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Title: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Dannywhac on July 05, 2011, 09:59 PM
Alright folks - just a quickie - anyone got any ideas on a bike id for this:


(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/dannywhack/Mystery1.jpg)

(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/dannywhack/Mystery2.jpg)


Cheers in advance fella's  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: pickle on July 05, 2011, 10:04 PM
Saw this myself and thought generic pos but could be wrong  ???
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 07, 2011, 03:08 PM
Anybody know what this is then ????


Here's some more pictures.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0455.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0456.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0457.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0458.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0459.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0460.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0461.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0462.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0463.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0465.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p191/carpcrazyox/SAM_0466.jpg)


It has really nice geometry to it.


I think the bars are GT.


Some one must have a clue.  :-\
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Jaymz on July 07, 2011, 04:03 PM
No idea tbh, but i like it, so reckon its worth saving, the sticker on the bottom of the seattube, what does that say?
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Dannywhac on July 07, 2011, 04:39 PM
Serial number with a 00 maybe = 1990?
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: m1ke on July 07, 2011, 05:09 PM
looks like my old chrome ammaco i had in about 96
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Pooch on July 07, 2011, 05:40 PM
Agoff just phoned me and said he thinks the pad is Haro.. :crazy2:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: neil on July 07, 2011, 05:52 PM
ame grips :uglystupid2: is it an amestyler :2gunsfiring_v1:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 07, 2011, 06:06 PM
No idea tbh, but i like it, so reckon its worth saving, the sticker on the bottom of the seattube, what does that say?

It says Function 4130 chromoly tubing.


Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Hiro Tonka on July 07, 2011, 06:42 PM
Looks like an Ammaco to me. They did a Gt Performer looky likey in the 90's.
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Jaymz on July 07, 2011, 07:08 PM
well i just sat and went throughj 54 pages of bikes manufactured from 90-93 and not a sausage, but it does steall many design features from a lot of the bikes in that era
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 07, 2011, 07:38 PM
Jaymz mate we can see it's not a sausage - look for a bike instead  ;D


ask on usa museum as i thought some one else had some thing like that  ;)
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Jaymz on July 07, 2011, 07:42 PM
Jaymz mate we can see it's not a sausage - look for a bike instead  ;D

aw just spat cider over my screen  :D  :D  :D
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Dannywhac on July 07, 2011, 07:46 PM
The frame looks like a General Hustler Fred Blood, which would put it mid to late 80's. According to The Museum the frames were made by Anlun, which might mean (as with a lot of other bikes) they were rebranded over here? Might be completely wrong though.........  :D
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 07, 2011, 08:52 PM
Cheers Dan, i've put it on the Museum now to see if they know.  :daumenhoch:


EDIT>>>>>>


http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/general/1325
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: steve69 on July 08, 2011, 08:31 AM
Saw this myself and thought generic pos but could be wrong  ???
Bang on ;)

I've got a chrome version of the exact same frame with original decals 'Toowoomba'

I'll put some pic's up tonight :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: ED209 on July 08, 2011, 09:01 AM
Well... whatever it is... I like it  :daumenhoch:

and it'll resto lovely  :angel:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 08, 2011, 02:49 PM
Saw this myself and thought generic pos but could be wrong  ???
Bang on ;)

I've got a chrome version of the exact same frame with original decals 'Toowoomba'

I'll put some pic's up tonight :daumenhoch:

That'll be good, look forward to seeing them  :daumenhoch:


The Museum bods are saying it's a Fred Blood though  :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 08, 2011, 05:41 PM
Does it have a coaster hanger and have the rear drop outs had the ends chopped off?

Tange forks?
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: Jaymz on July 08, 2011, 05:50 PM
Well... whatever it is... I like it  :daumenhoch:

and it'll resto lovely  :angel:

Yay someone else that aint dissin it !! feel the BMX Love!!
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 08, 2011, 06:57 PM
Does it have a coaster hanger and have the rear drop outs had the ends chopped off?

Tange forks?

No hanger, that's the bit that's confusing me. Everything else is spot on to the Fred Blood apart from that.

No also on the drop out's, they're untouched.

Not Tange forks that i can see at the moment. I haven't removed them anyhow to see any stamping on the steerer. I was told by the seller that they may be Puch forks.
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: steve69 on July 09, 2011, 09:40 PM
Here it is, sorry i didn't have time to wipe it down and it's not as rusty as it looks in the pic's

TOOWOOMBA 360 , handbuilt in England :Great_Britain:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/vv209/steve69-pics/DSC00580.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/vv209/steve69-pics/DSC00581.jpg)

I'm guessing this is late 90's > early 00's even though it is 1" headset and no canti/v-brake mounts, very nice TIG welding (better than i've seen on some high-end frame sets)

Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 09, 2011, 10:26 PM
Nice one, cheers mate.

Not too convinced on the year of it though  :-\ but i will agree about your frame being exactly the same as the one above.
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: steve69 on July 09, 2011, 11:11 PM
Nice one, cheers mate.

Not too convinced on the year of it though  :-\ but i will agree about your frame being exactly the same as the one above.
What age are you thinking then?

here's a link to a slightly later version or possibly a more modern version in the same range :-\  (different brace behind the seat tube and u-brake mounts but same decals). It maybe worth getting in contact with 'Cycle King' (the shop that supplied it) they maybe able to shed some light to it's origin ;)

http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=1399199
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: NORTY40 on July 10, 2011, 12:48 AM
Surprised you haven't dibbed the Mirage power disc yet Andy  :shocked:   :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Bike ID: Any Ideas On This?
Post by: southern andy on July 10, 2011, 09:39 AM

What age are you thinking then?



Hi Steve,

I'm not too sure mate but there is not a thing about the frameset that tells me it's new school  :-\ :-\

It has a US BB, there are no cable guides nor AD mounts. Even the geometry of the frame makes it look old school. If that's what the frame makers were trying to do then they've done a fantastic job.


The owner of the bike had had it 9 yrs and done nothing to it, he bought it 2nd hand off someone else that must of fitted so many nice old school parts to it. It just a lot of work to fit old school parts to a new school bike so many years ago.  :daumenhoch:



Surprised you haven't dibbed the Mirage power disc yet Andy  :shocked:   :LolLolLolLol:



Hmmmm, i don't get on too well with the owner Joff, he's a bit of a dick.

can you PM him and ask to buy it mate ????
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