[Smokin Steve Styler]

This finally surfaced after many years of resting peacefully in a local Austin area garage.
The dropouts have never seen a peg. This was always a dirt jumper in its life.
I know both guys who owned this frame before me and they both rode trails and raced.
Amazing. You never thought of the Mack as a Mid School race bike. HAH!!
The dropout is stamped "XL" before the serial and as you can see by the photos, this top tube is a Stupid Long 21 1/2".
This is one is very special to me. I am honored to have this in my posession.
Original owner, Carl Lein.
First shovel on the dirt at world famous 9th street jumps 20 years ago this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Second owner, Brian Allmand.
Texas lifetime Skate and BMX hardcore. Lots of shovel time in the early days of 9th.

Sheps told me there were only one batch of these ordered. 25 Frames

[Nbl 49a]

Very nice!! There was another one that popped up within the last 6 months that really caught my eye. I am not looking to get into another project and I am slowing down on doing builds but I was tempted!

[Spur]

That is such a cool pick up. Looks like it was welded up on the same B&E jig as the Holmes and Badd and Co. How many Homeless are you sheltering these days?

[S.Brothers]

Nice, Steve. Congrats. I like that you have the provenance in such detail.

[Smokin Steve Styler]

Spur, on 09 March 2012 - 02:46 PM, said:

That is such a cool pick up. Looks like it was welded up on the same B&E jig as the Holmes and Badd and Co. How many Homeless are you sheltering these days?

I have eight different Homeless frames. Most of them have forks. Four are complete. The other four are in different states of build.
One of the completes is the 24" Fatty Cruiser I grabbed lately. Below is a pic. The handlebars came out of the same shop the frame did. At the time, Homeless was welding their own product as well as stuff for Wilkerson Airlines here in Austin TX.
Some of the tubes were bent by SE racing in the same era.

[Spur]

That Fatty is the business. Who was the bike shop that was the like Homeless distributor, Trend? Big ups on the Homeless collection, that is pretty awesome.

[Smokin Steve Styler]

More pics of the Homeless crew.
Three Mack and a Soul Bro.

[Larock]

Great bikes Steve! What is the story with this company? I remember having a Homeless Stem years ago on a Holmes I got from John Povah.

[RyanPartridge]

I can't get over the Fatty cruiser.

Too cool.

[Monster-Robot]

S.Brothers, on 10 March 2012 - 10:24 AM, said:

Nice, Steve. Congrats. I like that you have the provenance in such detail.

Agreed. This kind of info is invaluable as the years go by.

Anyone want to offer up a little info on the company and model for an old guy? I would have looked at that frame and thought it was a race frame for sure.

[RyanPartridge]

Here's the only known photo(I think) of the Fatty cruiser that suicidepan posted...

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[RyanPartridge]

Only other Mack SL I've seen was Jay Brand's...

http://bmxmuseum.com/forsale/30155

[Smokin Steve Styler]

In 1990, Trend Bike Source was selling freestyle bikes and parts. One of the only shops at that time to focus on the very small market of Freestyle BMX.
There were quite a bunch of bad ass riders in Texas at that time, also.
It was Trend who started the brand.
They bought frames and forks from B&E welding and stickered them as Homeless.
The frames they sold were not much different than S&M bikes at the time.
For the most part, a Homeless Mack was a Dirt Bike with a coaster brake tab.
The Soul Bro had a platform identical to the DirtBike with a platform.
I think the geometries were tweaked a bit, but the frames were almost identical.
There was The Mack, James Sheperd's pro model and there was The Soul Bro, Ruben Castillo's pro model.
There were a few other products like inner tubes and grind pegs.
Fast forward about three years and Homeless has seperated from Trend and starts welding its own frames, forks, and handlebars here in Austin on Congress Ave.
Things were not real high tech in the shop and the products were a bit clunky.
The shop caught fire one night and Homeless finally closed shop in about 1995 or 1996.
Sheps and Ruben left the company early on, but the videos these guys put together when Homeless Bikes was new and fresh are still the Gold Standard.
Check out Homeless Trash and see what I mean.
Below is a link to James Shepherd's part.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=FA1aPyF_M5U

[Monster-Robot]

Thanks Steve! Just what I needed. Congrats on the snag.

I have a buddy who has a bunch of the early BMX vhs tapes. I see what he has.