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Title: what to do.
Post by: Peanut on November 08, 2005, 09:46 AM

Ok, so I've now completed my GT build and I want to start something new, I'm quite attatched to my GT so I don't wanna try anything that may damage it just yet, but I do have..

A Townsend Xpose frame!!

Truly the ugliest mass-produced pile of cr@p out there. It has a freestyle platform a bit like an ammaco but with top tubes like a pro performer, as for the downtube it can't make it's mind up wether it's bent or not, it has a half hearted bend in it and the whole thing looks about a foot too long. Question is, has anyone ever built a bike just for destruction, a test machine, a disposable bike? is it worth it?

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: ORB on November 08, 2005, 09:52 AM

My view is, i dont think you will have any satisfaction if you build a bike you have no respect for, especially if you lob any coins at it.

There are plenty of cheap frame sets out there, I mean last week there were about ten billion Streetbeats sold NOS for about £20

Have a think and see what takes your fancy.

I mean, i took a burner to bones that i could not give away (radman wanted it but we dont count him as a person) so in the end we ran some experiments on it....

Have a look about

plenty out there.

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: ORB on November 08, 2005, 10:01 AM

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SKYWAY-STREET-BEAT-frame-fork-new-1985-bmx-nos_W0QQitemZ7195333372QQcategoryZ64644QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: theRuler on November 08, 2005, 10:04 AM

the beat is a good idea.

cheap to get going, but will make a worthwhile bike at the end of it!!

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: ORB on November 08, 2005, 10:07 AM

http://www.rudewheels.com/ViewAdvert.aspx?advert=8855&site=bikes

Click that one.

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: theRuler on November 08, 2005, 10:08 AM

musnt . . . . look . . . . will . . . buy . . . . . one . . . . help . . . me

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: Peanut on November 08, 2005, 02:55 PM

If only I had the dosh.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1986-SE-TRICKMASTER-PURPLE-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ7180482177QQcategoryZ98082QQcmdZViewItem

How much are kidneys worth these days?

Might get me one of those streetbeats, but alas it's our anniversary this week and my wife's birthday, I don't know, skyway or marriage?  would mean more ride time I guess.

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: ORB on November 08, 2005, 03:02 PM

buy her a skyway.

Title: Re: what to do.
Post by: motomagII on November 08, 2005, 04:40 PM

buy my streetbeat frame and forks mega cheap and once built very rideable frameset .did i say mega cheap lol