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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: wildon on July 28, 2009, 09:56 PM

Title: Frame ID
Post by: wildon on July 28, 2009, 09:56 PM

Anybody have any idea what this frame is?  Serial is YF840106345 and is under the BB .... cheers ... :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02350.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02349.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02351.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02352.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02353.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/uu313/wildon1974/DSC02355.jpg)

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: Dark Diggler on July 28, 2009, 10:36 PM

Stratton

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: wildon on July 29, 2009, 10:52 AM

POS?

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on July 29, 2009, 11:58 AM

 Yep,but a better POS than their earlier ones.Looks reasonably OK too :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: wildon on July 29, 2009, 07:51 PM

Really a stratton?   never heard of it  ???

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: bodamus on July 29, 2009, 08:01 PM

I thought it was a Freeway?

bodamus :-\

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: Dark Diggler on July 29, 2009, 08:05 PM

Quote from: wildon on July 29, 2009, 07:51 PM

Really a stratton?   never heard of it  ???

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p70/simonjturner/Stratton.jpg)

Top right, Aero, it looks very much like one

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: oldschoolfool on July 30, 2009, 11:04 AM

dark diggler,where did you find this ad from bud,i cant seem to find it anywhere!!
could you zoom in,or make bigger the other bikes on there.the one in the bottom left looks like one i have.cheers bud.

dave

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: oberonspacefruit on July 30, 2009, 12:06 PM

good spottage mr diggler.

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: Dark Diggler on July 30, 2009, 01:25 PM

Some close ups of a stratton aero  ;)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p70/simonjturner/Mysteryframeset001.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p70/simonjturner/Mysteryframeset002.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/p70/simonjturner/Mysteryframeset003.jpg)

There is/was a sticker on the seattube that says stratton cycles  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: oldschoolfool on August 01, 2009, 12:30 AM

hey same gusset as mine,but different drop-outs.they look like  MT drop-outs.maybe they used the same MT frames and then welded in their own gusset ???

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: oldschoolfool on August 01, 2009, 12:33 AM

mr diggler,have you any more info on these bud.where did you find that ad from

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: Dark Diggler on August 01, 2009, 12:50 PM

No more info than that i'm afraid, Someone else put the stratton scan up a couple of years ago, Sorry

Title: Re: Frame ID
Post by: oldschoolfool on August 01, 2009, 06:21 PM

thats cool

is that yours in the photos

all i know is mine has a sticker which says super hi-tensile steel, ;D,although that ad says the forks are cro-mo.oh yes!! ;D