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Title: bike id please help
Post by: boltio9999 on May 20, 2013, 06:39 PM: just picked this up off local scrapman any ideas what it could be ,cannot find any markings and stickers say pro star

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Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: PRO THUNDER on May 20, 2013, 06:55 PM: Looks like an early Piranha??? My mate had one with those ali mags (Or are they plastic?) back in 1980-1?? :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: boltio9999 on May 20, 2013, 07:10 PM: Wheels are cast alloy
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: fischflo on May 20, 2013, 07:56 PM: Quote from: PRO THUNDER on May 20, 2013, 06:55 PM
Looks like an early Piranha??? My mate had one with those ali mags (Or are they plastic?) back in 1980-1?? :daumenhoch:

good lad :daumenhoch:

look what bmxbob posts; some ads...... yep its your bike ! http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=114364.msg1114048#msg1114048
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: boltio9999 on May 20, 2013, 08:29 PM: Nice one thankyou
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: MartyC on May 21, 2013, 12:29 PM: Quote from: fischflo on May 20, 2013, 07:56 PM
Quote from: PRO THUNDER on May 20, 2013, 06:55 PM
Looks like an early Piranha??? My mate had one with those ali mags (Or are they plastic?) back in 1980-1?? :daumenhoch:

good lad :daumenhoch:

look what bmxbob posts; some ads...... yep its your bike ! http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=114364.msg1114048#msg1114048

Not the same, different gusset and rear dropouts. It may be a later Piranha but deffo not the one in the add or the pics in that thread.
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: fischflo on May 21, 2013, 02:04 PM: Its a Piranha alright - OK the gusset is SLIGHTLY different, but the dropouts seem the same ..? Look at the fork dropouts, look at the wheels - pretty specific, don't you think? So it's clearly a Piranha :yahoo_silent: just not that one for 92 quid.
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: MartyC on May 21, 2013, 02:36 PM: Quote from: fischflo on May 21, 2013, 02:04 PM
Its a Piranha alright - OK the gusset is SLIGHTLY different, but the dropouts seem the same ..? Look at the fork dropouts, look at the wheels - pretty specific, don't you think? So it's clearly a Piranha :yahoo_silent: just not that one for 92 quid.

The Piranha has a looptail the yellow frame does not and the gussets are very different.
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: fischflo on May 21, 2013, 02:46 PM: So THIS has a looptail?

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v521/fischflo/piranha.jpg)

And in which way exactly are the dropouts different? Aren't they rather similar, if not IDENTICAL?
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: MartyC on May 21, 2013, 02:48 PM: Argh! you got me, I missed that pic and all the mags I have show them with a looptail; my bad :-[
Title: Re: bike id please help
Post by: fischflo on May 21, 2013, 02:50 PM: fischflo: :4_17_5: