Kinda new to the forum but thought I would post up some pics of what I have been up to....
Background is I have been restoring up an old E30 BMW to take to the shows this summer which is getting there! and I wanted to add something to the roof when I have the rack built. Its chrome the rack! bling!
Anyway back in the summer I built this up and sold it on fleabay which gave me the old skool BMX bug a bit....
And here is the car as it is at the moment so you can see why I did this....
lovely alpina bib...
Anyway I wanted to build up an old skool bike but didn't want to spend a fortune as the car is sapping cash and this had to be done on a budget - so I trailed through the bay and found an old FS1 frame, bars and forks from a member on here "old skool dayz" - so after a couple of bids this turned up on the doorstep.... cheers buddy, was bob on thanks.
I really liked the frame but as the forks were not orig etc I was quite happy to use it as my canvas for this project rather than restore to NOS. BUt looking closely at the bars I think they are orig CW.s as the knarling is diamond shaped so that is a bit of a result. In fact the forks were a bonus to IMO as I don't really like the stumpyness of the looks of the orig FS1 forks and these are very similar to SE style and the holes in the dropouts of the frame match the forks drillings exactly with 3 diminishing holes - I kinda like the matching up of the detail! (yes - I was a designer for a job for too long!!)
So stripped everything back and started looking at the rest of what was left....
what we're gonna use...
Bleaching MAGS in progress ....
During this time I get my colour palette ready to match the car and as I had some parts going to the painters I got them to blast and paint up the whole lot in matching BMW 181 diamond black...javascript:void(0);
So the colours on the car are:
BMW 181 base colour
White (from number plates)
Black (from general body trim)
Orange ( from the indicators / number plates)
Red (from rear lights)
Chrome (from the BBS split rim wheels and grill)
Which aint' a bad starting point for the build.
Next up was to get back on the bay as per norm and source as much cheap stuff as possible but keeping the old feel. Managed to get some nice bits - odessey layback, TTK pedals and some wienmann brakes etc. MAGS came out ok too... Also managed to get a mid school GT performer from the local tip as a doner! crank and bits happily donated and back onto ebay after a cleanup!
£10 knuckle duster chain ring as I call it!
FAST FWD,,,
Frames back looking minty and starting to build up...
And here she is as of yesterday still bits to do but getting there... its such a bast**d goose!
hope you like it! more pics to follow when the other bits arrive from ebay...
