Author Topic: MY LATEST DP BUILD (Read 1808 times)

firebird · « **on:** May 24, 2009, 11:55 AM »

In January this year i met up with Neil Park, Dave Parks eldest son. We met in Birmingham at a service station. We had spoke a few time on the phone after a friend of Neil's had found my DP Firebird web site. We had a really good chat and Neil was kind enough to bring along some old photo albums that belonged to his father, most of which are now on the web site. But there was one photo that i really liked the look of. The more i looked at this picture the more i wanted to build the bike. After working out what parts were on the original i started buying them up ready for the build. The frame in the original picture was a Mk1 Firebird Delta 2 with Firebird forks, i believe this to be a very early frame set, maybe one of the first frame sets made as there are no Delta 2 forks with the frame. And as you can see it doesn't even have the Delta 2 decals. I have used a Mk2 Delta 2 frame with Delta 2 forks, i didn't want to start swapping forks over off my other frames. I also made some other changes, i had the Suntour XC pedals already and thought they would be a better race pedal for the bike. I haven't got the heart to pull the original decals off the rims and replace them with yellow ones. The pad set original came form a company called Cobra BMX, but finding one was never going to happen so i made my own. Anyway, finally got it finished today as Sawzall was kind enough to drop the Weinmann caliper in that i need to complete the build, cheers Phil

So here you go, hope you like it !!

cheers steve

original pictures

my version

sawzall · « **Reply #1 on:** May 24, 2009, 11:58 AM »

stunning steve,but the pics dont do it justice, i saw it in the flesh yesterday and was blown away

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2009, 11:59 AM »

nicely done steve

Muffski · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:05 PM »

Top Job there

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:08 PM »

Cracking!

sweetbeats · « **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:14 PM »

Looks really Fast...love it

Deano · « **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:18 PM »

Very nice and great job done

Padset is cool2

bobafett · « **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:18 PM »

Quote from: sweetbeats™ on May 24, 2009, 12:14 PM

Looks really Fast...love it

X2

Looks fast and light

Nice work Steve

DIRTBIKER250F · « **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2009, 12:30 PM »

Another Firebird Cracker Steve

GTnumber1 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 24, 2009, 01:13 PM »

bit of a gay love story there bro meeting a bloke in a service station

but that is so FOOOOOOOOOOOKIN

SWEET

hunterdubber · « **Reply #10 on:** May 24, 2009, 01:18 PM »

I really like it , when you get the history , stories and inspiration behind a great build

Good work Steve

markyp · « **Reply #11 on:** May 24, 2009, 03:17 PM »

whoop whoop whoop!!!!what a beauty!!!!

rollin72 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 24, 2009, 05:36 PM »

looks frickin awesome dude, top job

sid1972 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 24, 2009, 06:11 PM »

That's the dog's nuts -

love bikes that look 'fast' when standing still - agressive like, if u know what I mean.

magna13 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 24, 2009, 06:34 PM »

DP's

Glynnyboy · « **Reply #15 on:** May 24, 2009, 07:34 PM »

Top job steve. Another nice peice of dp history

firebird · « **Reply #16 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:17 PM »

cheers lads

HARORIDER · « **Reply #17 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:24 PM »

quality

se-bmxer · « **Reply #18 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:30 PM »

Quality Steve

look forward to seeing it at MK

torkertony · « **Reply #19 on:** May 24, 2009, 08:44 PM »

Awesome mate! Top build!

trasher · « **Reply #20 on:** May 24, 2009, 09:33 PM »

sharp ass that dude ,,,,i,m liking the old dp's ,,,,,anyone got a freestyler f+f going

phantom photon · « **Reply #21 on:** May 24, 2009, 09:57 PM »

Outstanding Steve

Looks like its just arrived in a time machine from 1983

Peter J · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2009, 08:05 AM »

As usual Steve.......................................1st Class Build.....love the fact there's a story behind the build as well.....................

bmxmatt1974 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 25, 2009, 08:13 AM »

thats very nice

suts89 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 25, 2009, 08:19 AM »

Does it feel as light as it looks?

Author Topic: MY LATEST DP BUILD (Read 1808 times)

firebird

daz bmx it!

sweetbeats

Deano

sid1972

magna13

firebird

torkertony

trasher

suts89