Recent content by petehaddock

Re: Re: Fair enough, mine are the stock red/orange colours. Give Gil at Retro Decals a shout and he can sort you out as he now has the designs on file.

Re: Re: I can do better than that, I had a second set made (design was tidied up and properly scaled by Gil at RetroDecals with an original frame I sent him for reference). £40 and they are yours mate.

As it happens I was not happy with the quality of mine. They were OK but not quite right so I got Gil on the case. He has recreated the original decals for me perfectly and I'm sure he will have saved the vectors on file so he can sort you out mate. Hit him up at sales@retrodecals.co.uk

Re: The frame is still away with Gil so I spent a few evenings sorting the forks out. I've had an old set of Rockshox Recon's sat in the shed for years. The seal head 'o' ring had failed (a common fault on these early motion control forks), this means the damper oil migrates into the lower legs...

Re: So I made a start on the build. I stripped the bike down and I have sent the frame off to Gil so he can make me a proper set of decals for my other trailstar, whilst it's away I got the usable parts cleaned up and listed on eBay. I have chosen to keep the cranks in the spares box as they...

I used to run a little side business buying bikes and breaking them for spares. I got pretty good at spotting the profitable bikes. Other people look at a bikes bad points and buy with their hearts, I just used to make sure I would break even at rock bottom prices and any extra eBay bids were my...

Wheels are 24" mate (plus they are Halo combats so bomb proof but weight more than the moon). Forks are lovely but 1. They are talas so notoriously unreliable, 2 I worry they are too blingy, I'd hate my lad to become a target riding around town and 3. I have a set of old rockshox recons in the...

Re: I found this on eBay. It's another mk1 but not as early as mine. It's perfect for this project as it has a rear disk mount, it's got the BSA BB shell (which also means the tubing is double butted, BMX BB frames use plain gauge tubing) and also it comes with bottle cage mounts. The paint...

So the eldest lad has outgrown his 24" bike so the search was on for a suitable 26. The bike needed to be good enough to make long-ish rides out with me enjoyable but at the same time cheap enough to suit knocking about with his mates and getting left outside shops etc. It also had to have some...

Both beautiful bikes Joe, just like me and my mates were riding around on at that time. I bet that Trailstar took a bit of effort to get rolling with that gearing! (looking at the build I bet it must of weighed 40lbs as well!)

satin gunmetal grey?

And here she is in all her stickered up glory! A few jobs left to sort before she's ridable which are.......... Bleed the brakes File out the seat post so the 8mm seat rails sit properly in the 7mm channels Service the forks (they work fine but bring oil up the stanchions as they extend) Fit a...

I finally got my decal set. What a saga that was, it took over a month for them to arrive (and only after opening a paypal case against the supplier) and when they came they had been printed on white vinyl with a 2mm border around each decal. Also the toptube decal was not cut as one large decal...

I also ordered a few of the final parts needed to get the bike finished. FSA pig headset (always wanted one on this build but the short steerer on the rigid trailblades didn't allow it), a set of NOS V8 pedals and a pair of YETI hardcore grips. I also found a mint condition front brake, again...

So I threw the Z1's on as I couldn't wait to see how they looked and they look EPIC. Totally transformed the bike from 'looks like a good fun bike for messing about on' to 'looks like it means business!'. You can also see another current project of mine. I've been meaning to replace my old...