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Title: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: hotrodzombie on July 08, 2007, 08:39 PM
Hope this is the right section to post in, I never get it right.  :idiot2:

Anyone fancy identifying this for me? :)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h6/hotrodzombie/DSC00460.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h6/hotrodzombie/DSC00462.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h6/hotrodzombie/DSC00461.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/h6/hotrodzombie/DSC00464.jpg)
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: CD17 on July 08, 2007, 08:41 PM
Well I don't know much about this, but I don't think its a Mongoose  :-\

I had a silver fox BITD that had a front gusset like that  ???
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: oberonspacefruit on July 08, 2007, 08:45 PM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v308/missfitsat101/ammaco004.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v308/missfitsat101/ammaco002.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v308/missfitsat101/ammaco005.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v308/missfitsat101/ammaco006.jpg)
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: hotrodzombie on July 08, 2007, 08:48 PM
Similar but the rear drop-outs are very different.

Does your frame have a brace bar across the lower rear tubes? (I dunno what the hell that bit of the bike is called - behind the seatpost, the lower tubes). :)
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: oberonspacefruit on July 08, 2007, 08:52 PM
ammaco had relations with mongoose around that time.

the drops look goosey.

jimmyp and kdw know a bit about old gooses.
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: theRuler on July 08, 2007, 09:17 PM
superfox

(http://www.30cms.net/Assets/fox19841.jpg)

shitty pic but it's this frame i am pretty sure!
they originally came with aero forks with "aero dyna" written on them
the one above has different forks though
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: hotrodzombie on July 08, 2007, 09:49 PM
How about this?
Silverfox?

(http://bmxmuseum.com/image/mt_side_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: theRuler on July 08, 2007, 09:51 PM
yeh silver and super were the same i think
just different components
the super was a higher spec
and it had the aero forks - like yours!!

they did change though. some didn't have gussets at all. then they did. then they didn't . . .

super lightweight bikes too.
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: hotrodzombie on July 08, 2007, 09:56 PM
Excellent.

So...if I found one of these, it would be a pretty good score yeah?  :D
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: theRuler on July 08, 2007, 10:03 PM
well, i like them ;)
there was a dealer in cannock (near where i live stafford) that used to stock the whole mt racing / fox range so there was a few in stafford. they were good solid bikes. a little flimsy though, but fine when you are a skinny little kid! like most o/s bikes.

i have some hi res art for the downtube decals somewhere, that i redrew for a mate of mine's superfox that he was restoring
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: crazy foool on July 09, 2007, 09:17 PM
looks like the silver or super fox is a good match on that frame

should be a good resto but those rear drops look totaly wasted
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: daz bmx it! on July 09, 2007, 09:41 PM
Just found a pic of all the fox's and it doesn't look completey like any one of them? ??? but as you mentioned some later ones with the little gussett you could be right? ;)
Title: Re: Help ID this please. It says Mongoose but....
Post by: theRuler on July 09, 2007, 09:57 PM
not sure whether it was later or earlier that had the gussets
the ones around my way were bought in 83-84 and they all had the gussets
the non gusset ones, i don't think they had the "aero-dyna" forks either!
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