1982 Healing Industries HMX 500 (2025)

1982 Healing Industries HMX 500

1 owner New Zealand Legend

This model was the first 20inch BMX I ever rode, although Ive never owned an HMX until 2007 . As you can see it was originally yellow in 1982 but my mate Jason who owns it later painted it blue. I am currently restoring it back to original for him. The bike was purchased from Pegasus Cycles, Tuam Street, Christchurch, New Zealand. Jason still has the receipt and warranty card for the bike.

I got the frame powder coated by Powdertech in Christchurch. They were brilliant! When I sit the bike next to my own HMX the yellow matches exactly! The colour is called 'GOLDEN YELLOW' for those who have been wondering. $75 incl clear coat approx. Powdertech also have another yellow but dont get it! Its more of a canary yellow and totally wrong!
I will post more photos of bike when finished.
Powdertech website http://www.powdertech.co.nz

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TJ Clark wrote:

http://bmxmuseum.com/image/april_003.jpg http://bmxmuseum.com/image/tjbmxyellow001.jpg

1982 Healing HMX 500

1982 Healing HMX 500

This model was the first 20inch BMX I ever rode, although Ive never owned one. I am currently restoring the blue bike shown for a good mate of mine. It was originally yellow. This bike was purchased from Pegasus Cycles, Tuam Street, Christchurch. Full steel frame, 3 piece crank, chrome steel 36 spoke rims, coaster brake on rear. I will post more photos of bike when finished.

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Mate, i used to spend half an hour in that shop , looking at the bikes , then straight to Wizards to play spacies.........fish and chips at the dog house then the 11.10 pm bus back home.........I think I wore Nomads.........hmmmmmmmmm.

Soundzgood wrote:

TJ Clark wrote:

http://bmxmuseum.com/image/april_003.jpg http://bmxmuseum.com/image/tjbmxyellow001.jpg

1982 Healing HMX 500

1982 Healing HMX 500

This model was the first 20inch BMX I ever rode, although Ive never owned one. I am currently restoring the blue bike shown for a good mate of mine. It was originally yellow. This bike was purchased from Pegasus Cycles, Tuam Street, Christchurch. Full steel frame, 3 piece crank, chrome steel 36 spoke rims, coaster brake on rear. I will post more photos of bike when finished.

View Bike in the Museum

Mate, i used to spend half an hour in that shop , looking at the bikes , then straight to Wizards to play spacies.........fish and chips at the dog house then the 11.10 pm bus back home.........I think I wore Nomads.........hmmmmmmmmm.

haha mate that brings back memories! I remember wizards and the dog house but I dont remember the bike shop. I didnt live in the city as a kid so I think I only ever went to wizards once or twice. As for the nomads, I had to wear them to school. It was great being an 80's child

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

Nice work.Let us know the official colour thats the closest match to the original yellow...

Last edited by Soundzgood (2007-04-27 10:14pm)

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

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CWCALIFREESTYLE12 wrote:

any new pics?

not yet sorry mate.
the frame is still sitting bare. We have found a good powder coater but havnt had time to drop the frame into him. Its in my next few weeks plan though!

Stay tuned!

If you think the things I say out loud are bad, you should hear the things I keep to myself.

is that you in the pic bro??? we should start a new thread with our old pics from back in the day....lol I cant wait to see your resto ....good luck...

frizz

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(thats gaelic)

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krdcommuter wrote:

Anyone know what an HMX 405 is ?

Hi all..

HMX 405 is first of the made in Tawian HMX's..405 was a bike shop model..505 was sold at Farmers and hayrights and were mostly all painted white..They also put out HMX 650's and HMX750's.

405 were mostly yellow and came in two types, coaster and free wheel..coaster has the welded on lug for the back pedal brake..freewheel doesnt..

I have a few frames HMX I'm getting acid bathed soon, then I will buy car paint to match and spray them up..colour might as well be bright, over the top with some 2 pak clear for that added shine..and new decals..

New |HMX 500/600 decals anyone they are moving..Will do deals for group buying..

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Hoagie wrote:

Hi ya's ...I am interested to date the years of Healing bikes ...did the 500 come before the Supermax that they made ? I think they also made the NZ release of the MXIII
What model was built first ..or were they all built /sold in the same year ?

HMX-500 was the cheapie with steel wheels
HMX-600 cost more came with Skyway Tuffs.
Supermax was top of the line with all alloy parts..

all models came out at same time.

Chrome ones were speacil for HMX but the supermax2 did come from shops in chrome.
HMX-500 in chrome has black decals, same with the HMX-600 in chrome,,Most chrome supermax 2's had blue alloy parts..never seen or heard of a chrome supermax 1 or Mk1 HMX..they were all mk2's

Now Healing Redlines...Joke at the time was it was a Supermax with redline gusetts chromed..Now they also did what we called ozzie redlines..They had no Redline stamp underneath but had MX3 stickers..

I was selling Mk2 HMX's in 1980....from memeroy....But probley sold more mini-max's and pantha cubs from the shop I was working in

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