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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: ash on March 12, 2006, 07:59 PM

Title: bike ID please
Post by: ash on March 12, 2006, 07:59 PM: i'm thinking this is just a woolworths special!! :wtf:
however i would like to be proven wrong!! ;D ;D
prpoer old school anyhow ,i like it!! :daumenhoch: :Great_Britain:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y4/ASH13Y/100_3347.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y4/ASH13Y/100_3350.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y4/ASH13Y/100_3352.jpg)
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: jT Racing on March 12, 2006, 08:03 PM: it's shit ash, just a superstore bargain bike. if it's old and tig welded it's usually ok but a mig welded bike is allways shit, just look at standard burners :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: retrogeezer on March 13, 2006, 12:13 AM: whats the headtube badge say??
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: scary_leary on March 13, 2006, 12:38 AM: Quote from: retrogeezer on March 13, 2006, 12:13 AM
whats the headtube badge say??

it says... "gays do it with shitty dicks"
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: theRuler on March 13, 2006, 10:36 AM: its an old school budget bike
cool in it's own way though
i started out on something no too dissimilar to this!
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: ORB on March 13, 2006, 11:20 AM: May want to put some nuts on that spindle or the wheel is likely to come off.

Not 'your' nuts i hasten to add.
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: Coastvl on March 13, 2006, 11:45 AM: My sons 16" pit has the same dropouts as those. His is tigged though and chrome. It has aero tubing too. I have seen that gusset somewhere.
As the others have said, "shite"
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: revcore on March 13, 2006, 11:53 AM: Coastvl, You've seen those gussets before, I think I have too...... They look like the gussets on a particular model of Repco Hotfoot (The Chromoly model that came out with alloy wheels, Sugino spider etc).
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: Coastvl on March 13, 2006, 12:01 PM: Hang on! I do believe you nailed it!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/bike%20bits/SWScan00042.jpg)
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: kdw712 on March 13, 2006, 12:20 PM: a bigger version

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/team_hotfootsml.jpg)

these were sold in the UK is peugeot i think
there is/was a good thread about them over on VBMX some where

i have one thats similar have a feeling that the advert model has the solid rear drops
and the model with the hole in the rear drops is a different spec. will have a chjeck on VBMx for the thread laters

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/akisu-gusset.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/akisu.jpg)
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: revcore on March 13, 2006, 12:33 PM: I have that exact same Hotfoot ad on the back cover of my Pancake BMX magazines. My favourite ad in Pancake was the ones advertising the Patterson frame sets and OGK wheels. Anyone got a scan of that by any chance?
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: kdw712 on March 13, 2006, 12:35 PM: Heres the VBMX links

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020631#000004 (http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020631#000004)

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020031#000000 (http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020031#000000)
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: Coastvl on March 14, 2006, 12:09 AM: Quote from: revcore on March 13, 2006, 12:33 PM
My favourite ad in Pancake was the ones advertising the Patterson frame sets and OGK wheels. Anyone got a scan of that by any chance?
Ask and ye shall recieve!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v108/coastvl/SWScan00043.jpg)
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: revcore on March 14, 2006, 12:47 AM: Coastvl, Thanks mate, Your a legend. I love that Patterson frame set. I used to own one of those Patterson frames but I was never able to locate the matching forks so I bought a pair of Tange forks and customised them to replicate the original Patterson forks as best I could.
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: FuNMoNsTeR on March 14, 2006, 02:10 AM: Falcon also released a bike based on that hotfoot frame in 81 or 82... best falcon i ever rode...really light for its day. Came with mettalic silver frame, red 7cs, suntour hubs and 3 piece alloy cranks in red, red alloy v bars, dc 890s etc.
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: Astrodamus on March 17, 2006, 06:26 AM: The Hotfoot pictured in the ad, and in this pic is not crap:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/akisu-gusset.jpg)

I never heard of them back in the day, but look at those welds, plus look at the high quality components in that ad.. they didn't normally hang those on junk bikes. Not at all like the red one pictured in the first post.
Most likely Akisu. And Akisu = dirty bum
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: kdw712 on March 17, 2006, 01:26 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v603/kdw712/akisu-gusset.jpg)

not bad for £15 :) just gotta find time, cash and NRG to get it sorted now :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: bike ID please
Post by: jT Racing on March 19, 2006, 12:06 PM: akisu made some decent stuff too though, hutch for one.