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Offline skki3330

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Piranha cheap rebuild
« on: November 15, 2010, 08:08 PM »
Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut  :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners


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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2010, 08:24 PM »
Definitely better than those burners....   :daumenhoch:
R.I.P  O.M. Far short of the finish line...

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 08:31 PM »
nice one. :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 08:33 PM »
Definitely better than those burners....   :daumenhoch:

Look and ride better
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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2010, 12:33 AM »
I like it    8)

, now if it had those heavy as feck banana mags on , I'd be pm-ing and  after buying it off ya  :smitten:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2010, 01:58 PM »
I like it    8)

, now if it had those heavy as feck banana mags on , I'd be pm-ing and  after buying it off ya  :smitten:

If i had a Piranha with those wheels i would not be selling :)

but this one now finished has to goooooooooo
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« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2010, 03:16 PM »
job well done  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2010, 03:30 PM »
Nice job mate  :daumenhoch:   I personally love to see these old 'cheapies' brought back to life , makes a nice change from the bling brands and big money builds .

Well done  :daumenhoch:
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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2010, 04:33 PM »
as above  :daumenhoch:
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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2010, 08:11 PM »
Great resto  ;) love Piranas , built round the corner from me bitd  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2010, 08:20 PM »
Great resto  ;) love Piranas , built round the corner from me bitd  :daumenhoch:

Really where bouts is that??
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« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2010, 09:22 PM »
Nice bike skii 8)

I bought this one off the bay recently for £70 (was that too much?) and sold it on, I did not realise they were popular?


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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2010, 10:50 PM »

Nicely brought back to life mate  :daumenhoch:

mongoositis - an expensive disease......

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2010, 08:54 AM »
Hey Stella £70 about right in my eyes for the banana wheels :) only paid £5 for mine :) and as i said better than most Burners. Anyway this one is heading for the bay i have a another project.
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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2010, 09:09 AM »
skii.

I know os someone who is Piranha nuts and may be interesred in your bike unless your happy putting it on the bay as you never know you might strike lucky on there :daumenhoch:

pm me with a price if you want to sell outside of the bay ;)

The person who may be interested lives in Dudley - i dunno if thats near you, it may save in the hiring of a crane to lift it from your house :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2010, 09:17 AM »
Lookin' good  :daumenhoch: , got the before pics as well ? .

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2010, 07:36 PM »
Lookin' good  :daumenhoch: , got the before pics as well ? .

You know what im really bad at stuff like dat just cant wait i get through the door and before ive got to the back garden ive got it in bits lololol. it was a bloddy state though.
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« Reply #17 on: September 26, 2011, 05:14 PM »
Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut  :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners




hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #18 on: September 26, 2011, 06:55 PM »
My mates had these with the heavy heavy mags , I had a Baracuda which was exactly the same but with spokes and the chrome forks, I loved it when I first had   :)

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #19 on: September 26, 2011, 08:45 PM »
Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut  :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners




hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..

Hi the closest i could get froma rattle can was Rover Pageant Mid Blue from halfords. Good luck with the build.
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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2011, 01:11 PM »
I'm defo gonna replicate the first BMX I had BITD an '85 Piranha Freestyler.

I've only ever seen 1 since getting back into the scene, it's on the bay at the minute, the guy had a BIN price of £475, that's now dropped to £399.


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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2011, 03:50 PM »
Sweet looking bikes those P's my only gripe is the rear drop outs looks shite! if they'd have spent a few more minutes designing a better,stronger looking rear dropout theyd be far better :daumenhoch:

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2011, 10:45 PM »
Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut  :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners




just bought a piranha free styler off the bay, same sort of blue as well, bikes got the twin top bars well cool, now i got a colour code to work with cheers dude..

hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..

Hi the closest i could get froma rattle can was Rover Pageant Mid Blue from halfords. Good luck with the build.

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Re: Piranha cheap rebuild
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2011, 10:48 PM »
I'm defo gonna replicate the first BMX I had BITD an '85 Piranha Freestyler.

I've only ever seen 1 since getting back into the scene, it's on the bay at the minute, the guy had a BIN price of £475, that's now dropped to £399.

think i just bought one off the bay mate, dont know much about it are the free stylers  the ones with the twin topbars??

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« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2011, 08:44 PM »
Yeah mate, the Freestyler had a twin top tube.
The spec on mine as I remember from when I bought it in July '85 was,

White powdered frame and forks
White powdered CW type bars
Chrome unbranded layback with unbranded black Aero style seat
White Aero Zytecs
Vredestein whitewall tyres with black snakebelly tread
Black MX 1000 copy calipers with Tech 3's
Black Suntour copy seat clamp
Polished copy Suntour power stem
Nasty moulded black and white chequered grips


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