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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: 2fat2tabletop on April 30, 2007, 09:38 PM
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DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THESE ?
ANYONE WITH ANY INFO ON THEM. THE ONLY PLACE I'VE SEEN ANOTHER ONE IS ON BMX MUSEUM. - ONLY ONE PIC
CAN ANY ONE HELP 2FAT ON ANYTING ON THESE?
TA VERY MUCH
2FAT
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yeah i remember them "track certified "they were ok bikes bitd but not iconic bit like the hi end puch bikes track invader ect there was a a range smart fox , white fox ,silver fox ,and pro fox or something in asending radness it was better than a burner type of style
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DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER THESE ?
ANYONE WITH ANY INFO ON THEM. THE ONLY PLACE I'VE SEEN ANOTHER ONE IS ON BMX MUSEUM. - ONLY ONE PIC
CAN ANY ONE HELP 2FAT ON ANYTING ON THESE?
TA VERY MUCH
2FAT
yeah i had one and snapped it :LolLolLolLol: there was one about on the evil last year :-\ should have bought it for racing lightest bike i ever rode bitd
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In the 80s I worked in a bike shop called Thakes, owned by Nick Thake. He got in a load of silver foxes but got them direct from the factory in the far east. He got them to change the "MT" on the stickers to "NT" cos that was his initials.
As far as I remember, the frames were just steel (not cro mo) and quite thin so very easy to brake. A Mate of mine was riding one with redline stickers (not many frames didnt have gussets so the Fox was a good bike to make a fake redline out of .... if you ignored the 4" headtube). He did a little jump and came down front wheel first and folded the whole front end of the frame, top tube and down tube bend in half.
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heres some old ads
hope they help
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/FoxAdOct84Page1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/FoxAdOct84Page2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/fox1.jpg)
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He did a little jump and came down front wheel first and folded the whole front end of the frame, top tube and down tube bend in half.
So the Forks must've been by far the best BITD :shocked: (they must've took the brunt of the impact )
BMX Action bike #10 gives these bikes a good review on their test
The top 2 models WERE cro moly
They came with a few decent components too !
I seem to remember at the time the top ones were around the same price, or a bit more than a Silver streak , so not expensive
I didn't get one though, they didn't have the right LABEL ;D
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yes i remember these as i used to be sponsored by the 'fox factor'...
the importer was based over at ashford in kent. i worked at the warehouse for about a year as well.
nice well spec'd bikes you know. godd welding on the frames etc etc... however they never came with any grease in the b/b bearings.
guess what????........ that was my job to take the bike out the box grease the bearings and put the bike back in its box.....yawn yawn :LolLolLolLol:
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this is corals jnrfox :daumenhoch: her pride and joy :smitten:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m279/zed2000/familypics285.jpg)
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zed thats a sweet little build :daumenhoch:
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zed thats a sweet little build :daumenhoch:
:daumenhoch: she's getting this one for her mums house :daumenhoch:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m279/zed2000/b65e_1.jpg)
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not that your spoiling her :)
still why not i say
just finished a much lighter huffy for my daughter which she rode first time on sunday at hersden
about 1/5 the weight of the amamco 202 she had before ;)
aren't dads good ;D
old 2 ton special
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/my%20mongooses/IMG_4358.jpg)
new super fly weight huffy AL frame, ukai 1 3/8th sugino, 152 cranks, elina UL seat coming, Alloy bars fro Roonga
(click to enlarge)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/maisy%20huffy/th_BUILD-008sml.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/kdw712/maisy%20huffy/BUILD-008sml.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/maisy%20huffy/th_BUILD-007sml.jpg) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/kdw712/maisy%20huffy/BUILD-007sml.jpg)