Thanks man! Unfortunately, it isn't a survivor though. I bought the frame/fork/bars/post. The person who sold it to me had it complete and parted it out. I bought the cranks/brakes back from the person who bought them, and the rest of the parts were found on ebay and through these sites. It was almost identical to the big magazine ad from BITD. Just need a seatclamp and grips now.

Jason, those UNI pieces are great....are those yours? If so, how did you get them...if not, what's the story on who they belong to and how they got them (if you know)??

Huffy Pro thunder I have had a better chance of buying a trickstar then finding one of these LOL

Vcarter,
That Robinson is the bomb.

Jason,

I think there were more than 2 sets of those Uni-Bars. I know of a set that was used and painted white in color with a red decal. I owned them a couple years back......and they are now in the hands of a prominent collector. I find it difficult to believe only 2 sets made, with one known set having been used.

The white set is off the display bike that the frame is pictured from above(would like to know where you got them from as that has been bugging Roger for a while where all the parts from the bike whent too, not an accusation either he is old and cant remember what went where), the other set has never been mounted. The mold that the bars were done in was good for two bars....and only one mold was finished. I just asked Roger and he said only 1 set was done, and they are the ones pictured above, the ones you had are either regular bars painted and stickered or if there were 2 made its the set from this bike pictured below.....
Here is the white ones you are talking about. If the "prominant" collector would post a picture I can tell in about 2 seconds if they are indeed the composite bars.

Jason,

Roger will admit he is getting old and may not remember all the facts

Roger had Jay Graves test the other set. They ended up in the storage area of The Bike Gallery and about 10-12 years ago they were sold off to a serious collector. That is the set that is being discussed and they are certainly the real deal.

Ken

How about a Slingshot Mini. I visited with Mark Groendal and his brother Joel 12/11/2010 and I inquired of them how many Slingshot Mini's that had made. Contrary to popular belief they did not make two for their children as they had no children. Point in fact is they made only ONE, it was a single cable frame made especially for Brandt Hendler a hot shoe racer from Grand rapids, MI. His father and brother Jamison also raced Slingshots quite successfully. I scored the mini the second time I saw it on e-bay, passing the first time because I thought it was too expensive. Hope you enjoy the picture. Cannot get picture to load.

something you don't see every day

How about a 24 inch cook bros team frame with built in seat clamp and oversized thin wall tubing. Only the factory riders got that frame.

here is your unicorn! I will email it to you. The image is too large to post so maybe you can do it for me.

My buddy Aubry has this one. It's the only one I've seen with straight seat stays on a non loop tail. If I remember right, this one is stamped 86. He was co-factory SE in the 80's.

our theory is it's a transitional frame, from where the seat stays meet at the seat tube, and the normal ones that join the top tube, but have a bend.

Personally this, and the loop tail version with the straight seat stays, are the best looking quads.

1973 redline looptail is really rare !!!!. they never made one. they only started making forks in 1974.

If you throw out team frames and specialties like the TA24, GJS24, 26/24 OM ETC and go with straight rare production frame sets here is a quick list of some hard ones to find.

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.
2. True first gen STR1 looped BB .... The search still continues....
3. TW racer which went up in smoke but did crossover into the early LRP era which is also very very rare.
4. 1983 Black chrome GT
5. Square tube slingshot
6. Any Nomura
7. K&S Racing built by champion / I only know of one to exist
8. Dale racing frame sets
9. Tuff Neck/Superbyke Chromoly Super Cheeta
10.Redline Monoshock only around 35 produced
11.R&R Squareback , Only two found
12. GJS Big tube
13. Factory gold looptail PK Ripper , Only 4 known survivors
14. Doug Schwerma Champion
15. Freshour / US or overseas but only about 20 US frames were ever built and only one Freshour is known to exist period.
16. Hyper built for the late Billy Ferell / Beautful twin downtube frame sets
17. Slingshot cruiser
18. 1st gen Round tube PK Ripper
14. JU-6
15. Aluminum Hutch