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Offline ED209

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Working out the age of Tuffs
« on: July 12, 2014, 08:48 AM »
How do you do it?

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2014, 09:01 AM »
Cut it through the middle and count the number of rings.. or is that trees?   :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2014, 10:05 AM »
Ask Rolf Harris, he can tell the age of things by touch alone.



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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2014, 06:24 AM »
rings and rolf .... thanks  :surprise:

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2014, 06:28 AM »
So whats the easy way to tell a 'modern' Skyway as opposed to an '89 'Plastic Hub (front, rear f/w)'?

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2014, 10:27 AM »
Modern are sealed hubs I think and the modern ones have a little hole in one of the spokes

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2014, 11:36 AM »
sealed hub tuffs came much later 2006 I think
looseball runs of black and white tuffs in 2001 and 2004
these have a little date wheel on one of the spokes with 01 or 04 respectively
not aware of any stamping before that but skyway didn't stop making them to my knowledge so really hard to be exact on tuffs between the years that skyway stopped the serial numbers on the rim ( that wore off in a week ) and the introduction of the above date stamp and of course sealed bearing
2006 runs of coloured sealed bearing tuffs had std sized axles and no fleccie holes
the new ones have fleccie holes and huge front axles

don't shoot me if the above is wrong as its just what I have experienced  :-*

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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2014, 02:26 PM »
Cheers fellas 👍👊⚡️
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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2014, 07:01 AM »
Skyway usually write the year on the inside of the rim in a marker pen...


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Re: Working out the age of Tuffs
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2014, 04:21 PM »
Some had "Made in England" stamped on them too... around 1984 when they went for plastic front hub I think  ;)

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