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skyway made in uk?

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Moose:

--- Quote from: retrogeezer on January 19, 2008, 01:48 PM ---I heard they were made in High Wycombe - pretty sure they are all plastic hubbed and usually green from the ones I have seen!

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Apparently there were some metal hubbed ones as well, but they were never riveted only bolted. The only original tuff II's with bolts would have 'Made in UK' stamped on them.

Any that don't have 'Made in UK' stamped on them but have bolted hubs have had the hub replaced.


--- Quote from: jackel on January 18, 2008, 10:06 PM ---got a pair of skyways orange there both old 84-85ish the rear one is metal hubbed with coaster and it says madein uk on it .............

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I take it the hub is bolted?

jackel:
yes mate the hub is bolted :) bloodyell its a minefield of knowledge on here :)

SaMAlex:
I used to work for a plastic injection mould company near Oxford. I was working with an older bloke for a day, and it came up that I was into BMX. He started telling me (although not making a big deal of it) that where he used to work made Skyway wheels in the 80s. I didnt know that skyways were ever made in the UK so I said "no, you must mean 'mag wheels', were they OGK or Acorn?". He said that they were deff Skyway wheels, and the factory where they were made was in High Wycombe.

clonerz:
I have 5 pairs of NOS made in the uk ones here.They all have "made in the uk" stamped on em, and the rears are all coaster, they are all bolted on.The front wheels are all plastic hubbed. The coaster made in the uk ones will always have the bolt in hubs on them. The rivetting machine, from what i am told, was too heavy to be shipped to the uk, and they were very expensive too, so it seems thats why they just bolted the hubs in.Seems a lot less hassle to me as well.

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