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Offline bigfatolly

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Rickman Freestyler finished at last......
« on: August 04, 2014, 11:27 PM »
This was actually the first bike I bought when I got back into BMX in about 2008.
Sawzall was selling it for a friend of his and I paid the grand sum of £75 for the whole bike.
I have a photo of it somewhere and I will find it and edit the post so you can see a before and after.
It is the rarer frame and fork with the extra bar making it a late model.
It had Tuffs that had been painted with gloss paint,the alloy fluted post was stuck and someone had welded another seat tube to the existing seat tube that had another seatpost in it.
I stripped all the good parts and sold them on,had it all repaired and primed and then it sat there for a few years as other projects came and went.
I also stripped all the gloss of of the Tuffs and bleached them.
So this year I thought I would get it sorted,got it painted in a rogue mix of baby blue,found some NOS frame decals on eBay,with Del providing the rest.
I had accumulated a few budget parts over the years and chucked it all together




I went for Mike Buff Zeds which I think work better than the Tuffs that I restored as you can see.
Unfortunately as soon as it was finished,I am selling as I have other projects on the go that need a push.

Here it is with my other Rickman FS In chrome for a cool double act


Parts list

Rickman FS Frame and fork
Rickman FS Bars
GT Mallet copy with hollow bolt polished
Dia compe 901 and FS880 combo in blue
Blue NOS Tech 5s
Polished Tioga Seat Clamp
Generic Layback in chrome with GT Decal
Peregrine Seat in White
Mike Buff Zeds with ACS Hubs
Repop black comp STs
Takagi Crank
Blue Suntour chainring NOS
White Tioga Powerdisc NOS.

Already regretting splitting and selling as it turned out so nice!!

Hope you like :daumenhoch:


monkian

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Re: Rickman Freestyler finished at last......
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2014, 11:31 PM »
Great work Ollie 8) :daumenhoch:
Shame it's sold. Love the White Zeds with the Blue frame.

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