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Please help with shopping list for 1st build (in 30 years!)
Gnarlyscoots:
Welcome to Rad buddy :daumenhoch:
Re-popped means re-issue. What Spen is trying to say is, a mint/NOS (new old stock) Kashimax Aero will set you back around £120 depending on colour. A re-issue Kashimax Aero will cost you about £50. They can be made to look like originals to the untrained eye, so research is key.
You can still pick up old school Tuff's fairly reasonably and worth it. They use cheap bearings in the new ones so their longevity isn't great. By the time you have shelled out for new Tuff's and Kool caps, it works out about £20 less than originals, although saying that, finding white old school Tuff's that haven't been bleached to an inch of existence and the nylon around the hub area not all cracked and ready to break up, is going to be nigh on impossible. White Tuff's are also the most desirable and sought after for everybody's Haro build. They also re-issued the alloy Tuff's back in 2011 when they found 120 sets of old hubs in the warehouse. They have a little date clock moulded onto one of the spokes, retro hand written on the inside of the rim, and graphite stamped on the rear hub instead of Skyway. While the clock can be sanded down and the retro removed, the graphite stamp will be a lot lot harder, so you will know if someone offers you a set as NOS white Skyways ;)
Old School:
--- Quote from: Gnarlyscoots™ on August 31, 2015, 01:33 PM ---Welcome to Rad buddy :daumenhoch:
Re-popped means re-issue. What Spen is trying to say is, a mint/NOS (new old stock) Kashimax Aero will set you back around £120 depending on colour. A re-issue Kashimax Aero will cost you about £50. They can be made to look like originals to the untrained eye, so research is key.
You can still pick up old school Tuff's fairly reasonably and worth it. They use cheap bearings in the new ones so their longevity isn't great. By the time you have shelled out for new Tuff's and Kool caps, it works out about £20 less than originals, although saying that, finding white old school Tuff's that haven't been bleached to an inch of existence and the nylon around the hub area not all cracked and ready to break up, is going to be nigh on impossible. White Tuff's are also the most desirable and sought after for everybody's Haro build. They also re-issued the alloy Tuff's back in 2011 when they found 120 sets of old hubs in the warehouse. They have a little date clock moulded onto one of the spokes, retro hand written on the inside of the rim, and graphite stamped on the rear hub instead of Skyway. While the clock can be sanded down and the retro removed, the graphite stamp will be a lot lot harder, so you will know if someone offers you a set as NOS white Skyways ;)
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Very interesting!
So were the Tuffs from the 80's just called Tuffs, and the 2011 ones were called Tuff 2's?
Also, my memory of the seat and seat post was that it was all one moulded unit - I've checked out the Kashimax and Viscount Aeros but they're just seats.... anyone got any ideas?
griff:
Someone's just posted a little history on tuffs from Maurice's site, hang on will find the thread
If you have a dig around the site you'll find most of the info you need, best advice anyone can get at this stage is to take your time, do your research and try your hardest to be patient for stuff to come up - is easy to get excited and end up with the wrong bits or pay over the odds
The seat combo you mentioned could be...
Uni? Did it have a coloured or chrome post? http://www.bmxsociety.com/topic/49945-uni-seat-time-line/
Elina Ultralight ( don't get the snake post version though whatever you do lol)
Troxel, unlikely but you never know
griff:
Here's some info on tuffs
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,183947.0.html
Old School:
Hi Griff,
To my memory it had a white seat post and seat - deffo not the UNI, that is minging!!
Nor the Elina either, yet to check out the last...
Thanks for the info on the Tuffs, will check out out ;)
Thanks again for the advice, slowly slowly catch your monkey :daumenhoch:
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