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Gnarlyscoots:
Over the last few months, I have noticed that a lot of people's builds are being built with hard to find exotic parts, rather than the usual run of the mill parts or parts that we actually remember from back then. I don't see many Suntour stems anymore for example, it's all about the Tuff Neck or Pro Neck or ESP etc  :-\

Also, polishing or polished chrome seems to back into the fray a lot more too.

I am guilty, in part, in wanting to find and fit exotic items to my bikes in the past and, two bikes I have on the go at the moment, I find myself hunting down high end items for them. The third though, I am looking to fit it out with good used run of the mill products and try to get back to the basics of building a good BMX bike.

Is this where BMX is at though, or am I alone in thinking this way?

Thoughts please......

midschooljon:
To be honest I really like seeing guys build bikes with hard to find stuff. Its not for me, and I much prefer building bikes the way I remember seeing them at the track or trails back in the day. Saying that, I dont think there is anything wrong with guys wanting to build high end bikes though.

As for polishing things to death.... don't get me started on that.  :LolLolLolLol:

oldschoolace:
It may just be the natural progression of building Terry. Most start with something simple or their childhood bike, then on to a few bikes they coveted bitd, one or two grails or tribute/replica builds then what? I guess exotica is the next logical step?

Jaymz:
Survivor/riders all the way for me

griff:
You on about here or the museum Terry?

Don't see so much bling on here tbh

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