mods we did bitd

[58 delray]

okay not me in the pic, but a common mod we did, double cages, did this on BM7s and BM10s and the skyways (shown)
what other mods were out there?

[RATTY]

I did Billy stupple in the first corner at rOm

[hunterdubber]

Homemade mods I remember alot of us doing were

Cutting off a 2" piece of innertube and using it as a dirt sleeve for the bottom cup of your headset ( slid overthe bottom of headtube to cover fork tops ) 

and hairdyer-ing your number plates to curve up at the bottom ,,like the Uni air dam plates 

Using old snapped or bent bars , cutting the curved bit off and using it for a lay-back post 

[meticulous]

we did the inner tube one until you realised it was wearing away your chrome on the forks...

[RATTY]

On a serious note, when I snapped my ACE frame in half, my dads mate rewelded it using tubing from a school desk

It lasted for a bit until Hotshot sponsered me with a race inc

[curtispro]

We used to drill our brake levers and install a small machined bolt in with a spring on it to keep the brake applied freeing up your hands whilst doing crazy tricks  we used to put the drill in a vice with a 6mm bolt in it then file it down to make the profile, we were smart 12 year olds

[spesh]

cut up an ice cream container to make my own brake guard and put an oakley sticker on it no-one knew the difference

[MartyC]

At school I made about half a dozen powerdisks but the alloy was not up to the job and they bent and twisted or ripped the chainring bolts out 

I also drilled my brake calipers and made a pre-bent lever into a nifty two finger jobby (using the school workshop again) but it hurt like hell when you actually used it 

[M5AT]

We used to nick that orange bunsen burner tubing from school & use it for lever cover/grip thingies, saved us buying the expensive Sharp ones.

Also used to buy dead long hub spindles, to save buying expensive trick nuts.

& also used to stick disused brake levers on our forks, saved us buying expensive fork standers.

Tight-arsed bunch we were.

[animal]

Made my own handlebars  think I was about 13 

[rooski]

made a plate to go over my rear brake caliper to do frame stands

[HUTCHMAN]

had an MX 890 rear caliper,riveted a quick release lever onto it like an MX 1000,worked a treat. Also made Bullseye style front axle for an Arai 8000 hub.

[kuwahero]

drilling the one's out off dice to make one valve caps.

wine bottle cork in bottom of forks to stop crap going up the steerer. still use that one today

drilling out stem bolts to make own potts mod

[trasher]

used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise 

[rollin72]

tied a scarf across my chopper hangies to make it look more like a bmx

[Gashead]

used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise 

[trasher]

used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise 

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fookin laughing my ass off ,,,,     payback time i guess 

[Gashead]

Glen

You really are...................................

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[Rooonga]

I remember going to Wanstead flats with some of my "old posse" and Mick Rivierre.

Mick snapped his stem, and I remember him sticking his layback with seat still on and using it to steer his bike back to Grimsteads in East Ham. (It's mad cos I was sure none of us had tools, but he got the old stem out, and seat off somehow!)

Wonder if Kev remembers that?

[bobafett]

spokey dokeys 

[mattfx81]

Spokey dokeys were well good! and the tony tiger reflectors that fitted between 2 spokes.

[steve69]

I used to cut the centre tread out of a worn tyre and use it as heavy duty rim tape as i was getting so pi55ed off having to go home and repair punctures every time i landed a little bit sideways on my ACS Z-rims  

[Redline]

I used an old number plate, a hacksaw and some heat on the gas hob to make a plastic cover for the "ugly" seat clamp set-up on my Skyway Freestyle Platform.

Then sent a pic to BMX Action Bike Magazine and it was featured in the letters column 

I aint got a copy of the mag though so if some one has a scan of it I'd like to see it after all this time 

[ThisBitterPill]

We screwed Axle Nuts from my Mum's mini onto the ends of our rear axles for very early pegs

Despite my Dad's insistance that we would 'snap our spindles'....

 

[john4130]

I used an old number plate, a hacksaw and some heat on the gas hob to make a plastic cover for the "ugly" seat clamp set-up on my Skyway Freestyle Platform.

Then sent a pic to BMX Action Bike Magazine and it was featured in the letters column 

I aint got a copy of the mag though so if some one has a scan of it I'd like to see it after all this time 

any idea what year? i may have it.