Dealers
From the old site:
“DEALERS
We distribute our own products which gives you a great profit margin and competitive prices.
E-mail or call us for information and orders.
DINGO BMX
(305) 253-2879″
You can give that number a try if you like; we haven’t had any luck with it. In our opinion, you’d probably have more luck hitting a multi-million-dollar jackpot on one of the progressive online slots at an online casino USA.
The good news is that there are still a number of Dingo BMX fames out there — new ones, even (as longs as you count frames that have been sitting around unused for several years as “new”). A quick search on eBay will turn up a bunch of great Dingo BMX frames for great prices. I was hoping that the sellers would have some additional information, but on the whole they seem to be struggling with the difference between “there” and “their”, so I don’t expect too much investigative journalism to come from that sector.
This really is good news for the Dingo fans; for less than half of the price of the original frames, you can now pick up one or two spares (or more, if you’re expecting some really hard spills of a big team situation). It would have been cooler if more people had been willing to pay the money when Dingo was still in business, but no sense crying over spilled milk. I’m too much of a bargain hunter to consider this as anything but a happy situation.
But the mystery still goes on. The newest model year shown on the eBay frames seems to be 2002, which would indicate that the company “closed there doors” that year or soon afterward (or before, if the BMX world is more like the auto industry than I think it is). That ties in with the (scant) evidence that we already have about ‘when?’, but it doesn’t say anything about ‘why?’ or ‘what the heck do we do now?’.