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Rooonga:
My dad had a lathe at home, so I made loads of "stunt nuts" and also flex fighters.

The flex fighters were very good TBH, and I wish I had kept the ones I got rid of.

sweetbeats:
Best Mod i Did was after reading a bmx mag on making seats lighter drill my aero seat with my Dads hand drill-looked a fookin mess but in my mind made my tuff burner go like lightning  :D

58 delray:
i drilled a pair of race inc leading axle forks to take a front brake (fook knows why  :LolLolLolLol:) so if anyne comes across a drilled set with the hole very slightly off centre they are mine  ;D

hunterdubber:

--- Quote from: 58delray on September 28, 2010, 01:47 PM ---i drilled a pair of race inc leading axle forks to take a front brake (fook knows why  :LolLolLolLol:) so if anyne comes across a drilled set with the hole very slightly off centre they are mine  ;D

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I did the same at Christmas 1983 , drilled my undrilled Gt Nora forks  :idiot2:

they're not gonna turn up anywhere in the future though , I snapped em launching my bike up our Quarterpipe and bailing  :crazy2:sometime in  85

 :LolLolLolLol:

ED209:
My dad never had the 'tools for the job' so it was always a struggle  >:(

Used to make wheel discs out of big sheets of plastic my dad from some trade show display... frame plates as well to go in the middle triangle - never had any cable ties though! string or those freezer bag ties... with the wire in ... GHETTO!

Copper pipe laybacks ... epic fail that one.

Did what Action Bike said an 'hammered bits of tube onto wheelnuts to make pegs' ... another fail.

Had one of those Speedwheels Spinner rotor things ... they used to stick and pull the brake on when you turned so we put longer brake adjusters running up from the bottom clamp towards the rotor which stopped the cable moving with the rotor.

Pre BMX I 'made' some bars with no cross bar into a stunning pair of 'Renthals' with a sprayed bit of wooden dowel and electrical tape  8)

I made my Puch Invader into a Skyway TA ... had to just settle for a paint job and decals after my dad talked me out of squashing all the frame tubes in a vice first to make them TA  :idiot2:

Got a welder!
- Made a Quarterpipe out of pig farrowing crates - cut every bit with a hacksaw for weeks after school as my dad refused to by an angle grinder - heavy as fook that beast was - dropped it on my dads toe and he hopped around swearing as my and my mates trying not to laugh.
- made an axel with wheels to tow the QP around - one wheel fell off on the way back from a demo  :laugh:
- Made a Univega Freestyle frame into a Scooter when the article appeared in RAD - that was pretty good  :angel:

Gypsy farm bowy  :LolLolLolLol:

PS. drilled my c o c k ( accidently ) while putting rails on a skateboard... story for another time  :-X

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