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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: magna13 on February 24, 2008, 11:30 AM
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Who Seen The S&M Dirtbike In This Months Ride BMX Mag... Totally Fell In Love With It!!, Are They Rare? How Much Do They Fetch??, I Dont Know Much About The Mid-School But I Would Love To Own One Of These!... Those Graphites Made It Perfect... My New Dream Bike!!
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Those graphites should not be within a country mile of a Dirt Bike!
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Those graphites should not be within a country mile of a Dirt Bike!
What Do You Mean ??? ???
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...because Skyways suck!
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If You Say So...
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....just my opinion.
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Graphites Are Good I Think For Racing, And Normals Good For Freestyle
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I guess you missed this thread then
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=55459.0
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skyways defo shouldnt be on a dirt bike!!!! :2gunsfiring_v1:
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Well perhaps one on the front for that good ol' Dirt Bros look?
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Good old Eddie Roman rode 2 tuffs on his dirtbike (see the clip I posted in the Video section).
Gossa used a pair of Graf Tuffs on his Mad Dog (See pics somewhere in the Mid section).
But not the new, lookey-likey Graffs! Not on a "Classic bike" from the early 90s.
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Graphites Are Good I Think For Racing, And Normals Good For Freestyle
the other way around it was for me , skyways was big in the whole freestyle world on the 80's not wany pro's raced on them , unless sponsword by skyway like paterson, they wasnt that strong, i broke 3 backs and 2 fronts bitd, and my mate broke loads, z rims lasted me abit longer, ;)
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Graphites Are Good I Think For Racing, And Normals Good For Freestyle
Normals are crap for everything other than looking good. They flex, they are weak, and they aint light.
Graphites are better than normals, they weigh less than normals ..... but they still flex (slightly less) and they still brake. They just cost more!
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Who Seen The S&M Dirtbike In This Months Ride BMX Mag... Totally Fell In Love With It!!, Are They Rare? How Much Do They Fetch??, I Dont Know Much About The Mid-School But I Would Love To Own One Of These!... Those Graphites Made It Perfect... My New Dream Bike!!
Hey imho I think you should fulfil your dream dude :daumenhoch:
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Normals are crap for everything other than looking good. They flex, they are weak, and they aint light.
Graphites are better than normals, they weigh less than normals ..... but they still flex (slightly less) and they still brake. They just cost more!
I think that's true, but for some reason certain bike just look wrong without them. I hate seeing TAs with alloys (or worse still Z-Rims) even though I know that the alloys would definitely be better for racing, similarly some bikes just look wrong with Tuffs (JMC DY with tuffs? :shocked:). Can't comment on their suitability for DirtBikes as I kind of missed the midschool era, but if it works for you then I'd say go with it.
For what it's worth, my New School racer has Graffs (the much maligned new ones) on it - just looks right that way.
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Tuffs were good enough for Mad Dog.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v473/MikoKensington/3499f2e0.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v473/MikoKensington/cb6472e9.jpg)
Top Left. On his build for the 20th party.
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_9BL5ACCSY90/RxUl-XxALoI/AAAAAAAAAII/n28cRQIdIoc/s400/sheep+hills+1d.jpg)
Y'all remember that.
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Tuff wheels and Power Series cranks.... flexorama!!
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That just means your back, knees and ankles will last longer. :daumenhoch:
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I could do with some of that! :D
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Tuffs were good enough for Mad Dog.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v473/MikoKensington/3499f2e0.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v473/MikoKensington/cb6472e9.jpg)
Top Left. On his build for the 20th party.
(http://bp0.blogger.com/_9BL5ACCSY90/RxUl-XxALoI/AAAAAAAAAII/n28cRQIdIoc/s400/sheep+hills+1d.jpg)
Y'all remember that.
Quality!!!! I've just noticed that i'm standing in the background of that picture of Brian Hernandez!!! That was the first KOD in Rich Bartletts backyard! And YES YOU CAN PUT TUFFS ON A DIRTBIKE
(http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd42/clivegossa/scan0037.jpg)
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DOPE!
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Great pic Clive 8) Not just Tuffs tho', they're graphites!!!
Of course you know that you're now gonna get us started on what forks you've got fitted to that beauty :LolLolLolLol:
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I threw some regular Tuffs on my Holmes not too long ago, forgetting that I weighed 100 lbs the last time I rode them(1993)...
They sure flex nowadays. And they didn't stop too good either...
But they look cool.
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I had a set of graphites BITD got them off dean scott web look the nuts but were shiiit to race on
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Great pic Clive 8) Not just Tuffs tho', they're graphites!!!
Of course you know that you're now gonna get us started on what forks you've got fitted to that beauty :LolLolLolLol:
They're S&M......I think that's a GT made DirtBike.....cue Alex with frame number and name of welder... :LolLolLolLol:
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Thanks for the info matey; never seen S&M forks like that before, must have been really early models.
Another one for Alex's S&M fork thread
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Thanks for the info matey; never seen S&M forks like that before, must have been really early models.
Another one for Alex's S&M fork thread
It's like i've said before, in those early days when Chris had S&M's made all over the place (GT, Revcore, B&E), the stuff got tweaked every production run, even Chris can't remember half of the stuff he did! That dirtbike is about a 1989/1990 model I think.
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skyways defo shouldnt be on a dirt bike!!!! :2gunsfiring_v1:
you've already been shot down in flames, but i'll add my 10p.
tuffs do go with s+ms. damn noob.
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skyways defo shouldnt be on a dirt bike!!!! :2gunsfiring_v1:
you've already been shot down in flames, but i'll add my 10p.
tuffs do go with s+ms. damn noob.
Go-go, that's a quids worth of experience speaking there mate, don't sell yourself short..... :LolLolLolLol:
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Of course you know that you're now gonna get us started on what forks you've got fitted to that beauty
They're S&M
Clive, Ive never seen a set of S&M forks with a semi leading axle & rounded drop outs that wrap under the legs. Im not at all saying they aint S&M forks, just that I have never seen a set like that. (btw, I know that much later 1 1/8th pitchforks had rounded, wrap under drop outs)
I thought the first ones ("mad dog" ones) had the very triangle drop outs with the holes above the wheel slot, Then the "S&M Forks" that had a same shape drop out to pitchforks.
Like you say, there were so many changes made in the early days it would be close to imposible to keep up with all of them.
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Alex, I can't think of why I would've changed the forks, plus they are double dropout jobs which hardly anyone was doing then, maybe it's a CW/Revcore built one, the dropouts do look very similar to Revcore ones.......like we've said, we'll never know.....however these are very different to the style you mentioned off of my Mad Dog with the longer leg and triangular dropout shape.
Who knows eh?
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.....however these are very different to the style you mentioned off of my Mad Dog with the longer leg and triangular dropout shape.
Like these ones 'ere?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v227/CraigS/midschool/smfork.jpg)
I wish I'd never mentioned those forks now Clive, this fork saga could run and run... :LolLolLolLol:
Craig
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Yep, this is my Mad Dog from about 88 I guess.........same forks
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/dd42/clivegossa/scan0036maddog.jpg)