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UBRI : Ultra Burner, Re-Imagined.
Midschoolfool:
Few Burner purists out there will want to start a lynch mob :LolLolLolLol:
Have never done a LSD so this should be fun :D
griff:
Or you could have bought Nick's OG one for under £300 posted and done a resto ???
Your money and all that but it seems like you're spending a lot just to build a bike that not even the Burner fans will like - they care deeply about details that most of us on here don't give a toss about (reflectors anyone?)
I can see how people that had a burner BITD would maybe want to build a factory spec bike and can respect that (to a degree lol) but no amount of 'upgrading' is going to fix the shite geometry, has nothing to do with being a purist
Anyway don't mind me, just my two penneth
Avro:
..not sure where this thread is going or where it came from. May be click bait but meh.
Restore a Burner, great, it was all I ever had back in 1982 (all I ever had). If I were restoring a Burner it would be a blue and yellow tough and it would have to be spot on. I would take as long as it takes because it would take me to 1982, I would love the chase but bide my time. Up-grades? Sure I made them, many, but if I could go back....
Retrodan72:
Mate. It's your bike so do it how you want it but seriously consider whether or not those grips, seat clamp and spider ate the way you want to go with it.
Personally I'd go with a set of repop A'me grips in blue from pauleddie off eBay (£13.45), a DC seat clamp from Alan's (£12) and a Sugino spider off a RAD member for £15 or so, spending the extra £40 will give you a better looking bike IMHO and something you'll be happier yourself with long term.
Midschoolfool:
--- Quote from: griff on October 22, 2017, 04:33 PM ---Or you could have bought Nick's OG one for under £300 posted and done a resto ???
Your money and all that but it seems like you're spending a lot just to build a bike that not even the Burner fans will like - they care deeply about details that most of us on here don't give a toss about (reflectors anyone?)
I can see how people that had a burner BITD would maybe want to build a factory spec bike and can respect that (to a degree lol) but no amount of 'upgrading' is going to fix the shite geometry, has nothing to do with being a purist
Anyway don't mind me, just my two penneth
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I welcome opinions man don't sweat it :) I just have a different philosphy to most that's all. I never had a Burner as a kid. I wanted one bad, as mine was awful (Atlas.. Cotter pin, came from a toy store of all places). So yeah, of course we used to get all the catalogues (Granthams, Freemans etc) my mother used to be an agent for Freemans so we always had those. And I used to sit and stare at the bike section for hours. So yeah, it's fair to say I wanted a silver Ultra really badly.
But.
Few things about me. 1 - I like to do things my way and that will seem a bit skewed and off piste because I am autistic. So I don't really care about emotion so much but logic. If I had this Burner what would I have swapped out/spent my pocket money on/changed. And that would be most of it really. It will never make sense to any one but me.
2. I never sell anything that means something to me. I am not a hoarder, far from it, but I don't do fads. So that means that this Burner will have right of passage in front of my fireplace in my bedroom (because the fireplace is massive) and will never be moved from there unless I get evicted or die. I have three SEs atm, I will never part with those either. I bought a Mike Buff last year and swapped out the wheels etc.. People said "How can you do that?" and I just replied "Because this isn't Mike Buff's bike it's mine".
And the same goes for this Burner. Why would I want what absolutely everybody else had? nah, just not me man.
--- Quote from: Avro on October 22, 2017, 05:18 PM ---..not sure where this thread is going or where it came from. May be click bait but meh.
Restore a Burner, great, it was all I ever had back in 1982 (all I ever had). If I were restoring a Burner it would be a blue and yellow tough and it would have to be spot on. I would take as long as it takes because it would take me to 1982, I would love the chase but bide my time. Up-grades? Sure I made them, many, but if I could go back....
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If I could go back I would have bought ten Burners and deflated the tyres and put them in storage for 30 years. Same goes for a lot of what I had as a kid. I paid £30 for my TRM Freestyler frame in 1986. They now sell for £1500+. But you just never know what is going to be worth what and you kinda don't think that far ahead. We'd all be rich mate, all of us :D
This thread is not click bait it's just me building a bike and taking every one along for the ride. I am not envious or jealous I love seeing people happy. Kinda like in The Shawshank Redemption where he gives away all of his beer and sits and smiles. I love reading threads like this. I love seeing people express themselves etc.
If I could go back I would go back to the 17th of October 1981 and tell my father not to play football that day. I would tell him that he had the same heart condition his older brother had and had to have a double bypass for. I would get him to the hospital and he would still be here now. Sadly I can't do that. He died that day and was DOA when he got to the hospital.
Had my father lived I would have had this bike and then some. But he didn't, and you just gotta roll with the punches. I was going to avoid old school bikes completely if I am being totally honest. Why I chose the Burner is a mystery because it really is poor.
Dan - just saw your post as I was about to post. The grips are a take on old grips. I like that. They have like Ame patterns on them and the ends remind me of Oakley. I don't know if you can get a DC seat clamp because the Burner frame is massive, but I will be honest I don't really like them that much. Silly, as I have the brakes and etc but yeah, not a huge fan of those clamps.
It's all subject to change too. I am thinking now about putting a big fat 3pc on it. Dunno though, I don't have a single bike with a 1pc so that's why I have stuck to it so far.
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