Alright dudes, let’s walk this sucker! Awesome build!

Work of Art from a great era!

Similar in my hometown, we had BMX, Skateboards, and Surfing. So RAD, Thrashin, and North shore were our movies! This bike turned out beautiful 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

Cru Jones singlehandedly reignited the superhero movie genre.

Love this lol the goosebumps when the chorus kicks in. Watched this movie a million times back in the day. You gotta do the dance scene now too.

Nice build, and nice backyard too! Suggest lowering that seat post about 10 inches so the frame seat tube doesn't crack.

Had to watch on mute because of that water and birds was so distracting. Love the build and thanks for doing it! Rad for life! Bmx for life! Skate for life!

i feel 35 years younger after watching you video! brings back memories for sure. I myself is a fan of RAD and a bmx rider before. Its so cool to see other people from other places who has the same love and passion. Thanks for the Video! Awesome job for the build!

Awesome bike, brings back so many memories, my dream bike is a Hutch Pro Star, but this is totally rad.

Love the drone footage at the end and the music, agree the movie is cheesy but the BMX tricks are RAD! Bike is Sickkk!

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I was obsessed with this movie..everything about it…my parents bought me a chromoly GT performer with pegs and I rode the crap out of it! Learned every trick I could! It WAS my childhood

this is great - I'm collecting parts now for my own build. great work, man!

Wow i remember one of my friends in the neighborhood in the 80s had a lower end mongoose but not as nice as this Californian. Very cool build ,nicely done up.

Totally Rad! Great idea. 💯BMX 🏁 🌞BIKE ZEN 🌊

Great video! Really cool bike - looks like I need to go find Rad and watch it. Music is awesome too!

Cool. I remember my first bike's colors but not the brand. My white Predator is the one i remember most. I had another but it got stolen. We'd watch this movie & then go out & try tricks. We werent successful...but fun times

One of my all time favorites. I recently bought the bluray steel book, it holds up. My 5 yo son loves it.

Awesome build!

This is like a ASMR video. I fell asleep twice already 😴

I have a 1986 Californian I totally forgot about this thanks for the memories I’m gonna grease and polish that thing right now it needs new stickers it only has the one ont the top tube that says Californian

Great build Awesome video. Love Rad, Grew up with a GT Pro Performer trying to master all of the tricks. Nice choice in watches as well!!!!!

Very nice 🎉

Love this movie and still watch it with my kids to this day. I had a Skyway Teardrop and an Elf back in the day. Loved those bikes!

I really Appreciated this Video BMX Build was Awesome.RAD The Movie is an All Time Cult Classic of The 80's.And I'm glad to be a Product of that Era.😎👍🏾

Harbor Freight sells Evapo Rust. I used it on all the rusty hardware on a Diamond Back I restored for my son, and it made the hardware look brand new.

best bmx movie ever... we used to have the VCR in the motor home playing on repeat during the motocross days back when my feet didn't touch the ground on the 80cc bike I raced my dad would place a wood block under my foot at the starting line lol.. we'd all be watching Rad if we were we'd be on 20in bikes or dirt bikes .. those were truly the "golden years " back when the only negative part of life were crashing which just ment ud be side line with the chick's lol even the worst case scenario was a best case scenario lol

I used to pretend I was Cru on my paper route. Doing rock- walks and rollbacks with my paper bag on the handlebars. Cool vid. Ride on 🤘

I got my first My first BMX in 1981 for my communion present; twas a used Black Mongoose, with red Araya rims, from what I remember. The frame was probably 79, or 80: by the time the movie RAD came out I had a chrome, and white Haro sport . My friends and I watched that movie every single day, afterwards, we then went outside to practice the tricks from the movie.💫 RIP Tommy.

I just picked up an all.original 84 californian off offer up in salem nh for 150.00 bucks . Nice build 👍

Thats cool really cool nice nice build

Absolutely love it, I’ve got a Haro frame sitting in my garage collecting dust for the last 30 years I wanna do the exact same thing with. We grew up wearing out RAD VHS with all the other buddies in the neighborhood

I just brought the blue ray disc one of my fav movies of all time

I have 2 1984 Skyway TA’s, Mongoose Pro Class, and 2 Hutch Pro Stars, and 1 Hutch Trick Star that my brother and I have had since new in the 80’s. All original chrome finish, we never had painted bikes from that time. We liked and wanted a Haro Group 1 RS1, but our parents said we had enough. We also had a 1986 Mongoose Miniscoot that we should have never gotten rid of.

We love this movie to this day! I can still do a rock walk, wheelie-cat walk, rear tire 360, and other tricks, but they’re actually easier on my mountain bike for the most part. The Cru Jones Murray can’t be confused with a mongoose due to the rear end. Mongoose used a single tube bent into a U rather than tubing being welded together to the rear axle drop ins.

Beautiful!

Man the wheels makes all the difference, without them it just looks like every other bike I've owned growing up, but with them it looks like a entirely different animal

Nice, if you're ever in Vegas. We should ride

sick build brother!

Murray X20 FTW!

This was my first real bike in 85 but had Pro Class rims!

Has to get a follow for the RAD intro. Pure awesomeness.

When there’s thunder in your heart

Great build came out nice

Beautiful bike nice job looks amazing.....Stay RAD!! .... ✌️

I miss my old bike. I had a old redline from 1984. I had that bike forever. man I miss it

Love those bikes, but I was more of a Skyway or PK Ripper kind of guy in the 80s.

I love the movie and it was good to see you build Cru's bike. I have always wanted to build one like that but I don't have the funds. So seeing you build it was Rad.

I thought the movie was cheese but I liked it anyway's! The bmx trick are sick!

I've watched this movie hundreds of times.... I still watch it once a year ish now 🤣

Now. Go do some back flips on it. 😂. Rad build !

Nice dude!!! Here a big fan of rad 😊

great work. bike looks great. fun to ride i am sure. i do rad themed edits also. i talked to cru on the phone once. super nice guy. i was supposed to do a event with him 2 years ago but it got canceled during covid .

So good! ❤ Shoulda lowered that 40” seat post for the cinematics tho. 😅

I really love this cool video and how fantastic your RAD replica Cru Jones bicycle turned out for you to ride !

Very nice build there. Well done.

Ive always wanted this bike

That is perfect congrats.

This movie was in this big ass video rental mechanical box in our variety store when I was a kid and was always rented out by me or my friends which all rode! Gave us great inspiration and would tear up the streets after a watch! Great memories, would love to have this bike on my wall! I had a chrome Kuwahara with red rims,seat with red and white checkered pads for my first "real" bmx in 86. Still have my Redline but not riding anymore due to disability but will never sell it!

Nice edit.

This wa My bike! Bought it off a neighbor who was getting his license. Sold it to me for thirty bucks. My. Favorite bike!

33 an peps still sleep !its been goin on since day one . GEMATRIA is your friend my foes

Badass!

Looks amazing but damn you need to lower that seat a little bit you're going to snap that pole right off😮

BAD ASS!!!!

Damnit ...!!! I miss these days .. bad a%$ bike.

You have earned my subscription today 🙋🏻

great build a replica is on my to do list and I hope I'll be able to do it soon

I actually wanted either the Redline RL2A or the Haro Master. Instead my parents got me a Columbia because it was florescent green...LOL! Edit: was such a let down when I first saw Mongoose and Diamondback being sold at Walmart...

Nice video. Rad is one of my all time favorite movies. Also, your yard screams southern AZ suburbia. Am I right?

I’ve had/have pretty much every component on that build other than the farm and fork, and the spider.

It was actually filmed in my neck of the woods, northwest Calgary (bowness park) and Cochrane, Alberta (just north of Calgary) Sadly few people here know that

Nice

man, I remember those pedals.. If your foot slipped off them they'd tear your shins up lololol

👍 Engineering work....

Bro in '86 that 'goose would've been stolen in less time than it took Cru to land that 'AirWalk'😂😂😂 💥GR8 BUILD 💥PK RIPPER 4life😂😂😂

I never did dig Rad. Freestyle or Flatland was not for me. Though I did have a GT Pro Performer lol! But I liked riding my CW BMX bike more. The 80's was about Cross ups and Tabletops. Salute from San Diego BTW killer build

A little surprised there weren’t 3 piece cranks on that bike.

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I road BMX since 1981 and the only part of Rad I wanted was the girls with Bart Taylor. That zebra print was amazing!! So 🔥 🥵

Rad. Was a redline guy myself, but yeah

Awesome build! Where did you get the chain ring from?

I hope that's a 22.6mm diameter seat post instead of a far more common 7/8" (22.2mm) diameter seat post. You'll damage your frame if you clamp a 7/8" seat post in there without a 22.2-to-22.6mm shim. If it is 22.6mm, where did you find it? Also, you have it adjusted really high. Is it inserted to the minimum depth marking? You can get Pro Class lookalike rims from BMXGuru for $40-something each, and you can also get a pair of full wheels built around those rims for around $200. It would be great to have originals, but they are big money, especially if you want ones that are new or like new. Pro Class rims aren't the only things you're missing, by the way. Those handlebars are wrong too. The handlebars that came on Mongoose loop tails for several years in the 1980s had a very high cross bar, about as high as the grips, and Cru's bike had those stock handlebars. His two best friends' bikes had them too, because they were Blue Max brand, which was just Mongoose under a different name (made by BMX Products, Inc., same as Mongoose). Your XC-II style bear trap pedals are wrong too. Cru's bike had the stock platform pedals (SR P-468), complete with the stock reflectors still attached. Your Viscount Dominator seat is wrong. Cru's bike had the stock seat which was a Selle Royal Aeroyal lookalike. Your hinged Dia-Compe seat post clamp is the right type, but it was silver on Cru's bike (which is the stock color) rather than blue. Your A'ME Tri grips are wrong. You can buy officially licensed reproductions of the stock Mongoose grips which were made using the original molds, for about $30, from the same place that I assume you got your reproduction decals from. And it should have small diameter axle pegs on the back. Remember the scene where Cru's sister was riding on his pegs?

Was wondering where you got the blue power plate from? Trying to track one down myself for ages...

Well you got the frame and fork right. I guess that’s something.

Need some drilled pro-class wheels for it :)

Always loved the Cru bike but imho still doesn’t touch the bikes from the movie BMX Bandits 😅

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Back when Mongoose wasn't a Walmart brand 😢

Do you happen to know the axel size? Having a hard time figuring if the 3/8" is what I need or is that for new school.

You put the clip for the master link backwards. It need to be positioned when you pedal it moves in the direction of how you clip it on.

Does anyone sell a kit to build this exact bike like you built? Thanks

Dam I need that bike lol 😂 I’m only 46 I can still ride

Wait, no Spintek Gyro for double sided cherry pickers?

I had that bike

Awesome build! I'm building a Californian...do you happen to know if both front/rear calipers are marked 1000a or is the front a 900a? You did a great job with the bike and your video!

Beautiful tribute. I just picked up an 84 and am looking to do the same. Do you have a build sheet for this bike?

Where did you get all the parts?

You have a parts list?