Glad you finally added to the museum,  instant fave, great build!!

what's the serial on this one?

Creative (and patriotic) colorway on the lacing pattern of those wheels!  Inspiring me for my next wheel build up.  Well done all the way around.

knuun wrote:

beautiful BMX and  cool background .

I took some inside close up photos, before I got the tires dirty.

If you like this bike, it's submitted in the Porkchop calender contest. There are more photos of the bike on the 2nd page of the thread at the bottom.

Submission thread: http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=364671&p=2

Voting thread: http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=368756

Last edited by K-frame (2011-11-03 9:09pm)

AWEEEEEEESOOOOOME!

love em skyway ta

Very nice!  With the exception that I used silver instead of white, I laced my wheels very similar to that BITD (as well I had a late '82/early '83 T/A).  Yours is the closest to what I had.  Thanks for sharing.

Unfortunately I only have about 5 or 6 pics, and they were before I laced them this way. 

You can see blue cranks (Suntour VX - but looks similar as yours).  This pic was not too long after I got the bike - early '83.  What I remember was looking at an S/N that had many zeros....like 0000139.  I don't remember for sure if it was US made or not.

As for the wheels...they were blue Z-rims with something like unsealed high flange blue Sunshine hubs or something.  As for having colored spokes back then...you can trust.  I can still remember going up to the counter at the LBS...at the time, they would let you by spokes individually, so I'd pick out 24 blue, 24 red, and 24 silver spokes.  I can still remember the guy getting annoyed because I was using 24 brass nipples with 48 alloy nipples, but I was no less hard headed then, than I am now.  Don't know if it was 3 or 4X and don't remember the pattern.  I just remember it was "red, white, and blue" in my mind...remember...white on bikes didn't exist in '83 (at least not largely).

I'm almost certain I remember seeing USA on the BB as well. What is for certain is there were so many 00's in the S/N that I remember thinking...that can't be the build number or serial number...it's too low.  It may even have been like 00...0039 or something.  Anyhow...lot's of good memories there.  Here's another pic:

This place was a full on concrete Skate park in the 70's known as the "Thunderbowl" with a 12' bowl.  Luckily it was right across the street.  Unfortunately, they lost out about a year later and sent in bulldozer to break it up.  However, many kids cleared the way, and I was jumping straight out of the park from the edge lip.  The cool thing is...that building across the street is still there...I need to take another picture.  But the park is gone...strip mall.

Local track was about 4 miles (easy riding distance) from my house, in a wooded area.  From Google Earth....I can still see the slit in the woods where it was.  Anyhow...u gotta have some good places to ride down in Orlando...no?  Besides Disney, banks, and snakes what else ya' gonna do? (I know the area fairly well).

Yep....that'd be a big one.  We have an over abundance of deers, but I don't think that's really the solution.  We have our share of Mocassins up here, don't need no tropical stuff.  By the way...my old avatar.....family reuion in Okeechobee: