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Title: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 07:33 AM

i have been asking about but never got it nailed,
had these wheels years but never seen another set to compare.
i have white seen loads but these are black acs z 48 graphite's,anyone know the history .
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/d87/harris15570/IMG_3996.jpg) (http://s33.photobucket.com/user/harris15570/media/IMG_3996.jpg.html)

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: pickle on April 17, 2013, 07:42 AM

i know nothing about them Dan, other than they look well nice!  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 07:54 AM

i have been using these on many bikes over the years,but seems odd that i have never seen another set.
they had the graphite deal across the rim when i got them imported.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: pickle on April 17, 2013, 08:12 AM

do they flex much Dan, like the 36 hole ones or are these actually stiff?

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 08:15 AM

they are tonnes better thats why i was able to use them.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: pickle on April 17, 2013, 08:27 AM

says here that they only did them in white  ???

http://www.mauricemeyer.net/BMX/RobQ/product3.htm

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 08:30 AM

 :LolLolLolLol:  now you see my problem you can still make out z48 on the rim

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: pickle on April 17, 2013, 08:37 AM

yeah.........well weird mate.  sorry i was no help  ;D

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: not johndub71 on April 17, 2013, 10:26 AM

Sounds like a challenge for skyway rim maker.. 48s.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: boofy44 on April 17, 2013, 10:37 AM

i've got some 36 graphites with the stamping,only seen one other pair before.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: ozone on April 17, 2013, 10:49 AM

Only one set known to exist.  Must be worth at least 5k to the right person.   :D

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 12:31 PM

all seems odd,had them so long never much bothered to look them up,but as im selling them wanted to know about why
i hadnt heard about them .

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 17, 2013, 07:11 PM

come on you lot,between you all i feel confident someones knows or knows someone..
only been on this 8 years lol

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: rollin72 on April 18, 2013, 07:50 PM

maybe they have been dyed ???

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 18, 2013, 08:05 PM

they would need to be good as the lettering is white..they are og

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 20, 2013, 10:59 AM

well over the last few days i have put up threads on all the big sites even spoke with maurice meyer
not a bloody sausage .
how can this be that no one knows nothing about them.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: gary4130 on April 23, 2013, 12:56 PM

Hi Dan remember seeing an advert in bmx plus with Fred blood riding a white set on a blue quad .think it was called blood,sweat+z48's.will see if i can find it to see if it says anything about the colours they made.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: RL Paulie on April 23, 2013, 04:17 PM

ACS likely let a few black ones slip through in a limited run. Like I told you on vintage, yours is likely the only set I've seen in 10 years since I got back into it. Possibly the only surviving set? Value will be tough to estimate.
Not sure if ACS keeps old production records, but maybe contact them?

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: harris on April 23, 2013, 05:18 PM

thanks mate,i have exhausted every route,more curious than anything so tried all the old sites
as across them all i was sure someone had a set.

Title: Re: wheel help on my z rims
Post by: pickle on April 24, 2013, 07:25 AM

looked at that advert Dan but it doesn't say anything about colour  :(