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advice on some dos and donts to an old skool build
Spen69:
--- Quote from: dix on October 06, 2008, 03:45 PM ---yeh the goose has well nice chrome so i will stick with that :smitten:
plans are
black mags with all black tyres
gold and black shiney bits
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When I get a decent connection (feckin 3G card is bobbins :2gunsfiring_v1:) I'll post up what your bike is gonna look like then, as I built one just like that for a member on here with black Tuffs, tyres and bits, and a spot of gold here and there....... just ignore the blue saddle, it was obviously sold with a black one on it :2funny:
Word of warning with the Redline build fella - white frame and white wheels is a nightmare as you can never match the colours and the wheels always look grubby, even if they're new. Much better to go white frame and blue or black or red in my experience.
Finally, I totally agree with adeshere that it's great to build a bike that has the parts you wanted as a kid but couldn't afford. Even my US Supergoose 3 has original DC Tech 3's and MX1000's on it rather than the crap copy Lee-Chi ones that were stock. If you can't stretch to that kind of money, use a brand new set of DC901's - they look fantstic and you can find all kinds of colours on here from Jai and co to sweeten up the bike for sensible money.
Sorry, I didn't mean to lecture by the way, just I've made the white and white mistake and built to the brochure before, and regretted it :angrysoapbox:
Regards
Spen :daumenhoch:
dix:
:)dood thanks for the advice do white ones look grubby do they hmmmmm bummer he had his heart set on them
there are some red areos for sale i wonder if he will have them ???
shit weve already bought the red tyres too lol
i use to have the mx 1000 but must admit the dia comp 901s look the same for not much money
i want a full set in red and another in gold if any one has them
get that pic up dood :coolsmiley: there is one on vintage but i cant copy the pic :(
dix ;)
Spen69:
Try it now fella :daumenhoch:
Here's another one I found
Try Jai or Jay (SE-BMXer I think?) for the DC901's but I think you'll struggle for gold to be honest. Red should be ok though. Maybe put a set of chrome ones or black ones on the Motomag?
As for the white on white, brand spankers look ok, but the first bit of dirt and they look REALLY dirty. Here's a DP Firebird with white on white, and the camera made it look a lot better than it actually was, trust me.
At the end of the day it's all personal choice, but some of this NOS stuff costs an arm and a leg, and I always prefered to build with survivor kit so I wouldn't worry about scratching it when I rode it....... appart from this Goose where I had to sell it before I dared to ride it and it was all NOS. Gutted, it was a stunner....... :smitten:
brass monkey!:
at the end of the day it's your bike, build it how YOU want...,
show bikes usually tend to be parts circ max 2 years within the year of the frameset (ie: 82 Frame, all parts 80-84), some peeps are more particular
build it for yourself and be happy with it :)
DIRTBIKER250F:
Spen that white goose is a cracker :smitten:
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