INFO NEEDED - SKYWAY TUFF II's WITH MONGOOSE LOGO!

[baldbmxer]

INFO NEEDED - SKYWAY TUFF II's WITH MONGOOSE LOGO!

A friend has found an old Mongoose with various nice old parts.

He described the wheels as Skyway Tuff II's with a Mongoose logo on them?!?

Can anyone shed any light on the possibility of this and also date them.

Cheers JJ

[dordymush]

i've seen a couple of sets of these.
and the andy patterson sig ones.

[SaMAlex]

There is a set on a bike on here somewhere, I saw it last week

[Waxintaxin]

yep they got muarice on them and the mongoose logo

stock on the tuff goose or the one with tuffs on anyway

usually black , good for a goose resto but not worth more because of it

Rich

[login_user]

I'd love a pair of them,you never see them for sale.there was a scan of a mongoose brochure on here somewhere which would have given you an idea with the date.Is the date not on the wheel itself? mightbe 84 onwards? 

[Stodgy]

There is a set on a bike on here somewhere, I saw it last week

They were on Haro84's Gen 1:

[Dingobmxer]

Were they made in the UK? Didnt Skyway produce wheels here at the height of their popularity??
  DINGO

[dan-dare]

That's true Dingo, this has been on vintage previously.

[Dingobmxer]

Thanks Dan, I thought I was going mad 
  DINGO

[Stodgy]

Were they made in the UK? Didnt Skyway produce wheels here at the height of their popularity??
  DINGO

They did mate...in High Wycombe, Bucks.

[baldbmxer]

Thanks for the info guys. Keep it coming, especially if anyone has any photographic references to the oringinal build they came on.

My friend is gonna want to sell these so watch this space. I'll try and get some pics by the end of the week.

JJ

[Rombloke]

the uk made tuffs do have 'made in uk' embossed onto them

Dave

[jimmyp]

Mongoose did a skyway mongoose in 84

[jimmyp]

Mongoose did a skyway mongoose in 84

Sorry it was 83

[ColoredTuffs.com]

yup!  You have the "Mongoose Approved" Tuff 2's there.  Mongoose used Tuffs on some of their early 80's bikes, and they stamped the Tuffs with maurice the mongoose for a year or so.....
 Nice wheels!
-Ed

[SaMAlex]

Were they made in the UK? Didnt Skyway produce wheels here at the height of their popularity??
  DINGO

They did mate...in High Wycombe, Bucks.

I used to work in Plastic Injection Moulding. Once I was talking to a guy who worked for a company in High Wycombe. He told me that they used to make the plastic BMX wheels. I said that the best ones were skyway and he said "thats them! I asked him if he was sure, cos there were other types that looked almost the same, but he was sure it was skyways he used to make. I wasnt so sure, and thought he must have made a mistake. Ive not thought about that till just now. I guess he was right.

[RATTY]

My first goose, a mongoose 2 came stock  with tuffs in 1980, never had a goose logo on them though

[hunterdubber]

My first goose, a mongoose 2 came stock  with tuffs in 1980, never had a goose logo on them though

That has to be 81 or 82 then
like in the brochure scan 

These are alloy flanged tuffs aswell
What year di they stop alloy flanges
I could've swore  , I bought some Tuffs II's  in late 83 and the front wheel wasn't alloy flanged 

[selfpreservation]

My first goose, a mongoose 2 came stock  with tuffs in 1980, never had a goose logo on them though

That has to be 81 or 82 then
like in the brochure scan 

These are alloy flanged tuffs aswell
What year di they stop alloy flanges
I could've swore  , I bought some Tuffs II's  in late 83 and the front wheel wasn't alloy flanged 

HMM THAT SEEMS EARILY TO ME