Holeshot RF1

[Flatcap]

(I never threw anything away if I could help it!)

Well you are Scottish! 

You asked for that dude....I can't talk being a Yorkshireman 

[bmxer4ever]

(I never threw anything away if I could help it!)

Well you are Scottish! 

You asked for that dude....I can't talk being a Yorkshireman 

Well......that's why I still have an original Condor f&f, 2 pairs of Haro Kneesavers, TA forks, 401's, DX, Haro forks, a few Skyways and a magazine collection to choke a library......

[magna13]

(I never threw anything away if I could help it!)

Well you are Scottish! 

You asked for that dude....I can't talk being a Yorkshireman 

Well......that's why I still have an original Condor f&f, 2 pairs of Haro Kneesavers, TA forks, 401's, DX, Haro forks, a few Skyways and a magazine collection to choke a library......

Nice Collection 

[bmxer4ever]

(I never threw anything away if I could help it!)

Well you are Scottish! 

You asked for that dude....I can't talk being a Yorkshireman 

Well......that's why I still have an original Condor f&f, 2 pairs of Haro Kneesavers, TA forks, 401's, DX, Haro forks, a few Skyways and a magazine collection to choke a library......

Nice Collection 

Yeah - but I'll be selling it all once I get my act together in the next few months....

[Flatcap]

and a magazine collection to choke a library......

But we're not counting your porn collection Gaz 

[Trev]

I never threw anything out either. But thanks to the local chav community, both my Skyways and my Piranha have been moved on.

Like I said in a previous post, I so nearly bought an RF1. I just think that if I did have one and that got nicked instead of my Skyways, I would have been even more p*ssed off.

[dannywhiteley]

That is a very good point about the decal design putting potential customers off buying.  Think of the classics like Haro (as you mentioned), Skyway, Kuwahara, Hutch, GT, SE (particularly the Ripper) even Firebird Freestylers graphics looked cool.  All sold by the bucket load.

[Swivel]

What date was the RF1 released?  Could the low sales been due to that?

[lodge]

Good points, the RF1 frame decals were the same as the Holeshot decals that were given away in there thousands at the Holeshot comps, also the paint on the frames was poor at a time when skyway, Haro etc were putting alot of effort into how there frames looked, twotone ,nice graphics etc.
Holeshot just didn't have the image that the likes of GT, Skyway, Haro, Vincent had. I'm sure this is why they didn't sell many.
Paint and graphics aside the RF1 is not a million miles away from a streetbeat.

[Trev]

The biggest problem was that it came out around November / December 1985 time and Neil had stopped riding by June 1986. So they only really had about 6 months to really push it.
During that time, I don't think it was promoted that well. I'm pretty sure that Neil kept himself to himself most of that time too. Craig & Pepi were doing well in comps and riding for Skyway / Vincent and they also done lots of interviews etc.
Also Skyway had Carlo, Damon, TonyMc etc riding for them and Vincent had Dave Young & Paul Hudson, so their frames had a lot more exposure.
I don't think Holeshot sponsored anyone else did they apart from Robert?

And you're right about the decals. I'm sure they were just standard Holeshot stickers which were given out free at comps. I don't think the RF1 ever had it's own decals. The decals are a big part of a frames indentity. I just think the RF1 was rushed to get out before Christmas and not enough thought went into it.

[lodge]

Yeah it was the standard sticker on the frames Trev, they didn't even put anything on the head or seat tubes it just had the sticker on the down tube.
In some of the ads they ran the frames didn't have any stickers on.

[lodge]

[magna13]

 

[GREMLIN]

This is the pic i used to etch the frame and forks on my mind, just incase i stumbled across one somewhere    G. 

[macky]

wow! looks great there!!

[madall]

I would love that RF1 I will quite happily pay a grand for it and get it rechromed, it can sit beside my chrome cc rep and orange ruff beat

[retrorider.u.k]

ruff never rode a chrome one though  it needs to be an accurate replica of the legends ride like the pic above...someone do it justice please !

[magna13]

that picture is sweet! all hale the ruff!

[brent]

right heres my bike back in one piece after a good clean up and a few new bits like bars grips chainwheel chain and tyres
its no ruffell replica but i didnt want to get rid of the chrome and its cleaned up pretty nice
here it is a few weeks ago after 17 + years in the garage







and now i know its not everyones cup of tea but here it is

[harris]

 

[bof]

right heres my bike back in one piece after a good clean up and a few new bits like bars grips chainwheel chain and tyres
its no ruffell replica but i didnt want to get rid of the chrome and its cleaned up pretty nice
here it is a few weeks ago after 17 + years in the garage







and now i know its not everyones cup of tea but here it is

Sorry Brent but I can hear thousand of rad members spewing on there keyboards.

[Lazarou]

Brent! What have you done!!! 

[harris]

brents bike i guess and he can do what he wants with it ..fair enough i guess
but but but well im gob smacked  dont actually know what to say
with out upsetting anyone.

[virtualmeuk]

Surely if he likes it then its up to him? And he may not have the money to do a mamouth build of it. At least he has tried to get it back in some sort of order. He can always change bits as he goes along but i assume its his first attempt.

Fair play to ya brent

[Lazarou]

I suppose you're right Kenno! I apologise Brent!