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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN
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October 18, 2012, 01:20 AM »
Was looking at parts for my Goose Trickstar,and was looking at the forks when i noticed some thing strange ?
Now the frame has the added frame stand and stand tube on the bottom tube - who did it and why is still a mystery ?
So now i notice that the forks haven't been welded up on the inside legs ? would it not be a bit strange to let some go throught the system, without them being sent back or welded back up ?
now add the fact that the frame was re-welded with extra tubing and the fact that the forks could have been welded up at the same time
so was it a rich kid with a dad that knew some one in the bike trade/frame welder ?
was it a bike shop trying some thing out and then sold it on ?
was it some type of prototype - using a '83 frame and copying a hutch trickstar or so a year later and never made into a model
so are they safe to use ?
cheers B
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stuntmaster
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October 18, 2012, 07:43 AM »
fine just remember you aren`t the weight as you were as a kid so don`t go doing mad stuff on it
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Dannywhac
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October 18, 2012, 09:03 AM »
That's fine - loadsa forks/reardrops are like that - tack welded on the inside. Only started getting phased out good and proper in the 90's.
Just don't go doing any big drop-offs or gaps
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Darren KAP
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October 18, 2012, 09:11 AM »
Itll be fine i wouldnt worry
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October 18, 2012, 09:24 AM »
Christ Bendy dont listen to them, that thing is a death trap!!!
Sell it to me and i will make sure no one gets hurt
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nosepickben
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October 18, 2012, 10:05 AM »
Ive ridden worse!! ^^ what dannywhac said is right. Some weren't even tacked in the middle on the reversed "unseen" side.
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not johndub71
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October 18, 2012, 01:01 PM »
should be fine I reckon.
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October 18, 2012, 01:25 PM »
Be fine riding from one pub to the next
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Discostu
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October 18, 2012, 07:20 PM »
Bloody hell bendy haven't you stripped the paint off that mongoose thing yet??
Your hanging that build out a bit ain't ya?
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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN
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October 19, 2012, 06:25 PM »
still getting bit and want to do it right
working on the team goose at the mo - also also collection and restoring parts for about five rides
slowly slowly catchy monkey
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Pooch
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funny you should say that..
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October 19, 2012, 10:28 PM »
Nice build bendy.. One of ya best
ps thought this was mr pkripster's me and my bikes thread..
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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN
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October 20, 2012, 12:18 AM »
I just coppied all of your rides and how they look on the London Runs - think i got the look down
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Discostu
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October 20, 2012, 08:56 PM »
Fookin
Poochie.
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Spen69
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It was less than TWELVE parsecs.... .
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October 21, 2012, 08:38 AM »
Andy they'll be fine - they left the factory like that and are tacked into place one side and then fully welded on the other so you'll trap in crap if you try to weld the other side up now after all these years. If I could be bothered to look up the strengh properties of a 4mm fillet weld I could tell you how strong they are but I can't. Safe to say a lot more that bunny-hops and rolling around London's streets can throw at them bud.
(I design & build Rail bridges for a living in case you didn't know)
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BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN
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October 21, 2012, 12:17 PM »
I didn't know that mate - well you learn every day and i know who to come to if i need a bridge
I did think that with the amount of use on them that it might be still ok to use them
well back to the drawing board of how this bike came about
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