Bringing a thread back from the dead here!
Today, I just scored one of my holy grail frames. A 2001 Mongoose CRX (Craig Reynolds Express). This is the same frame that David mentioned at the beginning of this thread 3 years ago. And yes, it is the same Craig Reynolds that is on Speed and has been in GRM.
While they aren't uber-rare, you don't see them come up in NOS condition too often. And when they do I'm always too late or too short on cash.
I came across this one by luck. I was at my companies Christmas party a few weeks back and I was talking to a co-workers husband. I knew he worked for Mongoose (actually Pacific Cycle) and I just casually mentioned that this frame was on my bucket list. He mentioned that he had one just sitting in his collection in their attic. Then one day at work my co-worker asked me if I wanted it - $100 and it was mine.
I still haven't decided if I want to build it or let it stay in new condition. I'm going to have to think that one over.
In the mean time I finished building the frame that my wife got me for Christmas. This was the 2009 Anarchy Deviant that I posted in X-mas present thread a few weeks back.
DK US made forks and bars, King headset, Primo cranks, carbon fiber seat post and a few other goodies. I used this bike to race last Sunday for the first time in three years. I then proceeded to get my ass handed to me in 36-40 Inter after I slipped a pedal. I'm beginning to think racing BMX is a young man's game.