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Title: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: aditup2004 on April 28, 2006, 06:34 PM
I have finally found my holy grail, may not mean too much to some who already posess, but I have been hunting for a while, so is not a minute too soon. Anyway, have sourced "my" GT frame and forks that I rode in the 80's, just can't decide wether to "restore" or make an exact repo of the bike I had BITD, which was a bit of a Hybrid.
Wadda yo reckon;
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y43/aditup2004/MeandmyGT1984.jpg)
Thoughts, Ad
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: motomagII on April 28, 2006, 06:37 PM
gotta go for the memories and do it same as you had adam thats more valuable to you than a resto anyday
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: ORB on April 28, 2006, 06:41 PM
Well done Ad!!
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Post by: kusam on April 28, 2006, 07:14 PM
As it was. :)
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Post by: sawzall on April 28, 2006, 08:10 PM
ad build it as it was ,will look the dogs :daumenhoch:
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Post by: theRuler on April 28, 2006, 08:14 PM
make it how you wanted it to be when you were a nipper
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Post by: oberonspacefruit on April 28, 2006, 08:24 PM
as it was. deffo. i would love to get my old ride back but i cant remember what the bits were apart fromthe f+f and wheels, so i didnt bother in the end.

if you have a pic, you should deffo do it.
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Post by: silentpartner on April 28, 2006, 08:26 PM
was it like surprise, surprise. did cilla help bring you back together. well done , mate.
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: aditup2004 on April 28, 2006, 09:36 PM
Would you go for the "exact" repo, ie; skyway pads, etc? I think so. Would it be so cool to say "check out this pic of me 20 odd years ago", well, here's the bike!
Ad
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Post by: gmac on April 28, 2006, 10:24 PM
Exactamungo  :daumenhoch:
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Post by: daz bmx it! on April 28, 2006, 10:42 PM
Did it come off the Bay? Ad? ::)
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: aditup2004 on April 28, 2006, 10:49 PM
It did. I hit Buy it now after a tip off from a member on here. Thankyou, you know who you are. Just goes to show what can be missed bby not logging on for a day or 2.  :-\
Oh dear,.
Ad  :idiot2:
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: Steve P on April 28, 2006, 10:54 PM
Nice one Ad . . . defo build it as it was BITD and when it all started for ya

Cheers

Steve  :daumenhoch:
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Post by: daz bmx it! on April 28, 2006, 10:56 PM
I'm made up for you buddy :daumenhoch: Glad you got it in the end,which ever way you decide to go i'm sure you'll do a top job! ;) and then lets see them pics :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: Mattdub on April 28, 2006, 11:49 PM
Ad ,

See if you can replicate it completely , that would be uber cool  :daumenhoch:

What are the frame & fork decals ? , I had a GT Pro in 83 (Santa Ana / Nora Cup) & they were the foil ones but yours look different ?  . Was it a Mach One ?.

Go for it & re-create  :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Bren Gunn on April 29, 2006, 12:57 AM
Stop being a tit, and build your bike... as it was :daumenhoch:
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Post by: stidds on April 29, 2006, 12:59 AM
Adam, nothing less than a complete restore of that picture is required, including YOU.  We want to see that haircut re-created and more importantly, drainpipe jeans.  And we want the pictures to prove it.
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Post by: ORB on April 29, 2006, 01:03 AM
yeah, we want

picrures


:D  ;)  :)  ;D
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: stidds on April 29, 2006, 01:05 AM
yeah, we want

picrures


:D  ;)  :)  ;D


Bloody pedantic Orb  ;D
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: ORB on April 29, 2006, 01:06 AM
yeah, we want

picrures


:D  ;)  :)  ;D


Bloody pedantic Orb  ;D


I know,

What more do you expect at 01.03 on a Saturday?
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: dopaytoplay on April 29, 2006, 01:18 AM
just joined your fine uk site. i think your grail was bought from me. to bad i didnt know. or my buy it now would have been a lot higher. just kidding! it is in the mail you should have it next week. take. care jay
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: aditup2004 on April 29, 2006, 07:51 AM
Cheers Jay, yes, your frame is my "grail", thanksyou.
The stickers, Matt, are some generic rubbish I put on in juvenile wisdom. The bike was a Santa Ana "expert", not a mach 1.
Cheers, Ad
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Post by: kdw712 on April 29, 2006, 09:40 AM
cool story and score
build it just like the pic

 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: Stodgy on April 29, 2006, 12:14 PM
It's gotta be built as it was Ad - it'll be sweet!

Nice one mate.

Dave  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: Mattdub on April 29, 2006, 03:06 PM
Cheers Jay, yes, your frame is my "grail", thanksyou.
The stickers, Matt, are some generic rubbish I put on in juvenile wisdom. The bike was a Santa Ana "expert", not a mach 1.
Cheers, Ad

The things we do as kids !  :LolLolLolLol:  .  It might look a bit better with these stickers on it !  :wtf: :LolLolLolLol:

A re-creation of the original pose would be well funny  :LolLolLolLol: ;) :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: Moza on April 29, 2006, 03:27 PM
Hello mate !!!! Ive been to Adams to pick up some thing i bought off ebay, it was the tyres not the inflatable sheep :2funny: Anway chaps the bike he is building is mint, and he has a few others hung up.

good luck with the build mate

Lee


if you cant be arsed to read what i write then just look at my signature pic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What do you reckon? My "holy grail" has been sourced.
Post by: missfitsat101 on May 01, 2006, 10:55 AM
definately build it as it was bitd adam   and  model it  with a then pic and a now pic  same spot position that would be cool  :daumenhoch:
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