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Title: Skyway experts..............
Post by: pickle on March 23, 2008, 03:51 PM: as some of you know in return for some building work i did for him, my mate gave me all his old BMX bits and bobs.....i'm cleaning up the Cali frame and bits to put together and race at MK this year....but the bars that he gave me.....are they early chrome MKII ez bars? they were a tad grubby but they've cleaned up reet nice like :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b339/robertbransby/Picture011-5.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b339/robertbransby/Picture012-4.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b339/robertbransby/Picture013-2.jpg)
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: CD17 on March 23, 2008, 04:04 PM: They look like the real thing, but its always to tell from photo's :-\
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: pickle on March 23, 2008, 04:06 PM: the welds look nice and clean, did they have the knarling at the stem clamp? also they don't have knarling on the cross bar unlike the painted later ones.....is that right?

cheers Rob :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: CD17 on March 23, 2008, 04:10 PM: Didn't notice the lack of knarling on the cross bar, I don't know then :-\
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: pickle on March 23, 2008, 04:12 PM: all the ones on Bagio's site have knarling on the cross bar :-\

http://www.vert-ego.com/main.htm
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: Trev on March 23, 2008, 04:33 PM: seeing as the mk I EZ bars didn't have them, the early mk II's might not have either. I'm trying to remember if mine had them or not.
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: pickle on March 23, 2008, 04:41 PM: he said that he bought the stuff back in about 84??
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: Trev on March 23, 2008, 04:45 PM: the mark II's didn't come out until 86, and I don't believe Skyway copied them off anyone else.
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: pickle on March 23, 2008, 05:23 PM: i'd give or take a few years on that as he doesn't have the best memory in the world :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: Voodoocars on March 23, 2008, 06:50 PM: I had a set of ez bars in about '84.They had two curved cross bars not one bent like that at rear.They didnt have knurling on them either.And were chrome plated.
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: Trev on March 23, 2008, 06:51 PM: Quote from: Voodoocars on March 23, 2008, 06:50 PM
I had a set of ez bars in about '84.They had two curved cross bars not one bent like that at rear.They didnt have knurling on them either.And were chrome plated.

they'd be the mk I's. ;)
Title: Re: Skyway experts..............
Post by: lodge on March 23, 2008, 07:23 PM: I aint ever seen Mk 2 EZ's without knurling on the cross bars.
Anyone remember Skyway EZ MK2 Mini Bars, Seen lots of standard MK2's on this site but not the mini's.
Hugo Gonzales ran them when he came to UK for Cherry Coke BMX Beat, nearly all of the UK skyway team ran them after his visit.
Carlo, Pepi, Karl Denton, Jason Davies etc. The mini bars also had the knurling.