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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: Swivel on August 19, 2008, 03:25 PM
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Just had a client here and she said looking at my bikes in the office (on their stands) that they look like works of art, very clean, shiny and on show etc... and that got me thinking that these "show" bikes have really become pieces of art, especially if they are not ridden at all (I know mine aren't).
So have any of you lot had any comments like that? I get the usual from a few people i.e. what's the fook have you got a load of bikes in your office for? :knuppel2: and others simply are amazed of the dedication to get these bikes together and the time its taken to complete them... :) so if you regard your bikes as works of art, do many of you have these on show in the house or just in the loft? My missus Lucie is fine with either which is good and she does like the look of them thank god and knows the effort I put into them too and thinks its a waste if they are tucked away for no-one to see. Be interested to hear your thoughts on this and see any pics regarding this subject....
Matt :daumenhoch:
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my Mrs hates em! and i have zero space at home so i keep all mine at work........my office mates just put up with them (like they have much of a choice) but mine are nowhere near works of art in comparison to show bikes.......i ride all mine at some point :daumenhoch:
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My missus isn't happy with my new found hobby neither. I have bikes and parts all over the house. Apparently they get in her way until they're finished then they are slung in the loft until i fancy a play on one.
My latest build has been a very slow one and is down stairs in the hall, i've just removed the grips from the bars and at the same time the bike slipped over and the bar end has just taken a nice chunk out of the laminate floor.
She's pissing fire at the moment. :LolLolLolLol: there is no way she would want them on a wall.
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I get that comment all the time! I have a candy green Standard frame in my living room and my Standard show bike in the hall, people often compare them to art.....and to me they are.
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I get that comment all the time! I have a candy green Standard frame in my living room and my Standard show bike in the hall, people often compare them to art.....and to me they are.
your a work of art laz :-*
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I've got a few hung up on fishing wire in my office, & everyone (apart from the missus) loves em, especially lads my age who can remember 'em from BITD.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk44/M5AT/Office.jpg)
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hell ye nice one .
i rent some of mine out to shops for displays and they do get alot stop to gander.
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Fooking love that fishing wire idea! Have to chat to you more about that ::) :daumenhoch: looks the nuts those bikes dude and yes, big, beautiful works of art for sure ;)
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Glad you like it pal, its dead easy, few hooks & some whale strength fishin wire.
Young kids are bamboozled by it, they think the works of art are floating!
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Glad you like it pal, its dead easy, few hooks & some whale strength fishin wire.
Young kids are bamboozled by it, they think the works of art are floating!
:daumenhoch: was showing my gobi the piccie and shes having none of it :2funny:
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I should have retouched the hooks as well as the 4 inch thick rope thats holdin em up!!
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i got 2 of mine on the wall in the kitchen,i think they look cool,the doris dont say a deal about them(but hey its my house so she dont have much say in the matter anyway :LolLolLolLol:)and the goose is upstairs,worst bit is i spent a fortune doing them and no one gets to see them really only me and the doris
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/z105/nicfred/treaders190808.jpg)
had some fun with the phone and selected negative,its now sent the baby blue skyays and stickers orange,ha ha at least i know wot it would look like in orange now :LolLolLolLol:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/z105/nicfred/treaders190808ooer.jpg)
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i also like the look of the quad in black aswell,hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm might see a paint job coming up :LolLolLolLol:
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Nicfred , that loopy quad is one fooking picasso :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :daumenhoch:
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Mine are just stacked on show ........
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c73/craigtheman/torker280x003.jpg)
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I've currently got 5 built bikes in my front room, probley just as well i live on my own.
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Come on Martin, some photos please dude :D
Nice stuff here guys, anyone else with your bikes on the wall as works of art? ??? :D
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will take some tomorrow got to get a new battery for my camera. :daumenhoch:
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bang on
im glad im not the only one who thinks that way
works of art all day long :coolsmiley:
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Mine get used to hang washing on.... >:(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m48/markw33/SSA52017.jpg)
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ok this is my front room, like i said i live alone :LolLolLolLol:
my 2 MK08 bikes take pride of place
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600070-1.jpg)
T/A, streetbeat + voelker
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600071.jpg)
another shot of my GT Dave Voelker
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600075.jpg)
my newschool currently under upgrade on sofa
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600079.jpg)
my survivor T/A next to my mini bar
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600078.jpg)
other side of room
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600080.jpg)
my view from my armchair, spot the MK show and shine trophy on T.V
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j189/2020mad/S3600073-1.jpg)
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Quality front room 2020
You can tell you live alone, no female input whatsoever... :daumenhoch: