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New Year , New Build . TRM FREESTYLER (FINALLY FINISHED)

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Funkyworm:
Don’t do many build threads these days , mostly as Photobucket is buggered & its a pain to upload pics onto here,  but I've thought this & another build to come would be worth while …

Not sure it’s particularly wise to attempt this in the middle of a painful & drawn out house move either but i’ll give it a go, so please stick with me …

First let me say that I've been lucky enough to own 3 TRM’s over the past 7 years or so but non were of the quality i really wanted & i let them go one by one .

My best mate Back in the day had a chrome TRM & I have to say i loved it & always wanted to have one in the same chrome finish … We came from having Puch & Marlboro entry level BMX’s to owning a TRM & a Rickman (both Chrome) within 12 months or so in 84’ & we loved those bikes dearly…

Recently Luke who many of you may know,  decided to sell up his collection of TRM’s & I decided that i really wanted another after shelving my 3rd TRM which Ironically I sold to Luke in 2017…

 After missing out on Luke’s chrome F&F that he’d sold a few days before I spotted this Grey one, with Rickman bars, bars which i needed for my other build as id purchased a Mk 2 Rickman Freestyler from Tim March a couple of weeks earlier ……


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I knew a little about this particular TRM frame set  as it had previously been owned by Kerryman & since his ownership had changed hands at least twice to people i knew …

After speaking to Benno i found out hat it was originally a painted frame & was still in original condition when Matthew bought it at MK14… Mike also mentioned that Matt had it sent straight to SBD to be powdered (as he’d won a free powder coat that year in the show & shine)…

Now,  knowing Dan i know that he generally strips frames properly before painting or powdering & most importantly he doesn't get them media blasted. So i it made sense to me that under the really nice but bubbling grey powder coat should be a great donor frame for Chrome which would show off the brazing fillets (as they shouldn't have been blasted or polished out)...

  if they had been messed with my fall back was a plan to powder the frame another Original TRM colour Baby Pink ….

deeman:
Nice one Callum, love these frames.....i like the sound of a baby pink one!  :daumenhoch:

Funkyworm:

--- Quote from: deeman on January 22, 2019, 03:52 PM ---Nice one Callum, love these frames.....i like the sound of a baby pink one!  :daumenhoch:

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Andy Sanford has painted his Pink & Id actually only seen (1 original pink one before) from this original image found on Facebook :

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Funkyworm:
My Original hunch was proved correct & after bathing in Synstryp a giving it a light sand & rub down with wire wool I realised i had a beauty on my hands.

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So a few weeks ago it was off to ACF Howell in walsall !!!!!

Funkyworm:
Yesterday 2 weeks early I got the call.... it was ready ...

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