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What about best resto of the year

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munners:

--- Quote from: Waxintaxin on December 20, 2007, 10:30 AM ---Define resto?

cos we have been here before and its too hard to split resto and non resto
IE , if my ripper was entered then as far as I am concerned its a resto, its had major work to the frame, yet some parts are NOS
so how do you define it, if one part was restored and rthe rest of the bike was NOS this should still be inc ?

Hard to split


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I think resto should be the whole bike (all parts) restored. Having one part NOS is not a resto project is it? God its anal this game.  :LolLolLolLol:

thebigdog:
A Best Resto class would be cool and some others but I think Rad have got it right with just having "Bike of the year".

After the first round of judging people must be sat wondering why their bike did not make it through. If there were 10 sections there would be more unhappy people.

There are so many factors in play when people vote, you might have always wanted a Ripper when you were a kid and therefore pick a Ripper over something else that is built better. You might like Chrome and hate Dayglow colours, you might dream of owning something that you can not justify spending that much on and one of the bikes has that bit on. You might know how rare something is and pick it because of that.

Its almost a shame that there has to be a winner, so many of the bikes this year are amazing.

I am sure there will be one super happy person, a few who feel like they have been robbed and some more that moan about the result even though they did not even enter a bike, Its just the way people are.

munners:
I also think that there could be 2 sections for bike of the year. Freestyle bike and Racing set up bike. Then the 2 go head to head.  :shocked:

gt0733:
i'd define resto as finding survivor parts and reconditioning them including soft parts. pads can be thrown in the washing machine and frayed hems re-sewn, or new velcro sewn in, the foam tubing is available from lots of hardware places. tyres can be restored with stuff that's available from auto stores. how many chains have been tossed because it was too difficult to chuck them in a bucket of diesel for a week? old parts that have faded anno can be plonked into caustic and polished up (many have done this) there are paints available now that look as cool as anno as well, so there's no need to run just with polished components or with the expense of re-annodizing.
a lot of it comes down to laziness, of which i'm guilty of myself. basically it's easier to spend big dollars (er....pounds, euro's) on NOS than spend big time polishing and sanding and painting.
self satisfaction could be a huge motivator especially if the results are rewarded.

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