Dirt Bros.

[lk_97]

Who had the dirt bros frame, with one green skyway and a spoke? Better still, who has pictures? I really like these bikes, but I know I won't get one as it is still a t.a frame!

 

[gobshite]

Who had the dirt bros frame, with one green skyway and a spoke? Better still, who has pictures? I really like these bikes, but I know I won't get one as it is still a t.a frame!

 

pretty sure harris has one

only the early ones were TA's, the later frames,shortbus,patriot,were completely different,

[lk_97]

If anybody has pictures it would be appreciated and ahh right, you learn something everyday! am I right that the early bars were hoffman too?

[gobshite]

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=68850.0

[gobshite]

dunno about the bars, would'nt be suprised if some came out of the ramp room though, harris or JT71 might know,



vic murphy fooking rocks.

[Jaymz]

sweet example in the museum http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/dirt_brothers_industries_or_dbi/23863

and the chain ring on this one os just the sex http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/dirt_brothers_industries_or_dbi/25507

[lk_97]

They're so nice, I'm styling my 88 sport on these type of bikes, check this video out: http://bmxmdb.com/films/130-Ride-On

[lk_97]

If only this t shirt wasn't out of stock:

http://dirtbrosbmx.bigcartel.com/product/mag-trip

[SaMAlex]

am I right that the early bars were hoffman too?

Nope, not Hoffman. The first "dirtBros" frame and forks were TA frames (hooked up cos Eddie Roman used to ride for skyway, so he got hold of a load of unwanted TA frames) with redline forks. They probably used redline bars but the Bully bars were similar to (and some of the Dirt Bros started riding for Bully for a while).

TA frames were (and are) crappy, but it was sort of meant as an anti-tech statement: it doesnt matter what frame you ride, just get a bike and ride it. Even an old TA will do! Even with one Tuff wheel!

[dordymush]

poolysheriff has one built up.
pm him he'll send you a pic.

[brummie]

were they all ta xl frames or can a std ta frame be used?

[LENNY-LENTINI]

Dude.

All you need to do is watch the vid below.

The Vw gang tend to think they invented 'Ratstyle' but it exhisted years ago in BMX.

The whole Idea was that it was the riding that you got the buzz from not polishing a wafer thin flourescent thief magnet.

We knew that a front skyway looked off balance and odd but we ran one to say 'I know it looks weird but I'm still gonna ride it anyway'.

As soon as our bikes changed we suddenly found we could ride all the Ghetto spots (Hyson Green Nottm, Kelvin Banks Sheff etc...) with no hassle at all. Bonus

anyways enjoy

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Keep the Faith. L

[lk_97]

am I right that the early bars were hoffman too?

Nope, not Hoffman. The first "dirtBros" frame and forks were TA frames (hooked up cos Eddie Roman used to ride for skyway, so he got hold of a load of unwanted TA frames) with redline forks. They probably used redline bars but the Bully bars were similar to (and some of the Dirt Bros started riding for Bully for a while).

TA frames were (and are) crappy, but it was sort of meant as an anti-tech statement: it doesnt matter what frame you ride, just get a bike and ride it. Even an old TA will do! Even with one Tuff wheel!

Oh right, the bully bars are really nice, I'd like to build one up, but because it's a TA they're not gonna be cheap and I bet most were turned into TA's anyway, I like the way they did things and why the company was started as well.

[lk_97]

Dude.

All you need to do is watch the vid below.

The Vw gang tend to think they invented 'Ratstyle' but it exhisted years ago in BMX.

The whole Idea was that it was the riding that you got the buzz from not polishing a wafer thin flourescent thief magnet.

We knew that a front skyway looked off balance and odd but we ran one to say 'I know it looks weird but I'm still gonna ride it anyway'.

As soon as our bikes changed we suddenly found we could ride all the Ghetto spots (Hyson Green Nottm, Kelvin Banks Sheff etc...) with no hassle at all. Bonus

anyways enjoy

/>
Thanks for the vid, I'll watch it now, I like the look of one tuff wheel and one spoke, gonna have to ride my sport to boardroom, and hopefully T1. I like the style, as well as freestyle bikes but i like what late 80s and early 90's bikes stood for.

Lucas.

Keep the Faith. L

[theRuler]

We knew that a front skyway looked off balance and odd but we ran one to say 'I know it looks weird but I'm still gonna ride it anyway'.

I think it could have been more out of necessity.
The rear hub on tuffs would fail much sooner than the front, so you tended to end up with orphan fronts.

By the end of the 80's I had a large collection of BMX stuff (basically all my mates' bikes) and I only had a couple of working back wheels, compared to a wealth of fronts.
A lot of the time, I would end up with a bike because the back wheel was scrap and the bike had become unridable (and therefore of little value)

I blame pegs and thin dropouts!!!

There was a resurgance of running a front Tuff a few years ago.  To look "retro".

[LENNY-LENTINI]

It doesn't have to be a TA.

Just get a mid school frame that looks similar Rattle Can spray it white (unless they do white hammerite) . Add some chrome forks and some 4 piece chrome bars and sticker it up and scratch it.

Get a front skyway and some comp st's or some knobbly tires and your away.

In fact that's what I'm gonna do.

PS 'oldtired' runs some Mint cond' Chrome Bully Bars on his rider but he'd never part with them.

Keep the Faith. L

[LENNY-LENTINI]

We knew that a front skyway looked off balance and odd but we ran one to say 'I know it looks weird but I'm still gonna ride it anyway'.

I think it could have been more out of necessity.
The rear hub on tuffs would fail much sooner than the front, so you tended to end up with orphan fronts.

By the end of the 80's I had a large collection of BMX stuff (basically all my mates' bikes) and I only had a couple of working back wheels, compared to a wealth of fronts.
A lot of the time, I would end up with a bike because the back wheel was scrap and the bike had become unridable (and therefore of little value)

I blame pegs and thin dropouts!!!

There was a resurgance of running a front Tuff a few years ago.  To look "retro".

Good point Ruler

Just about everybody who rode was skint in the early 90's.

We cannibalised owt we could to get a bike together.

I always felt more relaxed when my bike looked like shit but rode well.

[theRuler]

We cannibalised owt we could to get a bike together.

I always felt more relaxed when my bike looked like shit but rode well.

I didn't really used to think about how the bike looked, by the close of the 80's.
I had got a set of parts that I liked built up into a bike, and rode them.

I was running a Gen one Haro frame, LG copy forks (off my old fox 4styler - I preferred them to the Haro ones for some reason!), Sumo alloys (off an old Silverfox),  Vector bars with built in stem, and whatever MX1000 copy brakes I had at the time. Cranks were always 1pc.  Pedals were DX copies.  Each tube had more patches than Dot Cotton trying to give up smoking.

I recall tyres being the commodity that were hard to find.  There were no BMX shops round my way (and I had no money anyway) so I would be using all sorts.

Snakebellies off Raleigh Burners were useful.  I had a couple of Burners - mainly for the tyres.  The rest was useless shit (except maybe the stems).