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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: stevesredvxr on September 27, 2016, 11:20 PM
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Hi guys,
Just thought I'd post some photos of the trip I took last week to the Skyway Factory.
Me and the wife managed to tag a flight to San Francisco from our holiday in New York and we met up with and stayed with Maurice Meyer. Very kind of him to offer his home for a few days and he gave us a tour of SF and all its delights before taking the 4hr drive up to Redding on Thursday. My friend Grant Stone from the Skyway Appreciation group flew out and joined us too and we got to Caterpillar Road around 1pm where we were immediately escorted back out the building and had our lunch bought by Rein Stolz. 😄
After lunch we headed back to the factory where Rein gave us the full tour.
Ken Coster wasn't able to be there as he was at Interbike in Vegas so Rein took the lead and also Parrey Cremeans came in to talk to us too.
Grant took one of his Tuffs and they kindly re-rivited it for him so he was pretty pleased with that.
We ended up staying while 9pm, all the while we were rooting about and finding things even Rein had forgotten they had. It was like time had stood still as most of the stuff was just laying about as though it's never been moved since the 80's.
Highlight of the day was seeing a Prototype Beat almost identical to Dave Vanderspeks that Rein keeps hidden away from the factory. Not a lot of people know this even existed.
Anyway, really enjoyed it. Even the Mrs came and she enjoyed it too which was a shock.
Well worth a trip if you're ever over there. I have hundreds of photos but I'll just put a few up for now.
Hope you like
Steve
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:4_17_5: made up for you Steve. Been waiting for this thread for ages :daumenhoch:
Top pics, too much to take in! God knows how you coped :D
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Cheers Clint.......had this booked since about March and was a long time coming. 😏
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You got a 2016 beat in your case then?
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I wish........still not ready. 😕😕
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Amazing Steve, just amazing. Am so pleased for you. It looked like a fantastic day :4_17_5:
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Steve that really is living the dream mate... I'm sure there are many jealous people out there ( myself included ) !
Just bloody brilliant "wantit" :4_17_5:
That Vander f and f is toooo sick!!!! "wantit"
I'm sure many like me spent hours looking at those curb dogs photos trying to work out what was going on with that frameset!!!
How about convincing them to do a limited run of 100 copies .... Now that would be one repop definitely worth buying ... Very very cool!!
New York didn't look too shabby either Steve fistblump
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Bloody ace Steve, been looking forward to seeing these.
Proper kid in a sweetshop stuff, made up for you explosion
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That's simply amazing Steve!! very jealous but so happy for you experiencing such a great tour of the place.
Huge thanks for taking the time to upload all the pictures as well, great to see all that great stuff!
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explosion brilliant thread mate and fantastic pictures fistblump
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Wow ! What a trip :4_17_5:
Thanks for sharing Steve :daumenhoch:
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Think we need a rad coach trip :D
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It must have been like visiting Willy Wonka for you that Steve :4_17_5:
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Great pics Steve, looks like a cool place!
Wonder if they're still using any equipment from bitd?
I think they will be, industrial equipment can last a loooong time.
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Awesome Steve, I was way up north in Maine while you were in the sun down south
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Yep was a cool place and yeah I felt like a kid again!!
Yep they are still using some old machinery.....the tuff wheel mold machine is still the same and they had at least two of the original rivet machines.
As I said, well worth a trip.
Me and the Mrs were in New York first Jaymz which also co-incided with the bomb attacks unfortunately but it was a good mile or two from us.
Steve
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Totally Amazing Steve, what a great day and great memories from it.
Thanks for sharing with us. :coolsmiley:
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Best thread award :4_17_5:
Thanks for sharing :daumenhoch:
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Cool pics,looks like you had a blast.
The Vanderspek frame looks mental,I remember seeing it in Action Bike.
Did you make them a cheeky offer for it ?
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Cheers guys.
No cheeky offer on the frame...that things not going anywhere. Rein doesn't even keep it at the factory and I don't think he's ever shown anyone it before....Not sure anyone knew it existed.😮
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Steve, in the pic with you holding the pink frame is that a cast aluminium skyway mag on the floor?
Also is the black rimmed wheel, in the background, alloy, a z rim or a skyway rim?
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This one Clint? If it is then yes.
Not sure about the rim....I had a Beat in my hand so wasnt paying much attention!! 😂
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Steve, in the pic with you holding the pink frame is that a cast aluminium skyway mag on the floor?
Also is the black rimmed wheel, in the background, alloy, a z rim or a skyway rim?
Skyway wheelbarrow wheel there :whistle:
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That's the one Steve, shame it's a dinky one. Very cool though :daumenhoch:
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What about this one? 😏
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Bet they must have alsorts of weird and wonderful stuff knocking about in their buildings from previous trials and experiments :)
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It looks like you had a right adventure there! Great pictures. Thanks for sharing :4_17_5:
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Nice
Would love t o have a mooch about there
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Great thread really enjoyed looking through those pics Steve. I was buzzed up looking at them I bet you were over the moon been there. :coolsmiley:
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That is radness personified!
Awesome pictures and that chrome frame :smitten:
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Is that multi-coloured tuffs in some pics? Are they going to be released?
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Great stuff - thanks for the photos. The multi coloured tuffs are for a charity thing, I read something about it recently.
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Awesome stuff . :4_17_5:
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that must have like all your dreams coming true at once going there steve :smitten:
like others have said -love the vander 'beat :shocked:
also like the green/white 'beat with the welded luggs on
can we see the rest of the pics steve ?
any more info on the 2016 beat- won't tell anybody :-X
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The multi coloured tuffs are for an autism charity.
I have loads of photos Gary but it's time consuming uploading.
If you're on Facebook I've put quite a few on there on both the rad page and the skyway appreciation page.
If I get time at weekend I'll post up some more 👍