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Offline Michael bmx

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Hi all, I have just brought a Ammaco freestyler 7.0 series from my local dump, it is in a mess but I couldn't bare to see it scrapped and for just £5 I thought hey why not lol
 where is the serial number on these ? Cant seem to find one and would like to find out the age, I think its early 90s
I will post a pic as soon as I can

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2018, 11:35 PM »
Here is a picture

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2018, 11:41 PM »
Do you think its worth saving?

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2018, 11:43 PM »
Not bad tyres

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2018, 01:58 PM »
I know nothing about these but you can't go wrong for a fiver! :daumenhoch:
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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2018, 02:19 PM »
Give it a good bath in some aceeed and it’ll come up a treat

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2018, 02:32 PM »
Yep, strip it down, dunk it in a paddling pool full of oxy-whatsitsface acid (look it up in the tech & restoration section) then put it back together with a load of grease. Ride it and if you like it, slowly put a few better parts on it like a stem and brakes. Looks like a fairly generic 90's frame but for a fiver that's a great project :coolsmiley:
Still limping......

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2018, 03:24 PM »
Hell yea...worth a fiver all day! As said before it is a 90's frame, probably early 90's judging by the stem , you would probably see badged as other things too. worth tidying up and replacing a few parts. The design of the frame still looks old school and with a few better parts it could look great  :daumenhoch:
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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2018, 08:40 PM »
Thank you so much for your feed back, I'm going to try and strip it asap, I have been told that it could be a 1993 so bang on the money with the early 90's, which brakes do you recommend ?
I'm going to keep the handle bars and pegs and crank and maybe the seat but steam, wheels and brakes will be going.

Ill look on the restore section for all the stripping details, I'm pretty sure I can get the acid from work.

I'll probably just get all the bits from the dump lol
I brought a few bikes from there in the past mainly mountain bikes just for selling on, but now I'm looking to do bmx for a hobby.
Ill photo what I do and post in the restore area of the forum
Cheers guys :daumenhoch:

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2018, 08:51 PM »
 Looks like I need citric acid I need and yep I can get it from work for free.

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2018, 10:44 PM »
Just found one on ebay, looks like mine is the same apart from sticker colour and seat post,all else looks to be original 

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2018, 12:46 AM »
That's not the same bike mate, look at the diameters of the diagonal downtube and yours has a bend in it to clear the front brake when doing barspins.....  :coolsmiley:
Still limping......

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2018, 07:00 AM »
Mines a series 5
Started out pretty much the same as yours

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2018, 08:16 PM »
I'll give you £5 for the tyres  :daumenhoch:

looks like something you can have some fun with .... get the rattle cans out  fistblump

but first ... a nice citric acid bath ... will come up peachy
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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2018, 09:14 PM »
Thanks Spen69 didn't notice that lol thanks for pointing that out.
Daniel that looks very  nice, might have to steal some ideas

ED209 if all fails I might take your offer for the tyres  ;D

Started stripping today, got the acid from work and just looking for a dip tank  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2018, 12:05 PM »
Any update Michael?
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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2018, 08:50 PM »
Sorry been really busy with work, I have taken all the parts off the bike but not had time to acid dip it, will try my best to do it during next week

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Re: Just brought this from the dump, your thoughts and help please
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2018, 10:38 PM »
Had no luck with this, acid didn't do much, I have donated it to my my brothers friend who is going to do the work and them give it to his son, hopefully ill get to see the out come. 

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