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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: 58 delray on September 12, 2010, 11:06 PM
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okay not me in the pic, but a common mod we did, double cages, did this on BM7s and BM10s and the skyways (shown)
what other mods were out there?
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I did Billy stupple in the first corner at rOm :knuppel2: :2funny:
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Homemade mods I remember alot of us doing were
Cutting off a 2" piece of innertube and using it as a dirt sleeve for the bottom cup of your headset ( slid overthe bottom of headtube to cover fork tops ) :4_17_5:
and hairdyer-ing your number plates to curve up at the bottom ,,like the Uni air dam plates :D
Using old snapped or bent bars , cutting the curved bit off and using it for a lay-back post :crazy2:
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we did the inner tube one until you realised it was wearing away your chrome on the forks...
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On a serious note, when I snapped my ACE frame in half, my dads mate rewelded it using tubing from a school desk :2funny:
It lasted for a bit until Hotshot sponsered me with a race inc :daumenhoch:
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We used to drill our brake levers and install a small machined bolt in with a spring on it to keep the brake applied freeing up your hands whilst doing crazy tricks :LolLolLolLol: we used to put the drill in a vice with a 6mm bolt in it then file it down to make the profile, we were smart 12 year olds :daumenhoch:
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cut up an ice cream container to make my own brake guard and put an oakley sticker on it no-one knew the difference :daumenhoch:
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At school I made about half a dozen powerdisks but the alloy was not up to the job and they bent and twisted or ripped the chainring bolts out :LolLolLolLol:
I also drilled my brake calipers and made a pre-bent lever into a nifty two finger jobby (using the school workshop again) but it hurt like hell when you actually used it ;D
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We used to nick that orange bunsen burner tubing from school & use it for lever cover/grip thingies, saved us buying the expensive Sharp ones.
Also used to buy dead long hub spindles, to save buying expensive trick nuts.
& also used to stick disused brake levers on our forks, saved us buying expensive fork standers.
Tight-arsed bunch we were.
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Made my own handlebars ;D think I was about 13 :daumenhoch:
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made a plate to go over my rear brake caliper to do frame stands :daumenhoch:
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had an MX 890 rear caliper,riveted a quick release lever onto it like an MX 1000,worked a treat. Also made Bullseye style front axle for an Arai 8000 hub.
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drilling the one's out off dice to make one valve caps.
wine bottle cork in bottom of forks to stop crap going up the steerer. still use that one today :LolLolLolLol:
drilling out stem bolts to make own potts mod
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used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise :-X
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tied a scarf across my chopper hangies to make it look more like a bmx :D
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used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise :-X
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used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise :-X
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fookin laughing my ass off ,,,, :daumenhoch: payback time i guess :LolLolLolLol:
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Glen
You really are...................................
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I remember going to Wanstead flats with some of my "old posse" and Mick Rivierre.
Mick snapped his stem, and I remember him sticking his layback with seat still on and using it to steer his bike back to Grimsteads in East Ham. (It's mad cos I was sure none of us had tools, but he got the old stem out, and seat off somehow!)
Wonder if Kev remembers that?
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spokey dokeys :daumenhoch:
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Spokey dokeys were well good! and the tony tiger reflectors that fitted between 2 spokes.
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I used to cut the centre tread out of a worn tyre and use it as heavy duty rim tape as i was getting so pi55ed off having to go home and repair punctures every time i landed a little bit sideways on my ACS Z-rims :coolsmiley:
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I used an old number plate, a hacksaw and some heat on the gas hob to make a plastic cover for the "ugly" seat clamp set-up on my Skyway Freestyle Platform.
Then sent a pic to BMX Action Bike Magazine and it was featured in the letters column :)
I aint got a copy of the mag though so if some one has a scan of it I'd like to see it after all this time :daumenhoch:
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We screwed Axle Nuts from my Mum's mini onto the ends of our rear axles for very early pegs
Despite my Dad's insistance that we would 'snap our spindles'....
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I used an old number plate, a hacksaw and some heat on the gas hob to make a plastic cover for the "ugly" seat clamp set-up on my Skyway Freestyle Platform.
Then sent a pic to BMX Action Bike Magazine and it was featured in the letters column :)
I aint got a copy of the mag though so if some one has a scan of it I'd like to see it after all this time :daumenhoch:
any idea what year? i may have it.
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I used an old number plate, a hacksaw and some heat on the gas hob to make a plastic cover for the "ugly" seat clamp set-up on my Skyway Freestyle Platform.
Then sent a pic to BMX Action Bike Magazine and it was featured in the letters column :)
I aint got a copy of the mag though so if some one has a scan of it I'd like to see it after all this time :daumenhoch:
any idea what year? i may have it.
84/85 I think buddy :daumenhoch: I pretty much got the platform as soon as it was released if that's any help :daumenhoch:
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found it, december 84.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/img049copy.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/crop.jpg)
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tied a scarf across my chopper hangies to make it look more like a bmx :D
boolocks , that scarf was used as a lasso to pinch the grannies purses ya shifty fooker
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found it, december 84.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/img049copy.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/crop.jpg)
:daumenhoch: :4_17_5:
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found it, december 84.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/img049copy.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n203/john4130/crop.jpg)
:4_17_5: :4_17_5:
Quality mate... ya just made my day :daumenhoch:
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lolly sticks in the brake calipers was what we used to do bitd.they would make a noise like the peg and the playing card until they snapped or fell out.also a freind of mine got his dad to make and weld a stand plate to his stinger styler.he also made him some cw style bars,but they were nearly twice the size :LolLolLolLol:
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Yeah my mates Dad made CW Bars for him and his brother,they were awful a dead square 'U' with a dead straight cross bar, I also used make decals out of sticky back plastic,stuck skateboard grip-tape on my frame and my dad used to get knurled trick nuts made for me at his engineering firm.
Lovin this thread 8)
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we used to clamp our wonderlights to a spoke on our tuffs with the light facing outwards so it would flash on the ground as it went round..
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we used to clamp our wonderlights to a spoke on our tuffs with the light facing outwards so it would flash on the ground as it went round..
hahaha I remember doing that too ;D
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Chris Youngs dad (Dave RIP) built this side hack (No 5) from scratch in his lock up garage and Billy, Chris and me raced it at Earls court, fook it was heavy :LolLolLolLol:
pic is Billy and Chris
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My dad had a lathe at home, so I made loads of "stunt nuts" and also flex fighters.
The flex fighters were very good TBH, and I wish I had kept the ones I got rid of.
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Best Mod i Did was after reading a bmx mag on making seats lighter drill my aero seat with my Dads hand drill-looked a fookin mess but in my mind made my tuff burner go like lightning :D
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i drilled a pair of race inc leading axle forks to take a front brake (fook knows why :LolLolLolLol:) so if anyne comes across a drilled set with the hole very slightly off centre they are mine ;D
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i drilled a pair of race inc leading axle forks to take a front brake (fook knows why :LolLolLolLol:) so if anyne comes across a drilled set with the hole very slightly off centre they are mine ;D
I did the same at Christmas 1983 , drilled my undrilled Gt Nora forks :idiot2:
they're not gonna turn up anywhere in the future though , I snapped em launching my bike up our Quarterpipe and bailing :crazy2:sometime in 85
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My dad never had the 'tools for the job' so it was always a struggle >:(
Used to make wheel discs out of big sheets of plastic my dad from some trade show display... frame plates as well to go in the middle triangle - never had any cable ties though! string or those freezer bag ties... with the wire in ... GHETTO!
Copper pipe laybacks ... epic fail that one.
Did what Action Bike said an 'hammered bits of tube onto wheelnuts to make pegs' ... another fail.
Had one of those Speedwheels Spinner rotor things ... they used to stick and pull the brake on when you turned so we put longer brake adjusters running up from the bottom clamp towards the rotor which stopped the cable moving with the rotor.
Pre BMX I 'made' some bars with no cross bar into a stunning pair of 'Renthals' with a sprayed bit of wooden dowel and electrical tape 8)
I made my Puch Invader into a Skyway TA ... had to just settle for a paint job and decals after my dad talked me out of squashing all the frame tubes in a vice first to make them TA :idiot2:
Got a welder!
- Made a Quarterpipe out of pig farrowing crates - cut every bit with a hacksaw for weeks after school as my dad refused to by an angle grinder - heavy as fook that beast was - dropped it on my dads toe and he hopped around swearing as my and my mates trying not to laugh.
- made an axel with wheels to tow the QP around - one wheel fell off on the way back from a demo :laugh:
- Made a Univega Freestyle frame into a Scooter when the article appeared in RAD - that was pretty good :angel:
Gypsy farm bowy :LolLolLolLol:
PS. drilled my c o c k ( accidently ) while putting rails on a skateboard... story for another time :-X
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Quality!