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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: graeme on October 17, 2005, 08:08 PM
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ok, if i want to change the colour of some tuffs, what can i do. I know they can be dyed, and yellowed ones can be bleached, but can you bleached coloured ones back to white? Would it be generaly a bad idea to paint em? I know it will wear off where the brakes contact.
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wot colour u got?
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Im thinking of buying the lilacs on ebay, keep it quiet though ;) or someone will get him to end early ;D
Dont really want lilac, i want white, with coaster.
Can you swap the rear hubs? So if i bought the lilac coaster pair, could i swap the actual wheels for whites and swap over the coaster hub?
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dont paint them mate
see if anyone wants to do a trade first to get the colour you want.
if you want white, just hold out for white
or buy the lilacs, and see if anyone wants to swap for white.
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someone will get him to end early
hmmmmmmmmmm lilac eh sounds good ;).
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yea , white are pretty common , do not paint any they will look poo and people will laugh at you ;)
wait for white , its the only way , i know you want them now but they will turn up :)
Rich
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>:(
Oi, watch it, im likely to get angry!
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Yeah, i know what your saying, but i have no wheels! At all, well apart from my old ammaco wheels, but there warped, and all the spokes are bent/loose/rusty and the bearings are nackered!
My ammaco silver star is going to my bird, 180 miles away in sheffield.
So, i have no real choice, the ones on ebay are indeed skyways, and coaster, so ill just have to live with the colour.
Hmmm, lilac wheels on a green bike, lovely!
Anyhow, can the hubs be swaped over?
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you oviouslly dont know me do ya ???.
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if they are a metal hubbed tuff then yes
Dave
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buy some aero zytecs
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you oviouslly dont know me do ya ???.
Nope, but i believe it was you who pinched then green coasters from under my nose ;)
Aero's are my last resort, i nearly ordered em today.
If i dont get the lilacs, i think aero's it is.
Rom bloke, but plastic hubbed then no?
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Nope, but i believe it was you who pinched then green coasters from under my nose
i pinched them off you. and there was me thinking i bought them off iain ???.
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aero zytecs are sound
i paid 20 quid for a NOS set the other day.
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hi mate , don't paint them . If they are a good price , i would say buy them. you can always swap or sell them later. Old skyways in good nick will always be a saleable item
If you want some white ones , just wait around a bit , they will turn up . i was looking for a decent set of white ones for about six months . cheers dave :).
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there loads of sets of NOS ones on the bay. why dont you get a set of white ones.
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cos they are too dear. they are alright if u are desperate but not a bargain.
zytecs are good, but most of em have yellowed with age.
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i ment for graeme ;D.
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yeah, he was passing on my thoughts, too much money. I think ill go with zytecs, and bleach em white again. Thanx
Oh, and the pinching comment was very tongue in cheek :)
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yeh mate no worries.
i will say though i gave a fair bit more than the new white ones cost for the green ones ;).
i'll keep my eye out for some for you.
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out of interest, how much? I was going to go to bout £120, hope you paid more :P
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mate you know you can get brand new green ones from the states for cheap money.its just i've only just set up paypal so could'nt do it. have a look.
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not with coaster brake, which if i remember rightly, those ones were.
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I still recon a tuff is not a tuff unless at least one is metal hubbed.
Oh, dont paint any. thats bad.
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graeme how come you want a coaster so bad. i think there a bastard thing to ride with.
one had me over the bars at southsea on my orange skyway.
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Yeah, pinting them is now an old memory, ive been offered some whites, if not ill go with zytecs. Thanx for all the advice folks.
I should have my frame in primer tonight, so ill get some pics up.
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graeme how come you want a coaster so bad. i think there a bastard thing to ride with.
one had me over the bars at southsea on my orange skyway.
Cos i always waned one when i was a kid.
A friends brother had a whit street beat with green sktywys, coaster brake and white tires. Man i loved that bike!
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is it a streetbeat your building then gra.
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Nah, i loved his bike, but im not over keen on streetbeat frames.
Im a haro master man myself, but as i cant afford one, im building an unknown twin top tube that i got from stuntmaster.
Ill hopefully get it in primer tonight and get some pics up.