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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: MartyC on August 11, 2007, 03:11 PM
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As some of you know, I like to take my time with my builds and I've nearly finished putting a little new school race GT together for my lad. Still got to sort the brake out and get the chain on but I'm in need of a couple of little washers for the front fork dropouts, they are like little tophat washers in 10mm if anyone has any or know where to get some :daumenhoch:
Some big thanks fo a few people for helping me out on this:
Moschops (f&f and most of the parts)
DJ Benice (although the tyres didn't fit as not enough clearance on the forks)
Ruler (his tyres do fit!)
Banaramaman (wheels - see they did come in handy afterall)
Some fella off BMXtalk for the bars (sorry can't remember his name but TDB picked them up for me)
My mate Colin (for letting me use his workshop to polish the cranks & pedal bodies, for getting the pedal cages powder coated and for machining the rims to a "shineside" stylee :daumenhoch: )
I think it's come out really well and has an old school look to it :daumenhoch: .
Here's how I got it...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/MiniGT1.jpg)
Here's how it looks now...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/IMG_0481.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/IMG_0482.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/IMG_0483.jpg)
It kind of matches my GT24...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/GT24JustBuilt.jpg)
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nice job, i remember when you got that at mk .
its gone together nice mate :)
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nice marty, how olds your boy
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well old pete lol
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well old pete lol
:LolLolLolLol:
He's 6 nearly 7 years old, why's that?
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Finished it off properly today and took him out for a quick ride before the rain ::).
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/IMG_0492.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g114/martycoughlin/IMG_0491.jpg)
He loves it :daumenhoch:
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nice one marty, bring him over to rom for a roll round ;)
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stuff rom >:D, bring him to Daggers on a Thursday night, get him racing :daumenhoch:
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stuff rom >:D, bring him to Daggers on a Thursday night, get him racing :daumenhoch:
Going to take him to Hayes tomorrow so he can see first hand what it's all about; I might take the bike with him as he's going to need to get used to it as he only came off stabilisers a couple of months ago :daumenhoch:
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That's a nice ride 8)
My littlun has a GT Micro mini which he loves to bits, light as fook and a blody good buy.
See ya at Hayes tomorrow, my 2 lil peeps will roll round with him if he wants company :daumenhoch:
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Marty, find us lot tomorrow, theres enough of us to look out for him, then you can race OS as well >:D
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stuff rom >:D, bring him to Daggers on a Thursday night, get him racing :daumenhoch:
;D the poor lad, he aint even rode it yet and were on his case >:D
come rom, no racing, fook racing come rom ;D ;D
we shall let the lad decide himself :knuppel2: :knuppel2: ;)
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stuff rom >:D, bring him to Daggers on a Thursday night, get him racing :daumenhoch:
;D the poor lad, he aint even rode it yet and were on his case >:D
come rom, no racing, fook racing come rom ;D ;D
we shall let the lad decide himself :knuppel2: :knuppel2: ;)
:LolLolLolLol: Will take him to both and let him decide :daumenhoch:
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stuff rom >:D, bring him to Daggers on a Thursday night, get him racing :daumenhoch:
;D the poor lad, he aint even rode it yet and were on his case >:D
come rom, no racing, fook racing come rom ;D ;D
we shall let the lad decide himself :knuppel2: :knuppel2: ;)
Oi Dan, I thought I marked your card back in 1982 >:D :2funny:
Good idea Marty, let him make his own mind up, but dont let superbike near him :shocked:
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Nice one Marty :daumenhoch:
another racer in the fold :knuppel2:
:) DINGO :)
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Nice one Marty :daumenhoch:
another racer in the fold :knuppel2:
:) DINGO :)
no another freestyler in the fold :knuppel2: :knuppel2: :knuppel2: >:D
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Oh the battle of the bulges is on... Marty, if he races I will sort you out a wikkid badbmx car sticker :daumenhoch:
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Oh the battle of the bulges is on... Marty, if he races I will sort you out a wikkid badbmx car sticker :daumenhoch:
marty if he freestyles he will get endless supply of pot noodle, as many free goes on gorf or galaxian ;D
only old skoolers will remember these games :-[ so sad >:D
and get to hang with the true old skool leg ends that is pat and stupps :)
how kool is that for a kid :-\ :-\
but the down side is that most of the freestyle riders are always drunk, stoned or just wrong ;D
now the racing guys are slick, fit, train at least once a week, if i was his dad i would choose.
freestle any day ;D :4_17_5:
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This is where I name drop a few cool racers who are nearly as cool as stupps was!!!! But I think Dan killed it with the pot noodles :2funny:
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This is where I name drop a few cool racers who are nearly as cool as stupps was!!!! But I think Dan killed it with the pot noodles :2funny:
;D made me laugh as well, pot noodles ;D rats they still sell really well today :2funny:
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I loved pot noodles dan, do they still sell them at rOm?
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I loved pot noodles dan, do they still sell them at rOm?
:2funny: :2funny: yes mate, how sad is this, i had one not long ago. i was fooking starving ;D ;D
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Cant go rom without a pot noodle...pmsl, hope they got some bloody coffee in for rom jam :knuppel2: lmk if they aint Dan, I will bring some with me :daumenhoch:
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I loved pot noodles dan, do they still sell them at rOm?
:2funny: :2funny: yes mate, how sad is this, i had one not long ago. i was fooking starving ;D ;D
You must have been starving to eat that crap :buck2:
My advice for the dad is dont spend too much too soon; my eldest at 6 raced for 10 months last year and then decided he dont want to anymore. wallet £600 lighter
So we are now going to rOm in the morning.
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Why limit his riding?
welcome to a new BMXer :daumenhoch:
Racing/ramps/park/street its all BMX and he wont get burnt out :coolsmiley:
:) DINGO :)
p.s thanks for pitting me against Sapranobikedan fella's :2gunsfiring_v1: :LolLolLolLol:
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you wouldnt want him to use that bike at rom!!!!
get him a pit bike too, far more suitable for ramp and bowls.
BMX all the way, like dingo said don't limit him.