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Title: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: SaMAlex on March 08, 2007, 07:55 PM

I took a couple of pics of some Slam bars I have. One pair is the old, square ones with a higher cross bar, the other is the newer (94 onwards ish) rounder, lower cross bar ones. Thought it might interest some people.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/2slams1.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/alexleech/2slams2.jpg)

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: harris on March 08, 2007, 07:59 PM

nice alex are they like the earlier s&m drive bars
i had a set of the butler lumbar bars  ,but vanished   :'(

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: SaMAlex on March 08, 2007, 08:03 PM

I really liked thoes Lum-bars, I had a couple of sets. They are quite a bit smaller than Slams. I think Lumbars were closer to the Smal bars (aka smal slams) they do now

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: Stodgy on March 08, 2007, 08:50 PM

Good reference Alex - nice one mate!

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: lazychubs on March 08, 2007, 09:56 PM

app runour as it that the new ones out are smaller
so are less wieght

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: SaMAlex on March 08, 2007, 10:12 PM

S&M have started doing butted, heat treated slams (still US made) that are lighter than the old ones.

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: teamsano on March 17, 2007, 08:45 PM

i had the early ones too, but they got replaced for the smaller model in AUGUST 93, when i was in the us.

fyi slams then varied in upsweep/backsweep to the more modern slam bars.

nice super g sticker too, im sure i had a few of those somewhere...

Title: Re: Old and New Slam bars
Post by: woody allen bars on April 23, 2007, 04:07 PM

Resurrecting an older topic I know but finally dragged some bars out of storage.

Here are the early Slam bars I told you about Alex, different shape to the ones already posted, plus a pair of genuine VDC Woody Allen, sorry Itson, bars just for reference as I reckon they set the standard for bars up to the present day with 0.65 tubing and a shape that's almost identical to the earlier Slams originally posted above.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v227/CraigS/bmx/slam.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v227/CraigS/bmx/woodyslams.jpg)

Craig