Steel is an alloy. It's an alloy mainly of iron and carbon. Other metals/elements (most of the elements are metals) can be added to steel to enhance strength (so you can decrease weight) and such e.g. chromium and molybdenum (cro-mo) steel alloys. SE Racing wasn't the first manufacturer to use steel alloy frames. All the big players in BMX back then were using steel alloys in their frames from the likes of Tange or Reynolds.. and virtually all of the desirables (Mongoose, PK Ripper, Kuwahara, GT, Diamond Back, .. Raleigh Pro Burner.. higher end Schwinns, higher end Huffys etc etc etc etc had cro-mo steel frames. Cheaper bikes tended to be just steel i.e. high tensile steel. But when you started to see Araya or Skyways and Diacompe and Sugino etc on a bike, and certainly where you saw chromium plated frames.. you were dealing with a cro-mo steel. The Quadangle above was a Reynolds 531 steel manganese-moly (MnMo) alloy, and that appeared in 1983. I think Raleigh might have used 531 first in a BMX in 1979 with the R11 (also sold as a Rampar R11XL). Obviously the roadies had been using 531 for decades by this point and Raleigh had a lot of experience with 531. Having said all that, the PK Ripper was the first lightweight aluminium alloy frame I am/was aware of in 1980's BMX. In that regard it was the real outlier, given that even top road bikes back then still tended to be steel alloys 531, cro-mo etc. Aluminium alloys didn't become ubiquitous in BMX and MTB until the 1990's.
Cool video. I met Scot in 1985, and later worked with him on some TV shows. Many of those action sports TV programs on Scot's demo reel were actually produced by Unreel Productions, the Vision Skateboards/Vision Street Wear video company. We often hired Scot because he was a great color commentator about BMX. I know this, because I worked At Unreel as a production assistant and cameraman, 1987-1990. Scot did sell a bike sport series to ESPN with his production company L.M. (for "Last Minute") Productions. He edited the shows at Unreel at night. This show I'm linking wound up being the first made-for-TV BMX street contest ever, months after Ron Wilkerson's first Meet the Street contest, in 1988. I'm the guy in the blue shirt in the intro, Randy Lawrence (father of Ryder Lawrence) is in the black shirt. This TV show went from idea, to event, to edited TV show in two weeks, which is insane in the TV world. I talked him into doing a show about BMX street, which was barely even a thing then. Scot put the contest together in a week, I got the riders to show up. th-cam.com/video/CNZ6ACXzwtc/w-d-xo.html
Great stuff. I raced for a local SE Racing Hot Shop team in my hometown starting in '81. It was a co-sponsor kind of thing with SE. I still have my SE Hotshop jersey, helmet and 1981 SE Quadangle frame and fork. Scot was a great guy and had an incredible memory for names. I hadn't spoken to him in thirty years and I hit him up on social media about an event he organized, 40 Years of BMX and he actually remembered who i was and where I raced etc. He also threatened me if I didn't show up for the event! LAL. Lots of great memories from that time frame and SE Racing. Even got to go on the bus with the team when they were in town. Looking forward to the next video... I'll have more comments then.
Dude i remember when I got my first team jersey. I motocrossed, and my first sponsor was K&N Yamaha (yes, that k&n family, stood for Ken and Norm)... Anyhow, at the 1989 New Years Eve Arenacross they gave me the Team jersey! I nearly shat myself. My hero Ricky Walker wore that jersey too! I wore it so much that next week my mom had to confiscate it!
Used to talk to Scott a lot on FB before he passed, It's great to see the SE brand so popular now with the "wheelie bikes" craze despite being owned by Fuji.
My entire childhood was BMX from 81 to 87. I remember a lot of kids had Diamond Backs, Huffy’s etc. At the local dirt hills up to 50 kids on bikes would gather daily in the summers. There was a huge double jump, then another hill after. Only the “ big kids” could jump the double. Then one day a blonde long haired kid showed up with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He was on a SE Quadangle with Redline cranks and Hutch pedals. It was so different and awesome. He does the doubles easily a few times then backed way up and cleared the TRIPLE. It was like meeting a god. Nobody had ever even dreamed of that. If you ride at dirt hills as a kid back then you would understand the awe.
actually.....I freaking love the history lessons. I was a east coast bmx-er. I grew up watching CA kids race BMX. it's great to learn all this history. more more more. Do...Hutch, Skyway, Diamond Back....GT and...Haro.
ive at least ridden a pk never forget it wasnt mine and the guy that owned cracked the seat tube so for that time the frame was fd not easy to get a safe proper repair in the late 80's in a small town in canuckville . great vid man bmx history is awesome .
My racing buddy had an original PK Ripper loop tail in the early 80's. I remember thinking how bad ass that bike was. He had Skyway Z rims and everything. That was one sexy bike.
Great video. Tinker Juarez would be a good one to cover. He was a racer, he was a skatepark freestyler, he was an early mountain biker and I think he still races mountain bikes
Nah. No man, or anything for that matter, should be made into a statue. I know you probably don't believe it, but the Bible specifically said not to worship idols. And whether you want to see it as that or something else, the Truth still stands.
9:08 just a heads up for anyone paying close attention to the pictures he shows throughout, of the 5 bikes he mentions here all but the Junior Ripper are presale bikes, meaning the other 4 are classic OG SE. That said to be clear of all the brands from back in the day still making bikes, SE is guaranteed one of the higher quality brands so don’t automatically discredit one that’s modern, personally I love my 2004 Team Quadangle. Compared to other bikes from 2004, it’s clearly one of the nicest racing bikes you could have bought at the time (I have the blue one, thankfully I didn’t have to settle for a black and red one… If I could buy an all original one for $400 I would, but that’s impossible today those bikes sell for good money it’s one of the best modern 20” Quads they made
Yes, Scot was one of the early pioneers creating the earliest bmx racers. BUT!!!! So were others doing the same in the same year/era. There is no one God father of BMX. East coast NBL, New Jersey, Oklahoma, TX, Washington state, San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Northern Calif all had organized BMX races in the early 1970s. Yes, Scot is ONE of the early BMX pioneers. Yes, the Yamaha Gold Cup booted the sport of bmx in a big way. Yes, Scot promoted the very very first pro bmx race at Saddleback Park.
Biggest regret of my life. Trading my 1981 PK Ripper for a surfboard in highschool. Was my childhood dream bike and I put so many miles on that bike and raced it for about 5 years. Got the surfing bug and made one of the worst decisions of my life getting rid of that gem. It was a polished alum frame with chrome landing gear forks, Profile cranks, ACS Z-Rims. It was dialed. I've tried high and low to track that bike down, but that was back in 1990.
Yamaha Gold Cup qualifier at Birmingham High school (my high school I attended for 3 yrs) Scot often exagerates stats and stories; their was NOT 1000 racers at Birmingham High school race - a few hundred max..... NO way there were 1000 riders. I help Scot set up the track at Birmingham High school Yamaha Gold Cup qualifier #1. Note: the NBA BMX Valley Youth Center Track was one block away. The NBA Encino Velodrome BMX track was just across the LA River, less than 1/2 mile away.
Never understood the 'big money' BMX bikes, since Schwinn was on the scene early, and with some really good product- not to mention that any good old 20" clunker could be jumped and crashed for a lot longer than it fit the kid riding it. I chalked it up to a 'rich kid/Cali' thing and just moved on into dirt bikes.
BMX tours for our culture lives on, eternally. Serving at times, your military agents off-shore, within sketchy terrain. Research Morgan Wade and the BMX crew members, who sparked joy in the lives of your warriors and protectors...
Thanks for these videos of OG BMX companies👍. I found my mojo on the BMX track on the 80's. My first bike store bike was a Takara, then got a Race Inc. Frame set when i got a little better. 🚵💛🇺🇸
Thank you all for watching! The next video will be a continuation of Scot's story. Who/what in the bicycle world should I cover after?
Redline, especially the weird MTB period...
can't wait
Would love to see a piece on Windy Osborn
you touched on PK Ripper. do you have a vid on Perry?
Steel is an alloy. It's an alloy mainly of iron and carbon. Other metals/elements (most of the elements are metals) can be added to steel to enhance strength (so you can decrease weight) and such e.g. chromium and molybdenum (cro-mo) steel alloys. SE Racing wasn't the first manufacturer to use steel alloy frames. All the big players in BMX back then were using steel alloys in their frames from the likes of Tange or Reynolds.. and virtually all of the desirables (Mongoose, PK Ripper, Kuwahara, GT, Diamond Back, .. Raleigh Pro Burner.. higher end Schwinns, higher end Huffys etc etc etc etc had cro-mo steel frames.
Cheaper bikes tended to be just steel i.e. high tensile steel. But when you started to see Araya or Skyways and Diacompe and Sugino etc on a bike, and certainly where you saw chromium plated frames.. you were dealing with a cro-mo steel. The Quadangle above was a Reynolds 531 steel manganese-moly (MnMo) alloy, and that appeared in 1983. I think Raleigh might have used 531 first in a BMX in 1979 with the R11 (also sold as a Rampar R11XL). Obviously the roadies had been using 531 for decades by this point and Raleigh had a lot of experience with 531.
Having said all that, the PK Ripper was the first lightweight aluminium alloy frame I am/was aware of in 1980's BMX. In that regard it was the real outlier, given that even top road bikes back then still tended to be steel alloys 531, cro-mo etc. Aluminium alloys didn't become ubiquitous in BMX and MTB until the 1990's.
Cool video. I met Scot in 1985, and later worked with him on some TV shows. Many of those action sports TV programs on Scot's demo reel were actually produced by Unreel Productions, the Vision Skateboards/Vision Street Wear video company. We often hired Scot because he was a great color commentator about BMX. I know this, because I worked At Unreel as a production assistant and cameraman, 1987-1990. Scot did sell a bike sport series to ESPN with his production company L.M. (for "Last Minute") Productions. He edited the shows at Unreel at night. This show I'm linking wound up being the first made-for-TV BMX street contest ever, months after Ron Wilkerson's first Meet the Street contest, in 1988. I'm the guy in the blue shirt in the intro, Randy Lawrence (father of Ryder Lawrence) is in the black shirt. This TV show went from idea, to event, to edited TV show in two weeks, which is insane in the TV world. I talked him into doing a show about BMX street, which was barely even a thing then. Scot put the contest together in a week, I got the riders to show up. th-cam.com/video/CNZ6ACXzwtc/w-d-xo.html
Great stuff.
I raced for a local SE Racing Hot Shop team in my hometown starting in '81. It was a co-sponsor kind of thing with SE. I still have my SE Hotshop jersey, helmet and 1981 SE Quadangle frame and fork. Scot was a great guy and had an incredible memory for names. I hadn't spoken to him in thirty years and I hit him up on social media about an event he organized, 40 Years of BMX and he actually remembered who i was and where I raced etc. He also threatened me if I didn't show up for the event! LAL. Lots of great memories from that time frame and SE Racing. Even got to go on the bus with the team when they were in town.
Looking forward to the next video... I'll have more comments then.
Dude i remember when I got my first team jersey. I motocrossed, and my first sponsor was K&N Yamaha (yes, that k&n family, stood for Ken and Norm)... Anyhow, at the 1989 New Years Eve Arenacross they gave me the Team jersey! I nearly shat myself. My hero Ricky Walker wore that jersey too! I wore it so much that next week my mom had to confiscate it!
Used to talk to Scott a lot on FB before he passed, It's great to see the SE brand so popular now with the "wheelie bikes" craze despite being owned by Fuji.
My entire childhood was BMX from 81 to 87. I remember a lot of kids had Diamond Backs, Huffy’s etc. At the local dirt hills up to 50 kids on bikes would gather daily in the summers. There was a huge double jump, then another hill after. Only the “ big kids” could jump the double. Then one day a blonde long haired kid showed up with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He was on a SE Quadangle with Redline cranks and Hutch pedals. It was so different and awesome. He does the doubles easily a few times then backed way up and cleared the TRIPLE. It was like meeting a god. Nobody had ever even dreamed of that. If you ride at dirt hills as a kid back then you would understand the awe.
So true 😊
Fully feel you man. Kids today don't understand how amazing those days were. For them its a fortnite game sadly.
I got to ride with Scot on a beach cruise here in San Diego shortly before he died. He was super humble and a real nice guy.
Wish I still had my Pk Ripper & Quadangle.
Great history lesson. Been a lifelong BMX rider and fan since the late 1970’s.
SE still tours. They go to different cities and do ride outs. Took my kid to the one in Richmond last year.
actually.....I freaking love the history lessons. I was a east coast bmx-er. I grew up watching CA kids race BMX. it's great to learn all this history. more more more.
Do...Hutch, Skyway, Diamond Back....GT and...Haro.
The history is your strong suit. Keep it up...love it😊
It's so interesting to me seeing how everyone truly is given certain gifts. We couldn't all make a history lesson so engaging!
ive at least ridden a pk never forget it wasnt mine and the guy that owned cracked the seat tube so for that time the frame was fd not easy to get a safe proper repair in the late 80's in a small town in canuckville . great vid man bmx history is awesome .
My racing buddy had an original PK Ripper loop tail in the early 80's. I remember thinking how bad ass that bike was. He had Skyway Z rims and everything. That was one sexy bike.
Thanks for doing this video. Brings back a lot of good memories of racing BMX back in the day.
Very fun to watch.
I'm the same age as Dave Mirra when he left, 2016 seems just like yesterday. R.I.P legend...
Great video. Tinker Juarez would be a good one to cover. He was a racer, he was a skatepark freestyler, he was an early mountain biker and I think he still races mountain bikes
Yep he’s stillll racing
holy carp i love that yellow VISION button up shirt wonder how rare those are now
RIP Scot
Truly a BMX Legend
Scott needs a statue in cali❤ its a given
Nah. No man, or anything for that matter, should be made into a statue. I know you probably don't believe it, but the Bible specifically said not to worship idols. And whether you want to see it as that or something else, the Truth still stands.
We're working on it for the 2028 Olympics!
9:08 just a heads up for anyone paying close attention to the pictures he shows throughout, of the 5 bikes he mentions here all but the Junior Ripper are presale bikes, meaning the other 4 are classic OG SE. That said to be clear of all the brands from back in the day still making bikes, SE is guaranteed one of the higher quality brands so don’t automatically discredit one that’s modern, personally I love my 2004 Team Quadangle. Compared to other bikes from 2004, it’s clearly one of the nicest racing bikes you could have bought at the time (I have the blue one, thankfully I didn’t have to settle for a black and red one… If I could buy an all original one for $400 I would, but that’s impossible today those bikes sell for good money it’s one of the best modern 20” Quads they made
I had an assassin and couple friends had pk rippers. My favorite was this hutch.
Very cool history!
Yes, Scot was one of the early pioneers creating the earliest bmx racers. BUT!!!! So were others doing the same in the same year/era. There is no one God father of BMX. East coast NBL, New Jersey, Oklahoma, TX, Washington state, San Diego, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Northern Calif all had organized BMX races in the early 1970s. Yes, Scot is ONE of the early BMX pioneers.
Yes, the Yamaha Gold Cup booted the sport of bmx in a big way.
Yes, Scot promoted the very very first pro bmx race at Saddleback Park.
Biggest regret of my life. Trading my 1981 PK Ripper for a surfboard in highschool. Was my childhood dream bike and I put so many miles on that bike and raced it for about 5 years. Got the surfing bug and made one of the worst decisions of my life getting rid of that gem. It was a polished alum frame with chrome landing gear forks, Profile cranks, ACS Z-Rims. It was dialed. I've tried high and low to track that bike down, but that was back in 1990.
Yamaha Gold Cup qualifier at Birmingham High school (my high school I attended for 3 yrs) Scot often exagerates stats and stories; their was NOT 1000 racers at Birmingham High school race - a few hundred max..... NO way there were 1000 riders. I help Scot set up the track at Birmingham High school Yamaha Gold Cup qualifier #1.
Note: the NBA BMX Valley Youth Center Track was one block away. The NBA Encino Velodrome BMX track was just across the LA River, less than 1/2 mile away.
👍 It's pretty amazing to see that we've gone from that to now, Red Bull rampage🤙
Thanks again
RIP Dave M.
Nyquist still going strong. Crazy to watch a 40 something y/o guy shred.
Never understood the 'big money' BMX bikes, since Schwinn was on the scene early, and with some really good product- not to mention that any good old 20" clunker could be jumped and crashed for a lot longer than it fit the kid riding it. I chalked it up to a 'rich kid/Cali' thing and just moved on into dirt bikes.
BMX tours for our culture lives on, eternally. Serving at times, your military agents off-shore, within sketchy terrain. Research Morgan Wade and the BMX crew members, who sparked joy in the lives of your warriors and protectors...
Currently SE uses a Sprinter van, in memory of the old bus.
Damon Dayton made a modern day bus branded for SE Bikes! You can catch it in Stockton, CA.
27.5 PK… Gloss black w/ dark blue accents… my pantera
U make good vimulos 🎉🎉
🤷🏼♂️ ¿ 🙄
Furmage - First Family Of Freestyle BMX
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Except what a bunch of little jackasses ride SE bikes anymore, the pk ripper was badass back in the day though!
Yep. Mostly one demographic and definitely not making the brand look good.
Go to a ride out, it's an amazing mix of kids to seniors and a hell of a good time!
As was the OM Flyer. SE Bikes were top shelf in the '80's. Very high quality aluminum frames. Up there with Cook Bros and FMF.
Thanks for these videos of OG BMX companies👍.
I found my mojo on the BMX track on the 80's. My first bike store bike was a Takara, then got a Race Inc. Frame set when i got a little better. 🚵💛🇺🇸