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Midschoolfool:
"Big, American, heavy and hard to fly". Perfect.



Back in '97 I had a 96 STA.





AKA "The Standard Standard". Mostly because everything on it that could be a SBC part was. So bars (4pc strip) stem, fork, frame, seat post, seat clamp. The only thing it really wanted was a 3pc but they were still very expensive then. You were looking at £200 for a hookup and then a sprocket on top.

Any way, time has gone by and I've built a few bikes now so I fancied doing something that I had actually owned. I found a busted STA on Ebay for £70.



Well, when I say busted what I really mean is "Some guy cut off the brake so he could run micro drive".





Poorly. I wouldn't mind, but he then sent it for powder. Why? why not sort it properly? IDK man, people huh?

Any way, the frame arrived and I bought myself one of these.



And.



I will be working on the brake plate. Having fitted a Boomerang the other week to my Carlo Griggs bike I know that with some patience you can do it without strapping it down.

I found a 2012 Stolen Score for £199 delivered.



Which provided me with nearly all of the parts I needed. Obs a couple of things were needed so seat clamp.



Chain (you will see why shortly)



Sprocket (28t, bigger than the 25 I got with the Stolen)



Nice quality, nice and thick.



Design



And.



My mate has a mill and is machining it for me. Whilst that is being done I ordered blue brake cables.



Skin wall 110PSI (Fly Campillera)



Bar ends (blue)



Brake pads.



And a BB adapter (already got a 19mm Euro BB)



OK so I then basically drew up all of the graphics so I could cut them myself and did a test cut.



I then drew the rest.



Now I was going to put this on the chainstay.



But at that point my brain kicked in and said "Sod it, just do it custom and badass" And thus, here is what I drew.



And the TT decal.

oldschoolace:
Nice build idea! Loving the 80s freestyle keyboard  :daumenhoch:

Midschoolfool:
Cheers Ace ! I have a thing for tiny keyboards. That is my home one, with "miami" keys on. At my mother's I have the same board (only with brown switches instead of blues) and "French Fries"



Quite funny really, the keys costing almost twice as much as the keyboard lol. Needs must I guess :D

Decal sheet 1 is now complete.



Just a couple of small ones to do. This is what I will be using. Mirror blue chrome.



I think what really inspired me was getting ripped for £35 every time I wanted a sheet of stickers. I know that dudes have a living to make, but there are various sites on the bay that will print stickers on enormous sheets for practically nothing. Only one problem, I don't know how to draw in vectors. So I am stuck on Photoshop. However, what I can do is draw scaled decals as silhouettes to then cut.

I pay £1.98 for three A4 sheets of that stuff up there. A full set of decals will probably use two sheets......

But yeah. This time I just decided to f**k it and to hell with tradition and rules. A couple of times I have tried to keep my bike as period correct and etc as I can but IMO it spoils the end product. I've shaved off the brakes so what I have is very similar to the 93 proto that was brakeless.

Midschoolfool:
Amendum lol.

Frame is being powdered black by none other than SBD.

Edit to add, decals should be about done.



I just need one of these. Will email Del in the morn.

Midschoolfool:
OK so today I began test cutting the decals. The first attempt was pretty bad. Not only did it drag the blade all over the vinyl (scratching it really bad) but certain things were not right.



The rivets are simply too small.



I did manage to rescue one damaged plane for a rough idea, though.



So I refined the graphics for a couple of hours, then tried again. Sadly I am out of blue for now so I had to switch to scrap matt gold.



Much better ! I also cut two planes, but it still needs a bit more meat on the front end.

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