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Offline Swivel

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Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« on: April 02, 2009, 03:36 PM »
Anyone else done it? Would love to see what it looks like :D I'm thinking of scrapping my wheels for some alloy hubbed for my Nova. Just fancy that freestyle element to it as I'm not a race chap.

Matt  ;)

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2009, 03:38 PM »
Yep  :daumenhoch:





Not really what you were looking for Matt, but any excuse  ;)

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 03:39 PM »
Kuwies have always been race bikes to me apart from the later ones where they did get all freestyle. Certainly to my mind the Nova is a race bike.

Black ones with alloy hubbed might not be so bad, but I'd stick with spoked wheels myself. I guess people did race with tuffs back in the day.

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2009, 03:48 PM »
Yeah I was going to wack on some black alloy hubbed tuffs.

Paul - that Kuwi looks amazing mate, just amazing! I recognise those bars  :D

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2009, 03:56 PM »
I'm pretty sure that a few guys bitd raced their Kuwies with Skyways; Darren Woods for one but I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time tonight  ;D


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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2009, 05:48 PM »
Matt, what sort of dumb-ass would strap black alloy-hubbed Tuffs to a 1983 Kuwwie Nova (well, actually a Chromo buner, but we all know it's the same Tange frame).....

Yep, meet my brother Simon (Hootski70 on here)....... :uglystupid2:

Spen

ps - that Gen1 you and Paul lovingly put back together was his too mate ::)



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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2009, 07:02 PM »
Nice, its done then  :daumenhoch: :coolsmiley:

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2009, 07:10 PM »
I had some Tuffs on this Kuwi of mine for quite a while before moving to polished 7X's...   :daumenhoch:   G.


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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2009, 07:55 PM »
Got to be done :)

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2009, 08:01 PM »
I remember a number of years back on the old site, seeing an illustrated book about the film ET and the bike had red tuff's on  :shocked:

Honest guv  ;)

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2009, 09:29 PM »


Some mint bikes  :daumenhoch:

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2009, 10:42 PM »
sure one of the US factory team in the early 80's ran tuffs.think it was
Lee Medlin.

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2009, 09:30 PM »
That Kuwie freestyler is the fu*king nuts! Never seen another one in my life....

But imho, Tuffs dont work as well on race frames (except the TA), ,,

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2009, 07:26 AM »
That Kuwie freestyler is the fu*king nuts! Never seen another one in my life....
I've seen it in the flesh and it's even better than that fella - just hope Paul doesn't get it finished before the show'n'shine at MK or there's no point anyone else entering :-\
Still limping......

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2009, 08:53 PM »
phil space fruit had black tuffs on his on the first radchester...

looked real nice....

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2009, 08:58 PM »
I remember a number of years back on the old site, seeing an illustrated book about the film ET and the bike had red tuff's on  :shocked:

Honest guv  ;)

I'd like to see that.  I may have to go on the hunt to try and track it down  ;)  G.

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Re: Tuffs on a Kuwahara
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2009, 03:24 PM »
It was the done thing bitd. I'm still looking for a Kuwie for my Tuffs.
My fav magazine pic ever.

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