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Title: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: downlowmatt on May 19, 2008, 12:07 PM: I've got some metal hubbed tuffs but they are the bare plastic wheels only - no hubs or guts.

I know you can buy the axle replacements, but how about the metal side bits and rivets/bolts?

Any help would be appreciated, cheers

Matt
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: virtualmeuk on May 19, 2008, 12:14 PM: Rare but they do pop up on ebay every so often. I got some recently :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: downlowmatt on May 19, 2008, 01:18 PM: Quote from: virtualmeuk on May 19, 2008, 12:14 PM
Rare but they do pop up on ebay every so often. I got some recently :daumenhoch:

cool... expensive?

cheers
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: virtualmeuk on May 19, 2008, 01:19 PM: 20 quid i think
:daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: FAZE3 on May 19, 2008, 01:38 PM: A front wheel hub went for £49 on ebay over the weekend :idiot2:

Now that seems like a lotta cash to me :P

I won a set on US ebay for £30 but the arse never sent um :'( but the rear coaster brake ones are fairly easy to find
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: jT Racing on May 19, 2008, 01:51 PM: i thought you could get hold of those gold coloured hubs a while back, maybe they are all gone now.
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: SaMAlex on May 19, 2008, 01:55 PM: Quote from: +1 Hidden on May 19, 2008, 01:51 PM
i thought you could get hold of those gold coloured hubs a while back, maybe they are all gone now.

Do you mean the gold "cool caps"? They are clip on hub covers for the new Graphites. They cant be used as the actual hub.
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: jT Racing on May 19, 2008, 02:02 PM: No, there were actual left overs. I think. lots of weed smoked since then. that's why i quit.
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on May 19, 2008, 02:11 PM: what, so you could be better equipped to answer questions about skyway hubs in an emergency?
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: jT Racing on May 19, 2008, 02:16 PM: LOL. no, because if my arse got any lazier(sp) i'd have stopped breathing in for myself. plus it's dear, quality is too varied, supply is too on and off, did i mention it robbed me of my motivation. i do miss the musical enhancement, sexual enjoyment and general stupidness, but i am too bust to be lazy right now. not stopped for life. plus, emergency hub questions are the future.
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: snav69 on May 19, 2008, 02:17 PM: Quote from: downlowmatt on May 19, 2008, 12:07 PM
I've got some metal hubbed tuffs but they are the bare plastic wheels only - no hubs or guts.

I'll give you Â£10 for um so i can put these in ::)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/n164/snav69/ShywayHub.jpg)

>:D
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: jT Racing on May 19, 2008, 02:21 PM: just sell him them for a tenner, jobs a good en
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: snav69 on May 19, 2008, 02:26 PM: :yahoo_silent:

:LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: Bigfrawg on May 19, 2008, 02:42 PM: the gold coloured hub things that you speak of are actual alloy hubs ( were being sold as skyway keyrings) with graphite stamped on them.
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on May 19, 2008, 02:45 PM: http://www.coloredtuffs.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=114
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: snav69 on May 19, 2008, 02:49 PM: I think you can only use those gold ones with sealed bearings :-\ i may be wrong as i usually am :-[
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on May 19, 2008, 02:58 PM: http://www.coloredtuffs.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=613
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: snav69 on May 19, 2008, 03:00 PM: ;)
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: downlowmatt on May 19, 2008, 03:49 PM: Quote from: Robert _LSD on May 19, 2008, 02:02 PM
No, there were actual left overs. I think. lots of weed smoked since then. that's why i quit.
:2funny:
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: downlowmatt on May 19, 2008, 03:52 PM: Right... cheers oberonspacefruit...

Quote from: Oberonspacefruit on May 19, 2008, 02:58 PM
http://www.coloredtuffs.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=613

yep the axles and all that are cool but I would need the side plates and connecting bolts too. Maybe I'll have to buy some "scrap" metal hub tuffs and drill the rivets out, then bolt into my wheels? :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: Can you get alloy hubs for tuffs anywhere?
Post by: oberonspacefruit on May 19, 2008, 09:58 PM: b and q

file the heads so they look like rivets.