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Andyboy77:
Hi everybody,

recently I purchased a '91 Haro Sport Platinum. From the pics of the original for sale-add I could already tell that this may/will be a lot of work. In terms of condition I would give it a 3 out of 10.
The seller offered right away to refund me fully if I may change my mind on keeping it. On one hand it is nice to know not to loose any money, but on the other hand I'd really like to give a propper resto a go here. 

I've already had a look at the museum page and just found two of this '91 Sport in that very colour. Not many of them seem to be about. Our Ed brought that to my attention a month ago.
By having a look at the 1991 haro cataloque, I found out this version which came with Araya 48's was available in two colour schemes:

- Neon Lime frame and black forks
- Platinum frame and black forks

This '91 Sport also has been available with a black frame and neon red forks, but this version came with mags.

That's pretty much all I know up until now. Exept, many tricks we know today have been invented by Mat Hoffman on one of these bikes. I remember seeing 'Head First' for first time back then, and instantly falling in love with that awesome pink bike someone of the protagonists rode in that movie.

To put this in the right perspective, I know it's easy to put a thread up and just ask instead of doing ones homework first. I'm not too lazy in order to gather more infos on this bike but I feel totally lost as I don't know where to start.
The cataloque and the museum-site seem pretty useless so far - or I just didn't find the right threads yet.

On here I found a thread about serial numbers and models (Sport, Master etc.) referring to Old School Haros, but I couldn't find anything like that for the later Mid School models (or did I just missed that???). If there are more threads with valid infos on here or elsewhere, I'd be deeply grateful if you could drop the links in the comments.  :) I also would highly appreciate, if you could tell me about several parts you may recognise in the pictures below.  :bow:  :bow:  :bow:
Although this has more of a secondary importance to me, as I may find out more detalied infos on those parts (disk, cranks etc.) over time.
 

My dilemma: or to put it with other words - what are your thoughts?

- The frame itself has a lot of marks and scratches. The pre owner defo rode the crap out of this thing. The right chainstay has deep marks, probably due to a lot of sliding. The srew on pegs don't look much better either.
(pictures of these two issues will be up tomorrow)
All the dropouts still look really good though. The Araya 48's should be still fine - will know after cleaning 'em up.

- Especially the condition of the frame is giving me a hard time, because I'm not sure if the rusty bits can be saved or not???
I've seen a couple of radsters doing magic things regarding frame repairs, so I'm assuming or hoping there's something that possibly could be done about it. But I have zero experience in what tools to use, what kind of preperation needs to be done at the outset, and how to do the filling. Also, what do I use to fill the holes so that the powder will stick. Recently I've read something regarding powder will not stick at places where the filling was done. Is this true?

- If I go for a frame repair, should I get it re-powdered then too or just use touch up paint at the repaired areas?

As I mentioned above, when Ed told me how rare these Platinum Sports are he also said I shouldn't do anything to it because there aren't many of 'em still around.

Please help me, by pointing me to the right dircection. As you can tell from these (way to many ;D) words, I don't want to start a resto like this and running into the risk of screwing it up badly, just due to it all beeing beyond my skill levels. Don't know if this is the right bike for a trail and error approach.

Any hint, advise and what else you have on offer will be highly appreciated.  :)

Here are the pictures:

























The area that will decide it's future:  :'(




Many thanks for reading!  :daumenhoch:

Andy

chubby:
Doesn't look too bad at all that Andy. You'd be amazed what difference a decent citric bath will do for the rusty bits....
All depends what you want, blingy show bike or proper nice survivor ride you can use & enjoy..

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mivvi:
I was expecting to see a right rusty heap, mangled and bent beyond repair! I see no real issues restoring this (and I have little skills compared to some of the chaps on here) back to a good looking ride-able bike again. As Chubby says, it depends if you want it show looking or survivor? As for the rusty area under the seat post area, get the paint off that area and check how bad it really is, it could be nothing to worry about. Have a good weekend scrubbing and polishing and that will come up a gem. Good luck  :daumenhoch:

WINI:
Lovely these Andy. I bought mine a few years ago as NOS and loved it. Very few come up, looks like a good score  :daumenhoch:

oldschoolace:
Citric acid bath and clean her up Andy. You can do a full resto anytime but it will only be survivor once!!!

Some bikes can be too far gone to run as a clean survivor and a full resto makes sense but I think that will clean up a treat  :daumenhoch:

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