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Offline Jt

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whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« on: February 23, 2008, 12:21 PM »
just curious really?

i've ruined a kashi seat by leaving it in bleach and corroding the rails, then tried dying it and it went blotchy army green....then i've fooked up some proclass rims by getting someone 'proper' polishing them and they look all grained and like they've been painted chrome and last but not least imported a laserlite frame from the states that turned out to be bent...now built and racing as the lasershite

so a good few quid in fook ups?

anyone top this little lot?

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2008, 04:01 PM »
yes, getting billy started in bmx,  the most expensive thing i've done >:D
For powder coating drop me a pm

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2008, 04:10 PM »
Bought a Redline frame and forks that turned out to be a 92! £100

Fooked a Kashi by dying it. Came out Camo! :'( Tried to get it back but it wont. £60

Fooked a pair of Ukai skinnies by leaving them in Oxalic. Messed up the anno. £50

Painted a perfectly good Ripper pink!  :LolLolLolLol:  Sold it though and didnt lose money.

When i first started i gave away some early GT race bars! :wtf:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2008, 04:17 PM »
fooked an expensive yes helmet, aged 14, trying to spraypaint it the Kuwahara Team colours. Masked it perfectly for the yellow green split. each time I peeled the masking tape off it would pull some paint away so the line wasnt straight. didnt know that much about prepping it surface, etc to get surface right to take paint. so would strip paint off and try again. must have used about ten cans of paint and 3 bottle of stripper in the end.

all this eventually fooked the helmet and I could use it. Lesson learned the hard way. Ended up with some piece of shit plastic £30 job from Halfrauds. Which I covered in stickers to hide the fact.

Happy days  :LolLolLolLol:

Kuwaharo

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2008, 06:10 PM »


getting involved in a jmc bidding war with you bruv :2funny:

ade :crazy2:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2008, 06:27 PM »
I haven't made it yet, she is tollerating me so far  :LolLolLolLol:
Whats the matter Kid, don't ya like clowns? Don't we make you laugh? Aint we fukkin funny?

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2008, 07:07 PM »
Got some rare Ammaco pads, thought they looked a bit dirty, wacked them in the wash (as i've done loads of other times) and the fooking print all came off on to the clothes and the pads basically stripped to pieces £50

Kashi seat, dyed to blue, left it in too long, then tried to bleach it, rusted the rails £40

Stripped a nos seat of bars thought they were original (as told they were stamped) got done, worth a tenner, bought for £50

That's it for now thank fook! No more horrors!   >:D :)

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2008, 07:27 PM »


getting involved in a jmc bidding war with you bruv :2funny:

ade :crazy2:
that's nowt mate...youve gone even madder since ::)

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2008, 08:00 PM »
Raced this at Heywood just after I started back again in 2004 and bent the crank axle, seatpost and forks. Whoops  :tickedoff:

At least I won which made up for it abit  :)

Why oh why do I still buy kids bikes!

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2008, 08:20 PM »
Sold my GJS race bike which was fitted with 400 flights and JMC D.Young bars back in the early 90's for about £200. Massive mistake which turned out to be my biggest fook up yet.
One build a year, the only way to get it right. No rushing involved.

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2008, 08:27 PM »
in 84 i strapped my kuwi onto the back of my friends car and drove 3.5 hours to morecombe/pontins
on arrival we noticed my front wheel and tyre had just about melted on the exhaust   :( 
he purchased me an new wheel thou good man ..i was only a young one so had very little cash.

i put a very nice set of gt 48 hubs in costic and then forgot them ...not very good looking i can tell you..

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2008, 09:06 PM »
Restoring a Mk2 Raleigh chopper at around £1000, then realising I couldnt do BMX on it  :2funny:



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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2008, 09:45 PM »
joining this website :rant: :LolLolLolLol:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2008, 09:48 PM »
Araya 7's given the oven pride treatment except I didn't read the thread just followed the instructions on the box  :crazy2:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2008, 10:20 PM »
bidding on that t/a tubeset and winning it  :knuppel2:

although someone should buy it off me soon, as t/a values have gone mad  :idiot2:

most of the other stuff is small change really compared,

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2008, 10:32 PM »
Throwing a JMC in the local tip  :tickedoff:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2008, 10:42 PM »
Throwing a JMC in the local tip  :tickedoff:
:LolLolLolLol:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2008, 11:28 AM »
sending a mint loopy ripper via parcel force, fookers snapped the rear drop outs off  :knuppel2:

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2008, 12:17 PM »
burning my finger pretty badly whilst welding a dropout on my kuwi cruiser forks. lost my rag and squeezed the fork leg in a vice in my temper fooking them up. I don't know how expensive that will turn out to be as i have never ever ever seen a set for sale.
ding dong

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2008, 12:20 PM »
Leaving some nos DX in caustic soda " to remove the anno "

to this day , this is the most expensive fook up
but it proved the theory that DX are coated not annoed
the caustic got under the coat ,so it looked like it was doing fook all
it ate the alloy to death ,all the pins fell out i was gutted

Rich

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Re: whats your most expensive BMX fook up ???
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2008, 12:23 PM »
When I Snapped The Arm Off My Profile Cranks... The Right Arm  :'(, I Came Off Pretty Bad, Damn Didnt It Ever Hurt  :tickedoff:

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