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Title: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: skki3330 on March 11, 2011, 10:25 PM

MUPPET enough said :LolLolLolLol:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-redline-BMX-Race-/110660397874?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item19c3dfab32

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: Peter J on March 11, 2011, 10:38 PM

Never knew frames and forks we MADE of chrome  ???

Always thought chrome was a plating process

 :coolsmiley:

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: brettypeeps on March 11, 2011, 10:48 PM

Love the bit about the 80's plate and seat post :2funny:

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: SE MARK on March 11, 2011, 11:28 PM

Scrap metal . I hope no one hits that buy it now  :2funny:

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: In2 bmx on March 11, 2011, 11:51 PM

Made of chrome   ??? ..   :LolLolLolLol:  the things people think they can get away with .

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ss250/in2signs/d6fdf5c6.jpg)

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: griff on March 12, 2011, 12:36 AM

Quote from: Peter J on March 11, 2011, 10:38 PM

Never knew frames and forks we MADE of chrome  ???

Always thought chrome was a plating process

 :coolsmiley:

no it's an actual material, like 'green'
this was discovered by accident WAY back in the day and in the 1980s was used extensively in the thriving freestyle BMX industry (see Bretty's Haro Master above if you need any more proof) 

the moment of green's chance discovery was in fact documented by the BBC in the historical programme 'Blackadder',

Lord Percy: After literally an hour's ceaseless searching, I have succeeded in creating gold, pure gold.
Blackadder: Are you sure?
Lord Percy: Yes, my lord. Behold.
Blackadder: Percy... it's green.
Lord Percy: That's right, my lord.
Blackadder: Yes, Percy, I don't want to be pedantic or anything, but the colour of gold is gold. That's why it's *called* gold. What you have discovered, if it has a name, is "green".
Lord Percy: Oh, Edmund, can it be true, that I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green?

'chrome' was discovered slightly later by a man named Oliver Ulay and remains a very popular construction material, sometimes referred to as Chrome-Ollie

FACT

Title: Re: hahaha redline ok mate
Post by: JT71 on March 13, 2011, 07:47 AM

lol. that's briliant. the R has confused the poor sap. Still its not a bad price for a mkii burner.