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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: Threaders on April 18, 2011, 03:21 PM
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Hi Every one, here is my pic heavy skyway street styler make over thread for you to check out :)
This is what I got from nickswan about a year ago minus the seatpost.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/Styler1-1.jpg)
Put it in my wardrobe for nearly a year whilst I finished some other builds and collected parts for it. During the first couple of nice days this year I got it out and began to sand it down and prime
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/stylerprimed2-1.jpg)
let it sit for a week and then sanded down again and applied top coat of colour
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/Styler1stcoat1.jpg)
let this sit for a week and then sanded down and put final coat and laquer, with wet sanding inbetween. Meanwhile these parts were being collected
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/stylerparts1.jpg)
I decided to change the tyres in the end and ditch the padset as the lettering was to dark and the frame pad wouldnt fit this build either.
Decals came through from the delmaster and the build process began.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/Assemblybegins.jpg)
A couple of days later.........
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/stylerhalfbuilt2.jpg)
A couple of days later........................
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/100_0947.jpg)
The tyres arrived on Saturday morning after a long search on the net. Managed to find the last two in the country. One at winstanly's and one at bmxshop.com
and here os the finished build. My favourite so far.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/stylerfinished1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/100_0985.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/yy272/Threadwell20/100_0982.jpg)
Thanks again to nickswan for the frame and again to del for the help with the decals. Thanks to the site and for all the help and info that I have recieved since joining. Have a GT mach one now to do and a redline rl 620, and then I will have five builds all covering my favourite colour schemes. Many thanks fo looking and all the best :)
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Looking nice :daumenhoch:
Why don't you run your front cable through the Potts mod in the stem.
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Looking nice :daumenhoch:
Why don't you run your front cable through the Potts mod in the stem.
Is it a Potts Mod or just a bigger bolt ???
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Nice bike, have you been taking lessons from ED209 regarding having the longest, flappiest brake cables in the world???? :P ;D
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Im pretty new to the build thing and usually, I always cut the cables to short :-[, so this time, I made certain! It is a potts mod i think as it has a hole in the centre of the bolt. Will try that tomorrow, but bet my front cable is now to short! :)
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thats a really nice build mate..great colour combo :daumenhoch:
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very nice styler well done :daumenhoch: yer gunner need a rear cable for pots mod bud , i can also see why rollin likes this too gutted i didnt see his dp at ramp on friday :LolLolLolLol:
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nice job with the build mate,cable looks plenty long enough to go through hollow bolt 8)