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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: masterstint on December 26, 2007, 03:30 AM
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awesome site guys!!!... other member "double chevron" turned me on to it, this is my '78cook bros, hope you guys like it!, claude
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Very nice bike. Cool rims! :daumenhoch:
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thats mint :coolsmiley:
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Feckin love it, hav'nt seen one as complete as that :4_17_5: :4_17_5: Ditch the seatpost though :LolLolLolLol: i may as well say it first ::)
Paul :Great_Britain:
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Joyeux Noël mon ami, Nice bike by the way :)
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VERY VERY NICE Claude
I love these early bikes :smitten:
:) DINGO :)
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stunning build nice to see something really different :smitten:
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Awsome! :4_17_5: you just gotta love a Cookie! :daumenhoch:
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very nice build
looks good in them colours :daumenhoch:
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coolio :daumenhoch: what stem n bars is it hiding?
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Shweet build, I love the stuff that Cook Bros used to make, the cranks are just the dogs danglys and that frame is so nice :smitten:
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Amazing build :smitten: :smitten: Love the $1000 seat clamp too ::) ;)
Ollie
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So welcome here, Claude !
That bike is sick, you know it already !! :daumenhoch:
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Real nice colour mix on that, well cool ride :daumenhoch:
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thats mighty fine
have it got the integeral stem?
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thanks for the warm reception guys, much appreciated!!! hope everyone had a great holiday, kids did great here and i got a handy 315 peice tool kit, and a new tool box for my bmx building hobby...."OD",(LOL on the screen name!) and V. Noah, thats cbr pro bars and slant stem.....bike was powdered by chip @ C-4, and i had the bb cups and hub flanges annodized blue for a cool accent...wasnt sure if that was gonna work but when it came in the mail it just looked soooo right....i spent a couple days wetsanding the crank arms from a little rough sandpaper 200,400,600,900,etc, etc all the way down to 2000, which in my book is the way to go!..the arms are so smooth after 2000 grit, you basically dont even have to buff hard with polish, really just wipe the polish on firmly a couple times and the come out like chrome...after that i sent the arms and hub centers away to have the logos laser etched back on....greatest part of the build for me was the collecting of the parts and meeting tons of cool people over the course of the year!! again, thanks for the welcome guys, its appreciated, claude :)
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Cooks Bros was way ahead of the game with the as you call it "slant stem"
i got an BMX Action from a think 78/79 that has a few pix of it ,blew my mind then
big claps for the resto :4_17_5:
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Very Cool Claude ;)
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Absolutely stunning Claude, top build :daumenhoch:
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very very nice mate :4_17_5:
welcome to the site
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WOW
what a stunning looking bike :daumenhoch:
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That's a stunning bike Claude!! :4_17_5:
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Nice bike :smitten: 8)
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sweet as fook :4_17_5:
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Ditch the seatpost though :LolLolLolLol: i may as well say it first ::)
That how they were :shocked:
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Mad.
Smashing bike though. Well done :daumenhoch:
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Ditch the CBR post? Why?
Beautiful Bike for sure
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thanks guys, much appreciated, .... this is an awesome site and extremely well put together, thanks for the welcome, claude
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WOW! I have never seen another Cook Bros like it. ???
Well...what do I know? ;D
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Dennis,LOL...alright you were definitely the first one with the white cook, ..if you havent posted your pic on this site yet, throw it in here , im sure everyone would love to see that factory racer...., claude ;)
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Now Masterstint knows my intention here is purely fun. His build is absolutely beautiful. The time, energy and money he put into that Cook get nothing but praise from me. I think it is gorgeous.
On the other hand mine was originally red with gold ends, done that way by Gary Cook himself. Then in the mid 80s, with the help of Big Daddy Ralph Mundia, we rebuilt it this way for a vetrans race.
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:4_17_5: Dennis, that thing is awesome,,, what kind of handlebars are on it....i know when cook bros was sold in late '83 the new guy Jack W did a brief unsuccesful line of bmx bikes (still cook bros) and i was very fortunate to get frame/frk #24 recently...the handle bars he was making had a straight crossbar too....im gonna try like hell to source all the parts as they were on the production bike, but i think the cook pedals, bars (straight cross bar) will be toughest...and of course that straight seatpost or the layback without brace....i already have the cook cranks which are the dogbone design, '84 model, exactly like the ones on my '79---thats the logo on the arms Jack came up with...all the rest of the japenese parts are often available on ebay,,arayas,tange headset,tange seatclamp,sr aero stem(anyone got it?), comp 3 tires, etc.....it may not be "the most desirable cook bros version", BUT, i've never seen another one, so it will be rare....the white bike in photo is the one im gonna put together, and cook offered a "nicer" version with cook 3 peice cranks,bars,pedals, etc
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Masterstint, funny that you would ask about those bars.
Friday night I was at the Orange Y track to watch Stu take some practice laps and hang out with him for a bit. After he left, I was talking with Pat (trulyodd) and Andy (grayboy) as they were there taking some lung busting laps on thier side hack. The conversation turned to handlebars as we were talking about Star Bars. Of course in my stash I have a pair of those. They are not mounted on anything at the moment so I was comparing them to the ones on that Cook. Close, but not the same.
I cannot find any markings on the bars of that Cook. They do have a straight cross bar. They may very well be Cook. As I said, Ralph helped me with the build and I am sure he was still hooked up with Cook Bros. And now that I think of all this, Ralph hooked me up with a set of the 1st generation Cook cranks at that same time. They are currently on my 1980 mountain bike. ( I am doing a 3 bike crank shift shortly)
I am not familiar with any of the Cook stuff after the brothers sold out. Nice looking parts. Good luck with that build.
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nicest looking 3pc/BB combo in my eyes the cook bros and always liked the extra mm >:D get em posted in the eye candy cranks thread with some nice close ups of the sealed bb :)
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Dennis, if you get a minute later and its doable for you, post a pick of the 1st generation cranks you have...ive got what i beleive to be 1st gens also and im always interested in the pics for comparison.........claude
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Just made a note to self; close up pic of Cook cranks.
Fortunately I am on vacation this week so I will take some pics tomorrow and post soon after.
After posting my story above about the handlebars, I read a post on the OS site by Andy (greyboy) about his Ralphs Bike Shop Hustler. In the breakdown of parts he mentions he has Hustler bars on the bike. I still have my Hustler that I used when I came out of retirement to race for Ralph in the early 80s. I wonder if my bars are Hustlers? I will contact Andy and compare notes and bars.
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Well done... OS-BMX Bike of the Year 2007 :daumenhoch:
Very nice :)
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Really sweet bike that :shocked:
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Ok masterstint, here you go. Pictures are self explanatory.
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Sweet cranks Dennis, those are the first gens of Cooks Quality Products if im not mistaken...approximately 84-5ish im thinking,,,a little different then the ones i have but still really sweet...you said your switching out cranks soon? whats up?
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I am going to put the original cranks back on that mountain bike. It is just a concrete comander now anyway. :)
I have a 1932 Columbia straight-bar 26" cruiser that is BMXed out, Cook slant stem, Cook forks, GT cruiser bars, stainless spokes, first generation pinchless Redline cranks. Great cruiser and wheelie bike. I have pictures but they are not scanned in at the moment.
The deal is I am gonna start a new build and I need the Redline cranks for it. So the Cook cranks are going on the that cruiser.
So it is a three way swap.
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post the pics when you get time! thats gonna be a cool lookin bike...i couldnt tell you what a '32 even looks like, LOL, interesting, claude
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that is class claude pure class
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Mmmmmmm, 7b's..........drool. OK, to be fair the whole bike is drool inducing but I lurve 7b's.
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thanks guys, i love the 7b's too...just got a mint set today in silver...they just look soooooo old school ;)
tefore, hot avatar!!
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masterstint,
post the pics when you get time! thats gonna be a cool lookin bike...i couldnt tell you what a '32 even looks like
Here is a picture of the cruiser as it was around 1980. It looks about like that now, just needs a good cleaning.
Wait till you see my next one...
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dennis
thats a real luverlee cruiser
and the cook slant stem
is it the "lightyears ahead of its time" intergral stem to fork combo?
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Dennis, that thing is trick!! awesome looking withe the bmx parts, killer idea...looovvee the flights, nice touch bro!
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Thanks V. Noah. It is a real cool cruiser.
and the cook slant stem
is it the "lightyears ahead of its time" intergral stem to fork combo?
The combo stem you are asking about was ahead of my time. ;D It came out a couple of years after I left the sport. (the 1st time)
That is just your basic Cook slant stem. ;)