1” Challenger XL: Finished at last!

[SaMAlex]

I got this bike a year or so ago. It was complete and I didnt change much on it, just the bars and stem. I used it at a few races, and it won 3rd at MK07 Mid Show & Shine (even tho it wasn’t shiny cos I was riding it on the track).

I have been meaning to change a few parts on it, and also put on the decals (that a very top man got made. Thanks, you know who you are  ). I put on some Mk1 Prince Albert Cranks (re pop decals from the magic hand of Del) and now I think it is all finished. No need to change a thing.

I read somewhere that there were some challengers made with 990 mounts cos Neal Wood wanted some. I don’t know if its true but I like the story, and I think this is the only 1” challenger I have seen with 990s on it.

[Lazarou]

 

Good job on the sticker placement!

That bike looks so BMX!

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  Quite a stunner-looks like it means business just standing there!

[SaMAlex]

Good job on the sticker placement!

Thanks. I used this add to help me

[Lazarou]

Have you got a dancing man for your Slams?

[SaMAlex]

Have you got a dancing man for your Slams?

Ah Laz, they aint Slams. They are Challenger/race bars. Thinner tubing and thinner OD cross bar. The bike had slams on it when I got it but I changed them for the race bars. I even like them in black (that was how I got them)

[Lazarou]

I thought before I asked but they do look identical to Slams! No dancing man required then!

[SaMAlex]

they do look identical to Slams!

Yep, same shape, just lighter. These ones are a little too cut down. I might make some bar ends that extend them a bit, but they look so 90s trails, cut right down like that with the grips down on the bend of the bar.

[kcmobmx]

that is it! damn that is nice!

[harris]

ace job young man and about time too   
looks the nuts that machine .

[Dingobmxer]

       

  DINGO

[OrgasmDonor]

i am liking them there challengers alot

[perry]

very nice 

and dirty just as it should be 

[QuadPaul]

That looks the mutts nuts

[dialledbikes]

Really nice Alex.

I keep meaning to start re-vamping my Challenger as it's a mish-mash of parts at the moment (just threw what I had/could get on it to make it rideable), but life/racing keep getting in the way.

I'll get round to it eventually.

[bmxmatt1974]

that is tha dog nuts mate, looks spot on for racing    

[wildwood1971]

really really nice 

[darkersomeday]

the words "nursing" and "soft-on" spring to mind,

spot on dude, thats just fooking excellent


the alberts finish it off a treat

all good.

[Matt S.]

Perfect!

[scooterboy]

Great build, really like these challengers


Scoot 

[EL CID]

super nice  and ridden!!!!!!!!!!!  Alex busting out another bad bike

[SaMAlex]

super nice  and ridden!!!!!!!!!!! 

Too right its Ridden! Here are a couple of pics from last year, before I got the decals, and with GT cranks on it.


Early last Summer, takin the bike for its first test run





MK07, early Sunday Morning before anyone was up. Riding the track with Stodgys Daughter.

[Miko]

Nice socks!


Oh...  and reeeeaaallly nice bike.   

[woody allen bars]

Yep, what the man said, that's a great build Alex and fine detailing too, well worth the extra effort.

That lower pic really has a Chris Moeller look to it, nice tucked style 

[zed4130]

   now thats what a race bmx should look like     love it alex