Author Topic: fluffy toy (Read 2237 times)

bmxbert · « **on:** May 21, 2009, 10:05 PM »

i just had a memory flood my brain and needed to share it.

anybody remember the fluffy toy 990 plate? seem to remember them being yellow heavy and cool as fook

whos got one? thinking of trying to find one for my survivor haf build?

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BrianP · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:24 PM »

The shlug!?!

Was beefy as h3ll!

Should have a ride mag handy here with that in it. Think the Ad had a guy wearing one like a handlebar moustache, kinda mexican lookin'

Brian

bmxbert · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:29 PM »

tats the kiddy. id love to find one..takes me well back. i remember the one of the 1st ride mags i ever bought had ian morris o/s dirtbike. with the skull decals. think that ad was in tht mag. i read it about a thousand times. id love to get my hands on a copy

fugazi · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:30 PM »

Yeah it was called the Shlugg plate

the bolt it came with was bigger as well, was beefy, very kind of squared off to some of the other plates.

bmxbert · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:32 PM »

was it the 1st plate to hit the scene? i think it may have been.

BrianP · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:35 PM »

gimme two mins til i dig out the mag i was reading. will get a pic

fugazi · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:36 PM »

Pretty sure Standard had one out at about the same time as well, but the Shlugg was up there with the first.

Biggeorge · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:41 PM »

I got one when they first came out, the arms were too short and it never fitted any forks i had, i ended up using it on the back of my mongoose hooligan. still got it somewhere.

bmxbert · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:46 PM »

lol.. quality bit of kit then. so could you not actually run a front break with it then?

is it worth me trying to get one if i cant use it? if you do still have yours id be interested in it,

could always give it a go i suppose :daumenhoch

BrianP · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:50 PM »

Here's the Ad I was thinking of:

The same mag has it listed on the Backyard shop advert for Â£24.95, and there's also a standard 990 mount listed as well (

fugazi) for the same price.

The backyard ad also has the following bits listed (among LOADS of other sweet bits):

S&M Menstrual Cycles f&f - Â£382.95
Prince Albert Cranks - Â£221.95
Homeless Pornstar frame - Â£231.95
Standard STA - Â£430.00

Brian

Edit: and a set of "herrington bikes" bars for... wait for it... Â£109.95

bmxbert · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:53 PM »

cool as fook that addy. nice to see that alberts were alot cheaper back then

Biggeorge · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:00 PM »

a few of the harrow lads had the early ones and only one was long enuff to work, the next batch were ok i think, cant rightly remember.
might be better off with one of these..
http://www.ison-distribution.com/ison/english/product.php?part=BSDNUPH
you can still get a hoffman one that comes with an ad990.

fugazi · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:09 PM »

Just dug some old mags out, you forget how cheap Hoffman stuff was at the time

Hoffman Love Handles £104.95
Hoffman superfork combo £164.95

The problem with the fluffy toys plate was it didn't acount for the fact the hole location in the forks varied from make to make, hence the slotted hole in most other plates.

bmxbert · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:14 PM »

cool. i think i will look for one of the later ones or maybe one of the standard ones.
its good to bring back old memories.

fugazi · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:18 PM »

I think I still have a Hoffman plate, it's a bit different in as much as it's alloy so it's light, but it's thicker so the brake sticks out more, came on my ep waaaay back in '96/97.

GINGERHOLMES · « **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2009, 08:44 AM »

fluffy toy was owned by two guys in brentwood, called si and steve

they brought the plate out just before the standard plates came out over here, they also did dust caps called capsuals, the capsuals also had another more filthy name but the couldnt sell them under that name lol

i got my anodoised yellow plate straight from the proto batch, i picked it up from si's house i think he had a box of them in his kitchen

si and steve both rode at rom with us quite a bit, and built alot of the brentwood common jumps and the early warley jumps, i think they used to help sponsor MIG from this site

they were both top guys and could really rip up rom

i had a chrome plate as well, and shortly after the first ones come out they release the long arm, which was just a longer version that fitted most bikes if i remeber rightly

i still have a capsual on my 1" holmes, its been on the super pro for years lol, there is a pic in the thread in mid school

the early plates worked fine with s & m forks, i still have the 8mm hole in my early pitchforks

u just had to take a normal adjuster off a normal caliper and put that in the pinch bolt hole of the ad and the get a g sport nipple clamp and put that in the other side of the ad, they worked amazing

si's sta had one of the best front brakes u could want

id guess that the plate worked with standard forks as well as im pretty sure thats what si had at the time because he was running a nippon prior to him making the brake plates

thats all from memory, so i think its about right

GINGERHOLMES · « **Reply #16 on:** May 22, 2009, 09:55 AM »

just spoke to mig

i think there is a t shirt as well, from memory it might have been dan price riding across a moon like ET

i think mig might still have the t shirt somewhere lol

bmxbert · « **Reply #17 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:17 AM »

thats well cool if you hve. lol

got ur txt by the way ginge. i will be in touch soon. just waiting on a reply from that fella

GINGERHOLMES · « **Reply #18 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:31 AM »

happy days mate, just let me know

has the standard turned up yet? looking forward to seeing it

bmxbert · « **Reply #19 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:43 AM »

i will be email hitchcock in a while to get an update. should be soon though. got a set of trail boss og decals to send up to del for repro to

GINGERHOLMES · « **Reply #20 on:** May 22, 2009, 10:53 AM »

sweet, we will need to get a pic of the holmes and the trail together, sort of a new school tribute to mid lol

ROM TAJ · « **Reply #21 on:** May 22, 2009, 06:58 PM »

LOVE THOSE FLUFFY TOY GUYS THEY TOOK ME TO BACKYARD IN 96 AND SOUTHSEA THE SAME YEAR

THANKS GUYS WHAT GREAT TIMES!!! IF YOUR OUT THERE GET IN TOUCH

MY FLUFFY TOY WAS STOLEN ON MY 92 CONDOR ALONG WITH SINGLE PINCH BOLT FLIGHTS

(GIVEN TO ME BY SI FOR A 17 BIRTHDAY PRESSIE ) AND SOME OTHER GREAT BITS I WISH I TOOK PHOTOS!

ANYWAY I`LL TRY TO TRACK DOWN THAT T SHIRT AND SI OR STEVE AND SEE IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING LEFT FROM

BACK IN THE DAY

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