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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: harris on June 22, 2012, 09:56 PM
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I recently sold 20 sets of nos superpros to a collector who never shows his rides.
never shown anyone apparently,i still cant work out why.
i bet the biggest collections are kept quiet just personally cant work that part out.
odd in my book.
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I know of one, collection probably the the size of rad members bikes.........
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i met a chap a couple of year ago to pick up a flight crank and he said a mate of his has every single jmc but never shows anybody his collection and doesnt even like to talk about it :uglystupid2:
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I'd love one set of superpros don't even have to be nos :'(
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i can imagine nick a few big collections that would amaze all of us.
i kinda had my arm twisted glen,this chap had money to burn readily and the offer was an easy one.
i dont think i would have got anywhere near his offer from anyone tbh.
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I have a good friend who has a massive and amazing collection including a lot of very exotic bikes, he collects for his pleasure and not for anyone else so thats his choice. I also know a few people who collect vintage bikes and cars which are stored away and not for public viewing. Each to their own I guess :) I only post on here a small part of my collection and items I've collected, don't want everyone to know everything I have :-X ;D
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if you had 50 grand under your mattress would you tell anyone ? could be same sort of thing :-\
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makes me want to go see these collections even more haha crazy.
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does seem a shame to lock away collections of bikes, its almost a waste....
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I recently sold 20 sets of nos superpros to a collector who never shows his rides.
never shown anyone apparently,i still cant work out why.
i bet the biggest collections are kept quiet just personally cant work that part out.
odd in my book.
yep we were talking about this the other day dan
each to their own i guess
be nice to see some of it though eh :)
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I didn't take in one word of what came after "20 sets of NOS Superpros"
WHAT!?! :shocked:
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dan i've said this before, one collector i must have painted 30 + frame sets, he's not a member on rad
or any other site and my latest collector must have had 10 so far done by me and again no member of
any site, he told me he has a barn with them hanging aganst the wall and loads of parts in display
cabinets ;)
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I guess to that as its only Rad and Beards site that have a UK show ie MK and Burner Bash, we miss a trick in seeing collections, and also collections in full.
Suppose we had an event where collectors brought all their bikes, then that would be a show piece eh !
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how many pairs do you have left now then dan? another 20 i bet :LolLolLolLol:
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im not bled dry yet ;)
dan nick im getting a new urge to hunt these chaps down :) curiosity.
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I know 5 or 6 collectors all with well over 100 + Bikes and Framesets :shocked:
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:shocked: dang
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Thinking of an 'inside job' next year, bit like the old DC event, maybe in an old warehouse / aircraft hanger........
Get a few bikes shown....... Gotta do something instead of MK
:)
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Same in the antiquities/art collectors world - there's them that get enjoyment out of showing their collections (museum loan exhibits etc), and them that get their enjoyment out of having their own private collections :) Same as Dan though - would love to see the private un's.
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Thinking of an 'inside job' next year, bit like the old DC event, maybe in an old warehouse / aircraft hanger........
Get a few bikes shown....... Gotta do something instead of MK
:)
o yes
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i met a chap a couple of year ago to pick up a fight crank and he said a mate of his has every single jmc but never shows anybody his collection and doesnt even like to tak about it :uglystupid2:
Is that not John from Birmingham? He has shared his collection with us, I have seen it in the flesh even swapped JMC frame sets with him so he could complete his collection.
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Same in the antiquities/art collectors world - there's them that get enjoyment out of showing their collections (museum loan exhibits etc), and them that get their enjoyment out of having their own private collections :) Same as Dan though - would love to see the private un's.
yeah so true, i painted a couple of frame sets a few weeks back and the guy wasn't that aware of rad
and said most of his stuff was bought on ebay, well he showed me a pic of his collection ???
amazing and he had a skatepart in his garden :daumenhoch:
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i met a chap a couple of year ago to pick up a fight crank and he said a mate of his has every single jmc but never shows anybody his collection and doesnt even like to tak about it :uglystupid2:
Is that not John from Birmingham? He has shared his collection with us, I have seen it in the flesh even swapped JMC frame sets with him so he could complete his collection.
Sounds like John to me... didn't he recently post pics of his Cruiser?
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i met a chap a couple of year ago to pick up a fight crank and he said a mate of his has every single jmc but never shows anybody his collection and doesnt even like to tak about it :uglystupid2:
Is that not John from Birmingham? He has shared his collection with us, I have seen it in the flesh even swapped JMC frame sets with him so he could complete his collection.
Yup.
He still has them I think.
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i would nt want the great unwashed gawping at the contents of my barn either !! :LolLolLolLol:
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Not surprised with all the mentals on here
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One of my customers on my Post round has an awsome collection of bikes :4_17_5: :4_17_5:.
Mostly Haro freestylers and GT Performers but he has 2 of those Hoffman Evel Knievel things in white. I think Dom knows him as he's in Southampton. He's also a good buyer from me :LolLolLolLol: seems pointless putting my stuff on Rad when Steve want's it all, saves postage anyhow. He recently bought my Quad and a set of Anlun pro bars off of me for one of his Haro builds.
Those Knievel things are well cool though :4_17_5: :4_17_5:
I don't show some of my bikes on RAD, 2 of them have never been shown. :yahoo_silent:
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maybe its well known people that are in the public eye that dont want to be recognised, that hide away there collections????
they must be a few.... ???
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I had a friend come up to me says a guy on his building site is selling some of his bmx's am i interested, turns out the guy was flogging off some tsaty bits, and framesets, Hutch, speedlines, DC's loads of stuff, he'd not heard of rad or any of the other likely forums. I got priced out of the buying, but hooked up a fellow member with the goodies
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I also know of 1 Radster who posts on here regularly , he has been given a hard time in the past for his sales thread and has recently built 2 X High top end fantastic bikes :4_17_5: :4_17_5: :4_17_5:
He has hardly ever shown any of his stuff on here, it's not just the 70+ fully built bikes he has, it's his endless stock of NOS parts aswell. :smitten: :smitten: But then, for the shit he has taken in the past ( not recently) i wouldn't give anyone the pleasure neither.
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that the problem you show the stuff off and everyone wants it , i had one guy years ago round my house to buy something and boy did i struggle to get rid of him and he wanted to buy everything i had but would not take no for answer , nowsdays i don`t shown anything anymore because of this as also because of the value of stuff now ,sad really but it`s my life in those bikes
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i met a chap a couple of year ago to pick up a fight crank and he said a mate of his has every single jmc but never shows anybody his collection and doesnt even like to tak about it :uglystupid2:
Is that not John from Birmingham? He has shared his collection with us, I have seen it in the flesh even swapped JMC frame sets with him so he could complete his collection.
this bloke lives in scotland apparently
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I have an old friend from my school days who has a fair sized collection 8)
And a fair few NOS UK frames :smitten:
He'd never heard of RAD :idiot2:
There's a fair few people out there who don't "Show and Shine" :coolsmiley:
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remember the early days of rad when there were a few threads n post about the enigma of "poolysherriff" that name that was in the bidders list of almost anything you were interested in on ebay in the early naughties, took a long while to find out he he was, poor c*nt, where is he now? ::) :LolLolLolLol:
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I recently sold 20 sets of nos superpros.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Starting to wish I had skipped work and come down to visit you :LolLolLolLol:
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I recently sold 20 sets of nos superpros
:(
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I also know of 1 Radster who posts on here regularly , he has been given a hard time in the past for his sales thread and has recently built 2 X High top end fantastic bikes :4_17_5: :4_17_5: :4_17_5:
He has hardly ever shown any of his stuff on here, it's not just the 70+ fully built bikes he has, it's his endless stock of NOS parts aswell. :smitten: :smitten: But then, for the shit he has taken in the past ( not recently) i wouldn't give anyone the pleasure neither.
have you missed kappys posts bro? :LolLolLolLol:
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I know of at least 2 round my way ;) but have know idea who they r :2funny:
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let every one enjoy the view ???
don't know why they just show pic's of the stuff for people/members who enjoy BMX - doesn't mean we are going to badger them every second or find out where there live
for me having some nice bmx and just put it away in the loft for no one to see or just to be forgotten is such a shame
pictures of great items need to be seen ;)
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never thought peeps on here were on about kappy?
he is hardly reclusive or afraid to show us his builds and mad creations
and he owns the most famous RADiator in the UK :daumenhoch:
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never thought peeps on here were on about kappy?
he is hardly reclusive or afraid to show us his builds and mad creations
and he owns the most famous RADiator in the UK :daumenhoch:
Griff you loon ::) no ones on about me i'm just not showing some of my builds now
one of my customers has well over a 100 old classic motor bikes and other buildings rammed with classic cars n bike parts , the first time i went to his house ( i normally go to his business he doesn't take many up there ) i couldn't take it all in , i've been loads of times since and now he keeps asking if theres anything i fancy ,,,,he loves a deal ;D there's a BSA :smitten: that just needs a little tlc but to be honest i've not got the time to start with something else . There's gonna be loads around the country and every now and again someone just might discover one :daumenhoch:
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never thought peeps on here were on about kappy?
he is hardly reclusive or afraid to show us his builds and mad creations
and he owns the most famous RADiator in the UK :daumenhoch:
Griff you loon ::) no ones on about me i'm just not showing some of my builds now
ahh there's a secret kappy vault? [psst let's have a sly look then ;)]
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:yahoo_silent: :LolLolLolLol:
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I also know of 1 Radster who posts on here regularly , he has been given a hard time in the past for his sales thread and has recently built 2 X High top end fantastic bikes :4_17_5: :4_17_5: :4_17_5:
He has hardly ever shown any of his stuff on here, it's not just the 70+ fully built bikes he has, it's his endless stock of NOS parts aswell. :smitten: :smitten: But then, for the shit he has taken in the past ( not recently) i wouldn't give anyone the pleasure neither.
have you missed kappys posts bro? :LolLolLolLol:
I'm not talking about Darren.
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I can understand why people wouldn't want to show all of their collection. I dont go out of my way to put every bike or part I own online, however if a topic comes up relating to such a bike Im happy to share mine with other enthusiasts. I think we can all appreciate that being part of a BMX collecting community and sharing info has benefited all of us in many ways. However at the same time Im sure they guys with 100's of bikes might also feel like exposing the entire collecting might open them up to constant pestering by other people (not to mention I doubt many insurance companies would add 100+ collectable bicycles to you household policy free of charge). :2funny:
Each to their own, but I do think sharing knowledge within the community is important even if you are not posting a catalogue of what you own.
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I recently sold 20 sets of nos superpros.
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Starting to wish I had skipped work and come down to visit you :LolLolLolLol:
i usually sell when people pop round ,but leave it to me i usually keep stuff as i hate posting not im lazy its hard to get to the post office
as its usually shut when i get home.