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Rocking horse poo
Midschoolfool:
I found it. I actually found some wooden horse droppings. Bought this earlier.
for what I consider to be a very, very good price. It's no different to any other U.S made S&M really. Very expensive to buy new. Their U.S frames are now 479 quid and up.
This one though? they did the first run like the above. Then they got slapped with a cease and desist from the brand's owner (they didn't even realise CW was still owned by some guy) and thus the year after they had to remove the gusset and any other branding.
As you can see The Incredible Hulk may have jizzed on it somewhat. Hint people, don't paint frames on an old rug or this happens.
However, even that could not put me off. My intention is to take it back to bone stock. Which fortunately for me is flat white (meaning it will cost about a fiver to paint properly, involve no clear coat and etc) and then get my buddy to make the OG decals for it (because you can't get them because they were also cease and desist). It should look like this.
When I reach that point I will build a box with a plexi front (lit up from inside) and it will go pride of place on my bedroom wall.
This one is a little bit like that F-IT Aitken they made. See, it was just a very nicely made new school frame. But it had stickers on it that resembled Mongoose, so the old school lot went divvy over it. This is no different.
They'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands :LolLolLolLol:
Chilli Rinse:
Saw it, seriously considered buying, glad it went to a proper mid schooler fistblump
Midschoolfool:
She's a bit new.
I just wanted a U.S made frame to display on the wall. I considered the brown Hangman (FIT) on Custom riders but it's 350 bones. It is U.S made though, and basically an S&M.
Then I wanted this.
Yet when you go to order it? you realise what they are up to /ROLL EYES. They are fooling Google. It's a bait and switch.
Source do it too. Show a part and a price, yet when you get there mysteriously all of the cheap ones are gone /ROLLS EYES AGAIN.
Shitty trick IMO.
BTM, ATF etc all go for more than I ended up paying for this. It needs work, but the bones are good. One tiny dent, I already have the JB to hand.
Midschoolfool:
Right, let's get the party started !
The frame shipped the other day. PF 48. I tracked it, but due to the BHW it won't be here for a few days. That's OK. I wasn't planning anything yet, hence why I've not posted again. However, tonight I had an idea.
I don't have room for any more complete bikes. There is a limit, and I have reached it. However, it was time to maybe thin the herd and maybe get rid of one or two that I don't feel attached to.
Some of you may know this, some not. I am autistic. As such I either form a very strong bond with something or it's just "meh" and I don't really want it. About two and a half years ago I bought this.
Now as it happens autism usually comes with a "co morbidity". Mine is Bipolar II. As such when I found the Mirra it was so cheap I could not say no (ahhh, impulse...). TBH? when I say cheap I mean, cheap. Like, I reckon less than trade price (?410). It wasn't for sale for that price but I called the store and asked if they would accept it. I was amazed when they said "Yeah go on then". And so it went, I ended up with a bike I didn't really want. And so it sat under my mother's 'rona stash for two years :LolLolLolLol:
Then at Christmas she had a fall and broke her leg. As such I sold one bike (My Master Flat) and this thing was just getting on my nerves. Mum couldn't come to her house for three months, but it was one of those fooking things she wanted moved YESTERDAY. That is why I sold the Master. I had no attachment to that either (I hated it tbh) and it was cursed from day one (smashed my knee in on it when the chain snapped) and thus that was the weakest link so off it went. I then hauled the Haro Mirra up into the loft, and built it so I could get rid of the box. I never posted it anywhere, never really talked about it and etc. It just, well, doesn't do anything for me at all. I tried (and failed) to sell it a few times for a bit more than I paid (not much more) but nothing. So there it sat until tonight.
Like I said, I wasn't intending to build this S&M. However I got thinking about it tonight, and immediately wanted to. It's not really a grail bike, but it is a new school U.S made S&M. Something I do not have. Something I wanted. So, I thought about it and decided to strip the Haro. This is what was left when I was done.
Stuck it on a FB group and literally ten minutes later I had been paid and it is being collected in a couple of days. Turns out the guy has family literally right up the road from where it is. Huh, funny that one.
So that left me with cash in my pocket. Like, spare cash, that I didn't have, and I don't need per se. So yeah within ten minutes that was gone and then some :LolLolLolLol:
The most critical part of this build is making it look like some old dick head didn't strip a Mirra and put all of the parts onto an S&M. lol. The cranks on the Mirra are toss. 8 spline cackness. I wouldn't even insult Cam Wood tbh. So the first order of the day was to spend all of the money I sold the rest of the left overs on cranks. Yes.
Demolition Rig. They are, quite probably, THE most expensive set of 48 spline cranks you can buy. The RRP is ?199, and you don't even get a BB. To put that in perspective my Primo Superbite were on sale for ?140 with a BB. So yeah, they cost some. However, they were on sale for 149.99. I knew if I was ever going to buy them it would be now. Problem is I then had to pay a further 25 quid for a focking 24mm BB.
I don't mind though. Like I said, the last thing in this world I wanted was for it to look like a Mirra, with cheap cranks on. Main reason I got away with that was because I have had these sitting in a packet for about two years.
S&M hoder. I bought them for the Dirt Bike, but they looked too modern. I also did not want to use the Haro grips (hence why I sold them) so whilst they were still around for a tenner (before some asshole starts selling them for 30 quid on Ebay) I grabbed another set.
That left one thing. The Lineage stem. See, I reckon the fork will be fine because I am going to remove the decals. What you are then left with is a reasonably plain chrome fork that looks quite nice. The bars too. I really like the 2pc chrome bars that came on the Mirra. Hilariously I am probably the only guy on the planet that has said that. Every one else threw them away and bought Knee savers. However, I am very much with Robbie Morales. "EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ! FOUR PIECE !". They also don't have any Haro logos on etc. Just nice, plain, 2pc chrome bars. The stem however? well it's got HARO plastered all over it. So that is going too.
Kink Hi Rise. Was on sale for 34 quid. Will break up the front end real nice, and make it look better.
For the seat I just removed this from my Metal for a big padded one.
And for the post I am using the stubby I was going to use on the T1 before I went mad and spent lots. So, I have "de haroed" it as much as I can, and I am left with this.
One thing I do love is the sprocket. I ran a nuke CNC on my race bike back then and it was superb. Oh and of course.
Which if you squint a bit kinda look a bit like S&M speed ball white wall tyres. Either way they are more than good enough for me. I also kept the headset, bearings, gyro plate, brake cables and ETC.
OK so the elephant in the room. How the F do you get decals for a frame that was stomped on my the real CW and forced from sale? you don't. And this has been concerning me greatly, because I desperately want it bone stock. Now if you look at them? it's kinda hard to get your head around how the hell they are drawn.
So in a last desperate attempt I put out an S.O.S on BMX Museum and within ten minutes someone posted this.
Guess what I will be doing tomorrow? :LolLolLolLol:
What a life saver !
Mikku:
I'm in for this! :daumenhoch:
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