Holá RAD'ster
I'm not a big player or by any means a knowledge Bmxarian
all I know is since being a kid I've loved Bmx's. Rediscovering that love over the past few years has been amazing building the bikes, meeting on the RAD rides & weekends & the bonus of seeing what beauties you all build & ride
Well now I have acquired a very unique build which is going to break me
as I can't seem to get it out of my mind to build it as close to its original parts list as I possibly can !!
Subconsciously I've already started lol & now I'm trying to fund it further with the sale of the cranks it came with.
I bought the bike not knowing much about it other than it being a Wilson with the 5" head tube some unusual drilled dropouts front & rear including the brake bridge & a bolt fior the seatpost clamp!!? [ Attachment: You are not allowed to view attachments ]
It came with miss mash parts as you will see in the photos to follow
Araya skinnies , win stem , newer Shimano DX pedals , tioga seat , can't quite make out the snake seat post stamp as its faint & the Harry Leary Turbo cranks
The f&f have been rattle canned & the chrome underneath is not good enough to keep imo.
After posting up on other related Bmx pages I was contacted by a guy who gave me the news that this particular frame set was built as a one off by Steve Wilson for Darren Stocks who raced for Halfords team I believe. He forwarded me some screen shots of an article from bitd with an interview with Darren a picture of him racing & his parts build list.
I was blown away as never would I have thought I would own such a unquie bike but now I do so my journey begins, it may not always be to the exact spec but I'm going to try as hard as I can as I know some of these parts are just either to rare or
in price.
I already have some parts getting me on my way so it's game on
I will post as I go along with the parts I have already or will require & my progress.
I think this may be my biggest build ever & may kill me but looking forward to it & eventually riding it too
