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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: nhoj on May 24, 2008, 10:28 PM
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Testing, testing - Never posted pictures on here before!!!!
Just picked this bike up yesterday, more pics and full story tomorrow/monday
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/Bitsandbobs034.jpg)
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Yep we can see it :daumenhoch:
Now can we see some more please :)
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Its a teaser!!!
We'll have to wait till next week for the next installment. :LolLolLolLol:
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Is it a game ? "Name that part "
Im going to opt for "A FIREBIRD FREESTYLER!!!"
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Kingkeef, What gave it away!!!! :LolLolLolLol:
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Perhaps its just a cunning disguise.........................
or
perhaps I'm just knackered and can't be bothered to put the pics up on photobucket, then here with a bit of a tale, I'm off to bed! ;)
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Well you posted the first pic at half 10 over an hour ago so you could have done em by now :LolLolLolLol:
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Hmmm, I proper loved my DP bitd, never seen a snot coloured one though :LolLolLolLol:
Old school is not cool, its official because new school rocks :10_2_12:
;)
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ffs.... wait till steve firedbird sees this
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thats the first neo green , original paint one i have seen
nice find
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what did you post picture in ??? as i cant see it .
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Very cool find :daumenhoch:
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sorted, looking good. whens the next picture due or are you dong a christmas advent calender thing, 1 pic a day for 24 days :LolLolLolLol:
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Right then children, are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin,
Along time ago in a northern town, far,far away.................
The DP Firebird Freestyler ruled the streets because that was the best f&f at Alan Kay cycles - the local bike shop. I don't remember anyone at school having a haro, gt etc
I can remember 3 or 4 lads having a firebird and that was the bike I badly wanted but never had.
Roll on to the mid 90's and I went round to old school friends trying to track down and collect any old bmx's that were still about.
Ended up with a skyway ta, super tuff burner, ammacco 202 and a firebird f&f. It had the dp cut out just behind the seat post - does that make it a glynn lewis edition? Anyways, I didn't have any parts to put on the f&f and it went to the paper boy for £10!!!!! I don't think the other bikes went for much more than £30/£40 each, how times have changed, I don't think we had the internet or a computer in the house then!!!!!!!!!
At around that time I had become mates with the lad who had my favourite dp from BITD - JP. He still had the bike hung up-side-down in his parents garage and it wasn't going anywhere, ever. Which was fair enough cause I remember him having a physical Saturday job to pay for things he wanted.
Roll on again to mid 2007 and I got the itch - like many others - to relive my youth and get the bike I could never afford when I was a kid. Started checking ebay ever week, then every day for a firebird again. I remember thinking I wasn't going to spend any more than £40 on one. The few that did come up were then pulling £150+!!!!
It was around this time that I found RAD and I have logged on every day since. The more I was thinking about a firebird the more I was thinking what it would have to look like andso in Jan 08 I popped round to JPs parents house to see if I could get some pictures of his old bike. Chuff me, my beloved bird was on its side on top of an old car restoration project and under a folded work bench and god knows what else!!!!!!!!
We hauled it out and I got the pictures I needed to replicate the bike when I got a one for myself.
Anyway, are you still awake at the back there boy?
Afew months ago I got a complete bike off Ebay for £180ish but it was pretty rough and I've been slowly getting bits for it since then.
Then out of the blue on Friday I got a call from JP's dad who said he had cleared the garage and J had given the all clear for me to have the bike if I wanted it!!!!!!!!!
I was as giddy as hell all day and picked it up on my way home from work that day!
So, I thought I'd share the pics with y'all. It isn't a day glow yellow as standard, JP must have taken a spray can to it BITD.
I haven't even managed to contact him to thank him for it yet!
Hope you enjoy :)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN1999.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN2002.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN2006.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN2113.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN2114.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/nn135/buenosnhojes/DSCN2107.jpg)
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Cooool! Get it restored!
:daumenhoch:
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I think that may take a bit more then a wipe over to get it back to its best,
but I hope you have the time & resources to get it back to how it should be :daumenhoch:
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nice one mate as stodgy said get it blinging again and great little story :)
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thats a great find :daumenhoch:
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That is rare, just wash it and love it :daumenhoch:
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Very Nice and an added bonus it has the rare DP ladder bars :daumenhoch:
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Keep it as it is mate,the story and the bike go hand in hand and that is how it should be IMHO.Restore the other "storyless" one.
:daumenhoch:
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hello hello, what a find, ladder bars too. makes you wonder how many old school biks are still out there in peoples sheds and garages. whats the white paint like under the green?
steve
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I would try a high preasure jetwash on it so if the rattle can paint comes off.
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That is rare, just wash it and love it :daumenhoch:
absolutely :daumenhoch:
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I would try a high preasure jetwash on it so if the rattle can paint comes off.
that is a great idea... it worked on my yamaha yz125 plastics... someone sprayed them blue when they was ment to be white.
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or leave it.
thats sweet either way.