Now that I know how to post a photo. This is my completely restored BMX products Roger Decoster. The only thing I left off are the moto mags because they were so beat up, and the seat is a repro, as the original was too far gone. I had the frame re-nickel plated, the gold stem re plated, the seat clamp, bearing cups, fork, handle bars, cranks, etc... It looks and rides nice. It was a complete survivor when I got it. Just rusted to death.





Thanks for looking, can't wait to see some more.

[ June 04, 2006, 03:05 AM: Message edited by: louis914 ]

Nice job saving it!

Ive seen your PK build, now Decoster, man u r on a roll. Gd stuff coming out of your shed bro.

looks very nice but that Roger decal goes on the toptube

Here's a couple of pics of my '79:

That's some stuff that would make Darrel Starbird proud Bill. Man I dig the Decosters.

this one belongs to a friend of mine, nevermind the pedals. decals are repro's from a couple years ago. it is for sale btw, hint hint.


--mike.

I have this looptail one and I swear the sticker was on the downtube. You can totally tell from the wear of the finish. It's still all very nice, but you can tell where the sticker was. I have this almost all built up now, just no new photo at the moment, and I do have stickers for it but haven't placed them yet because I've been wanting to make sure of that. I remember posting this last year sometime and someone posted a comlpete looptail one and that had the sticker on the downtube as well. They said they won it at the Rockford event a couple years ago. Anyway here's a frame. I'll post the whole bike again when it's finished. Maybe bring it to Rockford too.

I have Photos of a looptail in original condition, I will post them tonight when I get home. I had originally put the decal on mine on the down tube because I had a pad on the top tube, and did not want to cover it. The photo shown is a repro decal, I have an original that I am saving.

looptail DeCosters and Mongoose frames had the decal on the downtube, everything else was up top.

Kilo's yellow RD is rad, makes sense, yellow=mx

Thanks Randy! I thought so but wasn't too sure. I'l hopefully have mine all done for Rockford, but we'll see. I'll try to get a new picture later.

Here it is:



[ May 18, 2006, 02:57 AM: Message edited by: donvader88 ]

i had a decoster in 78 but my frame was made by cook brothers racing,,it was a nickle finish,,,,,and for the time really light,,,,,,,,it came with a mongoose fork,,,,,7bs ,,,,a big *** astubula crank.......redline v bars ,,,,,,astabula stem,,,,,(first thing i replaced) (with a mcs) chen shin 1.75s i have a photo of it ,,i could never get the finish to clean up ,,,,but then again that was early 78 and i was a kid that rode a lot. ,,,,,,,,,,i think for c/mas that year i got skinwall tires for it and some other stuff...... it came with pads that were brown,,,,,,,with the big snaps,,,,,,the pedal i dont remember other than filling it down at school to make it sharper.

A Cook Bro's DeCoster???? I'd love to see 1 of them!!
Astro yours is sick!! Actually all of em are...
Good on ya guys! I was thinking about getting 1 (again) after reading this thread but i'll think that i should finish the 6 or so build's that i'm doing right now.. I'm starting to get sick of 2min noodles!! Heh Heh edit:-spelling

[ May 18, 2006, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: meatpie ]

Cook Bros. never made DeCosters. You are mistaken.

DeCoster frames are nickel plated, until the few rare looptails they made in 1981.

My first real BMX bike was a Roger DeCoster, loaded up with tuffs and a bunch of Ashtabula stuff from the local Schwinn shop. It was a lot of good things, but with that mild steel rear tri and the solid steel Ashtabula parts, it was never mistaken for a light bike.

ANYBODY GOT A LOOPTAIL THEY WANT TO SELL

yep my mistake ,,,,SORRY i was thinking of my weinart (jimmy weinart) OF SAME PERIOD MOTOCROSS FAME.......2 many beers.

Here's my '78.

[img]http://images.vintagebmx.com/web_pages/dbar1681/decoster[/img]

dbar1681

NICE! I love those bikes!!!!!

OMFG!!!

This is by far the best thread ever! My first BMX bike was a Roger DeCoster.

Astro, that bike is just as dope as it gets. Mine was very similar. Nickel w/ black tuff I's.

This thread absolutely rules; PLEASE keep the pic coming!!!

Roger DeCoster's! My first real bmx bike. Great builds fella's.....