Redline Bicycles

Redline's first freestyler, the RL-20, is born. Backed by the support of the freestyle superstar on the BMX ACTION trick team, Redline is one of the first legit leaders in the fresh freestyle era. Still argued today does the acronym RL stand for Redline or the rider?

 D.D. Leone is named as part of the Terrible Ten, the opinionated Top-10 amateurs in BMX.

Yet another Redline first; tapered tubing (large to small diameter) on their forks.

 Redline sponsors the "World Almanac BMX Skills Competition" ... almost, but not quite, an early version of the X-Games.

 The long awaited PL-24 makes its production debut to the oooh's and ahhhhh's of the BMX media. "It handled more like a 20 inch than a cruiser."

 To satisfy the ever-expanding, hungry freestyle crowd, Redline quenches their thirst with the ProStyler.