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Title: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: BADDH on May 12, 2012, 08:45 PM

Hi

A pal has bought some skyways off the bay , they are described as 80's   and he is a touch concerned  they have plastic hubs with loose bearings not the Alloy hubs he thought the 80's Skyways had fixed into them.

Can anyone help us I'D these please ?  :idiot2:

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: harris on May 12, 2012, 08:48 PM

alloy and plastic in the 80s obviously alloy or steel as you thought but also plastic
they make them today .

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: BADDH on May 12, 2012, 08:57 PM

Thanks  :daumenhoch: 

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on May 12, 2012, 10:46 PM

picture or ebay link will also help to make sure they are not a new set of 2012 plastic hub skyways  ;)

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: MartyC on May 15, 2012, 03:43 PM

Around 84 Skyway introduced a loose ball plastic front hubbed wheel with an alloy/coaster rear wheel.  Sealed bearing were introduced many years later and are what are widely sold today by Skyway.

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: animal on May 15, 2012, 05:42 PM

When did they introduce the plastic rear then ?

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: pickle on May 16, 2012, 07:52 AM

i think it was around 86 Steve  ???

Title: Re: Skyway hub type introduction /I'D
Post by: nosher70 on May 16, 2012, 09:23 AM

I always remember a school friend giving me a skyway with an imploded rear. This consisted of a cog and a circlip. Im assuming this was a set of gen 1"s. Probably worth a fortune now???............  It was a POS though