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UBRI : Ultra Burner, Re-Imagined.
griff:
Crack on then - if it makes you happy then nothing else matters :daumenhoch:
Was just confused as you said you wanted to get it as close as you possibly could to the pic you posted and then went off in another direction :teef:
Midschoolfool:
--- Quote from: griff on October 22, 2017, 06:19 PM ---Crack on then - if it makes you happy then nothing else matters :daumenhoch:
Was just confused as you said you wanted to get it as close as you possibly could to the pic you posted and then went off in another direction :teef:
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Yeah I know I can put out mixed signals sometimes. I also tend to rush into things too. Had I known how much it would cost I may have avoided it. I say may because I don't drink, don't smoke, don't go out much etc. So hey, every one has things that make them happy :)
Originally I thought I would do it as original as possible, then I saw the prices and state of the parts being offered. I want a new burner, like brand spanking new. Within about ten minutes I knew that was not going to happen. You would be looking at £2k+ to get all of the right parts and then have them restored/refurbed etc. So yeah, that was when I decided to do it my way and do it better than original. It's like I said before man, people are buying these whole, pulling them to bits and then asking stupid money for them.
I'm not worried about what it costs to do it this way. It will be sub £650 and I will have it for the rest of my life :)
dancetothedrummersbeat:
A good read this. It wouldn’t be the way i would have done it, but we’re all different. Give 10 people the same frame & forks, and give them the same build brief, and they will all build it differently. Build it for yourself, and as long as it gives you enjoyment, then you’ve done a good job. :daumenhoch:
Midschoolfool:
--- Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on October 22, 2017, 07:18 PM ---A good read this. It wouldn’t be the way i would have done it, but we’re all different. Give 10 people the same frame & forks, and give them the same build brief, and they will all build it differently. Build it for yourself, and as long as it gives you enjoyment, then you’ve done a good job. :daumenhoch:
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:slayer:
Exactly. That is the beauty of BMX and the almost endless pile of different parts, frames, etc.
Midschoolfool:
Afternoon all :) not much happening ATM because I am waiting to take the frame in for powder next week. I was going to send it to SBD but it would have cost me a tenner in packing (lagging pipe) and then £30 in postage. I asked my local guy if he had the clear and he does, so we worked out a fair price. It's literally 30m from my mother's house so very close..
Yesterday I put together the bars, stem, levers, cables and grips. Very happy with how they turned out. Little bummed over how crap modern anodizing is (it's like piss weak) but what can you do?
Now to talk about something else, the seat post. As you guys know (if you read my threads) I have a 2017 Mike Buff I changed around a bit. I bought a carbon fibre seat post for it but decided to take it off again. Any way, the post on that (it's a SE repro fluted post) is 27.2 and the Burner is 38.6 or something mental like that. Any hoo I looked for a shim but they were all coming up at like £12 in black. I don't want anything black on the bike. So I eventually found this for £3 in Hong Kong, ordered it a couple of weeks back and it came today.
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