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Offline 58 delray

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mods we did bitd
« on: September 12, 2010, 11:06 PM »
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?
« Last Edit: September 13, 2010, 11:36 AM by 58delray »

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2010, 06:48 AM »
I did Billy stupple in the first corner at rOm :knuppel2: :2funny:
A long time ago, in a land far away!

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2010, 07:35 AM »
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 )  :4_17_5:

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

Using old snapped or bent bars , cutting the curved bit off and using it for a lay-back post  :crazy2:


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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2010, 07:58 AM »
we did the inner tube one until you realised it was wearing away your chrome on the forks...
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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2010, 07:59 AM »
On a serious note, when I snapped my ACE frame in half, my dads mate rewelded it using tubing from a school desk :2funny:

It lasted for a bit until Hotshot sponsered me with a race inc :daumenhoch:
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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2010, 11:08 AM »
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  :LolLolLolLol: 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 :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2010, 02:03 PM »
cut up an ice cream container to make my own brake guard and put an oakley sticker on it no-one knew the difference :daumenhoch:

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2010, 02:21 PM »
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  :LolLolLolLol:

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  ;D



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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2010, 02:33 PM »
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.

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2010, 07:21 PM »
Made my own handlebars  ;D think I was about 13  :daumenhoch:

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2010, 07:25 PM »
made a plate to go over my rear brake caliper to do frame stands :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2010, 07:30 PM »
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.

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2010, 07:31 PM »
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 :LolLolLolLol:

drilling out stem bolts to make own potts mod

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« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2010, 09:41 PM »
used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise  :-X

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« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2010, 09:45 PM »
tied a scarf across my chopper hangies to make it look more like a bmx :D

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Re: mods we did bitd
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2010, 09:52 PM »
used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise  :-X




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« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2010, 09:54 PM »
used to get a playing card and a peg ,,,, and place the card in the spokes so it made a bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise  :-X



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fookin laughing my ass off ,,,, :daumenhoch:    payback time i guess  :LolLolLolLol:

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« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2010, 09:57 PM »
Glen

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« Reply #18 on: September 13, 2010, 10:00 PM »
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?

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« Reply #19 on: September 13, 2010, 11:22 PM »

spokey dokeys  :daumenhoch:

mongoositis - an expensive disease......

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« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2010, 11:26 PM »
Spokey dokeys were well good! and the tony tiger reflectors that fitted between 2 spokes.

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« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2010, 11:32 PM »
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  :coolsmiley:
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« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2010, 12:11 AM »
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  :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2010, 03:34 PM »
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'....

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« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2010, 09:53 PM »
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  :daumenhoch:
any idea what year? i may have it.

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