This is me straight chillin' back in 1993 on my first "real" freestyle bmx bike. My dad suprised me with this when I was in 8th grade. He was picking me and a couple friends up from one of those high school prep courses... the tests you take to be accepted into a private high school... Dont know if that is just a New York thing... anyway, in the back of his work van was this brand spankin new chrome Gt Performer. I didn't see it since I hopped in shotgun but when my friends got in the back they were freakin' out over my new whip. I was so psyched, not only because I had a new ride to cruise around the hood but because I got a present on a random day that wasn't my birthday or Christmas.

This bike was the shit for back in the day, or at least I thought it was. My friends lived in an apartment complex close by that was doing renovations so we would cruise the dumpster areas for things to build jumps out of. Our best set up was three tires with a door resting on top. So damn sketchy, but we would jump shit like that all day straight to flat. This one dude Jamie Gonzales that we chilled with used to hit the thing full throttle. He had a huffy w/ no brakes that he painted flat black. Let me remind you this was before having no brakes was fashionable. He just had no extra loot for brakes so he said fuck it. I'm pretty sure he hit it with 4 tires underneath and we thought it was the craziest thing we'd ever seen.

We had a solid crew of about 5 that rode back then. We had no idea what was going on outside our general area but once we got to high school we learned about the Shoreham bmx track out east on Long Island and the rest is history.