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dancetothedrummersbeat:
Thread resurrection! As you all now know, Jono won this frameset on ebay, but something else he wanted came up at the same time. As he was concentrating on his freestylers, he sold the Changa to Terry (Wildon). A few months later, Terry decided to move it on. I bought the frameset from Terry in May last year. It needed some work to tidy up the dropouts, fill some pitting to the tubing, but the main job was repairing some pretty major pitting to the seat tube just above the bottom bracket. I'll do a full resto thread once it's all done, but here's a few photos...

The frame/forks when they arrived



Bad pitting to the seat tube



chrome stripped, and ready to be sent to Voris Dixon in Arizona to replace the seat tube



seat tube out





new seat tube fitted



frame is now back from a local welder, who did a fantastic job in tidying up the dropouts, building up the rear cable guide that had been partially filed away, and repairing some areas of pitting the top and downtubes





Next step. Off to the chromers. Full resto thread will follow in due course

Jono:
Looking great andy glad it went to someone willing to do the hard work I just put a sticker over it lol well done mate looking forward to seeing it finished

dancetothedrummersbeat:
Thanks Jono. Absolutely chuffed to finally get it, and the extra work in getting it sorted has only made it more enjoyable. It was a great feeling to get it repaired by the man/company that made it 30 years ago. I have the emails and invoice from Voris, which i'll post up once the full restoration has been complted and the bike built  :daumenhoch:

Retrodan72:

--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on March 01, 2015, 07:45 PM ---Thanks Jono. Absolutely chuffed to finally get it, and the extra work in getting it sorted has only made it more enjoyable. It was a great feeling to get it repaired by the man/company that made it 30 years ago. I have the emails and invoice from Voris, which i'll post up once the full restoration has been complted and the bike built  :daumenhoch:

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Brilliant Andy, your grail that's been handled personally by its creator.

I'm chuffed for you too mate. :coolsmiley:

BMX1973:
Great work there.  :) Will be good to see built up.  :daumenhoch:

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