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Ambrosio rims, any good, what the deal with them?

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oldschoolace:
I've been offered a tidy blue rim laced to a heliomatic hub. They seem to fetch good money in the states but dont look that great to me  :-\
Anyone know anything about them, the one i have seen has a large rectangular label with ambrosio bmx written on it

Cheers, Clint

pickle:
Nice rims, i guess it just depends on what floats ya boat  :daumenhoch:

Gnarlyscoots:
I could never understand the 'buzz' about those rims Clint. Some people will pay serious money for them, even though they came on Toy store bikes. I think some sellers just 'bigged them up' and people thought they were super rare, bumping the prices extremely high.

I think the long decal, spaced lettering, is second generation, and the small red decal is first. There should be a Durex decal on them too

oldschoolace:
Cheers Terry, that was pretty much my thought, the seam in the side wall is pretty prominent on these things and my experience of most italian bmx stuff is that its not great.

Think i will give it a miss at 40 posted, would never find a front anyway  :-\

Gnarlyscoots:

--- Quote from: oldschoolace on August 03, 2015, 05:01 PM ---the seam in the side wall is pretty prominent on these things

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Yeah, the seam does look a bit poor quality. The rim is just pinned too, I think, I can't remember now. There was a seller a few months ago trying to sell a NOS set off for stupid amount of money. Not my thing though. I only ever saw them on cheap bikes back in the day, my Sister's Piranha having gold ones, and never saw any rider's over Shoreham donning them on their racer's.

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