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Glass-fronted display case I bought and mounted in the man-cave: and which I’ve now filled with my favourite components I already had….and have bought more - as spares for the BMX:

 

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I’m usually quite impulsive. But after way too much time and deliberation (3 months ?): yesterday i found the frame I want for the start of building up the ‘dream’ daily 20” BMX rider 😁 *Need to speak to the shop selling these Colony Prody frames on Pre-order; Monday about something - but essentially it’s a modern full 4130 CroMoly frame with 990 brake mounts, heat treated mid bottom bracket, 14mm dropouts, heat treated head tube, 6mm thick dropouts, bang up-to-date geometry: but all based around Clint Millar’s frames from 1994 style wise. With the retro rear platform. And stunning Chrome finish - fresh out of ‘back in the day’. Old school looks. New school performance……..😍

As well as now thinking about forks, cranks and wheels. To get those “big” components nailed per-se:

Last night I’ve ordered my very favourite Skyway 130mm long Flanged grips, Chrome United 1/2 link chain, Unite seat-clamp [UK CNC made - and the same as already on my FIT 22”] and Odyssey clear compound brake pads. As these aren’t going change whatever frame I go with…..😁

Way more excited than a 53 year old man really should be…..😁

 

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On the Cycling theme - I’ve also started collecting retro BMX Magazines. I decided to only collect those with at least some Freestyle BMX content [ie: Not just racing]. And of course rather than be normal and collect a whole set of one Magazine / a whole year etc…..

What I’m trying to do is collect as many different magazine titles (Again - with a Freestyle content) from 1984-1989. Which are the years I rode from back in the day.

Most have come from the USA. And got cumulatively expensive quick. Some of the mags alone were over $50. And the cheapest International postage I’ve paid so far is $17 for one magazine. I’ve amassed the 14 pictured in-hand so far; and I did find and win another on ebay last night.

But things are really slowing down with these. So I think even getting to 20 different titles could take some time and be good going !

 

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Rainy Sunday afternoons on eBay have alot to answer for. I’ve wanted a BMX project for a while. Looks like I’ve probably now got two….

This 4130 CroMoly, Mid-School GT Vertigo frame and forks - with interesting / scarce ‘Pac-Man’ style fork dropouts appeared on eBay as a buy it now. I didn’t know its value but was happy to pay asking price. So buttons were hit:

I’ve got quite a head start of parts in the Stores at home already. I’m planning on a loosely veiled Eddie Fiola tribute colour scheme from the mid 1980’s. Frame will certainly be re-done in Yellow. With some combo of Polished, Black and Blue components. Kinda like this (Although “The Flying Banana” had many component and colour variants of this bike):