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pickle:
hate to put the spanner in the works, but i thought the rule just states that it has to have a 1" threaded headset and a caliper brake??

what's all the fuss about?  i thought the OS race series was all about having a laugh........i was told i could race my MCS in the OS races at MK last year as it had a 1 1/8th headset and canti brake, so i borrowed a GT off Gashead to race with........i got up on the gate for the first race to find i was going up against a bike about 2 years old! with V brake and 1 18th headset!!

if you take the rule to the letter then the new Burners or the new TA when it comes out are fine.

perry:
ive been considering an old skool racer

most are tooooo short

the decent long ones are rare ( im tight and dont want to spend more than a few hundred lol )

so that leaves us cheap skates with stuff like universals  ???

how strict is the inch/caliper rule ?

could i for instance use an s&m race , bolt on a caliper ( ignoring the v posts ) and use reducer cups to take it down to an inch  :-\

sure it wouldnt leave much choice in forks still but other than that and a stem the rest of the bike could be all new  :-\ including things like threaded chris kings , new race bars etc

i know its not in the spirit of racing old skool but wheres the boundary for setting up a bike from scratch  :-[

im not kicking off , im just really confused  :buck2:

and would being 24 and only 10stone rule me out before i thought about what bike i could use  :-X

have a pic of a new fbm having an identity crisis  8)

zed4130:

--- Quote from: pickle on February 27, 2008, 08:04 AM ---hate to put the spanner in the works, but i thought the rule just states that it has to have a 1" threaded headset and a caliper brake??

what's all the fuss about?  i thought the OS race series was all about having a laugh........i was told i could race my MCS in the OS races at MK last year as it had a 1 1/8th headset and canti brake, so i borrowed a GT off Gashead to race with........i got up on the gate for the first race to find i was going up against a bike about 2 years old! with V brake and 1 18th headset!!

if you take the rule to the letter then the new Burners or the new TA when it comes out are fine.

--- End quote ---

yeah im sure flying fox was in one of my OS races at mk rob ,and he was on a new standard 250r i thinks the rules are abit loose  ;)

priv:
what pickle said,it's all about having a laugh,what about a freestyle bike?


my reflex is old skool but has the rear foot rests any good or illegal 'cos of the  foot rests{or whatever they are called :idiot2:}


priv

beard1973:
No one complained about me on the 25th Anniversary Burner....  :coolsmiley:

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