX but we called them tanks because they were chunkier and heavier. When I got older I became a mountain bike guy. I couldn't get on with BMX's because I would always bang my knees on the handle bars. Even to this day my go-to bike is a quality hard-tail mountain bike. cool video here though. It's good to revisit the eras and progression from those days.
I have Switchback 2019/20 27.5" orange and am thinking of swapping the Xposed Fork with Suntour XCR and keeping this bike for another 2-3;years, before switching to another one completely. Not an aggressive biker at all. What do you think?
somehow this was in my recommendations today after earlier, i was at walmart, walked passed by bikes, saw a mongoose bmx and thought "i had no idea they were still around". Also, im sure they are cheaply manufactured, but walmart uses 3rd party to assemble a lot of their bikes.
This was very interesting to me because I had wondered the same thing. I raced bikes when I was a kid as well having GT, Haro and mongoose settling on mongoose as my favorite. Years ago I was in Walmart to get a bike for my daughter where I saw Mongoose and was like WTF this was a very high end company which made me ask myself what happened. So thanks for this. One thing I didn't hear you mention was the price. My bikes were so expensive for that time. My parents flat out refused to spend that much on a bike so I would have to save everything from my paper route.
I got a 2021 Mongoose Title Elite, and it is frickin awesome gem in the rough. My 97 Supergoose in admiral blue is a few ounces lighter. You do have a point about Pacific Cycles and the like. I have a 98 rogue/villian which was the last year of Mongoose was still it's on company(I think might be wrong),but it's a heavy tank compared to an 87 Decade pro. Great vid on the downfall of an American Icon.
Mongoose had an amazing grass routes racing program in the early 90's. I raced one season for them, but kept breaking the AMP-2 bike. Loved the brand however.
I have a Mongoose Motomag and, yeah, those wheels are heavy as hell. Bookending that I have a Y2K Mongoose titanium Softail MTB that's lousy with XTR and high end components. Please do a video on VDC who built plenty of bikes for other companies in addition to his Changas.
I had a Mongoose mtn bike i tooled around on in '93 while in college. I dug it but mainly cuz it had saddlebags. It got stolen and I got a rock hopper..
Just picked up a late 90’s Mongoose Titanium Mountain Bike with a Fox F100 fork. Modernized it with a 1x10 drivetrain. On the fence about getting disc brake mount added on by a local frame builder. Trying to determine how rare the frame is before butchering it for purists.
Been riding bikes since '71, never thought that Mongoose was particularly good even at their best. I used to own #488 of the line, plus sold them for years .
Yea , my riding buddy had one in late 70s/early 80s and even though kinda heavy it held up...I rode a schwinn comp(frame used) and tricked it w best stuff from allowances and it was solid..jumped.cars,raced,and so on..wish I didn't sell it!
@@8barbies779 I have an 83 mongoose frame, forks seat clamp is all OG everything else is from something else. My other bike is 1976 Super X that is a true survivor. It has custom parts and 1976 hop ups. I’ve had an offer on just the blued steel arayas for $1000. The bike is priceless and I found both of them at a local scrapyard.
Waiting for video on Redline.
I miss my old 720. I lost in in Hurricane Katrina.
@@sole__doubt I am currently riding a 2015 Redline Monocog Flight 29er.
Best bike in the neighborhood growing up in the 80s was a Redline owned by a doctor's kid. I was so jealous of that light bike with the thinner tires. Yes! Redline video next! Subscribed.
Oh f me too. Seen so many of them at the track, no way they went broke.
Yep Red Line, Rampar and powerlite. Mongoose was a heavy frame.
The mongoose expert I got for Christmas in 1985 is still in the garage at my parents house, it’s been hanging up since about 1988.
Watch out, parents of 80's BMXers have a habit of tidying the shed and garage and taking valuable classics like that to the tip.
You were a legend. That bike brought you glory. You must ride it into Vahalla on your last day. May you ride through the halls of Valhalla where the brave may ride Forever.
Might be worth few bucks
Go and retrieve it..
Mine is still at mom and dad’s house too. My mother worked in a huge bike store since the 70’s. She actually still works there. Sure was fun because we always had a sick bike or board. We had GT performers too. My best friends dad owned the store she worked at. He had a sick Auburn
Growing up in the early 80,s , mongoose was the Bugatti of BMX Bikes , was the bike to have , if you had a mongoose you were the man
All the cool kids had a mongoose with a diamondback seat. 😂😂😂
I had a Honda cub frame my dad stripped down and put sprockets on. 😂😂
@@mattiemathis9549All the rich kids, you mean. Most of us only had one if we stole it from a rich kid.
@@jackgilchrist 😂😂😂
IDK, when I was riding and racing in the 80"s, Mongoose was the work horse, a good solid bike, virtually indestructible but a bit heavy. There were other better bikes, Redline, Kewahara, SE.
@@jackgilchristor 2
Back in ‘83, I was 11 and worked all summer as a helper on my dad’s roofing crew. I got my dream bike, a Schwin Predator P 2200. My best friend, Todd, got a sweet Mongoose Californian and our buddy, Danny got a Redline. We thought we were the coolest kids in town until one of the older kids got a Hutch. What a great time to be alive.
I still ride my 1978 Mongoose Motomag that somehow survived 46 years of use and abuse. It has the magic power of time travel that briefly turns me back into an eleven year old.
Same. Tho it feels a bit small to these old knees now. 😂
There are two ways to look at bicycles, tools and many other consumer products:
• Pre-NAFTA
• Post-NAFTA
I have a picture of a ghost on a tv.
In 1987 Mongoose did have Freestyle bikes. They made the Mongoose Decade edition. Built in rear frame standers, rotor system, Chrome-Moly frame, very sturdy, and excellent bikes. The bike I most regret losing was my Decade. Sky blue and white. Stolen from campus in the 1990's
I had an FS-1 stolen from me in 88 or 89. It was a pretty cool bike. I worked my butt off on a paper route to buy it.
I have an original supergoose,ive had it from new since 82,raced it loved it,its still hanging in my garage.
that's sick. envy.
I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD A GARAGE SO MINE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SWIPED...
I used to have a supergoose but my dad gave it too the Is neighbor kid To cut the grass and didn't even asked me I still wanted my bike before given it a way
I had a black/gold Mongoose in 1977 that I tricked out for street/racing. For everyday riding I swapped out the racing wheels for the yellow Tuff Wheels. I had that bike until I turned 16 and my mom gave it to a cousin without asking me first, so it ended up somewhere in Arkansas... My childhood friend Jimmy still has his 70's Race Inc. bike in storage.
Please, do one on Redline BMX
I second that, Redline has quite a saga from flat track motorcycles to BMX, Cyclocross, the first mass market single speed MTB and several owners
I remember back in 99-2000 mongoose was already known as a walmart bike. Alot of us were honestly more shocked when schwinn went to Walmart though😅 atleast my generation.
Huffy had already been know as a WM bike for a while before that even.
I was big into bmx so i was always researching bikes and i found something that supprised me and i still think about it.
Huffy even at that time and early 2000's had pro made in USA bikes, like top of the line expensive non walmart bikes.
I never got one but always wanted one just to be different and show my friends a pro huffy bike.
Anyways it would be cool to see a video on huffy (if you havnt already made one) i just found the channel.
Those mid school Huffies were definitely not made in the US and were comparatively low quality vs other bike shop brands, as even top signature models (Jimmy Levan's for sure) used Cr-Mo for front triangle only ('tri-moly') . Same people that took over Bully were involved. The old school 80's Huffy race team were riding on custom US made frames, but I don't recall if any of the mid school Huffy freestyle/DJ team used re-stickered frames or had custom ones made on Huffy's dime.
I was 22 in March '82 and rode on and off-road but I had officially bailed on 20" bikes a year earlier. Yet in a bike shop in San Mateo on the San Francisco peninsula, I bought a 26" single-speed Mongoose for the BMX cruiser class. And that was a perfect BMX bike for adults, as I considered it.
I still have my mongoose expert pro with profile 3pc cranks, answer pro forks, rhino double walled rims, gt 4 piece bars and more. Still going strong after 28 years. Love this thing. Made is US. 4130 chromolly frame. 🤘
When I was a kid cruising the neighborhood on my Team Murray bike, Mongoose was the bike everyone wanted. A few kids had them, and we were jealous.
This brings back a lot of memories from my childhood. Rolling around my neighborhood in the 90s with my buddies on our bmx mongoose bikes! Graduated to dirt bikes and never went back to pedal bikes, but still like to watch BMX dudes kill it on those bikes. Subbed, mad respect.
That's it right there. They started selling at Walmart. Selling at a big box store will ruin any legit Bicycle company by taking a legit name and attaching a big box company name to it!
I had the first gen mongoose with skyway mags till highschool. It was a heavy beast but handled everything i could dish out.
The Mags were so cool, so fn heavy. Tuff as hell!
Thanks for a brief overview of this great company. I still have my 1st true BMX bike, a '76 I got for Christmas 1976. It's a restored display queen I get to look at every day...along with other '75 and '76 motomag bikes! My rider is a '78 motomag with original yellow paint and decals. There are still some early details I guess time wouldn't allow you to share.
my all new 83 pro class Supergoose with pro class rims was my proudest purchase ever.
The mini scooters were awesome! I wish those would have come back they were so well made and what was cool as they had these plastic five spoke rims on some of them and I discovered that if you ride it without the tire on it you had the world's first drifting action happening! Everyone in my neighborhood started trying it and sliding sideways wildly for up to 20 ft around corners! I still want one again to this day!
I have a General and 2 GT performer scooters in mom’s basement still.
Loved mine. The AFA actually had a freestyle class.
Man I grew up in 80s had mongoose...torker.....Murray and more. Love your videos.
I've had my mongoose bike for over 35 years! Greatest bike ever
just picked up the Mongoose 'Reversal' frame. Can't wait to build it up this winter! 👍😎 #ForeverPatCasey
I had a mongoose FS1 until it was stolen out of my garage while I was on a family vacation. Then I got a mongoose expert.
Probably the most valuable thing I left in my parent's attic is a Roger DeCoster with Redline 401 Flight Cranks and Araya Z-Rims. Also has the original MotoMags and REAL old school Ashtabula drop-forged skinny fork sitting next to them.
ACS made Z rims. I still have some. Ashtabula made good cranks, I have a pair. The moto mags have got to be worth some money.
Araya. Wow I have nit heard that name in decades lol.
Hey man, that's cool you're in Charlotte (or close by). I heard "White Water Center" and "Catawba River" which took me by surprise. 😂 I lived in Charlotte for 15 yrs, starting in 1999. What a great place for cycling. I bought my first mtn bike at Sun & Ski Sports at the Outlet up 85N in 2000. So many great places to ride, especially western NC. Glad I found your channel.
It was actually B.M.X. products originally, my first real bike was ‘78 Decoster, rebadged Mongoose, and I raced a sponsored Team Mongoose til late 81, switched to Kos Kruzer when 26 inch first started unsponsored and within months it went to 24 inch I couldn’t afford another build and hung it up.
9:57 Mark. That's the top of Repack Road in Fairfax California. 1.7 miles all down hill. I been there many times. In the cold of January with iced over puddles to blazing hot hot summer sun. We'd bury our beer in the sandy creek bottom at the bottom of the trail and enjoy it later. Good times.
Back in the 80ts my sponcer gave me a super goos then I got a GT FLIGHT CRANK AND BULLS EYE HUBS WITH A UNI SEAT. Gave her away early 2000 I'm 59 now loved racing that got me into mountain biking same time racing moto cross .now I ride KTM 990 R 😊
In the early 80s I had a black and gold store bought Columbia bmx styled bike......my best friend had a chrome and red mongoose which was pretty similar to my bike. A year later he got a teal and white PK Ripper which was an actual custom race/stunt bike........it was night and day comparing the welds the weight etc to mine.... I really loved my bike and I rode and jumped it everywhere. I will take those old memories over a high end bike any day😉👍
PK Rippers were so cool. I always wanted one. I rode one at a race one time and it was just to small for me. I got the Quad Angle instead, Still have it.
Best BMX I had was diamond back Harry leary turbo..
Diamond Backs were heavy AF and quality
Are PK ripper still around?
MTB I had 2 Mongoose IBOC Pro like 1991 model. Had to donate them when moving. Everything was solid about it. Steel. Araya rm17 double wall rims. Components were Shimano DX which does not exist anymore but should. Green with white splatter paint, this wasn't a cheesy 90's paint. IT LOOKED GOOD.
Do DIAMOND BACK or ROBINSON next please
My mother in law got me an L500 last year. I was looking to get a new BMX to get back into it from years ago. I mentioned I never had a new bike, all my rides were used. So she went and surprised me with it. I wasn’t exactly super excited as I had set my sights on a very nice used Fit Wifi for sale near me, and I knew Mongoose by now wasn’t what it used to be. But to be honest, it’s a solid bike for the money. Full Chromo, 2 piece cranks, half link chain, fully sealed everything, 4 piece bars the whole 9. Couldn’t get anything close to it in terms of quality and parts in a complete bike but still has that stigma to it to me.
I miss my old California model from the 80s. I bet its not nearly as comfortable to ride as my current BSD setup.
I had a Mongoose - chromoly silver, webbed motomag aluminum wheels, reinforced top-tube to down-tube and neck - in or around 1977. i bought the top-tube, neck and crossbar Mongoose black pads.
I remember Mongoose being the dogs when i was a kid in mid '80's Britain.
I used to drool over the Mongoose Californian advert in BMX Action Bike, circa 1984. They where the dogs bollox back then mate.
@@theshamanarchist5441 man,that was it,I remember it well,the price seemed horrific at the time,I remember my Dad saying so as the reason I wouldn't be getting one but what a machine!
Going down memory lane for me. Two of my favorite Mongoose bikes are their Road Bikes, the Bossberg and Koppenberg. I remember seeing them in the Performance store and thr POOF! Gone.
I remember the days of Mongoose being the bike we all wanted. Only one of my friends actually got one. BMX that is. Later on I had several of the mountain bikes. So sad when I saw one at walmart. Wonk Wonk
Good old days , I had an 84 mongoose California and an 86 redline with all bright green accessories including skyway tuff wheel 1s.
I loved my Mongoose! Skyway Tuff Wheels, a gold stem, and Oakley grips. I got it for my birthday at Cycle World, a true bike store. It still pains me to see them for at discount stores.
I had a mongoose in the mid 80s. Half steel and half chrome molly frame. I always wanted a supergoose, recline, hutch. The one I really wanted was the cw lightning bolt though.
I still have my 26" atb mountian bike. Stays in the shed most of the time. Many parts have been changed over time. Still have the owners manual LOL
schwinn, gt, mongoose, cannondale, huffy, etc all pacific cycles a division of Dorel. Dorel was a customer of mine.
Thanks for these, great trips down memory lane.... any chance for a Hutch video? Stay well.
With 2 Olympians in BMX id say Mongoose is doing pretty good. the resurgence is strong!
Great video! I use to race BMX in the 90s and I was hoping you would have talked about the Mongoose bike I rode. I had a unique Mongoose mini Bike.It had a feather like thin frame with those little skinny tires. I think that's right around the peak of Mongoose because my neighbor down the street had one too and they were popular like GT at the bike course tracks.
I got my first Mongoose for Christmas in 79 ! it was badass , but heavy in 81 I bought a Scrambler with nylon mags , a much lighter bike. eventually I switched to a redline in 83
I remember being sized for a mountain bike at a shop, walked out with a huge 21 inch Specialized. One year later went back to the same shop and traded it in for an 18 inch Raleigh as they looked at me like I was crazy and stupid, but I felt much more confident on the smaller bike (mid 80s). Still like an 18 at 5.11
Sorry for going off topic .
i still have an old chrome fishgill frame from the 80's hanging out somewhere. it was the shit back when i was a kid.
So much for the team 😔 RIP Pat Casey
The mini scoots used the many unused lengthened fork tubes from the short lived and very rare Maxigoose.
I still have a Mongoose Pro NX 7.1 police mountain bike. It’s almost 39 years old and going strong albeit the sprockets are worn down to nubs now.
Wow super sad seeing Pat Casey as a Sponsored athlete for Mongoose still. RIP brother
3:17 That's not the original Supergoose. I had an original Supergoose and rear stays were like the original Mongoose. No holes and the slot angle was different. The Supergoose had other changes to the frame over time like the gusset at the back of the bottom bracket. The hole stamped into the two gussets by the head-tube also changed slightly. The frames constantly evolved.
As a teen in the late 80’s mine was jacked from the supermarket after some guy cut the lock never to be seen again.
I remember those scooters, I wanted one but, never got one. My 63 year old friend bought his kid a Mongoose in the mid 2000's. at Walmart, I explained to him it was not the same quality as he knew as a teenager. He had his first kid at age 34.
The nickel plated frames were awesome
I still have a Mongoose full face Helmet from 2016...Cheap and Cheerful and still looks great.
Had a k.o in 98 or 99... great bike for me at the tine
The mini scoot was a big deal in my town. Everyone I know got one for Christmas. Seems like all us kids put our skateboards in the closet and started riding those. Marvick, action sport, mongoose seems like everyone had a different one and as soon as we started breaking rims we ended up back on the skateboard or bikes.
I just sold a brand new 24” yesterday for $50.
When J was a kid my grandmother got me one of those "mini scoots". It was awesome. It really was the best if a scooter mixed eith a bike. The ride was good and the brakes were way better than any other razor scooter at the time.
I'm in the UK. I remember when those scooters landed. We called them scootex over here. And in the 90s when mountain bikes first came through. My main childhood bike was a grifter, dont know if they were in the US, they were like a BMX but we called them tanks because they were chunkier and heavier. When I got older I became a mountain bike guy. I couldn't get on with BMX's because I would always bang my knees on the handle bars. Even to this day my go-to bike is a quality hard-tail mountain bike. cool video here though. It's good to revisit the eras and progression from those days.
I had a '77 Mongoose then a '80 Supergoose. Those bikes were pretty much an extension of myself.
Behind schwinn?
When I was a kid (early 80's) the bike to have was an aluminum RaceInc, then Redline, PK Mongoose.
Cool history of Mongoose. They (and GT) have a great BMX racing team here in the UK.
I remember getting a mongoose FS-1 in the late 90's. I loved that bike. Wish I still had it.
WAS IT STOLEN???
@@leonIdas002 yes
Would have loved to have seen something on the Supergoose and the Pro-Class?
Whats the deal on HARO?
99 Mongoose Menace 25th anniversary. It was a crazy metallic green color.
Got about 42,000 miles on my Mongoose Artery Comp commuter bike. It fulfills my need for speed daily. Today is bike washing day 😁
I still have my 1980 mini mongoose. Any idea what it would be worth? Pretty good shape.
As a kid i was a redline person but dam had a soft spot for mongoose . The company in Australia ... went alittle all over the place after about 05
I have Switchback 2019/20 27.5" orange and am thinking of swapping the Xposed Fork with Suntour XCR and keeping this bike for another 2-3;years, before switching to another one completely. Not an aggressive biker at all. What do you think?
Missed an opportunity to add in a Chris Akrigg clip. He was shredding these bikes for a long time.
somehow this was in my recommendations today after earlier, i was at walmart, walked passed by bikes, saw a mongoose bmx and thought "i had no idea they were still around". Also, im sure they are cheaply manufactured, but walmart uses 3rd party to assemble a lot of their bikes.
I had an Ammaco Freestyler with white wall tyres and chrome frame, and everybody's nightmare metal peddles lol
In the 80's i had a black and yellow mongoose bmx bike . The spokes were thicker. I could not afford the mag rims.
Had mongoose back n 81 and pk ripper and redline ..powerlight also..
Great video, but big miss in not mentioning Dennis McCoy.
I was thinking the same. McCoy on a Hooligan instantly made that one of the freestyle bikes to have in the early 90's.
My mongoose tetra sx. Was a great bike. Polished aluminum. Rockshocks. It was an awesome mountain bike
This was very interesting to me because I had wondered the same thing. I raced bikes when I was a kid as well having GT, Haro and mongoose settling on mongoose as my favorite. Years ago I was in Walmart to get a bike for my daughter where I saw Mongoose and was like WTF this was a very high end company which made me ask myself what happened. So thanks for this. One thing I didn't hear you mention was the price. My bikes were so expensive for that time. My parents flat out refused to spend that much on a bike so I would have to save everything from my paper route.
"Torker" just reissued their BMX frames. Best one I ever owned.
Still have & ride 3 of my Mongoose bmx bikes.I also ride my Felt too
I got a 2021 Mongoose Title Elite, and it is frickin awesome gem in the rough. My 97 Supergoose in admiral blue is a few ounces lighter. You do have a point about Pacific Cycles and the like. I have a 98 rogue/villian which was the last year of Mongoose was still it's on company(I think might be wrong),but it's a heavy tank compared to an 87 Decade pro. Great vid on the downfall of an American Icon.
Mongoose had an amazing grass routes racing program in the early 90's. I raced one season for them, but kept breaking the AMP-2 bike.
Loved the brand however.
I think the downfall started when they stopped making them in the US.
Miss my Rampar ...tank it was
I loved my mongoose California
I also had an aluminum DG. That was a lightest bike I’ve ever seen.
I raced Catawba, it was a great course!
Kick scooters were the cat's pajamas! I had one with 16" wheels that I loved, until I broke the frame. Most had little 12" wheels.
I have a Mongoose Motomag and, yeah, those wheels are heavy as hell. Bookending that I have a Y2K Mongoose titanium Softail MTB that's lousy with XTR and high end components. Please do a video on VDC who built plenty of bikes for other companies in addition to his Changas.
I had a Mongoose mtn bike i tooled around on in '93 while in college. I dug it but mainly cuz it had saddlebags. It got stolen and I got a rock hopper..
Just picked up a late 90’s Mongoose Titanium Mountain Bike with a Fox F100 fork. Modernized it with a 1x10 drivetrain. On the fence about getting disc brake mount added on by a local frame builder. Trying to determine how rare the frame is before butchering it for purists.
Been riding bikes since '71, never thought that Mongoose was particularly good even at their best. I used to own #488 of the line, plus sold them for years .
Yea , my riding buddy had one in late 70s/early 80s and even though kinda heavy it held up...I rode a schwinn comp(frame used) and tricked it w best stuff from allowances and it was solid..jumped.cars,raced,and so on..wish I didn't sell it!
Great Video and if you want to go further down the rabbit hole take a peak at SE racing
I have a 1983 for sale right now…only offer I’ve had was for $80… the re pops are killing it.
Livnglrg - hey buddy, what model? i'm trying to find a couple to recreate my childhod bmx/skating memories, love to hear some details.
@@8barbies779 I have an 83 mongoose frame, forks seat clamp is all OG everything else is from something else. My other bike is 1976 Super X that is a true survivor. It has custom parts and 1976 hop ups. I’ve had an offer on just the blued steel arayas for $1000. The bike is priceless and I found both of them at a local scrapyard.