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1983 Mongoose Californian

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e5dcb:
I started getting back into BMX after a friend started building old skool bikes.  
He had this one and I snapped it up before he put it on ebay. Its great condition so just had to have it.

This is how I bought it.
1983 Mongoose Californian.

Aero Zytec Mags
Blue amber wall tyres 20x1.75
Mongoose 1 piece crank and mongoose spider.
Suntour 44T chainring
SR Pedals
MX brakes with MX LEE CHEE levers.
SR Stem
OGK bar grips
mx clamp
std seat post
Aero Viscount Seat







So was pretty happy with the bike but wanted to do a few changes to make it ride better.

First up was a layed back seat post and a Blue suntour 42T nos chainring. Also added some temp pedals as 1 SR had lost its bearings.
Added a Campagnolo bolt as 1 was missing too. Bit hard to track down lol




Next up was some blue victor pedals



Also with the pedals I picked up some Blue brake blocks as I had black before and they were marking the mags.
So this is how it stands right now.
Next is some oe silver brake cables , some mongoose stickers (But keeping the old 1983 stamped info one) , and some blue mongoose grips. And poss some new nuts through out to replace the old ones.





More updates to follow  :)

e5dcb:
Closer inspection of the bike while cleaning it the other weekend found the 80s Aero mags to have some cracking around some of the spokes :(. UV degradation the likly cause and the fact there blumming old.

Anyway I dont fancy riding about on it and coming a cropper so these turned up today.

sid1972:
nice  :smitten: - pull them bars back a bit   :shocked:

e5dcb:
lol yeah they do look abit forward . I got some new grips coming so once I get them il sort all that out as the allen key bolts are abit rusty too.

NORTY40:
It will make a nice rider when it's done , like you say, some Blue goose grips and a set of decals and your not far off  :daumenhoch:

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