This is the only 24" Quicksilver in the world with a 4 & 1/2" headtube, rare!

Rebel Racing 83 or 84. I believe it's somewhat rare.

1. 1983 Race Tech frame. Fully adjustable cam headset / all alloy frame / only came in black. Less than 60 frames were ever produced and for less than one year. Absolutely one of the most beautiful frame's that you will ever see.

Does anyone know any more about Race Tech frames? I used to have one when I was younger, and I've never seen another one anywhere. I THINK I know who still has it, too.

Thanks!

I vaguely remember those, someone posted one a few years ago, if it wasn't you there's another one around. Just a vague memory but I think there might have been some connection to Samco which made some frames in the early 80s.

Mike, here is the Freshour that you wanted to see. I hope it brings back some good memories

Wow, I have NEVER seen a 102b, 500a or 600a in that color. What is wild is that the white in the decals, it's not like they just painted some frames and slapped the existing stickers on there. That is one of the coolest things I have seen on VBMX.

Welcome to the site!

Randy, It was me that posted it a while back. Sandy Finkelman remembered them and was going nuts about how rare it was. He even wanted to act as a broker for me on the sale of it and didn't want me to put it on Ebay. I was really hoping someone else had the info on these since I just never really went through the deal with Sandy. It was one of those things that was talked about and then forgotten. Really makes you not want to take people for granted while they are around. Some people are such as wealth of information and great stories then before you know it they are gone.

That DT Racing frame looks a lot like a White Lightning frame (off shoot of R&R).
Main differece.... White Lightning had round seat stays and no brake bridge.

White Lightning was a very cool bike and is VERY RARE!
Greg Lilly was there sponsored Pro racer in 76' or 77'.

Collector John Dunphy has a chrome 1976 one with the decal on the top tube still in place.
Reilley1 has a slightly newer one 1977 that has a head tube gusset.

Might want to add the American freestyle frame Bill S.' brother in law has...see Minnesota thread for details of that one.

Sandy had said it was very similar to the White Lightning as well. He just said the DT Racing Products was a lot rarer

The front end of the DT looks a lot like the Hank and Frank Force or the Samco Eliminator Frames.

THANX VERY MUCH. NOW I KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR AGAIN. LOL Maybe one day who knows!!!

RACE INC Cruiser...
Oh Ya!

http://schwinnbikes.com/heritage/attachmen...achmentid=63864

For me, the CYC "ames" Stormer/ GT pedals ready frame.. Sure love to find another ames frame (cough)

There's a frame I haven't heard or seen in a looooong time. I remember Bill Samco and his BMX team in Hayward California ( NorCal ).

This is my first post so take it easy, A few months ago I ran into a guy that had a pk ripper that he said was a prototype that scott at SE gave him bitd. It had no finish on it still raw. One thing I found strange was it had a coaster brake hanger welded on it, most pk's I have seen do not, I am no expert that is why I turn to you. Was a coaster hanger common on these bikes? Didn't mean to jack this thread just thought it might be a rare bike, I going to look at it on tues.

No, none of the production SE bikes ever had a coaster brake tab. Get pics of this frame and post them. The one thing I've learned from SE/Race Inc is that anything is possible....

Thanks for the info brian, but I made a mistake it was a quad, I have seen it. The guy says scott told him it was a prototype. I will take pics of it this week the post them.

Thanks Jesse Strange thing though, why would a prototype have a serial #

Im pretty sure this bike my son kicks around on daily is kinda rare, '83 patterson jr/euro bb

and this one is super rare for the cook bros fans ,not sure if you would call it actually NOS?,as its never made it to the plater, '83ish, never assembled:
non gusset
19.25 top tube (instead of standard cook 18inch)
1 1/8 inch top and bottom tubing (instead of standard cook 1inch)

That is awesome, Claude...where did you dig that up? What is the serial number? Does it have one?

84, got it from a guy in cali whos dads friend worked at cook bros factory...this person in cali is the same person moosegoose got that 24/26 from a while back...no serial number, i guess it never made it to that stage either LOL, ...absolutely one of my favorites in my collection i gotta admit, claude

jus2many - theres a guy who comes to the Rockford gathering every year with a raw quad, coaster tab, serial number, saying Scott personally gave him the frame, and wants 2grand for it. Theres pictures of the frame in the galleries section. sounds like the same guy.

These are rare now:

WHOA.....^^^

Whazzat?

Arguably the first factory made BMX straight tubed BMX frame.

The Littlejohn Murphy rigid frame (as opposed to the monoshock version)

Right, I may be being thick here but what gold was this?? My ripper (which is now black) had a kind of gold anodizing finish under the old paint.....is this the gold you mean???

I also have a White Bear 24 & 20, a Peugeot/Vitus and a 2 Nishiki's - plus a load of rarer U.K stuff.

I'll dig out photos of the above.

Would like to know more about the gold ripper thing.

Cheers

RG

OH, Wilko! That Littlejohn Murphy is AWSOME! That brings back memories. I haven't seen one of those in a long time. I do not remember seeing one in Reilleys collection, even. I will have to ask him about that.

Those are as "back to basic" as a Webco or Redline squareback.

That bike is just plain SWEET!

Thanks for sharing.

This is my Whitebear 24 (apologies for the very old photo)



My Peugeot/Vitus - unfortunately, the previous owner sawed off the top of the seat post. You can still just get a clamp on tho. That is a NOS Peugeot stickered one on the left.



A very rare, UK made Brian Curtis Freestyler - 1 of 2 I know of.



My NOS Nishiki, I also have a NOS red complete bike:



WhiteBear 20 - I bought these about 5/6 years ago and have never seen any others in the UK. Have never found out much about them actually. My 2 were repainted, I've no idea what they looked like originally.

Prodyne 24"
GJS 24"
Nomura 24"
I raced all but one of the above..

found this prodyne 24 under a pile of bikes at a yard sale. bought it for $15 and traded it to the cruiserking.

How about the SE STR-1?

My friend Mark had one of the few STR-1's, he got it from Blues Hills Bike and Hike then he sold it too a kid named Steve Mitchell....too bad because that would have fetched far more than the $2800 I got for my complete PR240. I had a prototype Hyper frame and fork that someone got from Grubbs or Baumert I traded a Zeronine that was stolen....that would be a nice one to have as well.

This is the first time I have seen another "round top tube PK" other than my own. According to Seth Buccieri, there was only 600 made. Below is a letter I still have, sent to me from SE Racing back in 79 when I asked about my "round top tube PK" and why I stopped getting my BMX Innovations.



Here's my "round top tube PK" as it looks today.



-R

How many Elf double cross frames were made?. I also remember the Hawk F-20 all square tube frame...it was pretty rare at that time.

rborelli,

Wow. That is very, very cool.

bv

+1 for the 24"TA

or Hows'bout the 24" VDC ?

woody woodruff made this in his parents back yard in mesa. then he went on to make rubicon many years later, along with a few others

it maybe 1 of 1 left but trust me there was more then one made! cause i have seen more then one of them in years racing! i know where there are 20-30 vdc frames stuff up in the rafters in someones parents garage. which ones there are i do not know, and i dont really care to say whos parents house it is, cause i am going to try to get them from him if he is willing to part with them

i have owned and raced 2 different 24" RRS's over the years! and no i dont have them anymore

that one pictured is a one-off Woody Itson prototype freestyler, not the race frame.

it might be but it looks just like the race frame they i made. i know they made 2 different versions of the freestyle frames, cause my brother and cousin had and broke both versions of it

check the rear dropouts. Campy track dropouts, if i recall. not sure what all the other little differences are. tighter geometry for F/S, i would imagine.

this is SUPER RARE!
i dont know how many were made exactly...but don't know of any others! this is a 82 Star Products frame & forks (designed by greg hill, probably made by VDC). this has been my bike since 83...i bought if from pro factory rider kevin mccarthy. greg & his father started this company (making STAR BARS) but made a couple frames for their riders. from my understanding...... greg couldn't put his name on the bike yet, he was still on GT. once he was off GT...STAR became GHP.

Uh...

62panel...

Is that yours? If so, then thats three....

Man, where did you get it?

How about this one? Found locally abiot 2 months ago by my buddy. Will be complete in about 2 weeks.







First year for the DeCoster. They did not make one until 76.

That's George Monty. The "G" of C & G Distributors. Super guy.

jbl
you seem to know alot about these bikes..... do you know why mine in the ONLY non-serial number Direct Link in collectors hands??? Also my fork differs from a extra i had and one NOS F&F that Chris Prigden had a year or so ago on ebay.

please let me know....i am very interested in your reply.


Jon