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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: skki3330 on November 15, 2010, 08:08 PM
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Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031564.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031566.jpg)
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Definitely better than those burners.... :daumenhoch:
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nice one. :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:
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Definitely better than those burners.... :daumenhoch:
Look and ride better
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I like it 8)
, now if it had those heavy as feck banana mags on , I'd be pm-ing and after buying it off ya :smitten:
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I like it 8)
, now if it had those heavy as feck banana mags on , I'd be pm-ing and after buying it off ya :smitten:
If i had a Piranha with those wheels i would not be selling :)
but this one now finished has to goooooooooo
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job well done :daumenhoch:
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Nice job mate :daumenhoch: I personally love to see these old 'cheapies' brought back to life , makes a nice change from the bling brands and big money builds .
Well done :daumenhoch:
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as above :daumenhoch:
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Great resto ;) love Piranas , built round the corner from me bitd :daumenhoch:
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Great resto ;) love Piranas , built round the corner from me bitd :daumenhoch:
Really where bouts is that??
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Nice bike skii 8)
I bought this one off the bay recently for £70 (was that too much?) and sold it on, I did not realise they were popular?
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/tt244/StellaArtoiz/piranha001.jpg)
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Nicely brought back to life mate :daumenhoch:
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Hey Stella £70 about right in my eyes for the banana wheels :) only paid £5 for mine :) and as i said better than most Burners. Anyway this one is heading for the bay i have a another project.
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skii.
I know os someone who is Piranha nuts and may be interesred in your bike unless your happy putting it on the bay as you never know you might strike lucky on there :daumenhoch:
pm me with a price if you want to sell outside of the bay ;)
The person who may be interested lives in Dudley - i dunno if thats near you, it may save in the hiring of a crane to lift it from your house :LolLolLolLol:
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Lookin' good :daumenhoch: , got the before pics as well ? .
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Lookin' good :daumenhoch: , got the before pics as well ? .
You know what im really bad at stuff like dat just cant wait i get through the door and before ive got to the back garden ive got it in bits lololol. it was a bloddy state though.
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Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031564.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031566.jpg)
hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..
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My mates had these with the heavy heavy mags , I had a Baracuda which was exactly the same but with spokes and the chrome forks, I loved it when I first had :)
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Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031564.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031566.jpg)
hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..
Hi the closest i could get froma rattle can was Rover Pageant Mid Blue from halfords. Good luck with the build.
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I'm defo gonna replicate the first BMX I had BITD an '85 Piranha Freestyler.
I've only ever seen 1 since getting back into the scene, it's on the bay at the minute, the guy had a BIN price of £475, that's now dropped to £399.
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Sweet looking bikes those P's my only gripe is the rear drop outs looks shite! if they'd have spent a few more minutes designing a better,stronger looking rear dropout theyd be far better :daumenhoch:
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Could not help myself got this from a booty earlier in the year and most of it was there so i done a nice cheap little rebuild.
Resprayed with rattlers and new decals all the other parts either come with it or was kicking around in my bmx hut :Great_Britain:
I think better than those Burners
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031564.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/m147/skki/S5031566.jpg)
just bought a piranha free styler off the bay, same sort of blue as well, bikes got the twin top bars well cool, now i got a colour code to work with cheers dude..
hi mate love the bike mate,, just looking to refurb one and think its the same colour, is you an orig colour nd if so would you has the paint code??
thanks..
rob..
Hi the closest i could get froma rattle can was Rover Pageant Mid Blue from halfords. Good luck with the build.
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I'm defo gonna replicate the first BMX I had BITD an '85 Piranha Freestyler.
I've only ever seen 1 since getting back into the scene, it's on the bay at the minute, the guy had a BIN price of £475, that's now dropped to £399.
think i just bought one off the bay mate, dont know much about it are the free stylers the ones with the twin topbars??
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Yeah mate, the Freestyler had a twin top tube.
The spec on mine as I remember from when I bought it in July '85 was,
White powdered frame and forks
White powdered CW type bars
Chrome unbranded layback with unbranded black Aero style seat
White Aero Zytecs
Vredestein whitewall tyres with black snakebelly tread
Black MX 1000 copy calipers with Tech 3's
Black Suntour copy seat clamp
Polished copy Suntour power stem
Nasty moulded black and white chequered grips
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Not that sure but was in the Black Country somewhere . wish Si was here cos he knew ::) come 2 think of it I'm sure they were made in Walsall :2funny:
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Sweet looking bikes those P's my only gripe is the rear drop outs looks shite! if they'd have spent a few more minutes designing a better,stronger looking rear dropout theyd be far better :daumenhoch:
You're not wrong. 2 minutes with a grinder and they'd be sorted - Kuwahara style drops. :crazy2:
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Not that sure but was in the Black Country somewhere . wish Si was here cos he knew ::) come 2 think of it I'm sure they were made in Walsall :2funny:
That does ring a bell mate, when the frame cracked by the head tube, Stevenson's Cycles in Buckley mentioned a distributer from the Midlands.
Thay did replace the frame, which I was speaking to Brett about recently, I always though they'd given me a TRM frameset as a replacement, but after seeing Mani's Fox Styler @ MK, it could have been one of them??