BMXmuseum.com Bikes / Diamondback / 1984 Diamond Back Formula One

Money's tight but bikes still need building so I thought I'd try a budget build. No individual bit was allowed to cost more than £30 (about $60), except for the frameset (1984 DB Formula 1) which cost me $90. I also wanted to use genuine parts rather than knock-offs, so it has Araya 7X rims, Suzue hubs, Dia-Compe Mx-1000 brakes, Shimano 600 cranks, Sugino DB stem etc. It was quite fun restoring all these parts into some kind of decent shape - the wheels were pretty messed up when I got them so I had to strip the old, faded red anno and polish the rims and hubs and re-lace them. After all this, I never want to see another piece of Wet & Dry again! The seat went $10 over budget but I thought it would be a nice touch to have a genuine black Kashi Aero (although it was a Raleigh branded one so I had to lightly sand off the Raleigh branding and apply new decals). I always wanted to build a black Diamond Back, but Formula One decals look rubbish so I decided to cut up some DB Turbo decals and use them - I think it looks pretty cool. The bars, which I'll get rechromed one day, do appear to actually be HL Turbo bars as they have the little hole at the one end. The tires are cheap rubbish but my plan is to ride this bike a bit so that didn't matter too much. See what you think...