bike ID please

[ash]

i'm thinking this is just a woolworths special!!
however i would like to be proven wrong!!
prpoer old school anyhow ,i like it!!

[jT Racing]

it's shit ash, just a superstore bargain bike. if it's old and tig welded it's usually ok but a mig welded bike is allways shit, just look at standard burners

[retrogeezer]

whats the headtube badge say??

[scary_leary]

whats the headtube badge say??

it says... "gays do it with shitty dicks"

[theRuler]

its an old school budget bike
cool in it's own way though
i started out on something no too dissimilar to this!

[ORB]

May want to put some nuts on that spindle or the wheel is likely to come off.

Not 'your' nuts i hasten to add.

[Coastvl]

My sons 16" pit has the same dropouts as those. His is tigged though and chrome. It has aero tubing too. I have seen that gusset somewhere.
As the others have said, "shite"

[revcore]

Coastvl, You've seen those gussets before, I think I have too...... They look like the gussets on a particular model of Repco Hotfoot (The Chromoly model that came out with alloy wheels, Sugino spider etc).

[Coastvl]

Hang on! I do believe you nailed it!

[kdw712]

a bigger version



these were sold in the UK is peugeot i think
there is/was a good thread about them over on VBMX some where

i have one thats similar have a feeling that the advert model has the solid rear drops
and the model with the hole in the rear drops is a different spec. will have a chjeck on VBMx for the thread laters

[revcore]

I have that exact same Hotfoot ad on the back cover of my Pancake BMX magazines. My favourite ad in Pancake was the ones advertising the Patterson frame sets and OGK wheels. Anyone got a scan of that by any chance?

[kdw712]

Heres the VBMX links

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020631#000004

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=020031#000000

[Coastvl]

My favourite ad in Pancake was the ones advertising the Patterson frame sets and OGK wheels. Anyone got a scan of that by any chance?

Ask and ye shall recieve!

[revcore]

Coastvl, Thanks mate, Your a legend. I love that Patterson frame set. I used to own one of those Patterson frames but I was never able to locate the matching forks so I bought a pair of Tange forks and customised them to replicate the original Patterson forks as best I could.

[FuNMoNsTeR]

Falcon also released a bike based on that hotfoot frame in 81 or 82... best falcon i ever rode...really light for its day. Came with mettalic silver frame, red 7cs, suntour hubs and 3 piece alloy cranks in red, red alloy v bars, dc 890s etc.

[Astrodamus]

The Hotfoot pictured in the ad, and in this pic is not crap:



I never heard of them back in the day, but look at those welds, plus look at the high quality components in that ad.. they didn't normally hang those on junk bikes. Not at all like the red one pictured in the first post.
Most likely Akisu.  And  Akisu = dirty bum

[kdw712]

not bad for £15  just gotta find time, cash and NRG to get it sorted now 

[jT Racing]

akisu made some decent stuff too though, hutch for one.