Ged_the_Head

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• For Sale: 26" White Mag Wheels. Polo? £50

  in Components and clothing • 10 years, 11 months

  

  Hi, do you still have these for sale?

• Brooklyn Machine Works

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  just sharing the love of two wheels.....

  The bike is loosely based on a speedway bike, that was the rage with the kids years ago. The old trackers were what the 'boys' had pre mountain bike days. I wanted to do bit of homage to them old bikes. The lads i knew in the late '70's used to use road/touring frames and bend the forks in the grids to straighten them, then try and sleeve the forks again. Usually motorbike bars got used. Old english 26" rims, knobbly tyres. Fixed wheel sometimes, pedaling one footed.Kick back brakes were the one for the skid kids. All about the wheelies.
  They rode pretty shite compared with anything now but it was purely about kids having no dough and building something to ride. My idea was to do a modern 'tracker' although a bit of a 'posh' one!

  The coaster brake tab is there 'cos i've got a couple of other ideas, mtb 26" rear with 2 speed/coaster Bendix hub.

  Yeah, bars are a bit mental, but sweet for cruising around. It was always the naughty boys with the big bars years ago. Quite funny with the local teenage scrotes 'round here, they love it, givin' it the 'AW THAT"S GANGSTA'. Funny as ....

• Brooklyn Machine Works

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Forgive me folks, i didn't see any rules regarding the porn.

• Brooklyn Machine Works

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Pardon me

• Bike porn

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Dirty dog rides again

• Brooklyn Machine Works

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Here's a couple of pics of my 'tracker'. New on here, i posted this in the Bike porn section and it seems to have got right up some peoples noses? ....Arsed.