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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: monkeybat on June 15, 2011, 08:05 AM
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Can anyone tell me If Skyway graphites are so good why did No one(Cambell, Ruffell,Griggs, Canning) on the mid 80s team ride them ?
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bob haro rode em
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I bet they would have rode them if they had been given them.
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I think they were £600.00 a pair in 85 and they were known to snap with side flex so they were a no go as standard £60.00 skyways worked a treat. Gimmick springs to mind.
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I think they were £600.00 a pair in 85 and they were known to snap with side flex so they were a no go as standard £60.00 skyways worked a treat. Gimmick springs to mind.
+1 Although were supposed to be aimed at racing rather than Freestyle ;)
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i think were a little lighter too? :-\
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Don't think they were £600, £200 is where I recall them being. I recall the skyway riders having them in various colours but to the general public they were black or black. I had a set BITD and swapped them for some Ukai speedlines and much targeted riding them :daumenhoch:
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Don't think they were £600, £200 is where I recall them being. I recall the skyway riders having them in various colours but to the general public they were black or black. I had a set BITD and swapped them for some Ukai speedlines and much targeted riding them :daumenhoch:
Black only.
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Skyway Grapites only ever available in 1 colour...... errrr graphite colour ;)
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Skyway Grapites only ever available in 1 colour...... errrr graphite colour ;)
wow, is that your first post in a BMX related section of the site ???
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they were a race wheel not freestyle, they would snap if given too much abuse
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Skyway Grapites only ever available in 1 colour...... errrr graphite colour ;)
wow, is that your first post in a BMX related section of the site ???
No I am sure i have posted BMX related stuff before. Have certainly posted about graphites here before
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cos they was cr4p ?
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They did'nt weigh hardly any diffrent if I remember rightly ???
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Tim March used to race with them on :daumenhoch:
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Don't think they were £600, £200 is where I recall them being. I recall the skyway riders having them in various colours but to the general public they were black or black. I had a set BITD and swapped them for some Ukai speedlines and much targeted riding them :daumenhoch:
Black only.
(http://www.mauricemeyer.net/BMX/colored_graphites/images/P8090015-600.jpg)
Nope multi coloured
http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs (http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs)
Colored Skyway wheels showed up occasionally in BMX magazines. From my understanding, these wheels were only made specially for the Skyway riders and never actually produced for sale.
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or are they just graff hubs ?.
like the blue un's 8)
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Those in the photo are just the hub as done on Maurice Meyers website
but in the 80's Colored Skyway wheels showed up occasionally in BMX magazines. From my understanding, these wheels were only made specially for the Skyway riders and never actually produced for sale
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Don't think they were £600, £200 is where I recall them being. I recall the skyway riders having them in various colours but to the general public they were black or black. I had a set BITD and swapped them for some Ukai speedlines and much targeted riding them :daumenhoch:
Black only.
(http://www.mauricemeyer.net/BMX/colored_graphites/images/P8090015-600.jpg)
Nope multi coloured
http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs (http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs)
Colored Skyway wheels showed up occasionally in BMX magazines. From my understanding, these wheels were only made specially for the Skyway riders and never actually produced for sale.
Sorry mate, that's a photo of standard coloured Tuffs fitted with Campy Hubs. They are not Graphite.
Graphite in black only ( ok, very, very dark grey) :daumenhoch:
Still, that's a very cool photo.
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Those Blue 'Graphites' are fooking tasty :smitten:
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Those Blue 'Graphites' are fooking tasty :smitten:
agreed luvvly jubbly
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I know i've posted a link to maurice's site in the last month or two, if you missed it you have to have a look....
here's the bit on coloured tuffs
http://mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs
Make sure you chek out the Vander page....
(http://mauricemeyer.net/curb_dogs/images/table_top_s.jpg)
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That pic of Vander is just plain RAD... one of my all time fave BMX pics for sure :4_17_5:
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Not wrong :daumenhoch:
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That pic of Vander is just plain RAD... one of my all time fave BMX pics for sure :4_17_5:
I remember the first time I saw it ,, I couldn't believe it was a bunny hop :shocked: :coolsmiley: :coolsmiley: :coolsmiley:
Flat as ,,too 8)
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Don't think they were £600, £200 is where I recall them being. I recall the skyway riders having them in various colours but to the general public they were black or black. I had a set BITD and swapped them for some Ukai speedlines and much targeted riding them :daumenhoch:
Black only.
(http://www.mauricemeyer.net/BMX/colored_graphites/images/P8090015-600.jpg)
Nope multi coloured
http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs (http://www.mauricemeyer.net/cgi/mm.pl?datafile=../general/BMX.txt&page=BMX/Colored_Graphite_Tuffs)
Colored Skyway wheels showed up occasionally in BMX magazines. From my understanding, these wheels were only made specially for the Skyway riders and never actually produced for sale.
quoted from his site
Here's a little story about a score the true BMX collectors should appreciate. A chance call put some super-rare BMX parts in my hands and started a pretty unique project. You might have to be a BMX collector to appreciate these wheels but to put things in perspective, a pair of the original black wheels currently sell for approximately $1000 and as far as I know, these are the only colored Tuffs Wheels with first generation Campagnolo flanges in them. In case there is any confusion: these are not graphite wheels - just the hubs from graphite Tuff Wheels inserted into colored outers.
as he says they are not graphites, just coloured tuffs with campy hubs :daumenhoch:
graphites only came in black, however some factory riders had different coloured hubs such as blue :daumenhoch: