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Title: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 05:13 PM
hi all, im wondering if the early to mid eighties redline padsets have been repro'd ? i assume certain other makes have been ie skyway, hutch etc, there seem to a lot about, as are a lot of sticker sets, a particular set that myself and a few others want are fetching silly money on satanbay, they are obviously rare but someone must be re doing them surely? ;)
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 07, 2007, 05:23 PM
A guy in the States was knocking sets out about 4 year ago...  you'll be very lucky to find any at all now, Redline are very good at killing off any repo gear to protect the copy right...

I would also be very sceptical about any 80s nylon Redline padsets that pop up as NOS or very good condition.... 

Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: GREMLIN on July 07, 2007, 05:31 PM
I was thinking the same about the supposedly nos pad set on the f&f currently on the bay. They look a bit tatty and loose for a better word. Also it's the 1st set i've seen that has the Redline font split between the blk/gry on the pad. Usually it's soley in the black part. I may be wrong and will be stood corrected...   ???  G.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 07:24 PM
mm exactly what i was thinking mr g, its hard enough getting a set but then not knowing if they are cheap knock offs too, especially when they are going for the sort of money they can fetch!! >:(
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: Bananaman on July 07, 2007, 07:38 PM
 :-X

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REDLINE-OLD-SCHOOL-BMX-PLUS-BRAND-NEW-ORIGINAL-PAD-SET_W0QQitemZ160134476289QQihZ006QQcategoryZ33503QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 07:47 PM
mm thats them :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 07, 2007, 07:57 PM
Redline pad set...

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v337/2elliot/cjr84pl20.jpg)

 ???
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 09:37 PM
$299 eh!!! i'll take three of those please ;)
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: CD17 on July 07, 2007, 09:42 PM
A guy in the States was knocking sets out about 4 year ago...  you'll be very lucky to find any at all now, Redline are very good at killing off any repo gear to protect the copy right...

I would also be very sceptical about any 80s nylon Redline padsets that pop up as NOS or very good condition.... 



I don't see why Redline worry about it if they don't make them anymore  :idiot2:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 09:50 PM
well said old bean i am right behind on that, not literally tho!!!! :laugh:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 07, 2007, 09:52 PM
$299 eh!!! i'll take three of those please ;)

Just a set of bars would do me :-\
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: RATTY on July 07, 2007, 09:55 PM
A guy in the States was knocking sets out about 4 year ago...  you'll be very lucky to find any at all now, Redline are very good at killing off any repo gear to protect the copy right...

I would also be very sceptical about any 80s nylon Redline padsets that pop up as NOS or very good condition.... 



I don't see why Redline worry about it if they don't make them anymore  :idiot2:
Cant see why redline dont do their own repops or licence someone else, could always have the date printed inside them
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 07, 2007, 10:28 PM
big ron b i just picked up a set of mint pro v's off ebay in germany for wait for it, £10 posted  :2funny: some guy called hans in a leather catsuit said he would do me a deal if i spent five minutes polishing his old stem... ha ha
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 07, 2007, 11:04 PM
big ron b i just picked up a set of mint pro v's off ebay in germany for wait for it, £10 posted  :2funny: some guy called hans in a leather catsuit said he would do me a deal if i spent five minutes polishing his old stem... ha ha

Nice one...  but I need Stu bars :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: gt0733 on July 08, 2007, 01:04 AM
that pad set on ebay dosn't look right  :-\ the red font on the frame pad should be completely in the black. i saw a set of correct ones last month on ebay in the store section when searching "redline" for $89.95usd. i had to go out for a short while, when i came home to buy them they were gone  :'(
£155 is a waaaay too heavy for pads that appear to be repo  :shocked:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: MartyC on July 08, 2007, 09:53 AM
that pad set on ebay dosn't look right  :-\ the red font on the frame pad should be completely in the black. i saw a set of correct ones last month on ebay in the store section when searching "redline" for $89.95usd. i had to go out for a short while, when i came home to buy them they were gone  :'(
£155 is a waaaay too heavy for pads that appear to be repo  :shocked:

Think you missed the bit that says frame, forks and bars too, not just a pad set  :LolLolLolLol:  That makes £155 look pretty good to me  :daumenhoch:.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: Coastvl on July 08, 2007, 10:51 AM
In Aussie dollars it's still too much for the sale. That frame pad is definately different to the scanned pic of the ad.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: MartyC on July 08, 2007, 11:26 AM
In Aussie dollars it's still too much for the sale. That frame pad is definately different to the scanned pic of the ad.

In Aussie that would be what just about $400?  So pretty expensive for sure.  Can't argue about the frame pad definitely looks wrong  :daumenhoch:.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: Coastvl on July 08, 2007, 11:37 AM
Yeah $363 au + post. I'll take my chances of finding one at the recyclers shop.  :shocked:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: GREMLIN on July 08, 2007, 11:52 AM
Where i'm still on the hunt for a set of these style pads, i don't actually know how they're manafactured.
Is the Redline font printed on or stitched into the fabric? 
As a few of us in this thread have said, the Redline font should be sat squarely in the black portion of the pad. But taking a look at the pad it looks as tho the cover may have been set up for printing/stiching the wrong way round. The lettering looks in the right position then if that's the case. So they may be a screw up on the production line...?  ??? 
But still doesn't mean it was the production line for Redline. Then again if i were going to be knocking out repop's i'd make damn sure with the time and expense they were coming out spot on. For the small numbers they'd be made in.  :)    G.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: Bananaman on July 08, 2007, 03:48 PM
that pad set on ebay dosn't look right  :-\ the red font on the frame pad should be completely in the black. i saw a set of correct ones last month on ebay in the store section when searching "redline" for $89.95usd. i had to go out for a short while, when i came home to buy them they were gone  :'(
£155 is a waaaay too heavy for pads that appear to be repo  :shocked:

Them pads were brought as a set for a 600a not PL20, does anyone have a scan for the 600a to check they wern't different??

I have seen them pads in the flesh and they look pretty gen to me but could be wrong, were the same design used across the range?
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 08, 2007, 08:32 PM
Can't find any scans of the 600a, but I have got these...


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v337/2elliot/gear.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v337/2elliot/Image047.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v337/2elliot/newsletter.jpg)

Some one must have a scan of the 600a Test or an advert ...
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: GREMLIN on July 08, 2007, 08:38 PM
The only pics/adverts for the 600a i can find show it with white pads.  ???   G
Hey Ron... If they're all your padsets .  :shocked: :smitten: :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: ron burgundy on July 08, 2007, 08:43 PM
Not mine mate, but I do have some ::)
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: gt0733 on July 08, 2007, 11:55 PM
here's a scan of the December 1982 BMXA 600a advertisement. this edition also included the test of that bike, but without padset. i think Ron Burgandy has provided the proof we need that the ebay set is repo. awesome collection of pads there  :daumenhoch:

(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e86/nak302/jy09001.jpg)

the pad on the 600a above, (i believe) could be one used for promo. the grey/black with red font were available from 1983 on as they don't appear in advertisements til that year.
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: gt0733 on July 09, 2007, 12:05 AM
that pad set on ebay dosn't look right  :-\ the red font on the frame pad should be completely in the black. i saw a set of correct ones last month on ebay in the store section when searching "redline" for $89.95usd. i had to go out for a short while, when i came home to buy them they were gone  :'(
£155 is a waaaay too heavy for pads that appear to be repo  :shocked:

Think you missed the bit that says frame, forks and bars too, not just a pad set  :LolLolLolLol:  That makes £155 look pretty good to me  :daumenhoch:.


 :LolLolLolLol: i didn't read the fine print, shame it's not a PL-20 frame set  ;)
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: kowalski on July 09, 2007, 12:38 PM
big ron i want a set of those pads too !!! :-*
Title: Re: redline padsets can you buy repops?
Post by: snav69 on July 09, 2007, 12:43 PM
Oooohh , Those RL-20 pads  :smitten:  :smitten:  :smitten:
I need  :'(
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