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Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
jimmyp:
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--- Quote from: login_user on February 11, 2008, 05:39 PM ---Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube :daumenhoch:
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Any Pics? ...and where would i get these from? ::)
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Me :)
login_user:
--- Quote from: Brandy Truffle on February 11, 2008, 06:34 PM ---
--- Quote from: login_user on February 11, 2008, 05:39 PM ---Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube :daumenhoch:
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Any Pics? ...and where would i get these from? ::)
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see the little decal in this pic at the bottom of the seat tube?
Well it should be on the top tube betwwen the headset and the start of the frame pad :daumenhoch:
Brandy Truffle:
Nice One Fellas!
To be honest, theres a couple things niggling me,the headtube badge has a scratch on the black part,and decal wise the "Mongoose" downtube decal seems to have a few bubbles in. Looking underneath the frame it looks like the edges overlapped unevenly so maybe they were put on slightly rushed...Either way both these things can be rectified i think.
It looks to me that there are varying quality of repop decals for the Mongoose,so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?
I'll rectify the Cromo decal positioning at the same time too :daumenhoch:
I have the Mongoose Ammaco Catalogue (signed by Ruffs - he seemed to sign alot at Demos) but i'm not going to be anal about doing a complete homage to the model in that.
No disrespect to the "stapled to frame warranty card posse" but BITD,whenever anyone got a new bike to race we always changed the odd bits 'n customised slightly,and as i look at the Cali now,i'd've been well chuffed to race that bugger back then on the budget i had.
Love or hate Mongoose's,the Californian sums up (to me) all that was great about the 83-85 era of BMX. A bike that (back then) lots of people aspired to,it was not so cheap that everyone had one,but not so expensive that it was out of reach to your average kid on the street...
lcfc:
Sweet lookin' Goose, looks alot like mine in the museum. Please though do me a favor and do what i did not do until my last Cali build, put some Pro Class Bars on her..........sooooo much better looking me thinks :)
This is the one without the pro class bars.
And below my lastest Cali build with pro class bars.
Swivel:
That is absolutely stunning, beautiful mate! :smitten: :smitten: Seems like Red is the colour for 2008! ;)
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