So we were thinking what can we do? Well it took us a while but while we were having a gate session one day it occurred to us that the rear of most frames were flexing up to a 1/4" as you would snap out of the gate.
Now once the geometry was sketched out and finalized, we wanted to do something unique to the frame to make it stand out, but not be a purely cosmetic thing. First the rear tri was a little too short, second the head angle was a little too quick, so what we did was base our frame design off of the Free Agent Limo taking into consideration the 2 small concerns that people had. The few things that people didn't like about them were minor. Everyone loved the way it allowed you to stretch out on the front and really move. It was by far the most popular frame at the time. Most everyone at the time was riding on a FreeAgent Limo. We got input from Brian (Lopes), Kiyomi (Waller), John (Gonzalez), and Jon (Agnew), we also took input from some of our friends who hung out at the shop on a regular basis, Billy Griggs's input is probably the most notable. When we did this it was not just Billy Harrison, who was involved.
CHAPTER 2 - THE FRAMEĪs we said, Billy tried the Boss frame and hated it, so we couldn't just go ahead with the original plan, so we sat down and figured out what we wanted in a frame. We figured if we ever made a couple of hundred of them that it would be great, we never expected to sell thousands of them over the last decade. TECH was paying it's own way at the time and this was going to be a frame for the riders by the riders. So you see the original idea for SUPERCROSS wasn't to build a frame and make a lot of money, but to get an excellent quality frame under a great rider, and if it helped pay for his entry fees and give him some cash while he went to college so be it. Well as it goes we got ahold of one of the BOSS frames for Billy to try and he hated it, so we didn't complete the original plan, but it did get the wheels turning to start our own frame company.
We spoke with Billy and came up with the idea to take those BOSS frames, have them painted and sell them under another name to generate some revenue to further help pay for Billy's racing career.
As we were having trouble getting our AA Pro Billy Harrison a frame that he felt comfortable on, we kind of heard that ELF had made some frames for BOSS that were rejected due to bad chrome and that ELF was sitting on a bunch of frames that they wanted to get rid of. At the time we were working with SE, Free Agent, and Elf for the different riders. Since TECH was a number plate and racing pant company we worked with a few frame manufacturers to get our riders the bikes they were riding. Most of you will remember these names from BMX and Brian's from MTB history. With TECH we had a small factory team of riders that rode for us like most BMX companies do, ours at the time consisted of Glen Pavlosky, John Gonzalez, Brian Lopes, Kiyomi Waller, and Billy Harrison. Please refer to the top stickied post currently waiting for your glorious eyes to browse upon.Before we started SUPERCROSS BMX, we had a little company called TECH BMX PRODUCTS, some of you people who have been around the sport for a while may remember it but most of the newcomers to the sport won't as we ceased working with that product line in 92' as SUPERCROSS took up more and more of our time. They're part of this as well and help our sport grow.ĭo your best to research before posting a question. If you know the filmer/videographer responsible, shout them out. If you're posting a video, try to link directly to YouTube/Vimeo instead of a blog, unless the blog contains important information. LOCAL SHOPS AND WHERE TO BUY BIKES AND PARTSĪll sorts of submissions related to BMX, Freestyle, Street, Flatland, Dirt Jumping, Skate/Plaza Park, etc are allowed. Upvote and comment on links you like, bury the ones you don't. Submit your BMX related news articles, interviews, video & picture links.