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Offline graeme

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painting tuffs
« on: October 17, 2005, 08:08 PM »
ok, if i want to change the colour of some tuffs, what can i do. I know they can be dyed, and yellowed ones can be bleached, but can you bleached coloured ones back to white? Would it be generaly a bad idea to paint em? I know it will wear off where the brakes contact.

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2005, 08:09 PM »
wot colour u got?
I want to touch ORB

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2005, 08:12 PM »
Im thinking of buying the lilacs on ebay, keep it quiet though ;) or someone will get him to end early ;D
Dont really want lilac, i want white, with coaster.
Can you swap the rear hubs? So if i bought the lilac coaster pair, could i swap the actual wheels for whites and swap over the coaster hub?

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2005, 08:13 PM »
dont paint them mate

see if anyone wants to do a trade first to get the colour you want.

if you want white, just hold out for white

or buy the lilacs, and see if anyone wants to swap for white.

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2005, 08:15 PM »
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someone will get him to end early


hmmmmmmmmmm lilac eh sounds good  ;).
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2005, 08:16 PM »
yea , white are pretty common , do not paint any they will look poo and people will laugh at you ;)

wait for white , its the only way , i know you want them now but they will turn up :)

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2005, 08:16 PM »
 >:(

Oi, watch it, im likely to get angry!

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2005, 08:19 PM »
Yeah, i know what your saying, but i have no wheels! At all, well apart from my old ammaco wheels, but there warped, and all the spokes are bent/loose/rusty and the bearings are nackered!
My ammaco silver star is going to my bird, 180 miles away in sheffield.
So, i have no real choice, the ones on ebay are indeed skyways, and coaster, so ill just have to live with the colour.
Hmmm, lilac wheels on a green bike, lovely!
Anyhow, can the hubs be swaped over?

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2005, 08:19 PM »
you oviouslly dont know me do ya  ???.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2005, 08:21 PM »
if they are a metal hubbed tuff then yes

Dave
haro, how do you do

theRuler

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2005, 08:22 PM »
buy some aero zytecs

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2005, 08:24 PM »
you oviouslly dont know me do ya  ???.

Nope, but i believe it was you who pinched then green coasters from under my nose ;)
Aero's are my last resort, i nearly ordered em today.
If i dont get the lilacs, i think aero's it is.



Rom bloke, but plastic hubbed then no?

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2005, 08:27 PM »
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Nope, but i believe it was you who pinched then green coasters from under my nose

i pinched them off you. and there was me thinking i bought them off iain  ???.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2005, 08:27 PM »
aero zytecs are sound

i paid 20 quid for a NOS set the other day.

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2005, 08:31 PM »
hi mate , don't paint  them .  If they are a good price , i would say buy them. you can always swap or sell them later. Old skyways in good nick will always be a saleable item
  If you want some white ones  , just wait around a bit , they will turn up . i was looking for a decent set of white ones for about six months . cheers dave  :).  

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2005, 12:39 AM »
there loads of sets of NOS ones on the bay. why dont you get a set of white ones.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2005, 09:00 AM »
cos they are too dear. they are alright if u are desperate but not a bargain.

zytecs are good, but most of em have yellowed with age.
I want to touch ORB

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« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2005, 09:32 AM »
i ment for graeme  ;D.
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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2005, 04:12 PM »
yeah, he was passing on my thoughts, too much money. I think ill go with zytecs, and bleach em white again. Thanx

Oh, and the pinching comment was very tongue in cheek :)

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2005, 04:14 PM »
yeh mate no worries.
i will say though i gave a fair bit more than the new white ones cost for the green ones  ;).
i'll keep my eye out for some for you.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2005, 04:20 PM »
out of interest, how much? I was going to go to bout £120, hope you paid more :P

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2005, 04:23 PM »
mate you know you can get brand new green ones from the states for cheap money.its just i've only just set up paypal so could'nt do it. have a look.
dave the bmxing gypo


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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2005, 04:26 PM »
not with coaster brake, which if i remember rightly, those ones were.

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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2005, 04:28 PM »
I still recon a tuff is not a tuff unless at least one is metal hubbed.

Oh, dont paint any. thats bad.
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Re: painting tuffs
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2005, 04:29 PM »
graeme how come you want a coaster so bad. i think there a bastard thing to ride with.
one had me over the bars at southsea on my orange skyway.
dave the bmxing gypo


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