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New School BMX 2004 - Now => New School Park, Street & Dirt => Topic started by: JT71 on July 29, 2008, 10:05 AM
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got my new stem today. cheers to Zippy, he got it yesterday and it hit my desk at 8am this morning.
that's some service. :daumenhoch:
some of you love it, some of you hate it, here it is on my bike, I think it looks fokking brill.
(apologies for pic quality, it's my camera phone)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ee133/JT71sPhotos/Image101.jpg)
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Wicked JT, nice one.
Love or hate the look of it, its all about the heart and sole of whats under there that counts. ;)
(haha, can you tell that Im having an emotional week!)
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Looks the nuts mate
I like it.
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Wicked JT, nice one.
Love or hate the look of it, its all about the heart and sole of whats under there that counts. ;)
(haha, can you tell that Im having an emotional week!)
...are the painters in dear?
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Ultra rare as well because S&M only made a small run of them. Since they've hit these shores people have started going nuts over them and the importer is currently trying to get another run made as we speak. If they're successfull I'll be getting 2 of them for sale through here only. :daumenhoch:
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Here's another piccy of one.
(http://)(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y80/hondadominator/uk_redneckxlt.jpg)
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Sorry but i stand by what i said a few weeks ago..........looks cheap and tacky to me! Its my opinion and i'm entitled to it :P
I'll get me coat ;)
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Sorry but i stand by what i said a few weeks ago..........looks cheap and tacky to me! Its my opinion and i'm entitled to it :P
I'll get me coat ;)
some will love it, some will hate it. be boring world if we all liked the same stuff.
good thing about opinions...you can't be wrong, it's your opinion after all. :daumenhoch:
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Sorry but i stand by what i said a few weeks ago..........looks cheap and tacky to me! Its my opinion and i'm entitled to it :P
Ah but if you painted it black it would still be the best stem on the planet.
The outside package is just a bonus (if you like that kind of thing)
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Anyone know what that finish is/how it's done? 'cos presumably they could do it with any design.
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Anyone know what that finish is/how it's done? 'cos presumably they could do it with any design.
There is a way of doing that called dip coating (or simlar things). I think they do it like that.
You get a sheet of pattern, like wallpaper, and you float it on one end of a big bath of water. The paper comes away from the actual ink and leaves a film of pattern on the surface. you then dip the stem (or whatever) into the non pattern end, and pull it back out through the floating pattern. You can do any pattern (wood, carbon fiber, dots) but its better if its not to linear cos the pattern stretches when you drag it round a corner.
You can usually tell if its done this way cos the last edge to leave the bath is often crap, with a join line.
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Looks like one of those magic eye things...
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can't make my mind up Joe?? but it is diferent so that's cool in itself :daumenhoch:
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(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii227/firebird4130/receiver.jpg)
could it be anodized like this "urban camo" on this gun?
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can't make my mind up Joe?? but it is diferent so that's cool in itself :daumenhoch:
and if I nail a 50/50 grind tonight I'll say t'was the stem that made me do it.
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mmmmmmmmmmm looks good :smitten: :Great_Britain:
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the only thing i'll be grinding on tonight will be...............no lets not go there! ;)
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the only thing i'll be grinding on tonight will be...............no lets not go there! ;)
you dry bumming another RAd member tonight? :daumenhoch:
I probably won't be grinding either, but I'll be giving it a damn good go.
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Anyone know what that finish is/how it's done? 'cos presumably they could do it with any design.
There is a way of doing that called dip coating (or simlar things). I think they do it like that.
You get a sheet of pattern, like wallpaper, and you float it on one end of a big bath of water. The paper comes away from the actual ink and leaves a film of pattern on the surface. you then dip the stem (or whatever) into the non pattern end, and pull it back out through the floating pattern. You can do any pattern (wood, carbon fiber, dots) but its better if its not to linear cos the pattern stretches when you drag it round a corner.
You can usually tell if its done this way cos the last edge to leave the bath is often crap, with a join line.
Is this what they call "sumblimated" finish?
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im not keen on it, i think it would look better if the union jack was whole on each side like this :Great_Britain: if you get what i mean, aslong as your happy with it and will prob be worth some money in the future :daumenhoch:
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Look what arrived for me this morning...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/DSC06485_small.jpg)
Yum or Yuck. I like it in a tacky blackpool kinda way.
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I can't say i love it but i do run something similar....
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v432/Lazarou63/redneck_xlt_ice_RS-1.jpg)
They did an Ice and Fire version a while ago.
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its the fooking price that killed me :shocked:
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Buy them through me and you get 17.5% off the SRP. :daumenhoch:
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Buy them through me and you get 17.5% off the SRP. :daumenhoch:
I thought you didnt have any left?
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I say this, they might cost a bit, but i have two quite big stacks last night and my bars didn;t move.
my old snafu stem just didn't seem to do up tight enough or stay tight anyway.
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Buy them through me and you get 17.5% off the SRP. :daumenhoch:
I thought you didnt have any left?
Exactly!!
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mr Stodgy's pic shows off the kind of metallic look it has a bit better than the promo pic.
the finish is pretty nice, the design is a matter of tasted but function wise it hold the bars on which is what it's meant to do.
what sort of price is another quality stem likely to be?
is £60 odd quid a lot of money for a new school stem?
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is £60 odd quid a lot of money for a new school stem?
It is when you can buy exactly the same stem in a different colour for £40... ;)
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is £60 odd quid a lot of money for a new school stem?
It is when you can buy exactly the same stem in a different colour for £40... ;)
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yeah but these are rare.
though yesterday they appeared twice as rare :daumenhoch:
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Yep, rare and it's the only stem which would do for what I have planned.
:daumenhoch:
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Yep, rare and it's the only stem which would do for what I have planned.
:daumenhoch:
i hope that's not "an all black bike with a union jack stem"
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come on, tell us about your red white and blue true brit new school ride. come on, spill the beans.
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Buy them through me and you get 17.5% off the SRP. :daumenhoch:
I thought you didnt have any left?
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Don't worry guy's I don't have any left. If they do make some more then I have 2 on back order. As it is there are no plans by S&M to make any more, just a request from the UK importer to have a small batch made.
However all S&M parts are 17.5% off through me. :daumenhoch: