Collection: Whitefield BMX Bikes

The Back Story
A couple of years ago we were approached by someone about “a quantity of old BMX parts” he had. After our excitement subsided when we found out it wasn’t a lock-up full of VDC Changas, we went to take a look at what he had. The start of the accompanying video shows the moment when we first saw the scale of what we had here.

Basically this chap had bought this old stock, along with some regular bikes a much of years ago from a bike shop in Bury. Now it looks like they imported these at the time - mid 1980’s is our guess - in component form as the duty was lower on parts than complete bikes. There was pretty much everything to make these into bikes with two different frames. These would have probably been comparable to a Moto One or something back in the day. 

Anyway we took a gamble, hired a van and hauled everything back to Wigan, counted everything up and waited for a time when we could decide what to do with it all. After making some initial plans and making a couple of sample bikes, which we displayed at the We Were Rad event at Southsea in April 2023, Alan got seriously ill right after and the project got put on hold. Fast forward to today and everything is good now on all fronts, so we got down to making a plan. All in all, there were about 75 frames, forks and bars. 

The frames were unstickered, so we had to come up with a name for them, because where got them from was Whitefield (near Bury) we went with that, Alan did the design and away we went. 

The Expert
Next up, we had these blue framesets which were in pretty good condition, but did have some rust in places from 40 years storage. We built up one of these as well, but fitted brand new wheels, tyres, chain, freewheel etc, so it would ride OK and this bike became the “Expert”. All are blue but in amongst them was one red frame/fork/bar set - we’ll come back to that in a minute.

The Pro Tuff
Last up, we have these Aero style frames without head tube gusset, we had the frame, fork and bars blasted then powder coated white and we fitted them with all new parts with Skyway Tuff Wheels, Dia-Compe brakes, Panaracer HP406 tyres, etc, etc. These are available with a red or blue parts package.

The Survivor 
Details to follow on this model.

Every bike, across the 3 models is numbered out of 75. 

We have priced these competitively and we think this a pretty cool project, we’re glad we saved them from landfill and now you can own a missing piece of BMX history. Going forward we are looking at continuing with the brand with some new products, so keep your eyes peeled for announcements. 

Oh, remember the red Expert frame we mentioned? This one-off will be given away in a competition in conjunction with our friends at We Were Rad, so look out for that.