The French Connection! C'est fini!

[kalex]

Black grips and seat and maybe a blue headset locking nut or blue pedals if a near match to the caliper

[fischflo]

like Marty said, seat bit lower ..white seat but mx style maybe though yours is alright, and chainwheel combo, but with a disc (bit like Carls here http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,188250.msg1892098.html#msg1892098) in silver and chainwheel in dark blue or white. Dark Blue gwips (...i'm all navy at the moment again ) ....and let's see how dat goes

[deeman]

I reckon leave the seat white and add some white repop a;me's , lose the blue...all black is too boring

[Mikku]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions guys - really appreciate it!

I'd rather not throw anymore money at this if I can help it, but could probably loosen the purse strings for some grips and/or donuts.

[Mikku]

The sun come out last Sunday, so I stopped worrying about what the bike looked like, adjusted the seat and bars and went out for a spin!



Things I learnt and/or was reminded of:-

1. I still love riding a 20" BMX!
2. I'm no longer a teenager!!
3. Every bike feels different. Sounds obvious but compared to the Free Agent, the Motobecane's a completely different beast. Much more weight in the back end, so the front pops up so easily and I have to say, it brought a smile to my face riding it.

Received a little delivery yesterday, so will be making some minor changes to get this bike finally finished! Maybe.

[kalex]

Tbh it looks good as is.

If it were mine I'd be tempted to replace the seat only but that is just my opinion

[MartyC]

Liking that, top bombing 

[Mikku]

So I spent about an hour of Sunday morning messing around with seats and grips and ended up with this:-









As you can see, in the end I decided to follow the advice of both Amy Winehouse and Bodamus by going back to black with some blue donuts! I'll pop some more info and pics in the Old School Race section but for the time being, this build is done! Thanks for the advice and comments along the way! Merci beaucoup Radsters

[Taipan]

Really like that  only thing I'd change is that chainring for me it doesn't suit the build,maybe a tuf neck cross style chainring if you wanna keep a one piece but for me it would be chainring and spider combo

[Mikku]

Yeah, I know what you mean about that chainring. I had it on my Free Agent and had the same kind of reaction then, so I should have learned my lesson! What I can say for sure is that I definitely will not be using it for my next build!

Here's the link to the parts list and some better photos:-

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,188759.0.html

Cheers!

[HUTCHMAN]

a lot better now bud.. but i agree about the chain wheel.