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1980 Tange Hot Heart build.
Avro:
It has been tricky on the BMX front of late; house move and new job (sort of) have rather got in the way. The move is complete now and I should be able to crack on. I do my own anodising but that is on hold while a new building is being erected at work in which I can set up my station; that should not hold things up too much as I did rush a few jobs before I had to pack it all up and move. Anyway, here is my latest build, a 1980 Tange Hot Heart. I did hesitate to post this build as it did feature quite recently in another guise but I like to contribute to the forum so here it is anyway.
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I have this JBM fold out catalogue from January 1982 and it never fails to inspire me.
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The Bobby Encinas Hot Heart has formed the basis of an earlier build I did with the Shimano Z2 twin speed system. This time I am more interested in the decals, not the Bobby Encinas No. 1 set but the Hot Heart decals on the down tube.
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I love them to bits and had to get them reproduced. I found other shots of the seat post tube and head tube decals and sent everything I had found out to Decals; he never disappoints.
In the meantime I got the fold out catalogue digitised, not least to avoid wearing out the original! It was then that I spotted some black smudges under the 'Tange (heart motif) Hot Heart text. I zoomed in and, ahhhh!, more detail revealed. Under the main text it reads, in black, 'Competition Racing Frame & Fork'. I'd missed it, that said it would have been invisible on my black frame anyway. I does mean though that I will have to find another frame to wear the corrected decals ;D
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I added a Tange Number 1 decal (the green tubing decal) as this is what is shown on the Bobby Encinas bike.
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I am nick-naming the bike 'Liquorice Allsort' as the primary colours and dominant black frame remind of them. I am super pleased with how it is coming on, it should be a beauty!
More to come soon, thanks for reading.
monkian:
Great idea Peter. Should be a fun build. So was this my old frame-set I sold to Matt?
Avro:
Yes Paul the frame is one and the same, it is why I have hesitated to post about it here given it featured so recently.
If you remember I asked about the frame once I saw that you were selling parts from your build.
Avro:
Lovely period advert for a lovely headset:
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I have a few cracking headsets and this bike is getting one of them, a Tange MX3, or at least a lookie-likie, perhaps YST? Whatever the manufacturer I really like these colour banded cups; a simple way to add accents and detail.
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...another lovely ad...
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I picked the forks up at MK a couple of years ago, new old stock and minty. I was particularly looking for TX500's so I was made up. They did not break the bank either.
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I had hoped to top it off with a black Tange head lock but I seem to have neglected to find one. I do have a couple of these Tioga Taskforce locks so one will have to do for now. I am going to search for a black Tange item as I think it will look better and be more consistent with the theme. Boyd has a load of the locknuts but no black, typical. I may have to re-anodise one if my search proves fruitless.
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It is coming on nicely and I hope to make more progress this weekend.
Thanks for looking.
Hedsta:
Thats gonna look tops when its done bro...
Sourcing some of those parts might be a challenge but isnt that the whole point?
Gonna keep my eye on this
Congrats on the new house as well mate - hope yr settled in okay.
I f*cking hate moving, lol :tickedoff: :tickedoff:
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