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Title: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 02, 2008, 02:27 PM: Can anyone please help me identify this frame, the forks are stamped Akisu on the dropout ,and on the bottom bracket it is stamped DSBM with a row of numbers underneath it.

Cheers

Fraz
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii227/firebird4130/akisu68765.jpg)
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: SaMAlex on June 02, 2008, 02:29 PM: Im thinking CyclePro. A mate of mine got one out of a cataloge in about 81/82. Just like that with blue (non skyway) tuffs.

(I could be wrong about the name, but Im sure it was a cataloge bike.)
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 02, 2008, 02:38 PM: Ah so No kuwahara then,.......... nevermind it's still my first looptail BMX I think

Cheers
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: JT71 on June 02, 2008, 03:03 PM: what's a looptail?
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: Swivel on June 02, 2008, 03:27 PM: Ammaco matey I believe, similar Ammaco style forks also :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 02, 2008, 05:00 PM: ~I've Looked up cyclepro and ammaco and this looks similar to both does anyone know about the serial numbers of either frame?
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on June 02, 2008, 05:25 PM: :) Looks very CyclePro to me,never seen an Ammaco with the same headtube gusset......
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 02, 2008, 06:43 PM: thanks a lot, so that's 2 for cycle pro, I'll go with the majority. So are they collectable, how much do you think it's worth?
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 03, 2008, 06:52 PM: Ah I see, silence speaks volumes :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on June 03, 2008, 06:58 PM: :) Don`t be like that! I know no more,I may even be wrong! Don`t think it`ll be particularly valuable but if it was mine,I`d hold on to it as there can`t be too many around.
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: djgivvinup on June 03, 2008, 07:05 PM: Quote from: Swivel on June 02, 2008, 03:27 PM
Ammaco matey I believe, similar Ammaco style forks also :daumenhoch:

Not sure what it is but i'll go Ammaco too, jus cos i've had two Ammaco frames both with serials starting DSBM followed by numbers..also both with Akisu forks.... :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 03, 2008, 10:11 PM: just when I thought it was solved, the plot thickens!
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 03, 2008, 10:24 PM: I've looked at some old posts and there's some other ammaco frames with dsbm and akisu forks, so it must be one right? does anyone know what stickers would it have had?
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 03, 2008, 10:27 PM: thanks for the info strikey :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 28, 2008, 09:57 PM: I finally have an Id for this frame is a falcon pro alpha, thanks southern andy :daumenhoch:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=9965.0
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: southern andy on June 29, 2008, 07:49 AM: Quote from: fraz4130 on June 28, 2008, 09:57 PM
I finally have an Id for this frame is a falcon pro alpha, thanks southern andy :daumenhoch:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=9965.0

You're welcome mate. I only sort of knew because it's very similar to a Falcon Pro cruiser i recently acquired, apart from the bit in the gusset and the extra bit by the bottom bracket it's the same.
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: djgivvinup on June 29, 2008, 10:16 AM: Glad you got this sorted, i suppose just because the seriel starts with DSBM doesn't automatically make it an Ammaco, must just be made in the same factory? :-\
Title: Re: Help IDing frame?
Post by: firebird4130 on June 29, 2008, 11:47 AM: yeah probably or they could both have made an identical frame , thanks for the suggestions :daumenhoch: