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when did the first twin toptube bike appear?
oberonspacefruit:
go on harris.
i was told, at the time in 1982 or so that it was a pirahna.
now i saw a twin toptube pirahna on the bay recently with its original pads etc, very rare..
but the dropouts looked nothing like i remembered, in fact most of the identifying bits looked different.
i used to strip it regularly though, and polish it (my dad had it chromed) and i re decaled it with some "chosen" decals from halfords.
to sum up, i used to know the bike quite well, so im sure i would recognise it if i saw a pic of it.
its gotta be before 82/3 though.
i MAY, be wrong about the oval down tube, but it definately had oval forks.
what do you reckon the short list would be?
oberonspacefruit:
i know its a bit crap, not being sure about the downtube.
i thought my ace in the hole would be the fact that it was deffo before 83, and had a twin toptube.
thats gotta narrow it down a lot.
harris:
the one me mate has only has rub ons haro oakley type ,all the components are very low quality
it looks haro ish but deffo cheap copy type.
Rombloke:
bobs right, sombody posted on here a tt frame with an aero down tube, thinking it was a gen 1.
we all said that it wasnt one, but for the life of me i cant think who posted it....damn my memory
Dave
oberonspacefruit:
i didnt know any better at the time dan....mine could have been a gen one or a meteorlite and i wouldnt have known the difference.
i do now though.
it came as a f+f, the guy who had it wouldnt sell it for ages, as no one had seen a twin top tube before, we all had burners,
he eventually relented though, and once it was re chromed as a surprise, i was really proud of that bike.
you gotta remember, no one had ever seen a quad , ripper, haro freestyler, other than on bmx beat, and i only saw that once or twice.
bmx in the 80's for me was doing up whatever bits i could get my hands on, mostly burner stuff, and upgrading by swapping nicely restored crap, for slightly better quality rusty stuff.
that bike was my final upgrade, and it still had simplex mags, aeroyal seat, kenda whitewalls and copy cw's, so it was no money machine....
i would really like to id it if i can.
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