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Title: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: Rob1 on August 23, 2012, 02:49 PM
Do the Tuffs you can buy in shops look the same as the old 86 on ones ?
I read somewhere that they have holes in for a reflector  :(
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: pickle on August 23, 2012, 02:51 PM
Yep they have one little hole in to screw in a reflector.  no probs on a rider though.......other than flexing like a bastard  ;D

oh you may need yo file the front axle a bit as well as they don't have flat sided front axles.
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: Rob1 on August 23, 2012, 03:00 PM
Ahhh....has anyone got a pair of old green ones then ? ;)
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: mattuknc on August 23, 2012, 03:06 PM
You may find some pairs that don't have a fleccy hole, my black one's do, but my white ones didn't.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: not johndub71 on August 23, 2012, 03:22 PM
The new ones are still 24tpi on the axle too. Mine came today from winstanleys.
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: mattuknc on August 23, 2012, 03:28 PM
I thought Parkers were still cheaper these days?!  :-X
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: MaD-RoK on August 23, 2012, 03:30 PM
Parkers were cheaper last time I checked. You may need to saw the axles down a little as well if you aren't going to be using pegs.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: not johndub71 on August 23, 2012, 07:42 PM
Wish I'd known about them before :-( ahwell...
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: BMX1973 on August 23, 2012, 09:29 PM
Don't mean to thread HiJack, but got these Tuffs about 6 years ago - I think :-\

They do not have reflector holes for reflectors so these are different to the modern Tuffs they do now?  Also they have the flat front axle too.

 If so when did they manufactor these ones from and to then.

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Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: pickle on August 23, 2012, 09:48 PM
Those were the first batch of sealed bearing new ones, they then mass produced them with the plan to use them on complete bikes (big daddy rooster) and by law wheels have to have reflectors  :-\
Title: Re: New Skyway Tuff IIs
Post by: BMX1973 on August 23, 2012, 10:01 PM
Thanks for info.

Do you know what year these were made from and to?

These quite hard to find in their own right?

Those were the first batch of sealed bearing new ones, they then mass produced them with the plan to use them on complete bikes (big daddy rooster) and by law wheels have to have reflectors  :-\
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