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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: adeshere on November 24, 2005, 11:30 PM

Title: Skyway tuffs
Post by: adeshere on November 24, 2005, 11:30 PM: How come when i look at some old bmx magazines, companies are listing Skyway Tuff III's

what are these ?
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: Moose on November 24, 2005, 11:34 PM: Horrible looking 'batman' wheels (IMHO)

http://www.skywaywheels.com/products_003.htm
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: showtime on November 25, 2005, 12:06 AM: i know they list those as Tuff III's now but i'm pretty sure i remember BITD that Tuff III's were what the alloy hubbed Tuff II's were known as!
i remember buying my blue Skyways from Surrey BMX as Tuff III's because they had the new alloy hubs ;)
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: Bob_Acid on November 25, 2005, 12:37 AM: hmm, interesting :)
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: ash on November 25, 2005, 01:53 PM: when i bought my street styler (BITD) it came with those skyway 6 spoke jobbies which were advertised as TUFF III's
I think they are known as utility wheels now :idiot2: :idiot2:
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: theRuler on November 25, 2005, 04:21 PM: i have some three spoke tuff 3's

minging

er i mean lovely!!! and for sale!!!

i am saving them for the old school collectors in 2015
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: mivvi on November 25, 2005, 04:27 PM: So was there a Tuff I ? ???
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: theRuler on November 25, 2005, 04:27 PM: yes in the seventies

looked a lot like a tuff II but with an acorn magnum hub (sorry thats the best way i can describe it)
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: OrgasmDonor on November 25, 2005, 04:45 PM: BITD i remember the term tuff 3's used for the placky hubbed ones
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: theRuler on November 25, 2005, 04:48 PM: Quote from: OrgasmDonor on November 25, 2005, 04:45 PM
BITD i remember the term tuff 3's used for the placky hubbed ones

i think that was more of a nickname
bit like "standing gear" forks
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: mivvi on November 25, 2005, 04:52 PM: Quote from: theRuler on November 25, 2005, 04:27 PM
yes in the seventies

looked a lot like a tuff II but with an acorn magnum hub (sorry thats the best way i can describe it)

So what were the early Tuffs with the metal? (Well they look metal) hubs? They look like the normal alloy hub Tuffs but flatter. There were a blue set on here not long ago, think it stated they were 1979.
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: theRuler on November 25, 2005, 04:53 PM: tuff 2's i guess?
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: Waxintaxin on November 25, 2005, 08:29 PM: steel hubbed tuff 2s , they evolved into the ally hubbed tuff2s , fuk knows what tuff3s were
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: Coastvl on November 26, 2005, 01:01 PM: Maybe the OE's were known as 3's ? Dunno my self. Heres all my tuff wheels
Tuff wheel 1
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/2005-11-26003.jpg)
Tuff II metal hubs
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/2005-11-26004.jpg)
Tuff II alloy hubs
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/bikes024.jpg)
Tuff II plastic hubs
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/2005-11-26002.jpg)
OE plastic hub 6 spoke
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/2005-11-26006.jpg)
Sadly the only pic I have of my graphites :'(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/dropin.jpg)
Title: Re: Skyway tuffs
Post by: dordymush on November 26, 2005, 02:30 PM: cool pic that though :coolsmiley:.