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Offline rollin72

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akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« on: October 09, 2010, 07:14 PM »
this had been stuck in a garage for about 25 years and was in a state when i got it....





ive given the frame the coke and foil/peak polish treatment, bought some akisu forks to go with the frame, stem restored, seatpost restored crank and chainring restored, i tried to restore the seat by covering it in material and totally fooked it up, so ended up buying a new seat :D
i bought the rims off poolysheriff and hubs off snav..and built them myself which im well pleased with. i have had to buy a few parts for it but most of it has been restored. del's done his magic again with the decals, nice1 del
lets see what you think....
bars been changed to chrome gt's, seatpost been sprayed chrome :D










nice1 gaz :daumenhoch:
« Last Edit: October 17, 2010, 01:26 PM by rollin72 »

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2010, 07:35 PM »
Glad you pulled the bars back a bit in the later photos  . :LolLolLolLol:  Great find mate and it's looking good  ;) f&f have come out nice .. I'm not sure about the White bars  :-\ ,Chrome would look better   :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 07:41 PM »
looks proper old school  :daumenhoch:  :4_17_5: :4_17_5: :4_17_5: :4_17_5:  :smitten:

really nice gaz

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2010, 07:42 PM »
well nice   :coolsmiley:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2010, 07:42 PM »
Nice that fella -  :4_17_5:

what happened to lush DC seat clamp  ???

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2010, 08:06 PM »
Top resto.........chrome looks mintola  :4_17_5:
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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2010, 08:16 PM »
looking good Gaz  :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2010, 08:27 PM »
That looks Awesome Gaz   :smitten:
It's good to see someone doing consistent restoration projects  :4_17_5: I just wish i still had the heart for it  :-[ maybe i will when i make room  ::)  :-\

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2010, 09:03 PM »
Akisu, eh? Rollin, I am truly amazed, that frame, together with the wheels, is amazing -- what a change. I'd do the upper deck differently, other bars, neck, post, saddle. Surely worth it   :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2010, 09:18 PM »
turned out nice gaz ,top resto dude  :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2010, 09:19 PM »
That's one hell of a resto Gaz  :daumenhoch:

Chrome has come up bling  8)   Good to see something different being restored too .

Nice work on the wheels , took me 3 hours to lace my first set , spokes in , spokes out etc  ;D  :-[

I agree with Carl and a few of the others I would change the bars to chrome and maybe strip and polish that seatpost  ???

Great job though Gaz  :4_17_5:
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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2010, 10:35 PM »
yeah top resto that, very nice :daumenhoch:

Thinking chrome bars like some have mentioned ;)
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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2010, 11:41 PM »
Now thats a nice little ride dat great job  :daumenhoch:
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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2010, 11:25 PM »

Another one brought back to life - nice one Gaz mate  :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of life
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2010, 05:31 PM »
nice bike there gaz,i reckon a set of chrome bars would set it off a treat ???
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Re: akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2010, 01:27 PM »
bars and seatpost sorted :daumenhoch:

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Re: akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2010, 02:01 PM »
Gaz - any chance of a close-up of the forks bud, as I'm sure I've got a set of these on my Ammaco and it would help identify them :daumenhoch: :shocked:

Still limping......

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« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2010, 08:46 PM »
bars and seatpost sorted :daumenhoch:

and looks much better for it imo Gaz  8)

Top resto that mate  :daumenhoch:
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Re: akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2010, 09:23 AM »
Nice work Gaz  :daumenhoch: , proof that this community don't need to have the big money brands all the time  ;)

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Re: akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2011, 02:25 AM »
Sweet bike! I have never seen one before with those decals. I've had that headtube decal on my Akisu laid back seat post since 1984. It's in rough shape. Can you help me find one of those round Akisu Decals?

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Re: akisu- a new lease of liife -new pics
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2011, 08:29 AM »
lovin the build there - how did you get the chrome up again and how bad was it before ?

it's great to see a build like this and a Akisu ! which is getting a better name for it's self as more and more better made akisu frames turn up

My Akisu is sitting there loooking at me to be done now

tell us more about the decals ?

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