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What was the first BMX frame to come with (welded on) Brake lugs?
lodge:
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--- Quote from: discostu on January 17, 2013, 08:47 PM ---I thought there were earlier bmx's that had mounts with Suntour Cunningham roller cams. Not a u brake but still used frame mounts. :daumenhoch:
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Yeah, good point. Didnt Hutch have a weld-on mount Roller cam front brake?
The same one that Standard had on a few prototype forks in the 90s.
--- Quote from: S&Mc Bicycle Co on January 17, 2013, 10:14 PM ---Ammaco issued myself and glyn lewis with prototype frames at the end of 85 they had lugs on the underside of the chainstays and also on the forks, I hadn't seen them before so I took it to a local road bike shop but they didn't have any brakes to fit.
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Thats way cool, very interesting. Strange that Ammaco would put mounts on when the brakes werent really available. I wonder where they got the details of the mounts and the idea to use them. Esp as not many (if any) other bikes were using them in 1985
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I dont think ammaco had a clue about the lugs tbh, the frames were a bit of a mystery they said It was a prototype but I suspect they were catalogue frames from usual supplier in Taiwan. I was breaking the ammaco all steel 18" frame on a weekly basis and they had to send me a complete every time so they said they would get me a stronger full chro-mo frame and the frame with the lugs is what turned up. The frames had similarities to the ammaco styler500 such as the kicktail etc which was introduced a while later so I suspect manufactured in same place.
bof:
Diamond back had lugged frames in 86 but i dont think they are ad 990 , i thought they also did a reactor race bike at the same time ,
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/diamondback/56394
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/diamondback/50224
nosepickben:
Good digging bof and a very interesting story from S&Mc. So who made those lugged ammaco frames? Were they definitely Japanese?
gary4130:
skyway didn't put luggs on 'beats until '87
bet they just used old beats up first +welded the luggs on :-\
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee101/99bowtie/IMG_3141.jpg
sure it was the diamondback with mike d strike zone in '86 -remember bmx plus having a test with one
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