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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN:
82' standard team mongoose is what it was - well that was the answer to a question of "what bike frame is this ?" asked by a member on Raleighburner.com

the photo's show a bike frame that had seen better days and a mish-mash of parts - CW style bars with a couple of dents in the cross bars - tange copy fork that bent the wrong way - odd wheels and press metal calipers

Well i pm'd him and asked if he wanted to sell the frame ! - cut a long time and story short is was a swap for some mags with a bit of cash and some brake cables and decals throw in for free - so a meet up was done  in the middle of a freezing day at tesco's car park - looked so dodgy handing over bmx parts  :lol:

I did ask if he could not touch/clean the frame in any way, so I could do it in my own way  :wink:

so i got it home and had a look over it and it was covered in grease ans even had a feather on it ? must be a goose then ! - surface rust and pitting all over the frame - a couple of marks on one side of the gusset - and a couple of scrapes on the frame

Before i got it






before / what it looked like when i got it


















Now after 10 hours of polishing over 3 days in different stages to get it up - it now looks like this  :shock:




















Now there are still marks and some small pitting in places, i think that adds a touch of class to a frame that is 29 years old and still can turn out like this  :cool: - now i just gotta find some forks to go with it

cheers B  :wink:

diesel:
tell all, what a you using for that process please?

Looks fantastic  :daumenhoch:

brettypeeps:
You have photographed two frames there :LolLolLolLol: Great work :4_17_5:

xGoose:
 ??? Great work!

kdw712:
Amazing work there. looks fantastic   :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

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