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munners:
 ;)Just picked up a Chrome 83' Ta, Curved brake bridge with built on washer. The frame, dropouts and forks are like new but it has pitted badly around the stem/top tube so its been sent to the chromers today. My first project and CANT WAIT!!! :uglystupid2:

gt0733:
munners, it looks like the TA needs a oxalic acid dip and polish. i'm sure it will be sweet when you've finished. the brake bridge on that TA looks very similar to the DB one.

coasty, it looks like i've bought a dud, i may just hang it up or give it a spray can paint job here at home. i was going to give it to roberto for powder but can't justify the cost + postage now. just goes to show i didn't do enough research and bought on impulse  :idiot2:

munners:
Ah mate,

I got it off ebay and the boy who owned it was 16! He didnt have a clue about what he was actually selling. He describred it as in very good nick and when i saw it i thought it was Xmas until i looked around the stem and the noticed that the chrome had peeled off and bare metal was showing. Gutted, so i knocked him right down! I felt like a thief, poor lad!

My old man is a lambretta and Vespa freak who gets things chromed all the time and he said there was nothing i could do to salvage it, but i knew that anyway, so to the dippers it was!

Cant wait to get it back. I love my Ta's and have done my homework recently and it is defo a 'proper' frame with that brake bridge.
 :daumenhoch:
I will keep ya posted. Cheers mate. Nick

gt0733:
i wasn't doubting it being a TA, Nick, i was just saying the brake bridge was similar to the DB. a lot of frames were built by the same manufacturers BITD so similarites were inevitable.
what components and colours are you kitting it out with?

munners:
Hi mate,

Im so sorry i sounded defensive about it! :uglystupid2: No offence taken mate, it wasnt meant like that. Happy you told me. :D

I got a white Ta already with Tuffs, so i just got a pair of UKAI chrome rims on this with Compe 3's. Luvly! And between me and  you and all the other members i just become the proud owner of a Chrome Tuf Neck stem and a pair of Shim DX in black!!!!!!! :D

I want black dia compe MX1000's and a red line flight single pinch 180 if ya know any going??

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