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Mid School BMX (>87) 1989 to 2003 (<05) => Mid School ( Keep the faith ) => Topic started by: nomad on January 23, 2010, 02:06 PM
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Picking one of these up in the week, but don't really know the history, are they all ali? Any good info out there for me to read?
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Ride BMX UK december 1997
revies here when they came out .they were nearly all ally but were available in chromo too
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I am told this one is ali. Has a few bits with it too, not sure what yet thou, just have zero knowledge of the frame
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http://bmx.transworld.net/21026245/news/2-hip-pork/
found this, interesting stuff.
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The Pork came out in '97 (I think) & had a 20" toptube, 6061 alloy at around 5 3/4lbs or 4130 cromoly which came in at nearly 10lbs! The later alloy frames had steel inserts in the headtube, One way of telling whether it's an early frame. Ask Harris for some pics, He has One I owned years ago :daumenhoch:
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just pick it up will tell you,the aly ones a nice 6LB kinda weight and sounds dull if you tap it.
the metal ones a heavy son of a btch.
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The size of the welds is a giveaway as well :LolLolLolLol: HUGE
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I look forward to seeing the frame, I will more than likely be selling it on, will see if there are any bits of use to me for the standard and part the rest out I reckon. I have to be strong, I dont like selling things.
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pork frame is legend
For all the wrong reasons! I say avoid!
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pork frame is legend
For all the wrong reasons! I say avoid!
An acquired taste for sure! Cool at the time though.
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Picked this up today, I agree the looks of the frame are questionable, I quite like it but I have no use for it, so will be up for sale tomorrow. Also came with 4 Alex rims laced to a couple of gsport hubs and a couple of unknown hubs, profile 3 pieces, profile chainring, 2 hip forks and 2 hip stem, plus few other bits. Keeping a pair of the wheels for the standard and the rest I think will be on here tomorrow
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Not got any pics now? Interested to see what it looks like :daumenhoch:
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I'll get pics up tomorrow for sure, I need to sell most of it to get cash back that I paid for it! Just had another look, the stem is weird, its engraved with something and is angled funny, kinda points down at a funny angle, fella saidit was a 2hip one. Bars are 4 piece 2 hip ones, and seat is a primo hemaroid I think, in a sparkly finish lol
wheels are all alex supra rims, 2 unknown hubs and 2 gsport ones, i think a g sport rear will make it onto my STA, always liked those hubs.
Any clue what the frame would be worth, looks pretty straight bar the dropouts being a bit bashed
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No idea on price mate I'm just interested to see the frame and also the bars :daumenhoch:
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heres some pics, the engraving on the stem is a dudes face, prob makes sense to someone on here. Bars are uber cut down! Everything in these pics is for sale, just need to split the bits off.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/1003/dyanetski/250120101274.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/1003/dyanetski/250120101273.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/1003/dyanetski/250120101272.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/1003/dyanetski/250120101271.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/1003/dyanetski/250120101270.jpg)
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also the cranks I am told are profile, but it doesnt say profile down the arm like the ones on my standard?
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That's a 2 hip stem, I think the bars are too, could they be cut down any more :shocked: as for the frame what is there to say apart from oink oink!
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I was told the bars and stem are 2hip yeah, the frame is a piggy for sure. If I didnt have the standard I think I would build it up, I rather like it! Sadly I have neither the space or the money to hold on to it.
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Just had a look, cranks are profiles, just removed them and you can see the profile stanp down the arm after all, just under paint! - £40 if anyone fancies them?!
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interested in the cranks for £40 for my T1 build,
are they straight?
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They look to be, I dont think they have had loads of use. The bike came with another set of cranks in the profile box, so dont think they were on it long.
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Ray had a few of these bitd:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/IMG_0133.jpg)
best pic I could find sorry...
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Ray had a few of these bitd:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/IMG_0133.jpg)
best pic I could find sorry...
Ian,
that picture is amazing, how long ago was that??.. 1st gen odyssey 41therm forks, haro turbine freecoaster, macneil ruban bars.. and my own gyro setup before anyone else did it! haha
I loved 2hip porks, 5lbs, short & nippy, if a little weak?.. well for my temper anyhow..
had 3 of them all told, cracked headtube on the 1st, which a mate had welded and then proceeded to remove the headtube at kidlington trails, 2nd I snapped at the seat tube bb joint.. 3rd I sold on when I moved onto a standard 250L
ugly as hell tho....
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Frameset with a new owner now, and being built up :daumenhoch:
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3rd I sold on when I moved onto a standard 250L
Yeah got a better pic of you on that one dude:
No hander sprocket chunk to fakie - BOOM! >:D
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/RayNoHanderSprocketStall.jpg)
Original of the Pork was Jan 2003 & this is March 2003 - always liked this pic :daumenhoch:
Frameset with a new owner now, and being built up :daumenhoch:
Apologies for the thread hijack - look forward to seeing it built then :daumenhoch:
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Well here's my 2-Hip Pork. I like the frame, looks and feel, but then again I'm not really much of a BMX'er - she just gets used for nipping around locally, and the odd bunnyhop and very mild ramp riding. Main problem is the wheel nuts sinking into the rear dropouts making wheel removal a pain in the arse.
2 Hip Pork, aluminium frame
Profile racing crank
Profile racing bar-tenders
Gusset Hooka wheels with 14 mm axle
ACS Claw 14t freewheel
FSA The Pig headset
Volume Bronson Bars
Forks – Unknown
Profile Racing Imperial Black 38 tooth chainring
Primo Corey Martinez grips
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4348521114_6d378f2769.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4347773869_f54c008965.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4347774327_901fee0907.jpg)
I am not looking to sell as I am 99.9% sure I would be gutted at the offers, on the other hand if you wanna pm me you can!
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Looks great for what you're doing with it mate, see if you can get some oversized cone nuts & washers to stop mulching the dropouts up?
Your stem reminds me of the Smash advert!?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/smash.jpg)
:D
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:LolLolLolLol: I wonder if there's any other food based parts on that bike?
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'Main problem is the wheel nuts sinking into the rear dropouts making wheel removal a pain in the arse.'
I had the same problem, I made some chain tugs out of angle iron that covered the whole dropout, this also protected them in grinds, funny enough while going through my workshop the other day I found one, see if I can get a pic of it....
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Looks great for what you're doing with it mate, see if you can get some oversized cone nuts & washers to stop mulching the dropouts up?
Your stem reminds me of the Smash advert!?
I can see what you mean! I bought the bike new... Edwardes in Camberwell. They's obviously struggled to flog the frame and made her up with cheap parts to try and shift her that way. Cost about the same as the then-RRP for the frame only, but the RRP on these has plummeted since!
Anyway, I've changed most parts - wheels, bars, headset, bottom bracket, saddle for example - but the stem is one thing that I never got round to, and I spend more time on MTBs now. Just made up a GT Chucker as a 26" wheel single speed, rigid fork jump bike which will almost certainly relegate the BMX to even more infrequent use.
I am curious to know what she might be worth - gut feel is that someone might pay £100-£120 on the basis they can strip her, sell most of the parts and be left with a couple of parts and the frame as a a freebie or small profit. Frame only worth? Gut feel sweet FA despite being in decent nick!
Other food relate parts? Bronson bars - he'd eat you for breakfast. Apple-logo stickers.
And Ray, I'd be interested in seeing your chain tugs if you can be arsed to take a photo and post it.
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:LolLolLolLol: I didn't even see the apple before
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I used some large diameter thin washers on the inside of the drops & chain tensioners on the outside on Mine, never had a problem with the wheelnuts digging in. Never had pegs on though!
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Looks great for what you're doing with it mate, see if you can get some oversized cone nuts & washers to stop mulching the dropouts up?
Your stem reminds me of the Smash advert!?
I can see what you mean! I bought the bike new... Edwardes in Camberwell. They's obviously struggled to flog the frame and made her up with cheap parts to try and shift her that way. Cost about the same as the then-RRP for the frame only, but the RRP on these has plummeted since!
Anyway, I've changed most parts - wheels, bars, headset, bottom bracket, saddle for example - but the stem is one thing that I never got round to, and I spend more time on MTBs now. Just made up a GT Chucker as a 26" wheel single speed, rigid fork jump bike which will almost certainly relegate the BMX to even more infrequent use.
I am curious to know what she might be worth - gut feel is that someone might pay £100-£120 on the basis they can strip her, sell most of the parts and be left with a couple of parts and the frame as a a freebie or small profit. Frame only worth? Gut feel sweet FA despite being in decent nick!
Other food relate parts? Bronson bars - he'd eat you for breakfast. Apple-logo stickers.
And Ray, I'd be interested in seeing your chain tugs if you can be arsed to take a photo and post it.
I sold the frameset and bars for £75 posted if that helpds. But that was 2hip bars, stem and forks
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I sold the frameset and bars for £75 posted if that helpds. But that was 2hip bars, stem and forks
Makes sense, I doubt I was far wrong with my estimate. Just not worth selling for that money, I'll keep her at the back of the basement and get her out a couple of times a year.
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I'm selling a yellow Ali pork frame if any interest to anybody?