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Offline Brandy Truffle

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Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« on: February 09, 2008, 04:06 PM »
Bought this last month with the intention of using it as a rider,was pretty much same,needed a basic cleanup,polish and for some reason there was a buckled tyre on the front (Cheng Shin),well it had a bump in which i couldnt flatten...

I haven't seen this in the Museum from when it was originally built,so may submit it if it's up to it?

Stripped and re-polished all the parts,replaced a cracked Weinmann adjuster & a pad which had a nasty stain on it,re-did the rims lightly and added some extra gold 'bling' parts,just enough to compliment the yellow part of the Mongoose graphics and just to break up the monotony of the Red n Chrome.

Added the Gold Alloy chainring bolts,Skyway Pro Pads/Fins,an earlier Mongoose Stainless Steel seatpost ('cause it was v.nice! & i couldnt find a Renthal),also Red Comp III's all NOS.

I always wanted one of these BITD,& I'm not quite finished with the Cali yet,but thanks so far to Jezza (the original resto  :daumenhoch: ) , John H from the Burner forum (who sold me the bike,wanting to sell complete rather than breaking it when he could have got way more £££'s for it)

And finally,allowing me to stamp my little bit of individuality onto it & upgrade a few parts...The 2 Matts (BigDog) :daumenhoch:







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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2008, 04:10 PM »
 :smitten: Stunning
I really wish i hadn't sold both my Californian's  :'(

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2008, 04:12 PM »
wow! i could never afford a mongoose like yours back in the day! lovely job :smitten:

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2008, 04:17 PM »
Credit goes to Jezza & John H originally,i've just been handed the batton to continue the Cali Legacy!  ;D


It's a Rare,so i'm told,(for the UK,anyway) U.S. Metal Headbadge model,so i gotto do a tiny bit of resto on that as well.
« Last Edit: February 09, 2008, 04:23 PM by Brandy Truffle »

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2008, 04:41 PM »
That look's Sweeeeeet, better than new. :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2008, 04:50 PM »
that looks a beauty im doing my super pretty much exactly the same as that not quite finished yet though anyway top build :daumenhoch:

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2008, 04:54 PM »
Nice build  :daumenhoch:

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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2008, 04:55 PM »
that is lovley, i wont one :daumenhoch:

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2008, 05:01 PM »
Thats chuffin' lovely mate... :cool:

I saw that when Jezza had and its a lovely bike... looks great still... nice additions...  :daumenhoch:


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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2008, 06:26 PM »
That looks great, excellent colourway - I really like the red and touch of gold  :daumenhoch:


Better to crash and burn than fade away

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2008, 12:15 PM »
I've got a calif F&F and loads of bit for it in my garage - seeing this beaut has reminded me to pull my finger out and crack on with mine.

Top stuff sir - looks ace.  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2008, 12:33 PM »
Very nice build that mate - I too have one that needs to be built  :daumenhoch:


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« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2008, 12:46 PM »
thats a crackin' looking bike   :daumenhoch:
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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2008, 05:39 PM »
Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2008, 06:34 PM »
Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube  :daumenhoch:


Any Pics? ...and where would i get these from?  ::)

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« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2008, 06:39 PM »
Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube  :daumenhoch:


Any Pics? ...and where would i get these from?  ::)

Me :)

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« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2008, 07:44 PM »
Very nice mate, but put the full chromo frame decal on the top tube by the headset where it belongs instead of on the seat tube  :daumenhoch:


Any Pics? ...and where would i get these from?  ::)

see the little decal in this pic at the bottom of the seat tube?



Well it should be on the top tube  betwwen the headset and the start of the frame pad  :daumenhoch:
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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2008, 09:05 PM »
Nice One Fellas!

To be honest, theres a couple things niggling me,the headtube badge has a scratch on the black part,and decal wise the "Mongoose" downtube decal seems to have a few bubbles in. Looking underneath the frame it looks like the edges overlapped unevenly so maybe they were put on slightly rushed...Either way both these things can be rectified i think.

It looks to me that there are varying quality of repop decals for the Mongoose,so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?

I'll rectify the Cromo decal positioning at the same time too  :daumenhoch:

I have the Mongoose Ammaco Catalogue (signed by Ruffs - he seemed to sign alot at Demos) but i'm not going to be anal about doing a complete homage to the model in that.

No disrespect to the "stapled to frame warranty card posse" but BITD,whenever anyone got a new bike to race we always changed the odd bits 'n customised slightly,and as i look at the Cali now,i'd've been well chuffed to race that bugger back then on the budget i had.

Love or hate Mongoose's,the Californian sums up (to me) all that was great about the 83-85 era of BMX. A bike that (back then) lots of people aspired to,it was not so cheap that everyone had one,but not so expensive that it was out of reach to your average kid on the street...

« Last Edit: February 20, 2008, 01:30 AM by Brandy Truffle »

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2008, 02:36 PM »

   Sweet lookin' Goose, looks alot like mine in the museum. Please though do me a favor and do what i did not do until my last Cali build, put some Pro Class Bars on her..........sooooo much better looking me thinks :)
  This is the one without the pro class bars.

And below my lastest Cali build with pro class bars.

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« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2008, 05:47 PM »
That is absolutely stunning, beautiful mate!  :smitten: :smitten: Seems like Red is the colour for 2008!  ;)

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« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2008, 09:47 PM »

That's a really clean bike. Stunning. Nothing fancy, just good old school quality. Like it.

Daft question. Where did you get the gold chainring bolts from?

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Re: Mongoose Cali - Nearly Ready for the Museum...and Riding!
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2008, 04:20 AM »
...Daft question. Where did you get the gold chainring bolts from?

Put an ad in RAD 'WANTED' section and a friendly fellow RADster replied came to my aid!  :daumenhoch:

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