action zone bars

[plugwit]

does anyone know anything about them? they look a bit like knee savers, but with an oval crossbar.....which comes out further than the downtubes...

any info??

[Wayne Ryder]

I remember them, in fact in the last month or two the only pair I've seen since about '84 showed up on eBay. Very highly rated back in the day, but I'm not sure if they were the best bars or just the ones to be seen riding.
More sweep, wider than I remembered, and till recently I didn't know they were 4-piece. Thinking about it, though, how WOULD you make these in 2 pieces?

Not sure if this'll work, it's a shortcut from the Vintage BMX board:

[oberonspacefruit]

hmmmmmmmnice bars....how       are they regarded?

[oberonspacefruit]

[dordymush]

wheres that one come from then our phil .

[RADHAB]

Dave Curry plugged em BITD, Mud machine raved about em but sadly they were badly made and bent regularly, you have to get the VDC ones they are copies of...............Pete Quadrophenia has some of those.

[ORB]

Lazarau (reds) is almost obsessed by them.

[weston]

i used to have some of these back in the day.. they are brilliant till you fall off then its bend city..

[BuffaloUK]

Dave Curry was pushing them bitd because they were his bars, Action Zone was Curry's own company. They were the bars of choice for London's hardcore.

[Jim]

I remember being at rom and counting about 30 sets of those AZ bars on about 30 GT Performers... wonder where they all went? I still have the vdc originals - just for the record, they were sh*t too. They cracked at the base (by the stem) the three tubes that met there were in a kind of mitre joint. I rewelded mine about 3 times... total rubbish.

[fraz167]

Does anyone remember the chrome GT that Craig Campbell rode at Holeshot....with a set of Action Zone bars.

[dordymush]

i never knew he rode a GT.you learn something every day  .

[fraz167]

Yeah it was after he left Skyway..wicked looking bike...there was some pic in rad/action bike of hime riding his backyard pipe

[retrogeezer]

hey Oberonspacefruit......I could do with a scan of that surreybmx decal......where did it come from?

[oberonspacefruit]

there were about forty stuck to my rickman

[retrogeezer]

don't suppose you saved any??

Ta

[oberonspacefruit]

yeah i have 2 or 3 but they are stretched when i heat gunned em off.

[Wayne Ryder]

The design was pretty good and ahead of its time, I thought. If a modern version existed I think they'd sell.

[lloydieboy]

Campbell rode a GT??His Prolite frame was WAYYYYYYY better!!! Had a baby blue one BITD , best frame i ever rode. Sold it for 25 quid. sucker.....


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Does anyone remember the chrome GT that Craig Campbell rode at Holeshot....with a set of Action Zone bars.