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Title: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: splits*lambrettas on September 17, 2006, 09:52 AM: OK I WANT TO PUT GRAPHITE WHEELS ON MY GEN 1 RESTO, BUT DONT WANT TO FORK OUT UPWARDS OF 500
WOULD IT BE A CRIME TO PUT BRAND NEW GRAPHITE SKYWAYS ON IT?
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: jeff spicoli on September 17, 2006, 10:10 AM: No but it will be a crime if you dont put a bell on it apparently.
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: gmac on September 17, 2006, 10:10 AM: It's your bike, do whatever you want. It won't look era correct, but you can by the fakey, stick on gold hubs thingies, to make them look a bit more like the originals. You'll need to remove the writing too.

Do what you wanna do, and don't worry about what the perverts say :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: Moose on September 17, 2006, 11:00 AM: Oh no, lock him up - he's going to put new school graphites on a gen 1 :police: :2gunsfiring_v1:

:LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: theRuler on September 17, 2006, 01:09 PM: personally i wouldnt bother mate

get some old metal hubbed tuffs and paint the hubs gold!
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: jeff spicoli on September 17, 2006, 01:37 PM: Quote from: theRuler on September 17, 2006, 01:09 PM
personally i wouldnt bother mate

get some old metal hubbed tuffs and paint the hubs gold!

Thats what the Torker freestyle team did in 84 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: motomagII on September 17, 2006, 06:23 PM: bit low on their budget was they andy :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: WOULD THIS BE A CRIME
Post by: jeff spicoli on September 17, 2006, 06:44 PM: Quote from: motomagII on September 17, 2006, 06:23 PM
bit low on their budget was they andy :LolLolLolLol:

They wouldnt give us graphites because the were crap and very expensive. I had a set once and they lasted me 6 weeks. The tuff 2s were great though