The Teague Cycle (secret build)

[Bigbadsam]

As some of you now know there was a secret  bike reveal at Chester, but you might not know the story behind it.


After talking to our photographer friend Geoff Teague at the liverpool ride about him building his first bike and saying he liked Dancetothedrummersbeats   "Andys"  original Addidas build from a 90s Diamondback, it gave me an idea.
So i gave him a 95 Diamondback Viper Frame n forks to get him going...



Then i put together a secret crack team of master builders... and Jono, and suggested we all put a few spare parts together for a rider bike then he could decide how he wanted to fine tune it later.

And after a few Facebook messages between the  "The A Team" it snowballed into a full on custom build.

"The A Team was... Me, Jono, Jamie bazinga, Gaz Hulmes, some bloke off Facebook, Tony Lee, Nick Swannick, Brettypeeps, Lenny Walls, RetroDan, Paul Greenall, Rob yatty Yates.


After it came back from SBD (thanks jono) and a lot of swapping an changing and running about to collect various parts it was ready to start building  and Including a new set of tuffs it started to look the part



Nothing went according to plan putting it together       so after another message to "The A Team" we had a couple of new parts to chip in for  (and lenny popping round one night) we were off again  .....



Then with just the levers to fit,  the final result with custom "Hacienda" stickers, Geoffs original idea was done ready for the surprise reveal at Chest-air......





The look on Geoffs face was brilliant, complete  surprise, Gobsmacked to say the least.  All he thought he was collecting from lenny was a stripped frame n forks but instead he got the bike he showed me on a little piece of paper at jonos pub when i first dropped it off 7 weeks ago.

Big thanks to all the lads involved, and the lads that put their parts up but we were sorted for (only so many parts on a bike  )   

Bigbadsam

STAY RAD       

[That Swan Guy]

it was a pleasure to help out such a gent

[Retrodan72]

 ........and Jono 

As Nick said, it was a pleasure to be a part of it, Geoff is a gent.

Well done Sam, for putting it all together. 

[That Swan Guy]

[magiccat]

     Great to see and what a Rad bunch we/you are   

[griff]

  nice one lads 

[dancetothedrummersbeat]

Great thread and story. Thanks for posting this up, and a massive big up to all who were involved with making this happen. I was part of the facebook conversation, but was at work when it all started. By the time i could check my phone the parts were already accumulating, so I was unable to offer any additional help or contribute any parts. I kept track of the facebook messenger thread as I was still part of the conversation though, and some of the posts were hilarious - The Keystone Cops springs to mind.  to you everyone involved with this. 

[Bigbadsam]

Don't let the cat out of the bag Andy 

[pickle]

top work lads 

[leehunt1]

BOOOM!! 

[chubby]

Love stories like this one.
well done to everyone involved & the look on his little face just says it all 

[brettypeeps]

Could not have done it for a nicer guy

[T4Ryan]

What a lovely thing to have done 

[NORTY40]

Nice one lads 

Shame it was Facebook based as i would have liked to help out on this , just to say thanks to Geoff for all the videos he does for us and because he's such a sound bloke .


I hear you had some issues building it Sam       ........ turned out well in the end though 

[leehunt1]

Nice one lads 

Shame it was Facebook based as i would have liked to help out on this , just to say thanks to Geoff for all the videos he does for us and because he's such a sound bloke .


I hear you had some issues building it Sam       ........ turned out well in the end though 

you would be a menace on Facebook 

[fischflo]

got something Kuwie about it good lads, nice job   Whats the Hacienda decals about?

[leehunt1]

got something Kuwie about it good lads, nice job   Whats the Hacienda decals about?

Hacienda Night club in manchester.. possibly the most famous nightclub ever in the world..?
closed down in 96 i think?

[Bigbadsam]

Nice one lads 

Shame it was Facebook based as i would have liked to help out on this , just to say thanks to Geoff for all the videos he does for us and because he's such a sound bloke .


I hear you had some issues building it Sam       ........ turned out well in the end though 

Like i said Joff only so many parts to find, and doing it on Facebooks easier for sending messages an photos. 
It all worked out nice in the end but being mid school its all different size stuff to what iv'e got in the man cave.
I'll stick to old school secret builds from now on 

[fischflo]

got something Kuwie about it good lads, nice job   Whats the Hacienda decals about?

Hacienda Night club in manchester.. possibly the most famous nightclub ever in the world..?
closed down in 96 i think?

famous indeed, Lee, now an apt building, right? ...hrrmph