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Title: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 03, 2015, 07:50 PM: Just snagged this purely to satisfy my curiosity. Anyone seen one before?

(http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/oldschoolace/luggage%201_zpsosjnkrep.jpg) (http://s1182.photobucket.com/user/oldschoolace/media/luggage%201_zpsosjnkrep.jpg.html)

(http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/oldschoolace/luggage%202_zpssnxfj1jn.jpg) (http://s1182.photobucket.com/user/oldschoolace/media/luggage%202_zpssnxfj1jn.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: dp and chopper dude on February 03, 2015, 08:03 PM: Not sure about the frame but it looks like you've bagged yourself a few bobs worth of dp seat post there. Queue a few pms from those after one. Have you got a picture of the post?
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Post by: oldschoolace on February 03, 2015, 08:12 PM: Thats all the pics i have at the mo. Didnt know DP did seatposts ???
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: dp and chopper dude on February 03, 2015, 08:21 PM: Yeah they did 2 types as far as I know. That looks like one of them

(http://www.dpfirebird.co.uk/communities/2/004/006/866/752/images/4532217941.jpg)

Not too sure now after seeing the picture above :-\
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: chubby on February 03, 2015, 08:52 PM: If your really lucky they might be dp pegs too :LolLolLolLol:
cracking score Clint "wantit"
just noticed it's a loopy too :chin:
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Post by: chubby on February 03, 2015, 08:56 PM: Rest of it looks og to me , bet I came with them odd wheels bud
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Post by: Bfellows on February 03, 2015, 09:26 PM: I swear you've got a special button on ebay that reveals hidden listings........ ;D
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Post by: Picklez on February 03, 2015, 09:33 PM: I thought dp post at first glance and got all excited but I think the angles look wrong.

Also, is it me or do the rear drop outs look like they've been cut off on the bottom edge :-\
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: Gary72 on February 03, 2015, 09:35 PM: Quote from: Picklez on February 03, 2015, 09:33 PM
I thought dp post at first glance and got all excited but I think the angles look wrong.

Also, is it me or do the rear drop outs look like they've been cut off on the bottom edge :-\
Think the drop out is just rusty
Nice score :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 03, 2015, 10:00 PM: Quote from: Bfellows on February 03, 2015, 09:26 PM
I swear you've got a special button on ebay that reveals hidden listings........ ;D

:LolLolLolLol: Its the eBay dog and duck secret room ;)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 06, 2015, 04:35 PM: She lands soon, suspect I may have a couple of green wheels to give away :)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: chubby on February 06, 2015, 09:38 PM: Quote from: oldschoolace on February 06, 2015, 04:35 PM
She lands soon, suspect I may have a couple of green wheels to give away :)

Nooooooooooooooooooo
keep the wheels :nuts:
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: griff on February 07, 2015, 02:25 AM: I like how one wheel has an extra spoke - very stylish
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Post by: Mat on February 07, 2015, 05:48 AM: Loop is very piranha-ish

Probably cobbled together somewhere in the West Midlands using lead piping & chewing gum

Pretty cool though our mahogany-monger. :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Bfellows on February 07, 2015, 09:34 AM: Needs a set of flights and gen 1 graphites.........
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Post by: BMX1973 on February 08, 2015, 06:30 PM: Unusual to see a frame with Green parts. I like it. :) What are your plans with it? :daumenhoch:
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Post by: oldschoolace on February 08, 2015, 07:02 PM: Either sympathetic survivor resto or strip, powder and replacement decals. Depends on the condition when it arrives.
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Post by: BMX1973 on February 08, 2015, 07:25 PM: When it gets delivered you'll have to have a look for any markings or serial numbers. :daumenhoch:
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Post by: Jaymz on February 08, 2015, 07:27 PM: I reckon it's got something to do with the futura family of freestylers, possibly an earlier one to the ones on the museum
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/futura_freestyler/
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: bodamus on February 08, 2015, 08:24 PM: Theres some obscure old Freestylers about can't rember for sure but I think I've seen something very similar by either Pacific, St Tropez or a company called CTS or something like that?
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Post by: chubby on February 08, 2015, 09:25 PM: Quote from: Jaymz on February 08, 2015, 07:27 PM
I reckon it's got something to do with the futura family of freestylers, possibly an earlier one to the ones on the museum
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/futura_freestyler/
earlier ones have twin down tubes like mine & later ones have bent downtube like a performer. Lots of companies made things on a similar theme bitd ;)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 08, 2015, 10:04 PM: It's the looptail that's ethereal curveball for me. At the moment my thinking is possibly Johnson ???
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: chubby on February 09, 2015, 08:24 PM: Quote from: oldschoolace on February 08, 2015, 10:04 PM
It's the looptail that's ethereal curveball for me. At the moment my thinking is possibly Johnson ???

Makes me think the rack was welded onto some leftover race frame to cash in on freestyle ???
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 18, 2015, 07:26 PM: Well, just as I was starting to wonder it turned up today. The serials on the bb make for an interesting read. Any ideas gents?

(http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/oldschoolace/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_1137_zpskzihdxo1.jpg) (http://s1182.photobucket.com/user/oldschoolace/media/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC_1137_zpskzihdxo1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: Bfellows on February 18, 2015, 07:29 PM: January 2006 Rooster Big Daddy, 1st Gen without gusset?
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 18, 2015, 07:38 PM: I think it's a top secret prototype Haro from the early 80s! That classic American experimental fighter jet stylee X9000 serial gives it away ;)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 18, 2015, 08:18 PM: God I'm good :whistle:

(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/151976/dyn002_original_731_542_pjpeg_2556394_564632ecdf3e4b07bebd533d37f89194.jpg)

Looks like the odd mags came as standard :crazy2:
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Post by: chubby on February 18, 2015, 10:02 PM: :smitten: :coolsmiley: :smitten:
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Post by: bodamus on February 18, 2015, 10:10 PM: Ooo La la it's French :bow:
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Post by: Devilock on February 18, 2015, 10:19 PM: Quote from: Mat on February 07, 2015, 05:48 AM

Probably cobbled together somewhere in the West Midlands using lead piping & chewing gum

:LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: bodamus on February 18, 2015, 10:31 PM: Clint I think I've got a Nos set of those rear frame standers :)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 18, 2015, 10:45 PM: Cheers Ian but i reckon they look a bit odd on a looptail ???
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: oldschoolace on February 18, 2015, 10:58 PM: By the look of it they must have added the rack to this model ???

(http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/oldschoolace/gitane_zpsaqtqyyz6.jpg) (http://s1182.photobucket.com/user/oldschoolace/media/gitane_zpsaqtqyyz6.jpg.html)

(http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x455/oldschoolace/luggage%201_zpsosjnkrep.jpg)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: pickle on February 19, 2015, 08:03 AM: In the name of BMX it really only has one place in life ;)
Title: Re: Whats my luggage rack?
Post by: pickle on February 19, 2015, 08:09 AM: or let it live again?