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Title: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: steve Beech TA on February 08, 2008, 09:49 PM


This is my 83 TA (waiting for some bits still) i cant decide wether to put the wheels on in the pic's or get some new tuff's what do people think.
The turbo disc is coming of and a white one going on, new decals are coming along with a white chain. what type of iner tubes should i get, or can i go down halffords

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/02022008017.jpg)


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/26012008004.jpg)


(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/26012008005.jpg)

What ya think this is my first build!!   :daumenhoch:    :-\   




Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: brass monkey! on February 08, 2008, 09:52 PM
defo keep the Alloy Hubbed tuffs ! looks nice - personally i'd go for Red Comp 3's too ;)

Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on February 08, 2008, 09:52 PM

leave the alloy hubbed tuffs on
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: brass monkey! on February 08, 2008, 09:54 PM
Inner Tubes - Tesco's ones are okay + Cheaper than Halford  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: steve Beech TA on February 08, 2008, 09:57 PM
might be easer to put red comp 3's on dont know if you can tell all the white bits bar the foot print tiers have cling film raped round them to keep them cleen
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: MartyC on February 08, 2008, 10:01 PM
For 83 deffo the alloy hubs; plastic front, alloy rear from late 84 and all plastic from late 85 onwards  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: thebigdog on February 08, 2008, 11:22 PM
yep alloy hubbed tuffs all the way :)

looks like the front tyre direction is facing the wrong way ??? not that it matters your not going to ride it are you ???   :LolLolLolLol:   goes for the inner tubes any will do  :)


looks fine though dude :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: selfpreservation on February 08, 2008, 11:32 PM
wow that looks fooking mega mate chrome and loadsa white that takes me back alloy tuffs all the way and loose the brakes get some mx1000s  :4_17_5: and lower the stem FFS  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: Mattdub on February 08, 2008, 11:46 PM
Ally hub Tuffs for deffo , black tyres maybe ? .
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: mark 2 on February 09, 2008, 12:03 AM
Don't listen to those chumps Steve, I can correct it by trading you some plastic hubbed tuffs.....  ::) :LolLolLolLol:

I'm kidding, people swap limbs for white tuffs in that nick they look super dooper.

This was always my favourite Skyway ad and still is, the bike on the left has always floated my boat, you might get a bit of inspiration from the pic. You can only see half a bike but if I ever come across another pair of  alloy white tuffs I'd build this....
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=44&size=big
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: steve Beech TA on February 09, 2008, 08:45 AM
Thanks :daumenhoch: for all ya comments so far, the reason i was wondering about newer type tuffs is that i would love to have a little blast on it, not been on a bmx for 20 years and its killing me. even if its just down the lane! i dint wont to mess the wheels up or anything ells. ya see to me this is my little show pony,(may not be to others), my childhood dream bike, i will add little bits and bobs as i can afford them, ya right  mark j, cw bars would look mint, other than that it will be as is. do others ride there show bike's, just a little bit. i don't know?

 
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: steve Beech TA on February 09, 2008, 09:16 AM
Has anyone got some nice CW racing bar's at a resonable price :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: Swivel on February 09, 2008, 09:44 AM
Mark i'd have to agree with you, love that advert and always sticks in my mind. Steve that bike is lovely mate and those tuffs are just what I'm after  :LolLolLolLol: no mate really, its lovely, do it how you want but I do reckon seeing some CW's on it would look the nuts  :smitten:
Title: Re: Can anyone help, new skyway tuff's or old metal hub tuff's for 83 TA
Post by: Brandy Truffle on February 09, 2008, 02:02 PM
That is nice. Dont muck about with plastics now..Keep the alloys.
Only thing i would do maybe is pick out a few red or blue bits to compliment the Skyway graphics.
Just my personal taste,but otherwise that is loverly.  :smitten:
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