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Title: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on January 26, 2006, 11:43 PM
who knows anything about this bike? i bought frame and forks new when i was about 15 in 1992 i guess and i've still got it.

  i painted it about ten years ago so i've got no reference for stickers but it was black and red and has chrome forks. the graphics were a sort of rose with barbwire and stuff (well rock and roll)  i think the head tube sticker was some sort of fist but i'm not sure.

 if anyone has even heard of this bike i'd be surprised but any pics or info would be cool..

 cheers for lookin fellas :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: TwoBobRob on January 26, 2006, 11:53 PM
I remember the Bully Piston.... vaguely.... not a bad bike as i recall, quite rare though.  Shouldn't give you any problems  :)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on January 26, 2006, 11:59 PM
whats the chance of me being able to get stickers for it though? slim to none i'd say..

  probably do a mick jagger and "paint it black"...
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: TwoBobRob on January 27, 2006, 12:22 AM
Christ knows mate.  Are Bully still in business even?  I haven't got a clue  :-\
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on January 27, 2006, 12:30 AM
yeah i googled it and they still make a bully piston, it must be american but its shockingly sh!t... like proper SH!T..  when i got mine though i thought it was pretty cool.  i think i paid about a £100 for the f+f.. dunno what that sort of money would have got in those days, it wasn't top end or anything but they must have gone downhill


(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/rakas17/d_2525.jpg)
 cant believe this is the new version of what i thought was the bees knees when i was a teen. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: Bob_Acid on January 27, 2006, 02:50 AM
There's a kid that rides at Dagenham on one of them. Nice to see mags though
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: cymruambyth on January 27, 2006, 01:55 PM
the stickers sound like the Bully bike that was about when the company was owned by RL Osborn. hell of a team too, Mike dominguez, craig campbell (briefly), rl osborn

check this http://www.23mag.com/com/bully/bully.htm (http://www.23mag.com/com/bully/bully.htm)

the Slow Ride video is really good too

there was another post about these recently http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=6793.msg76127#msg76127 (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=6793.msg76127#msg76127)

and heres one in 91
(http://loosenut.org.uk/bratfuel/scans/bf2/bf2_alexc1.jpg)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: stuntmaster on January 27, 2006, 05:11 PM
i remember bully ,good bikes and my mate trash his and still lived on .
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on February 13, 2006, 08:18 PM
just found this photo of my old ride in the loft.............

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b253/rakas17/scan0004.jpg)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: theRuler on February 14, 2006, 10:04 AM
i too have a bully in the attic

(http://30cms.co.uk/temp/bully5.JPG)

father time took a bat to the frame though
rewelds, beef-up-mods.
early 90's chic
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: YGT on February 15, 2006, 08:29 PM
I actually have the bully piston stickerset in my collection, I had to pay a small fortune for it a few years ago.
thats definatly from the late RL days before he left the industry.
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on February 15, 2006, 09:41 PM
no chance you wanna sell me it then? ;)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: YGT on February 15, 2006, 09:42 PM
no chance you wanna sell me it then? ;)

not really, especially as i went so over the top in the ammount i paid for them ......
let me try and get a picture of them for you first to see if we are talking about the same stickers.
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on February 15, 2006, 09:44 PM
cool, maybe you could scan them for me so i can repro them..

how much did you pay out of interest?
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: Lazarou on February 15, 2006, 09:48 PM
...i vaguely recall roses and barbed wire and canti brakes.....
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: YGT on February 15, 2006, 09:51 PM
here is the only pic i can get .... (webcam) .....
my other camera is in the repairers.

In regards to scanning, this will be tough since they are wider than A4.

I paid close to £60 for them as the idiot I bought them from (Canada) insured them and valued them at some silly price so i got hit with import tax also at the time.

(http://members.chello.se/bmx/bully.jpg)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: rakas17 on February 15, 2006, 09:52 PM
yeah thats the one, if you could scan them that would be amazing, i never thought these would turn up in a million years..

i'm sure some of the boys on here could help out with how to scan long stickers..
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: macmark on February 15, 2006, 10:23 PM
Scan it in 2 halves, piece of pee for whoever you get to redo them to join back together before tracing them. Just make sure the 2 halves overlap  ;)
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: revcore on February 16, 2006, 10:47 AM
Anyone remember Perry Mervar, The flatlander out of Indiana who rode for Bully back in the 90's?
I still have my copy of Slowride which I still watch regularly and I am still blown away by Perry's riding each time I watch it.
Title: Re: BULLY PISTON
Post by: cymruambyth on February 16, 2006, 12:26 PM
Anyone remember Perry Mervar, The flatlander out of Indiana who rode for Bully back in the 90's?
I still have my copy of Slowride which I still watch regularly and I am still blown away by Perry's riding each time I watch it.

thats a great video.
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