Author Topic: Can you help me identify this frame (Read 382 times)

itsme.mrt · « **on:** August 24, 2011, 01:16 PM »

Hi, I'm new to this site well iv'e been registered but never got round to using it until now. I have acquired this nos frame but the guy I had it off did not know the make if any, after doing a little research I found that it looks very similar to the Mongoose decade and styler also the Ross piranha. The frame is stamped ST7081733 i think it may be late 80's . Can any one help. I've attached photo's.

http://s1126.photobucket.com/albums/l617/karltips/

Thanks

ThisBitterPill · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2011, 02:23 PM »

I think this one has been raised before.....I think it might have been a Townsend?

pickle · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2011, 02:27 PM »

dunno but looks cool for a rider

MartyC · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2011, 02:35 PM »

Looks like one of those Townsend frames doing the rounds on gaybay

MartyC · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2011, 02:39 PM »

Is this a double post?

theRuler · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2011, 03:15 PM »

Another variant:

Look cool, but were cheap junk.

Oh and age is late 90's+

itsme.mrt · « **Reply #6 on:** August 24, 2011, 03:21 PM »

Cheers for the comments chaps some good some crap, it does look like the Townsend katana but there are some differences . Sell on or build

?

theRuler · « **Reply #7 on:** August 24, 2011, 04:19 PM »

I wouldn't want to ride it in anger.

I reckon you should sell it on.
But don't give it away - if you can't get a fair price (or what it owes you) then mothball it.

After all, junk or not, it is new, and that counts for a bit.

In the 90's there were all sorts of generic frames kicking around. Some were badged up as Prolite, and some were Standard Shorty ripoffs. They crop up from time to time.

But this type of frame (your one with the looptail) is not in the same league as those frames. Sadly yours is the basis for a "BMX Chrome" that you would get at Toys R Us, or in a catalogue with a snakepost and the stem up high.

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