thanks for the info guys.
mike

I think the tag line for the Dirt Skirt was "keeps you balls from getting crusty". I missed that BITD, but it's funny now.

I think that's the motto for Viagra now.....

no. for their motto you have to replace the word "crusty" with DUSTY

Hmm...let me check..

*stretch*

*snap*


Nope...it's crusty

perhaps you can get a cream for that...

Yep, I agree, Reilly1 has way too much time on his hands...LOL

Greg Hill liked the Dirt Skirt so much he married Scura's sister!

SST made some cool stuff.

let's please not talk about what he has on his hands ok?

Reilley just about owed me another keyboard, I was one milisecond ahead of having coca-cola bubbles in my nose and on the monitor again......

Barely choked that one down.....

I thought the Dirt Skirt was Reilley-1s racing uniform that kept getting caught in the chain?

Hmmm, my bad I guess....

There is another thread on the DS here recently.

I remember that the stack height on all the headsets was different at the crown race, and sometimes they would leave a big gap, or they would rub hard on the lower race.

I think that is why I never bought one, too many people said it was a hastle getting it to fit right.

I also think they held water in them and actually ruined your grease sooner than normal if it got wet.

...but that's hearsay, as I never actually bought one...

I ran one BITD, but I was also notorious for running "gadget gear".

I had none of the problems Ted mentions, but I believe the Dirt Skirt was a love it or hate it item.

little tip about the dirt skirt with no jokes.

I also was a gadget/gimmick/put it all on the bike kinda guy. LOVED the way a dirt skirt could add one more piece of color and hardware to a build. Especially since it was cheap and basically weightless.

BUT, those suckers are SHARP. As in slice your thigh very nicely in a boomerang, sketchy-berm nosedive-t/bone, whatever.

My recommendation, sweet and trick for a showbuild. I still toss one on occasionally. But will never install with a rider.

just my lil' tip for the day.

I installed one recently (this year) on my SX GJS 26" repro/tribute cruiser. Since the forks produced for the project were not quite right as the steertube was waaay to long and the threads were too short, after installing the GJS style repro forks there was some play. Not having a threader available at the time, the dirt skirt took up the necessary room (as a spacer) to solve the freeplay problem, that and they look cool.

i would really prefer not to think about it if it is all the same to you

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=007634#000000

http://www.vintagebmx.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=022643#000000

thanks mo! that helps.
mik

The "B.S." (Brian Scura) Dirt Skirt was '81-'82 era, and after much complaining by parents about the risque' name (remember, this was the early eighties and BMX was a slightly classier sport than it is today...I am appalled and embarrassed by half of the trash that attends the local track here). They finally changed the name, it was good timing as the company, Scura Speed Technologies, also was evolving. So, they simply changed the name to "S.S.T." Dirt Skirt.

But, nothing worked as good as the original 1" piece of popped innertube stretched over fork crown/head cup.

Another couple Scura designed products if I remember right were, the "Race Lace Hub" to aid wheel builders in race lacing a wheelset.

He also im pretty sure was the man behind Star Bars. Scura rode, but mostly freestyle if I remember right as did his brother Frankie. Frankie I think went on to work for Vizion Streetware and Vans perhaps.

Brian and Frankie were tight with Woody Itson and Pete Loncarevich back then if I remember right. I could be wrong but I think they ran SST out of a bike shop on Harbor Blvd. in Santa Ana not far from Petes house.