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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: dordymush on October 01, 2011, 07:16 PM
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anybody ever herd of a mission ?.
i bought this off the boot sale this afternoon and aint got a clue about it.
nice and light with really nice weld.
im think it might be mid school as the serial numbers YM98O9O122. 1998 PERHAPS ?.
also has a sticker tange 5 cr/mo tubing pg tube.
and distributed by mission maidstone uk
any good or cheapo.
looks to good to have been crap but what do i know.
have a look at the pics.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0075.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0078.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0089.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0081.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0083.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0084.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0085.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v229/dordymush/PIC_0086.jpg)
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welding looks good enough - never heard of them though...
Alot of 90's stuff looks the same but thats a nice touch with the top tubes. ;)
how much and whatesle did you get? :LolLolLolLol:
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lol i was a £3 special :coolsmiley:.
nos but with a few storage marks.
gonna build it up with a few odd bits.might have a nice set of wheels coming from a nice man from barnsley for it ;D
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I hear he's a tosser 8)
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he's a very very nice man :LolLolLolLol:
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you'll say anything to get a cheap set of wheels :yahoo_silent:
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no i would'nt you good lookin hunk of a man you :-*.
just searched google and the musuem and theres nowt i can find.
be a piece of crap i bet ;D
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3 quid... bet you haggled n all... ;D
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lol he wanted the grand some of a fivver the robbin bastard >:D
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lol he wanted the grand some of a fivver the robbin bastard >:D
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Mission took average no name frames and stickered them up as their own. Put some ok parts on, and they sold for 300+, in the mid 90's.
The later ones (like you have) were mostly copies of existing frames (anyone remember the standard shorty copies - same kinda deal).
The complete bikes were ok, at first. But they did have some fruity components, like snake posts.
I have a mission "pulse" in my attic. It was an ok bike, cost £330 back in 1996.
Came with odyssey brakes, quando sealed hub 48's and a slew of copy components. And some evil bear traps.
I have a feeling that mission prior to 1996 also made the bike called the "totally integrated trick system" with unfortunate decals that read: T.I.T.S. (and was the same as the "pulse")
My friend "Jim" owned the mission pulse that I still have. A standard joke was asking Jim to get his tits out.
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cheers gra.
i had a feeling you'd know something about it.
just glad its not a tit bike with this lot on here :LolLolLolLol:
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The TITS bike was actually not bad!
I think Fishbone also used these frames with their complete bikes too.
The Pulse bike (like your frame) had some horrific graphics too.
But, it got my mate Jim riding again in 1996.
Another mate at the same time bought a Raleigh bike - called (lol) the ALAGANDO SPIN (or something like that)
Bear in mind this was pretty much pre internet days, and we would buy complete bikes from car spares shops!
I myself bought an RL240. fooking loved that bike, and rode the wheels off it. I still have it too.
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gra you are the font of all mid school knowledge man :daumenhoch:
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...they did have some fruity components, like snake posts.
first you slag off 'peg' kickturns now its snakeposts... have I offended you Gra. :(
nice £3 frame big Dave :angel:
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£3 u been done :LolLolLolLol: I'd have haggled 4 £1.50 and a mo-jo :2funny:
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got some misson 48's, rims are alex pro al 7x-p 24f, look like 7x's ;), hubs are very good, sealed bearings, 14mm rear 12mm front , cro mo axles machined collars with lock screw , nice machineing on hubs , first of the well made 14mm hubs , although never seen any for sale....?
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first you slag off 'peg' kickturns now its snakeposts... have I offended you Gra.
just dont ever offer him out in an endo contest ed :shocked:.
gonna go put it in the museum seeing as theres a cat for mission but nowt in it :crazy2:
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first you slag off 'peg' kickturns now its snakeposts... have I offended you Gra. :(
Sorry mate. No offence intended. Do you have a snakepost?
The Mission Pulse my mate had seemed like a solid bike.
But as I said, in amongst the sealed hub 48's, gyro and pegs all round, there were some odd components - snakepost and bear trap pedals.
Needless to say the snakepost bent pretty early on and got discarded. He run the beartraps for years though!
I think the post took a couple of feet-off-the-pedals sketchy landed jumps, and by the nature of its crumple zone design, it gave in.
Having the bend that low down with extra inches of leverage above it invites bending.
The zip posts were ok, for getting your seat further back and out of the way. And by the 90's the seattube/toptube junctions were strong enough to take them.
But a layback on an old school frame, with the thin metal plate round the seattube junction - they were so weak. And having the seat not pushing directly down on the tube, instead trying to flex it back - it was like taking a crow bar to that junction each time you came down hard on the seat.
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I think I've got some old Ride mags from the mid 90's with Mission ads in them, I'll scan & post them up if so :daumenhoch:
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be cool if you have mucka.
have a mooch :daumenhoch:
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SH#t!for £3 you cant go far wrong surely?? ;D
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Mission made trials bikes too, There's a chap in Halifax has 2x24" wheel frames, but they do look more trials than bmx cruiser, Mission currently make special needs trikes and kids bikes
http://www.missioncycles.co.uk/
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Yeah, all the earlier than '98 sealed hubs bit's n bobs I think were for MTB's - also Mission didn't start producing bmx's till 1998? :) posted on a thread over at the Museum a few weeks ago with this (woof woof at the model etc): Worth noting the 'Groundforce' is the same frame as the Fishbone BA minus peg bosses ;) :
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff443/dannywhack/Mission.jpg)
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also Mission didn't start producing bmx's till 1998?
That's a little odd.
My buddy definately got his late summer 1996, from a shop in Stafford called Henry Burton.
It had the same bars as the "groundforce" - KHE Fat Bob copies. They bent quite easily.
The sealed hubs on his were made by "Quando" (I still have those wheels)
Ride did a test on one of these bikes (I probably have the mag somewhere)
On one of their bikes they had the pegs with the "grind rings"!!! They were alloy flatland pegs, but with a ring that was separate and revolved when "grinding". Hahaha
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also Mission didn't start producing bmx's till 1998?
That's a little odd.
My buddy definately got his late summer 1996, from a shop in Stafford called Henry Burton.
It had the same bars as the "groundforce" - KHE Fat Bob copies. They bent quite easily.
The sealed hubs on his were made by "Quando" (I still have those wheels)
Ride did a test on one of these bikes (I probably have the mag somewhere)
On one of their bikes they had the pegs with the "grind rings"!!! They were alloy flatland pegs, but with a ring that was separate and revolved when "grinding". Hahaha
Heh - I remember them - stopped dead on those pegs if you tried to grind 'em - the rings were anodised a different colour from memory and didn't stop the fact that aluminium is crap for grinding :)
On the 1998 thang - was a question - I just thought that thay didn't start 'manufacture' (ie buying em in bulk from Taiwan) until '98 - might be (ie will be) completely wrong :) Will have a butcher through me Rides later - I reckon Dordy's is a 98 though from t'serial.
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loogs great for £3 dave! my local (ish) bike shop had one last year and wanted £50 for it.
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loogs great for £3 dave! my local (ish) bike shop had one last year and wanted £50 for it.
Deffo - can't go wrong for £3 - worth it for the decals alone if anyone ever needs em for reference :daumenhoch:
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Tange 5 Plain Gauge I think is a slightly lower end tube spec. Probably a bit thicker & heavier maybe than hi end stuff from this time.
It could just be the seat tube or main tubes are Tange 5 with the rest hi-ten or tubes from elsewhere ???
Looks well made though. Make a nice rider 8)