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Recreating my '98 Quadangle. Come with me on a journey of epic proportions.
Midschoolfool:
--- Quote from: Taipan on February 11, 2017, 09:00 PM ---I'll watch and see as this unfolds :daumenhoch: hopefully you'll have better luck with this bike fella :daumenhoch:
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haha thanks ! yeah not been very lucky with SEs. Never had another brand stolen tbh.. I did have an 81 looptail that I crashed and ended up having to have surgery on my elbow though :D
So this time I am being careful. Got myself a lid, gloves etc.
Midschoolfool:
Just a quick update.
So the pegs I am using are Colony. They RRP for £25 each. So I managed to find those yellow ones for £4.99 each. I bought two initially, but last night decided to go back and look and see if there were any more left. There were five, so I bought another two. They say they are only for the left and rear, but when I looked at the ones that I have already it was clear they can be mounted on any side front or rear, you just have the logo at a funny angle/upside down.
Obviously I don't care about that as I will be using some form of grip tape on them. So yeah, got four now. Currently thinking "Do I really want to mount them?" but probably will. I am building the bike to be a DSR (dirt, street, race) so pegs are fun.
I also ordered this last night.
In red. It's a cable hanger.. Will look much better than that nasty steel crap.
Also I forgot to mention. I have a plotter. So basically I can cut single colour graphics.
As an example. You may have noticed that the 90s Quadangle was 6061 alu and mine is Cro Mo. So, I need to design (done) and cut a graphic that looks similar to the 6061 graphic only "Cro Mo".
So I have also ordered some vinyl. I have the yellow and the silver, just need the black now. Then I can make that up and complete the sticker set :)
Midschoolfool:
SHINY !!!
Hopefully the centre tube is the right length so I do not have to cut the one I have.
Avro:
I can see that you are having so much fun with this! ;D
Great how you can pick and choose from such an large pool of parts and suppliers, makes me very jealous.
Midschoolfool:
--- Quote from: Avro on February 13, 2017, 04:11 PM ---I can see that you are having so much fun with this! ;D
Great how you can pick and choose from such an large pool of parts and suppliers, makes me very jealous.
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Yeah it's lucky. I could build five bikes for what some guys spend on a F&F. I'm glad I rode the mid school and old skool tbh. I'm glad because it made me realise that things move on and tech improves and gets better and better.
I wouldn't mind a couple of the bikes I had in the 80s, but having rode an 80s bike during the mid school I realised that yeah, things had improved an awful awful lot.
In the late 90s I was walking past a bike shop one day. One that we used to go to when we were kids on the bus to buy parts of a weekend. Any way, he had a brand new NOS (term didn't even exist then !) Skyway Street Beat in white. Very early 80s. He also had a brand new white Skyway hot seat and a few other Skyway parts. I decided I was going to build a second bike, phoned him when I got home and asked what he wanted for it. I paid about £50 IIRC.
Any way over the next few weeks I stocked up on parts and built it.. I remember bolting the back wheel onto it and thinking "Jesus these dropouts actually flex !". Any way, I took it over the park to the tennis courts (kinda concrete) and tried to pull a few tricks on it but each time ended up on my ass. The back end was almost unbelievably short. It was light though, but I reckon one serious gap and I would have left the back end of it behind.
Few weeks later I sold it to a mate who was hard up for £30 and he gave it to his little brother for his birthday.
It's crazy, because during the 90s 80s BMX stuff was practically worthless. It's only been since the dawn of the internet and guys reaching our age that these parts have become worth anything again. The PK Ripper I paid £250 for (complete with Z rims the lot, all NOS) in 1998 is worth about three grand in parts now. I sold it for $400 after having a bad tumble on it out in the USA.
But yeah, my favourite bikes are all mid school. Schwinn Hydramatic, '98 Quad, Standard Shorty). I do have a PK Ripper but mostly because that was my dream bike when I was a kid. After riding one however? they look a bit odd and skinny when you are sat on one haha. One of the very few bikes that has really stood the test of time though, and I have a gorgeous '17 Mike Buff.
Once I have this Quad I have what I want, and with me not being attached to old parts etc it does make it nice that I can buy all of the really nice mod cons for it.
It also helps that I live in a flat with no outside space at all. I can fit two bikes in the hallway and that is it. And I pushed it for two and it caused massive rows with my wife. She's good now though, now she knows I will stop at two :)
I think TBH bikes are like computers. You can only really settle on one, get used to it and do the best with it. That would be why I have three computers lmao. Mind you they are smaller and easier to explain :D
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