my latest project(dont get too excited)my first bmx!!

[markyp]

well a couple of years ago a girl that i knew from my school days saw on facebook that i was into old school bmx.she was a bit of a tomboy bitd,she rode motocross after bmx then went onto become the first female speedway rider!!anyways she asked me if i wanted her old viceroy bmx that was kicking about in her dads garage,a viceroy was my first bmx at christmas 83,it was chrome and red,every part was a snide,copy this copy that and i fookin detested it!! iwas desperado for a db viper but my dad was too tight to part with £150 so i ended up with a £99 viceroy.i hated it so much that i carried on riding my raleigh strika till about the march when i finally jumped on the viceroy and pimped it out with a set of copy star bars and an et frame pad,well rad!!
 she contacted me last week and said she was about town(she lives in newcastle now) and said it a shame to let this viceroy rust away and did i want it,well here it is,my first bmx!!


ive got a feeling this is a first gen viceroy and mine was a second.mine still had the goosey gusset but was a loopy and had a red viscount aero seat.this one got a snide suntour stem mine had a snide mongoose double jobby.she said the shimano sx were put on by her as i mentioned mine had victor dx on a one peice.check out the original pads tho,all ready to be dyed back to proper red and the original doen tube decal,shame the rust has got to it but some of it is picking off back to fresh chrome.she also mentioned a couple of years back that she had a curtis as well,unfortunatley she couldnt find it,she said today that her dad rented the house out a few years back and the tennants sold everything in the garage except the viceroy!!as much as a pos that it is its still great to have my fist bmx again,you never see these about,and to this day im still very proud that i chose this over a burner

[meticulous]

are you gona restore it parcy?   

[markyp]

are you gona restore it parcy?  

i sure is  sam,altho i need to change a few bits,wanna get a set of flights!!
just jesting!!its actually got a tange seat clamp in very tidy condition,i might sell  it as mine had a really crud one like a burner

[meticulous]

i may have a crud seat clamp to help you on your way, just like a mongoose one without the mongoose name on....     

[markyp]

i may have a crud seat clamp to help you on your way, just like a mongoose one without the mongoose name on....     

that is exactly what im after

[meticulous]

 

[markyp]

someones stolen the pic!!

[Jaymz]

thats wicked mate. prety good nick considering. I'd got for the strip and polish survivor look, but I would have to ask myself how many people have restored a viceroy!! nice one, keep us updated with lots of pics

[markyp]

gremlin reckons it could be a puch invader,although the serial number is very similar to the other viceroy in the museum and why would you decal up a bmx as a viceroy,if you were gonna redecal it youd do it as a mongoose as it looks like one?and the pads too make me think its still a viceroy,you wouldnt add viceroy pads,it would be like decaling it up as a burner

[meticulous]

someones stolen the pic!!

send me your addy...

[markyp]

okey dokey

[GTnumber1]

love these old cheapies we all had as kids            ............... those bars look like beach cruisers   

[john4130]

did you have to shag her to take it off her hands. 

[markyp]

did you have to shag her to take it off her hands. 

she'd have loved too but my body is a temple 

[Darren KAP]

did you have to shag her to take it off her hands. 

     Get some Hutch bits on it 

[stidds]

I love that Mark, it means something to you and that is what this hobby is about.

You cannot beat getting your old bike back, it brings back such great memories as a nipper.

[bigfatolly]

I reckon puch invader and viceroy are the same frame myself,i had a puch that i sold to Pooch and it was exactly the same as that one.

[markyp]

I reckon puch invader and viceroy are the same frame myself,i had a puch that i sold to Pooch and it was exactly the same as that one.

i reckon that too olly,puch also did a loopy version same as my viceroy,what are the chances

[bobafett]

Good stuff Mark.

It's about time you got a survivor instead of all that bling 

 

[GREMLIN]

I mentioned it as I have a Puch Invader sat here which is identical to your frame. My original forks which make up the frameset have a Kuwi' look to them tho.
There are plenty of Puch Invaders in the galleries which are identical too.
As I said on the phone it's possible they used the same frames for Puch / Viceroy.
One thing with mine is it has a metal Puch head-tube badge held on with two small rivets. So your frame may or may not have a couple of identifying holes under the head-tube decal.      G. 

[markyp]

I mentioned it as I have a Puch Invader sat here which is identical to your frame. My original forks which make up the frameset have a Kuwi' look to them tho.
There are plenty of Puch Invaders in the galleries which are identical too.
As I said on the phone it's possible they used the same frames for Puch / Viceroy.
One thing with mine is it has a metal Puch head-tube badge held on with two small rivets. So your frame may or may not have a couple of identifying holes under the head-tube decal.      G. 

im gonna checkout the headtube now gav,let me investigate

[markyp]

no rivets under the head tube badge,that badge has got to be original to the bike as well

[GREMLIN]

Good stuff    Identical frames decalled up as different brand names.  Learn something new every day     G. 

[BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN]

sweet luck - cool bmx  great story

think it's time to put my two up as so you can study all three know to radsters

so mk1 and mk 2