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Offline Funkyworm

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New Year , New Build . TRM FREESTYLER (FINALLY FINISHED)
« on: January 22, 2019, 03:46 PM »
Don’t do many build threads these days , mostly as Photobucket is buggered & its a pain to upload pics onto here,  but I've thought this & another build to come would be worth while …

Not sure it’s particularly wise to attempt this in the middle of a painful & drawn out house move either but i’ll give it a go, so please stick with me …

First let me say that I've been lucky enough to own 3 TRM’s over the past 7 years or so but non were of the quality i really wanted & i let them go one by one .

My best mate Back in the day had a chrome TRM & I have to say i loved it & always wanted to have one in the same chrome finish … We came from having Puch & Marlboro entry level BMX’s to owning a TRM & a Rickman (both Chrome) within 12 months or so in 84’ & we loved those bikes dearly…

Recently Luke who many of you may know,  decided to sell up his collection of TRM’s & I decided that i really wanted another after shelving my 3rd TRM which Ironically I sold to Luke in 2017…

 After missing out on Luke’s chrome F&F that he’d sold a few days before I spotted this Grey one, with Rickman bars, bars which i needed for my other build as id purchased a Mk 2 Rickman Freestyler from Tim March a couple of weeks earlier ……


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I knew a little about this particular TRM frame set  as it had previously been owned by Kerryman & since his ownership had changed hands at least twice to people i knew …

After speaking to Benno i found out hat it was originally a painted frame & was still in original condition when Matthew bought it at MK14… Mike also mentioned that Matt had it sent straight to SBD to be powdered (as he’d won a free powder coat that year in the show & shine)…

Now,  knowing Dan i know that he generally strips frames properly before painting or powdering & most importantly he doesn't get them media blasted. So i it made sense to me that under the really nice but bubbling grey powder coat should be a great donor frame for Chrome which would show off the brazing fillets (as they shouldn't have been blasted or polished out)...

  if they had been messed with my fall back was a plan to powder the frame another Original TRM colour Baby Pink ….
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Offline deeman

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Re: New Year , New Build . TRM FREESTYLER (She's a keeper)
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2019, 03:52 PM »
Nice one Callum, love these frames.....i like the sound of a baby pink one!  :daumenhoch:
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Re: New Year , New Build . TRM FREESTYLER (She's a keeper)
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2019, 04:01 PM »
Quote from: deeman on January 22, 2019, 03:52 PM
Nice one Callum, love these frames.....i like the sound of a baby pink one!  :daumenhoch:

Andy Sanford has painted his Pink & Id actually only seen (1 original pink one before) from this original image found on Facebook :

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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2019, 04:05 PM »
My Original hunch was proved correct & after bathing in Synstryp a giving it a light sand & rub down with wire wool I realised i had a beauty on my hands.

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So a few weeks ago it was off to ACF Howell in walsall !!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2019, 04:15 PM »
Yesterday 2 weeks early I got the call.... it was ready ...

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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2019, 04:17 PM »
Just a couple more as its so good ...

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Now waiting for Del to do his Magic  ! :smitten: :Great_Britain:
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2019, 04:40 PM »
That came out lovely.....love chromed braizing  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2019, 04:41 PM »
Pure bmx porn  "wantit" :4_17_5:
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2019, 09:02 PM »
That looks amazing!  :4_17_5:
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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2019, 09:11 PM »
Are you going to use the Rickman bars too? did you have them chromed?!  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2019, 09:22 PM »
Looks minty that Cal, looking forward to seeing where you go with this.  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2019, 09:31 PM »
Quote from: deeman on January 22, 2019, 09:11 PM
Are you going to use the Rickman bars too? did you have them chromed?!  :daumenhoch:

The Rickman bars were actually chrome underneath  the powder but badly key'd & as you know Rickman products have notoriously good brazing but for some reason this set didn't look so great So I had them de chromed along with the Chrome frame set i got from Tim which belonged to his son. This was supposed to be a rider but after an OA bath the chrome in places on the forks in particular was just too far gone  for me (id bought all the parts for the rider build as well ) but now its stripped back i have other plans for this frame set & it will be my next build .

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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2019, 01:51 AM »
What an amazing frame set , the chrome work came out  very nice   :bow:
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« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2019, 12:29 PM »
Del came up Trumps, although a distinct lack of tac on one of the fork decals which moved a lot & creased when i applied it...

Will see how it looks when the water spray dries out behind the decal & I might ask him for a replacement if its shite ...

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Re: New Year , New Build . TRM FREESTYLER (She's a keeper)
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2019, 01:40 PM »
Ace  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2019, 04:01 PM »
Wow, looks amazing!!  "wantit"
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2019, 05:31 PM »
 :2funny: mate that  is just the bomb!!!
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2019, 05:43 PM »
Quote from: dancetothedrummersbeat on January 24, 2019, 04:01 PM
Wow, looks amazing!!  "wantit"

Its getting there, Slowly...

The Plan is to use a combination of Nos & refurbished parts on this one... A few years ago on my first TRM i found a set of bars by a little known American department store brand called Hanter on eBay . They were 4130 Cromo & the welding was fantastic. I think they either were or became (Visage BMX) as they had some of the same Hutch & Redline (inspired) shall we say features on their Bikes...

The Hanter freestyle bars though were lovely & a friend of mine bought a nos chrome set about 6-8 months ago from the USA & put them on a build for a short time .... 

Anyway here they are , Ive used VC-10's on trm's before also, I think the angular nature of the bars really compliment the frame & the welds are (Lush)...

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Anyway these are what I'll be using unless i can find some Full sized  Chrome Action Zone bars which is doubtful...

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Anyway  (for now) rain has stopped play on this build as I'm supposed to be moving house in a weeks time & I've got 16 years worth of stuff to work through throw away or  pack along with of course all of my bike parts to wrap & pack safely for the move .

Anyway more build info from the other side when I'm there .....

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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2019, 07:03 PM »
That chrome job turned out amazing, looks like this will be a cracking build  :coolsmiley:
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« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2019, 01:21 AM »
That looks awesome and that brazing  wow  explosion
I was there when Mat bought that in 2014 wow again time does fly by !
Another cracker  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2019, 02:01 PM »
Well I've been moved in for 6 weeks now & it will soon be time to get back to this build .... Cant wait to be honest & Ive been collecting a few parts here & there when they've come up ...Still un-sure of how she's going to finish up but looking forward to getting out all of those parts & putting the jigsaw together   ???
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« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2019, 10:25 PM »
That's going to look fantastic, funnily enough I was gonna ask Luke for that frame, looked cool in black. ;)
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« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2019, 10:39 PM »
That is a Beauty explosion
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« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2019, 01:52 PM »
Any updates on this?  :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2019, 04:17 PM »
That is superb  :smitten:
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