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Manuel The Bandito. 2001 S&M Dirt Bike NG

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bobafett:
Nice bit of info  :)

I like the look of that T1.... I've got a bit of a thing for painted frames with chrome or nickel forks - I like the contrast  8)

That probably originates from this goose obsession of mine though............

 ;D



 :coolsmiley:
 

Midschoolfool:
Yeah I had to do a chrome front end tbh. Was well handy when I used to ride hard, because chrome forks scratched a lot less and thus didn't look like crap.

This is the last bike I had in the mid school. I built it up working for minimum wage in a bike shop, and was short of a 3pc. I also had a 98 Quad with Peregrine Super Pro etc but I got jacked coming out of work one night.



was a 96 STA with Standard bash fork, standard stem, standard 6pc strip bars, standard post, standard seat clamp. At the time (1996) there were no more Standard parts, so my mates nicknamed it the standard standard. I didn't even know pics of it existed, but when my mother moved away from London and down here in 2007 she found them. Then I remembered I had to take some pics and get them developed so I could sell it in Ride UK. That would have been around ooo, 2000 ish.

My Quad Angle had a chrome front end too. Was a candy apple red frame. That is why I built the yellow one (because I didn't want to tempt fate).

It's pretty hard to do now tbh. I found those Hitman Conspiracy fork on Ebay NOS. With 990 lugs, which again is unheard of now. Maybe later I will post up some of the logs for that and my other bikes that I did a few years ago.

BTW the bars on the T1? they are not chrome. Only Fly does the finish and they call it Stainless.



Basically they polish the raw metal, zinc plate it and then clear with powder. It's really bloody nice tbh. A great way of getting around the nastiness of chrome plating.

bobafett:

That is a nice finish on those bars indeed  :coolsmiley:

Mikku:

--- Quote from: griff on July 13, 2020, 02:24 PM ---Great thread  :daumenhoch:

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This ^^^ :daumenhoch:

Have enjoyed this one - thanks for sharing and good luck with the 'goose!

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