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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 06:59 PM

Title: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 06:59 PM: hi guys
just joined the site and said my bit in the welcome section and was hoping from some help in telling me what frame this is.
i brought it from a guy yesturday and in first glance looks to be a falcon freestyler, but there are some subtle differences "help"

i dont care if its nothing specal as i justed liked the look of it :)

thanks in advance

(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/4.jpg)
(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/3.jpg)
(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/2.jpg)
(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/1.jpg)
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: That Swan Guy on August 26, 2013, 07:02 PM: You need to read this thread, it'll help sort your photos out :daumenhoch:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,129378.0.html
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 07:13 PM: there was no link so just trying

(http://)http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/1.jpg
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: That Swan Guy on August 26, 2013, 07:14 PM: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 07:16 PM: sused it out :LolLolLolLol:(http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/1.jpg) (http://s1187.photobucket.com/user/neilthechampion/media/1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: pickle on August 26, 2013, 09:24 PM: After sorting your pictures, I'd say generic POS ??? Sorry :-\
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 09:39 PM: whats that then, and i dont mind if its a asda special ;D
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 09:41 PM: just googled "POS" is that "piece of sh**" then :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: pickle on August 26, 2013, 09:48 PM: Sorry, I'm afraid so. But hey build it up with some cheap parts and ride it :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 26, 2013, 10:30 PM: thanks for the info, just out of intrest how did you come up with POS :laugh:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Ryan on August 29, 2013, 02:47 PM: Quote from: pickle on August 26, 2013, 09:24 PM
After sorting your pictures, I'd say generic POS ??? Sorry :-\
Hi pickle, can I ask if how you came up with that result? Is there any way of searching the frame number to get a acctual result of make/model??? Thanks
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: pickle on August 29, 2013, 03:29 PM: Just the general shape and quality. Experience as well I guess ???

GT were the only real quality bike make which used that bent down tube design, it was then copied by countless cheap toys R us bikes which I believe comes under the umbrella of POS :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Jaymz on August 29, 2013, 07:44 PM: Late 90's early 00's ammaco

(http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t568/bufta2/null_zpsaa96a9a6.jpg) (http://s1314.photobucket.com/user/bufta2/media/null_zpsaa96a9a6.jpg.html)
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: fischflo on August 29, 2013, 08:03 PM: awesome, Jaymz :slayer:

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/ammaco/37548#.Uh-aWH-H2jc "1987 (I think) Ammaco Freestyler Special Edition"
someone says. "your nearly ten years out on it, same frame as a falcon xpose from around 95. i have got the same bike!!!"

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/ammaco/59797#.Uh-aOH-H2jc "1987 Ammaco Freestyler"
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Jaymz on August 29, 2013, 08:53 PM: Townsend also did a version called te xposure too, and so did universal, but the ammaco was the first me I could lay my hands on, bankrupt bike parts on eBay have a load of nos ones for £20
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: fischflo on August 29, 2013, 09:21 PM: the disc, bars, stem etc ... all seems original to the bike
http://www.kupindo.com/Road-Racing/13617217_Ammaco-Freestyle
slavic seller says "Model: Alpina ACIFIC FS" and "Vrsta: Muski "

seen the top tube decal a few times on this now: "Freestyler"
(http://static.kupindoslike.com/Ammaco-Freestyle_slika_L_9830601.jpg)

...a cryptographologist could now tell us the exact year, please
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Jaymz on August 29, 2013, 09:30 PM: The picture I posted was from a member on rb.com, it had been spray bombed after careful stripping this was the result, most of the freestyler was destroyed but you could make it out
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Dannywhac on August 29, 2013, 10:15 PM: Like J's said - they're all from the very late 90's and are probably still used on generic cack Toy's R Us bikes today. Looking at that frame number with it's plethora of 0000's I'd say the OP's frame was made in 2000.

From that Alpina one - it probably is all og - they sell the frames to third party companies, and they get decalled and componented up to whatever they're gonna flog em with.
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 30, 2013, 06:39 PM: thanks for the help guys :bow:, it sort of makes sence now, as when i picked it up and in the right light you could make out an "a" silhouette on the frame (down tube), anyway i will put ammaco stickers on it ;D sound better than townsend i think.
as said by pickles, i gonna strip my mongoose mid school down and change it over so i can ride it, and go from there

right off to ebay to get some stickers, thanks guys
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 30, 2013, 07:06 PM: er, anyone know where i can get some Ammaco stickers from :(
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: Howser on August 30, 2013, 08:00 PM: Del is the sticker guru on here - drop him a pm :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: help with this please
Post by: red baron on August 30, 2013, 09:10 PM: thanks for that howser, i have done, hopfully to the right person