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Title: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 25, 2011, 04:33 PM
To me theres nothing better than an SE Bike and if I could have any it would be an STR-1 then a JU-6, but seeing as those will never be in my price range or even for sale come to think of it it leaves me with this. A round top Ripper, always wanted one and its the one frame set that really floats my boat. Just need to get all the era correct goodies for her now  :buck2:..

(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/012-2.jpg)
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/013-2.jpg)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Spen69 on May 25, 2011, 04:39 PM
Ash, I'm not a great fan of SE stuff but that's fookin' ace bud :smitten:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 25, 2011, 04:43 PM
cheers Spen.  :4_17_5:.is that first dib dobs for a ride at MK then pal?.. ;D
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Gashead on May 25, 2011, 04:52 PM
Very nice  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 25, 2011, 05:12 PM
Very nice  :daumenhoch:
x2
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Spen69 on May 25, 2011, 05:25 PM
Yes mate, but I'll have to ride it before the drinking starts Ash unless you bubble-wrap it as I have a habbit of falling off ;-)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: fischflo on May 25, 2011, 05:37 PM
fookin ace indeed. And the rest should fall into place easily, i would think  :smitten:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 25, 2011, 06:53 PM
Stunning mate :smitten: :smitten:, i'd kill for one of those round tops but with a set of Tuff Forks (if you ever want to sell i'm your man) but in the absence of one i'll stick with this for now.................79 STR-1 with correct Cyclepro Forks and all era correct parts.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz341/akgoff/024.jpg)

Love it
Adam
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: bobafett on May 25, 2011, 06:56 PM

Tidy  :)

Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Dingobmxer on May 25, 2011, 07:02 PM
bike porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dingo
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: hunterdubber on May 25, 2011, 07:10 PM
Whoooa Ash , it was only a couple of weeks ago we were pming over this and I pointed you in the direction of Paul then  a couple  pm's later and you've landed it

Foookin' beautiful  :smitten: :smitten:

Now go on lad max it up  :daumenhoch:

When you've finished let's have some pics with the SE helmet  :coolsmiley:  :smitten:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on May 25, 2011, 07:29 PM


is that my old loopy quad ? man its amazing what ya can get made nowadays
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 25, 2011, 07:32 PM


is that my old loopy quad ? man its amazing what ya can get made nowadays

I bought this off Lee as it stands a few months back.
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: waza04 on May 25, 2011, 07:35 PM
sweet that is ash.  :smitten:  what year would that be? were these before the normal one's?  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Pooch on May 25, 2011, 08:16 PM
Nice pk and nicest quad I've seen on here Ad.. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 25, 2011, 08:37 PM
Thanks for all the comments all  :daumenhoch:, O am one lucky s.o.b  ;D
Waza its a 79 and yes these were before the normal pk's, and before this was the JU-6 "Jeff Utterback" the same top tube but without the brace.
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: hunterdubber on May 25, 2011, 08:55 PM
Stunning mate :smitten: :smitten:, i'd kill for one of those round tops but with a set of Tuff Forks (if you ever want to sell i'm your man) but in the absence of one i'll stick with this for now.................79 STR-1 with correct Cyclepro Forks and all era correct parts.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz341/akgoff/024.jpg)

Love it
Adam

So that's made of mild steel not cro mo ?  ???  :)

I always thought Pete said it was a loopy Quadangle  on here , which would make it Cro-mo  :)

Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Dark Diggler on May 25, 2011, 09:10 PM
Stunning mate :smitten: :smitten:, i'd kill for one of those round tops but with a set of Tuff Forks (if you ever want to sell i'm your man) but in the absence of one i'll stick with this for now.................79 STR-1 with correct Cyclepro Forks and all era correct parts.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz341/akgoff/024.jpg)

Love it
Adam

Do you live in a Premier Inn  ???
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: diesel on May 25, 2011, 09:13 PM
bike porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dingo

corrrr yerrrr  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 25, 2011, 09:31 PM
Stunning mate :smitten: :smitten:, i'd kill for one of those round tops but with a set of Tuff Forks (if you ever want to sell i'm your man) but in the absence of one i'll stick with this for now.................79 STR-1 with correct Cyclepro Forks and all era correct parts.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz341/akgoff/024.jpg)

Love it
Adam

Do you live in a Premier Inn  ???
:LolLolLolLol: Picked it up on my way to a job in Nottingham for a few days
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: monkian on May 25, 2011, 09:38 PM
Don't know much about them but they is awesome 8) :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 25, 2011, 09:38 PM
Stunning mate :smitten: :smitten:, i'd kill for one of those round tops but with a set of Tuff Forks (if you ever want to sell i'm your man) but in the absence of one i'll stick with this for now.................79 STR-1 with correct Cyclepro Forks and all era correct parts.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/zz341/akgoff/024.jpg)

Love it
Adam

So that's made of mild steel not cro mo ?  ???  :)

I always thought Pete said it was a loopy Quadangle  on here , which would make it Cro-mo  :)



As i understand it, This is called an STR-1 (Stu Thompsen Replica) when Stu Thompsen left SE in 81/82 they changed the looptail design and then called it a Quadangle therefore there was never a Looptail Quadangle.........................I think :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: hunterdubber on May 25, 2011, 09:58 PM
There was the STR-1 prototype ( only 3 made and is there 1 left in existense)that everyone was raving about on Ebay for $18,000  last year which looks the same as an STR-1 / Loopy Quadangle but the two downtubes ran under the bb shell  :shocked:

then they did a Mild steel STR-1H ( H for hi tensile steel ) same style as the looptail Quadangle while Stu still raced for SE and changed to cro mo sometime before 1980 STR-1C ( Cro mo )

They changed the name to Quadangle when Stu stopped racing for SE , his contract ended at the very end of '79

So Technically any pre 1980 Quadangle is an STR-1   :)

but the frame stayed the same till they produced the reynolds Quadangle around 83

There you go Adam  :)


Stu Thomsen raced for REDLINE  from Jan 1st 1980 till dec 31 1983

Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 25, 2011, 10:29 PM
top info there C  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: hunterdubber on May 25, 2011, 10:45 PM
top info there C  :daumenhoch:

You can have your thread back now Ash , after the hijack  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 25, 2011, 10:51 PM
Yeah you did go on a bit mate :LolLolLolLol:

Ace Ripper and looking forward to seeing it in the flesh, 1st class taste my man :daumenhoch:

Adam
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 26, 2011, 03:07 PM
Had to put some gear on her just to see how it looked  :smitten: , most of the parts will be changed including the Ron C bars, which I like but not on this build so I think I will let them go, if interested in them just pm me  :daumenhoch:
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/003-1.jpg)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Mattdub on May 26, 2011, 03:09 PM

Round tube , noice  ;)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Pooch on May 26, 2011, 03:45 PM
 :smitten:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: NORTY40 on May 26, 2011, 04:09 PM
Very nice  :smitten:

 Love the colour  8)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Spen69 on May 26, 2011, 04:23 PM
Needs a bit of air in the tyres Ash :2funny:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 26, 2011, 04:29 PM
Thanks for the compliments all  :daumenhoch:
and Spen I need to start saving for that  ;D
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Peter J on May 26, 2011, 09:26 PM
Thats one of my top three must have bikes  :smitten:

Cannot wait to see it finished  :4_17_5:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 26, 2011, 09:41 PM
Thanks for all the comments all  :daumenhoch:, O am one lucky s.o.b  ;D
Waza its a 79 and yes these were before the normal pk's, and before this was the JU-6 "Jeff Utterback" the same top tube but without the brace.

not quite so,
 the ju-6 came in both round and floval top tube versions.
 the round tt pk came after the original floval tt pk but only had a short production run, it only came about because the factory ran out of the tt floval tubing (they were made in the same factory as race inc) so swapping in the tt was easy  :daumenhoch:
when stocks of floval tt tubing became available again production reverted to the original floval design.
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: antiquebmx on May 26, 2011, 09:47 PM
Thanks for all the comments all  :daumenhoch:, O am one lucky s.o.b  ;D
Waza its a 79 and yes these were before the normal pk's, and before this was the JU-6 "Jeff Utterback" the same top tube but without the brace.

not quite so,
 the ju-6 came in both round and floval top tube versions.
 the round tt pk came after the original floval tt pk but only had a short production run, it only came about because the factory ran out of the tt floval tubing (they were made in the same factory as race inc) so swapping in the tt was easy  :daumenhoch:
when stocks of floval tt tubing became available again production reverted to the original floval design.

yes you are correct, but the JU-6 was floval and no gusset

and its a quad not an str 1

but nice round tube ripper there  :'(
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: hunterdubber on May 26, 2011, 09:58 PM
Ooooooooooooo looking good Ash , are those pinchless flites ?  :coolsmiley:

have you got an era correct parts spec going down for it ,, or just bits you love  8)


( just turn your seat guts facing the right way  :angel:   :-*)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 26, 2011, 10:05 PM
Thanks for all the comments all  :daumenhoch:, O am one lucky s.o.b  ;D
Waza its a 79 and yes these were before the normal pk's, and before this was the JU-6 "Jeff Utterback" the same top tube but without the brace.

not quite so,
 the ju-6 came in both round and floval top tube versions.
 the round tt pk came after the original floval tt pk but only had a short production run, it only came about because the factory ran out of the tt floval tubing (they were made in the same factory as race inc) so swapping in the tt was easy  :daumenhoch:
when stocks of floval tt tubing became available again production reverted to the original floval design.

yes you are correct, but the JU-6 was floval and no gusset

and its a quad not an str 1

but nice round tube ripper there  :'(
as i said not quite so, the ju-6 came in both floval AND round top tube

floval.....

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddebea1c3f80.jpg)

jeff himself with a floval

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddebea1a3436.jpg)

round...

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddebea240d6b.jpg)

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddebea376ab3.jpg)

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddebea17ee4f.jpg)

both are JU-6's  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 26, 2011, 10:15 PM
as for the str-1, some say 3 prototypes, some say 6, then a production run of 200 all in hi-tensile steel, most of which cracked/snapped, this problem along with stu-t leaving SE lead to the redesign and renaming of the frame to what we know as the looptail quad, this ran for a couple of years until the 531 quad came out  :daumenhoch:  
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 26, 2011, 10:21 PM
stu on the str-1

(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124ddec3c5c1aa3.jpg)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: AKGOFF on May 26, 2011, 11:44 PM
That is an awesome pic of Stu mate, wicked :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Mattdub on May 27, 2011, 08:51 AM
Thanks for the compliments all  :daumenhoch:
and Spen I need to start saving for that  ;D

One of the toughest things to find for any era correct build , NOS 1979 air ! .......  :D
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on May 27, 2011, 05:51 PM
Thanks for the compliments all  :daumenhoch:
and Spen I need to start saving for that  ;D

One of the toughest things to find for any era correct build , NOS 1979 air ! .......  :D

I had a bottle saved up but once I opened the lid I lost it  :'(
This thread is churning out some seriously cool info on early SE kit,  a big  :daumenhoch: to those who really know their stuff...

Dubber, I have an era correct spec in mind but locating it is going to take some time and £££££££ as these things sure aint cheap  :2funny: single pinch and I never even looked at the seat just slung it on :2funny:

Have no fear Paul I'll make it look the nuts, just for you  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: 58 delray on May 28, 2011, 10:48 AM
(http://imagehosting.rodsnsods.co.uk/124de0c470542e2.jpg)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: RoyalTrux on May 28, 2011, 02:05 PM
Wow nice one! Wheels fit perfect on it! Era correct indeed.
Are them the correct stickers on the downtube?
Title: Re: Round Top Ripper.........updated
Post by: kungfunky on July 20, 2011, 07:12 PM
Well it's been a long hard slog this one but its finally finished and I'm loving it  :smitten:
A huge thanks to all who helped with parts and or advice, Antiquebmx, Hunterdubber, 58delray, stidds,bobafett, rad-rat, Juan and last but not least Scot "OM".  I'm sure theres more so sorry if I missed anyone.

(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/00111.jpg)
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/009-2.jpg)
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/0038.jpg)
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb413/kungfunky/005-4.jpg)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: bobafett on July 20, 2011, 07:16 PM

Nice  :daumenhoch:

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Post by: rooski on July 20, 2011, 07:26 PM
coolio :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: brummie on July 20, 2011, 07:27 PM
1. pete quad is defo loopy
2. pull the back wheel back a smidgin
3. fantastic ash very nice indeed mate  :4_17_5:
4. love the se bike stand ( did you make that out of a halfords one? )
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: glenboy on July 20, 2011, 07:33 PM
 :daumenhoch:, very nice , and possibly the comfiest bmx seat ever ,

lovely bike there ash , like the crankset a bit different

Glen
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on July 20, 2011, 07:39 PM
big shout out to stidds for the crank advice  :daumenhoch:  campag record is the chosen one and the seat is a NOS Troxel  :)

Just need to find my spare links for the chain dave then I'll slide it back a little, as for the stand, it is indeed a bikehut Halfords special with a little extra paint, imagination and a spare sticker  ;D
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: stidds on July 20, 2011, 08:16 PM
big shout out to stidds for the crank advice  :daumenhoch:  campag record is the chosen one and the seat is a NOS Troxel  :)



Thanks for letting everyone know that I am a sad fooker that knows the date stamping on Campagnolo cranks Ash.  :LolLolLolLol:



I have never been a fan of PK's but that has completely won me over, it is fooking gorgeous.  :LolLolLolLol:


Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: waza04 on July 20, 2011, 08:33 PM
very nice ash  :smitten:

just screams oldschool  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on July 20, 2011, 09:42 PM
cheers all.. I think it's the bikehut stand that makes it though  ::)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: rollin72 on July 20, 2011, 10:52 PM
Lovely build Ash, i'm not a massive fan of Ripper's but that is a stunner...nice1 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: NORTY40 on July 20, 2011, 11:28 PM
Cracking build mate  :4_17_5:

Love it  :smitten:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Spen69 on July 21, 2011, 07:43 AM
Ash, I've told you before I never had a thing for Rippers but this is something clearly special and is from the era that it all started, the good old 70's! Love it mate, can't wait to see it at MK and I just wish I had the patience to source and build a totally era correct 70's build like this ;-)
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: juanrmattos on July 22, 2011, 01:48 PM
very Nice Ashley....    Congrats!!!   :4_17_5:
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: stidds on July 22, 2011, 01:52 PM
Ash, I've told you before I never had a thing for Rippers but this is something clearly special and is from the era that it all started, the good old 70's! Love it mate, can't wait to see it at MK and I just wish I had the patience to source and build a totally era correct 70's build like this ;-)

Spen

Building a 70's bike is the most fun ever as you have to start thinking away from BMX parts and more to converting road and track parts to your needs.
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: Mattdub on July 22, 2011, 02:09 PM
Lookin' good so far  :daumenhoch: , what tyres are they ? ( reckon fat/thin C183's or Carlisle's would work mega  ;) ) .

Are the rims early Ukai or 7C's ? .
Title: Re: My Holy Grail.........
Post by: kungfunky on July 23, 2011, 10:21 AM
very Nice Ashley....    Congrats!!!   :4_17_5:

Cheers Juan and thanks for your imput  :daumenhoch:

Lookin' good so far  :daumenhoch: , what tyres are they ? ( reckon fat/thin C183's or Carlisle's would work mega  ;) ) .

Are the rims early Ukai or 7C's ? .

Cheers Matt, they are early 7C's pal, the tyres are early cheng shins and fear not as I have some Aggressors en-route  :daumenhoch:
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