Author Topic: help with this please (Read 9145 times)

red baron · « **on:** August 26, 2013, 06:59 PM »

hi guys
just joined the site and said my bit in the welcome section and was hoping from some help in telling me what frame this is.
i brought it from a guy yesturday and in first glance looks to be a falcon freestyler, but there are some subtle differences

i dont care if its nothing specal as i justed liked the look of it

thanks in advance

That Swan Guy · « **Reply #1 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:02 PM »

You need to read this thread, it'll help sort your photos out

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,129378.0.html

red baron · « **Reply #2 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:13 PM »

there was no link so just trying

http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z389/neilthechampion/1.jpg

That Swan Guy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:14 PM »

red baron · « **Reply #4 on:** August 26, 2013, 07:16 PM »

sused it out

pickle · « **Reply #5 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:24 PM »

After sorting your pictures, I'd say generic POS

Sorry $:-\$

red baron · « **Reply #6 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:39 PM »

whats that then, and i dont mind if its a asda special

red baron · « **Reply #7 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:41 PM »

just googled "POS" is that "piece of sh**" then

pickle · « **Reply #8 on:** August 26, 2013, 09:48 PM »

Sorry, I'm afraid so. But hey build it up with some cheap parts and ride it

red baron · « **Reply #9 on:** August 26, 2013, 10:30 PM »

thanks for the info, just out of intrest how did you come up with POS

Ryan · « **Reply #10 on:** August 29, 2013, 02:47 PM »

Quote from: pickle on August 26, 2013, 09:24 PM

After sorting your pictures, I'd say generic POS Sorry $:-\$

Hi pickle, can I ask if how you came up with that result? Is there any way of searching the frame number to get a acctual result of make/model??? Thanks

pickle · « **Reply #11 on:** August 29, 2013, 03:29 PM »

Just the general shape and quality. Experience as well I guess

GT were the only real quality bike make which used that bent down tube design, it was then copied by countless cheap toys R us bikes which I believe comes under the umbrella of POS

Jaymz · « **Reply #12 on:** August 29, 2013, 07:44 PM »

Late 90's early 00's ammaco

fischflo · « **Reply #13 on:** August 29, 2013, 08:03 PM »

awesome, Jaymz

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/ammaco/37548#.Uh-aWH-H2jc "1987 (I think) Ammaco Freestyler Special Edition"
someone says. "your nearly ten years out on it, same frame as a falcon xpose from around 95. i have got the same bike!!!"

http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/ammaco/59797#.Uh-aOH-H2jc "1987 Ammaco Freestyler"

Jaymz · « **Reply #14 on:** August 29, 2013, 08:53 PM »

Townsend also did a version called te xposure too, and so did universal, but the ammaco was the first me I could lay my hands on, bankrupt bike parts on eBay have a load of nos ones for £20

fischflo · « **Reply #15 on:** August 29, 2013, 09:21 PM »

the disc, bars, stem etc ... all seems original to the bike
http://www.kupindo.com/Road-Racing/13617217_Ammaco-Freestyle
slavic seller says "Model: Alpina ACIFIC FS" and "Vrsta: Muski "

seen the top tube decal a few times on this now: "Freestyler"

...a cryptographologist could now tell us the exact year, please

Jaymz · « **Reply #16 on:** August 29, 2013, 09:30 PM »

The picture I posted was from a member on rb.com, it had been spray bombed after careful stripping this was the result, most of the freestyler was destroyed but you could make it out

Dannywhac · « **Reply #17 on:** August 29, 2013, 10:15 PM »

Like J's said - they're all from the very late 90's and are probably still used on generic cack Toy's R Us bikes today. Looking at that frame number with it's plethora of 0000's I'd say the OP's frame was made in 2000.

From that Alpina one - it probably is all og - they sell the frames to third party companies, and they get decalled and componented up to whatever they're gonna flog em with.

red baron · « **Reply #18 on:** August 30, 2013, 06:39 PM »

thanks for the help guys

, it sort of makes sence now, as when i picked it up and in the right light you could make out an "a" silhouette on the frame (down tube), anyway i will put ammaco stickers on it

sound better than townsend i think.
as said by pickles, i gonna strip my mongoose mid school down and change it over so i can ride it, and go from there

right off to ebay to get some stickers, thanks guys

red baron · « **Reply #19 on:** August 30, 2013, 07:06 PM »

er, anyone know where i can get some Ammaco stickers from

Howser · « **Reply #20 on:** August 30, 2013, 08:00 PM »

Del is the sticker guru on here - drop him a pm

red baron · « **Reply #21 on:** August 30, 2013, 09:10 PM »

thanks for that howser, i have done, hopfully to the right person