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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: jT Racing on October 11, 2006, 06:11 PM

Title: restore or leave it
Post by: jT Racing on October 11, 2006, 06:11 PM: ok, a bit of cleaning and a nice sticker on the chainstay and bingo, nice bike with scratches and chips and scuffs.etc..
i like it, but a restore would be tip top.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/u-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/w.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/yrfy.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/ioh-1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/h.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/45.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/j87/townytownsend/t.jpg)
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: kdw712 on October 11, 2006, 06:14 PM: Looks pretty dam sweet just like that :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: harris on October 11, 2006, 06:16 PM: restore it even thou you could just part do it as it seems in quite good nick
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: Steve P on October 11, 2006, 06:16 PM: Great survivor that's oozing character . . . leave it as it is :daumenhoch:

Steve
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: baldbmxer on October 11, 2006, 06:17 PM: Leave it as it is! Suvivors are sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: RATTY on October 11, 2006, 06:37 PM: Yep, you have to leave it, far to many bikes that look perfect, they never did Bitd...
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: DR VINOAH on October 11, 2006, 06:48 PM: i shout leave it as well

she,s a real great example

:4_17_5:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: reilley1 on October 11, 2006, 07:18 PM: NO RESTORATION!! Thing is sweet as it is...
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: CD17 on October 11, 2006, 07:21 PM: I would not restore it to new, but I would change that brake cable & give it a real good strip down & clean, but don't touch that paintwork it looks fine as it is.
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: silentpartner on October 11, 2006, 07:46 PM: john, some bikes just need to be left as they are, and this is one of them. just change a few of the badly damaged bits with the same or similar in used condition :daumenhoch:

alan ;)
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: BrianP on October 11, 2006, 07:55 PM: Man, if that had a set of red tuffs and some yellow mx1000's on it, it'd be identical to my first bmx which my folks got me for christmas 1982.

On that note, i'd leave it as is, apart from the cable, it's all in fine nick. i really, really, like it. glad i kept mine!

Bp.
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: region11 on October 11, 2006, 08:24 PM: Real nice condition, leave it :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: poolysheriff on October 11, 2006, 08:30 PM: 87.5 % of people can,t all be wrong :daumenhoch:

Leave it as it is :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:

Mighty fine :4_17_5:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: bmxmatt1974 on October 11, 2006, 08:31 PM: yeah i agree you should leave it
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: phantom photon on October 12, 2006, 09:57 AM: Survivor :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: Frosty on October 12, 2006, 12:10 PM: leave it, leave it, leave it,

fight, fight, fight

oop sorry went back into old school proper ;D

Survivor for sure
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: showtime on October 13, 2006, 07:54 AM: keep it as a Survivor ;)

i think that survivor bikes have a certain "honesty" about them :angel:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: zed4130 on October 13, 2006, 08:35 AM: keep it a survivor like my old db .
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: RATTY on October 13, 2006, 11:16 AM: Quote from: zed4130 on October 13, 2006, 08:35 AM
keep it a survivor like my old db .
Zed your old DB looks like it just come out of the shop.....
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: nishiki14 on October 13, 2006, 01:35 PM: Just the wheels and id leave it at that dude, cool bike, dont make it a bike to spend the rest of it s days hanging on a wall, it needs to be ridden!! :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: dj_benice on October 13, 2006, 01:57 PM: nother vote for the leave it camp!!!! hope the ripper frame I am getting given tonight looks as sweet, can't see it, apparantley the frame spent 12 months in the garden :(
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: hoger548 on October 13, 2006, 05:46 PM: He john, where did you find this one? And i am with the other guys........leave it like it is now :4_17_5:

Mike
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: zed4130 on October 13, 2006, 05:50 PM: Quote from: ratty on October 13, 2006, 11:16 AM
Quote from: zed4130 on October 13, 2006, 08:35 AM
keep it a survivor like my old db .
Zed your old DB looks like it just come out of the shop.....THANKS ratty its not too bad
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: jT Racing on October 13, 2006, 07:01 PM: Quote from: hoger548 on October 13, 2006, 05:46 PM
He john, where did you find this one? And i am with the other guys........leave it like it is now :4_17_5:

Mike

near uden(place in holland)
Title: Re: restore or leave it
Post by: 69ner on October 15, 2006, 04:23 PM: i know uden i worked near there in den boch and veghal and eindhoven im coming back to buy bikes ,i like ,i like i like