Author Topic: Naffist old school thing you did to your bike! (Read 4742 times)

gary4130 · « **Reply #25 on:** December 27, 2008, 12:21 PM »

me +a mate cut up a pair of handlebars to make layback seatposts

seat ended up about 90 degrees from frame +4 inches above back wheel

electobooty · « **Reply #26 on:** December 27, 2008, 03:07 PM »

jackson pollacked a beautiful set of landing gear with hammerite

and hundreds of coloured sticky dot all over any chrome

sweetbeats · « **Reply #27 on:** December 27, 2008, 04:55 PM »

I decided it would be a good idea to drill all over an aero saddle to make it lighter with my dads hand drill...looked a mess it did

spesh · « **Reply #28 on:** December 27, 2008, 07:04 PM »

cut the tops off some chopper bars and welded a straight tube across the top making my own set of cw,s
forgot to bend the ends so they were completely straight with zero sweep!

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #29 on:** December 27, 2008, 08:17 PM »

Me and a group of my mates decided to take the handlebars off our bikes and ride around without them on?

I dunno why but we did it for months!

T WILD · « **Reply #30 on:** December 28, 2008, 01:58 PM »

Built my mate a mini super tuff burner and couldnt get a seatpole long enough so we swiped the neighbours wheelie bin (they only came out a week earlier) set fire to it and used the axle as a post. Had to pack it out with insulation tape as it didnt quite fit and it weighed a ton but it worked

electobooty · « **Reply #31 on:** December 28, 2008, 04:04 PM »

Quote from: daz bmx on December 27, 2008, 08:17 PM

Me and a group of my mates decided to take the handlebars off our bikes and ride around without them on? I dunno why but we did it for months!

how?

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #32 on:** December 28, 2008, 04:19 PM »

we un-done the four allen key bolts

took the bars off

then rode around on the bikes without bars

twas a balance excercise

electobooty · « **Reply #33 on:** December 28, 2008, 05:24 PM »

doooh

why?

Rombloke · « **Reply #34 on:** December 29, 2008, 09:00 PM »

snake chain gaurds

electobooty · « **Reply #35 on:** December 29, 2008, 10:01 PM »

grip tape all over it

and that weird thing we all did to our front brakes by using a rear cable and tieing in down the fork leg then looping back up to attempt to botch a sort of potts mod effect

welsh denny · « **Reply #36 on:** December 30, 2008, 12:01 PM »

cutting up ice cream tubs and making a brake guard for the front brake bolt (stop ripping shoes when doing tailwhips.) used to cable tie it to the fork crown.

coke can jammed on the back tyre for 'motorbike noise' ....

( before i started freestyle)

erniemadden · « **Reply #37 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:47 PM »

Not the bike, but my helmet.
Cut out loads of little flames out of cardboard and stuck then down the middle of the helmet in a mohican stylee.

was I thinking of.

macky · « **Reply #38 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:38 AM »

I also hade a number plate made from Weetabix box cellotaped to my bars!!

Oh my God... I also had a homemade cardboard mouthtrap cellotaped to my plastic Raliegh helmet!!

sweetbeats · « **Reply #39 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:01 PM »

Made me laugh that Dave...

almost as much as the painted white walls

tricknuts · « **Reply #40 on:** January 02, 2009, 04:26 AM »

spray painted my yellow tuffs white... great until I started braking and had yellow rims

and put grip tape on my seat and holed my aero pants... right clever idea that was

darren34 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:21 PM »

Quote from: HEYWOOD BMX on December 23, 2008, 09:57 PM

Making DIY stickers from sellotape and logos cut out of magazines...

your not the only one

WizardWeb · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2009, 10:54 AM »

In the very early 80's - playing cards pegged to the frame to sound like a motorbike when the wheels went round !

Not so good with tuffs though...

bmxbob · « **Reply #43 on:** January 03, 2009, 11:04 AM »

+ 1 on the Coke can moto-x noise mod.

roll over a can with your back wheel and hey presto moto-x

tricknuts · « **Reply #44 on:** January 04, 2009, 06:58 AM »

who tried to put their crank and back wheel in the wrong way so the chain was on the left to see if they could pedal backwards and go in reverse?

I certainly didn't

T WILD · « **Reply #45 on:** January 08, 2009, 07:18 PM »

Quote from: tricknuts on January 04, 2009, 06:58 AM

who tried to put their crank and back wheel in the wrong way so the chain was on the left to see if they could pedal backwards and go in reverse?

I certainly didn't

Did it by accident once and went out on it for a laugh then pedaled forward not thinking and slammed my foot into the floor and it propper hurt

sid1972 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 14, 2009, 01:05 AM »

Got my Dad who was a 'fitter' at the time to make me some pegs for my mongoose, they finished up weighing more than the bike!

I am sure he used half a scaffolding pole and welded pigeon poo type blobs to them to stop my feet from slipping off.

That was my street cred down the drain - I must have had em on my bike for months before I had the guts to tell him they were shxt!!! (he was/is a big man).

I am sure I may still have them, because I hid them that well he wouldn't encourage me to put them back on again!

what do you think, stick em on ebay as a rare set of HARO'S

haro__master1985 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 15, 2009, 05:15 PM »

Quote from: Faze7-Ade on December 23, 2008, 06:00 AM

Sticking those mini Garfield cat things that were meant to go on the end of a pencil, on my valve caps.

What was all that about ?

I had postman pat on the front and his van on the rear

M5AT · « **Reply #48 on:** January 15, 2009, 05:17 PM »

We all used to fix old/buggered brake levers on our forks, as home made fork-stands.

Lasted about a week tops.

mattes · « **Reply #49 on:** January 17, 2009, 04:52 PM »

We use to steal colored Slip-on Mini-Marker Size Dividers from hangers for clothing department store and put them on the spokes..

Author Topic: Naffist old school thing you did to your bike! (Read 4742 times)

electobooty

sweetbeats

spesh

daz bmx it!

T WILD

electobooty

daz bmx it!

electobooty

electobooty

welsh denny

erniemadden

macky

sweetbeats

darren34

WizardWeb

bmxbob

T WILD

sid1972

haro__master1985

M5AT

mattes