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[Tim Mackie]

G'day fellow bmx tragics.
My name is Tim Mackie. I'm 43, and just came across this site.
I used to race aged 11 - 15. My home track was Menai. I also raced at Liverpool Speedway most friday nights. Raced at Minto, Blacktown, Nowra etc when i could coax my folks into it!
I notice a few familiar names her: Phil Kaye & Scotty Lynch were my age group. I remember you guys.
I had a JMC Black Shadow those days (wish i still had that!!). Also raced a chrome molly side-hack which my Dad made. It was a replica of my JMC, powder coated black. It was very light and quick (for the day). We still have it!!
My dad made the "Mac-Rac" bkie carriers. We were right into the bmx for a few years, until we moved and i got into motorbikes, then jetskis, cars,cars, marriage, more cars, kids etc etc.

I am restoring my old 1981 GT 26" cruiser - which we've had since new.
My son (10 this year) is keen to start racing, so i've decided to dust off the old cruiser (and body) and get back to the track.
We live at Menangle (near Camden) so our local track is Kirkham/Elderslie.

I hope to catch up with some of you sometime.
cheers,
Tim.

A few shots of the GT here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prancingwombat1/6832314357/#in/photostream/

[Phil Kaye]

Welcome to our humble little site Tim, it is great to have you on board!! Enjoy and share! Just looked at the GT pics. That will clean up nicely!

Cheers
Phil

[Tim]

Welcome Tim, sounds like you have a good project to keep you busy.

[GTHODAD]

Wow-I like it just the way it is. Awesome.From the pics you look like you need one of these

[RL20II]

Welcome Tim great to see another tragic that GT looks great too mate even got some suspension under the seat ay? LOL very nice! cant wait to see it cleaned up!.

[Tim Mackie]

Haha, yeah the seat was the first thing to come off!

When my dad bought the bike in '81, he didn't want one of those hard uncomfy seats, like i had on my bike (a UNI seat if i remember right)! So he got that tractor seat put on....

The chrome has come up pretty good after oxalic acid and a good polish. I used a bar of copper to scrape rust left behind after acid bath - it worked well.
Polished up with autosol and it looks ok. I'd rather keep it original, with it's blemishes, that re-chrome.

Won't have it back together for this saturday, but i'll probably still got to Kirkham with my son for a look around.

[Phil Kaye]

I sent you a PM Tim. If you roll themouse over your name at the top, you will see the messages in there.

Cheers
Phil

[RL20II]

I sent you a PM Tim. If you roll themouse over your name at the top, you will see the messages in there.

Cheers
Phil

Like so:

[Troyboy]

Welcome Tim.
You know there's a good chance you dad bought that GT cruiser off one of the members here (Samurai), he was also the Oakley man so he may drift by later & he will no doubt hit u up if u want to sell him that 26" back.
He has the bug & now after around 3 years of collecting has 9 GT's lol.
Cheers Troy

[Phil Kaye]

Hey Tim, if you have any Oakley suspenders you could find yourself rich cause Waz (Samurai) will pay heaps for a set!!  And don't worry about what guys say, he isn't that grumpy. Bark is worse than his bite!! 

[Troyboy]

Scotty Lynch leant him these for the Gold Coast Show a few weeks ago, then he had to give them back, talk about watching a grown man cry lol.

[laingy]

gday tim, welcome aboard. Even if you dont have any oalkey suspenders tell waz you do but youll never let them go as they are priceless due to sentimental reasons. I wanna how just high he's willing to offer 

[Tim Mackie]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

My old man hasn't noticed that i stole his GT yet ,
 but i reckon he'd be onto me if i were to sneak into his place and nick his Oakley suspenders - he wears them all the time.....

[RL20II]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

My old man hasn't noticed that i stole his GT yet ,
 but i reckon he'd be onto me if i were to sneak into his place and nick his Oakley suspenders - he wears them all the time.....

LMAO