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ED209:
Inspired by the various builds you lot do for you kids ( especially Norty40's christmas Olsgoose and the look on his daughters face ) I decided to do something for my 8 year old girl Issy  :angel:

I'd recently done what I could to her mini mtn bike to 'bmx it up' and she took it to Boleshill track in Sheffield and was very into razzing it around the jumps...

I brought a Specialized Vegas for 50 notes off ebay aka. The Pig ... stuck it up on here for opinions and got told... "if it falls on her it will kill her" ... "leave it on a roundabout somewhere" ... cheers fellas!

But as a result I got talking to James ( Heywood BMX ) and he said he had an old Dyno NFX, which was a suitable sized frame, knocking about... to cut a lot of PMs short, James got a bikes worth of bits together for me with the frame and sent them over... for the price of postage...  :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:



Izzy was blown away by James's generosity, as was I ... he is a fooking star and will be treated as royalty in my house if he ever stops by  :angel:



So by nicking the decent bits off of The Pig, the mini Powerlite bars and range Ame's off the mini mtn bike and James's donations ... it was game on.

Purple and orange is the colour scheme and I'm at it right now... stinking of pear drops!

- Thanks to Norty for the inspiration.
- Thanks to Franz for the info on NOT using car lacquer over the Plasti Kote
- Thanks to munnyella for flowing a smaller crank ( see you down the Boardroom on the 3rd dude )

and THANKS to the power of INFINITY to James for his generosity  8) you a star dawg.

PS. My youngest daughter just walked in my my paint mask on saying 'I am Darth Vader' she then walked out and there was a massive crash and screaming... I went out and asked my wife what had happened.. "I don't know" she said "all I heard was a little voice saying 'I AM DARTH VADER' then she fell down that hole"   :4_17_5:

19.03.10 Finished...







Dads TO DO list :
- Get some decals down... looks like being some Dyno crossed with a dragon ( Issy's idea )
- Might end up dyeing the suede on the seat black as its not quite a colour match on the purple ( RADANAL syndrome )
- Think I need some orange on the back end so I need to spray the seat post orange again.
- a nice early 90s chainwheel - maybe orange.
- orange brake cable... longer than the one on it.

...my daughter fooking loves it though  :smitten: and I'm a bit jealous... its a skid machine! I had a raz this afternoon and got back to my youth doing drifiting step-through skids  :daumenhoch: luv it.

HEYWOOD BMX:
 :-[ Oooh I`m blushing! A few people on RAD have helped me out loads-Big Sam to name one,just thought I`d try and do likewise,Karma and all that :LolLolLolLol:Sure the little lady will love the finished product.

ED209:
blush away dude ... you are a great role model  :)

paint is done  :coolsmiley:



( quote from my 4 year old 'why is that woman dancing with a fish' ...  :laugh: )

ED209:

--- Quote from: stevencosta on March 16, 2010, 04:03 PM ---nice purple  :D are those forks orange?

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yep - plastiKote fluro orange... mmm

firebird4130:
looks sweet mate  :daumenhoch:

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