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Gary Fisher - Pure Bender

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renegaderacer:
Hot on the heels of my POS racer build, I'm now doing a build for a friend of mine and it has to be the worst named bmx ever!  :LolLolLolLol:

After seeing my last build my mate got the bug and asked me if the guy I bought the Hawk Scorcher XL off had any more bikes for sale. Well, all he had was this lovely Gary Fisher Pure Bender Kick and we won it for the princely sum of £25! To be honest, it's not a bad bike for the money and it's the kind of build I like, ie. one most people wouldn't choose to build!

A bit of research shows that the Pure Bender range had three models, the Spin, Flip and Kick with this, the Kick, being the top of the range one. In fact, this was the top of the range Gary Fisher until the Air Bob came out a year later. Now, early Pure Benders were well made copies of Basic Bikes Small Town Hicks and Big City Bastards which were in turn re-badged Gardner made Standard Shorties and Lengthies (the first batch of Basic Bikes, anyway). The later Pure Benders like the one we picked up, I believe a '98, appear to be copies of the Air Bob with the only difference being the frame is part chromoly whilst the Air Bob is full cro-mo.

This build is being done on a tight budget so a lot of parts will just be cleaned up and re-used but as it comes with Dia Compe AD and FS 990's, Gryo 2 etc it already has pretty decent parts to start with.

I forgot to take any pictures of it before I started stripping it apart so here are the pics from eBay....

renegaderacer:
If it was my bike I would strip the paint and get something a bit nicer or even clearcoat a raw frame (saw it on the Museum and it looked sick!) but due to budget constraints it's just going to cleaned up and left survivor. The strip down went amazingly well showing everything was well greased when it was first made. The only thing which was a pain the the butt was the pedals but once I'd found my special tool (six foot length of pipe to go over the pedal spanner) it was a piece of cake.

The idea is going to be a nice set of shiney three piece cranks, better saddle, maybe a chunky set of mid school wheels or just re-furbish the originals, new pegs and a set of tan wall tyres. A lot of the parts I've already got so it won't be long and I'll be able to start building it up and hopefully making something better than what we started with. Unfortunately, it'll still be called a Pure Bender!

renegaderacer:
The knee-saver style bars are a really nice size and shape so they're staying. They were a bit rusty but cleaned up well....

deeman:
Hell yea Giles...gars came up a treat  :daumenhoch:

renegaderacer:

--- Quote from: deeman on January 31, 2018, 11:38 PM ---Hell yea Giles...gars came up a treat  :daumenhoch:

--- End quote ---

Cheers!  :daumenhoch:

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