No, im not going to reproduce Comp II's or Hutch pedals you silly bastids!!!!!

I ended up with a NOS set of Direct Link decals in black a week or 2 ago. My bike is missing 4 stickers and NOW i have them. 2 fork decals and 2 reardrop out decals.

I have the stickers....but shall i do??? I am looking for your opinions guys!!

keep them NOS and have my sign guy make fork decals, or just stick em on!?!?!?!

This will make my bike POP even more!!!!!


Holla!

Stick em!!!!!!

copy them, scan ,etc. make em. sell em .stick em!

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Someone will come along and need those also sometime.

Use then on your fridge

My Mommy & Daddy never taught me how to share though!?!?!

They have been scanned for the future and the stickers will be installed tonite!!!

I think you should give the scans to somebody so they can make money off your score

then destroy the originals.

i had real thruster vanishing point decals .
my sign guy is making new ones that ill use on my frame .....i plan to frame the originals.

that is one bad-azz bike!

84pk, that is EXACTLY what im gonna do!!!

let someone else make $50 a set off CW, i mean Direct Link decals on ebay!!!


LOL!!

I scanned them and the OG's will be on the bike tonite, cannot wait to see the bike finally "complete" !!!!!

I had some made for fasttrackbmx.com. These days they are so easy to reproduce it's just a matter of conscience for you. If you are showing them as originals then you will have to deal with that. Otherwise, don't worry about it.

scan and share the wealth....and use the wealth for that next build!

I like to hear that you're preserving the originals, in a frame no less. Nice.

I have an idea. These kinds of things surface every once in a while, easy to duplicate - more sensible to preserve. What if as a community we made the reproductions from these kinds of finds, and use the proceeds to preserve and promote the history of BMX.

At the very least the proceeds could be contributed back to this site in some way, maybe VMBX doe's a store - keeps half for managing sales and the other half goes towards something tangible, like buying historically significant equipment (even from Ebay).

Restoration is a great tribute, but it's the original as-used things that document our sport most accurately. All Scott's and Harry's stuff that sold on Ebay, all the other collections of our luminaries, there's an incredible amount of that kind of equipment that should go to a bricks and motor bicycle museum.

Many of these brands are legally usable. If a brand or logo has been abandoned by it's original registrant, or a company has been dissolved and the brand/logo was not a registered trademark in a person's name - you should have no problem re-registering them, or at the very least - reproduce without fear of repercussions (this can very state to state for company names without trademark registration).

I think the community as whole could benefit from taking the profit out this little hobby - and preserve it's most important artifacts at the same time.

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and they are stuck.....on the fork that is!!!!

Stuck indeed.

I think I'm done with this site, when even a voice reason meets with silence ... well, then truly the asylum has been taken over by it's residents.

Adios my BMX friends.

No need to leave Shawn.

Not that I need to explain myself, but I will.

The bike is all original, no reproduction parts, nothing restored, over polished, etc.

the bike retains all OG decals, why put on reproductions????

that was my thought after i quickly finished up dinner and made my way to where the bike was....stepped back...took a look....peeled the decals off and stuck em on! Now the bike is "complete" to me!

No hard feelings homie! They are scanned and ready to be made if I need extras or if they get damaged!

~Jon

I agree with BOTH Shawn and Oldskoolpk. While I'm all for keeping those stickers intact due to scarcity, Jon makes a great point about keeping everything old.

However, anyone on this site or elsewhere, some with insanely huge and rare collections, could easily say "Im gonna take all these old bikes and film myself taking them to the smelting place and then put it on youtube!" They'd be perfectly entitled to do so. Then what?

Also, If we all had the "preservation" mentality from day one, none of these bikes would mean anything or have value. They'd simply be "another one of the 10 million (insert brand here) bikes".

Besides simply riding and wearing out or breaking things, I can't count all the dumb stuff I did as a kid, like drilling seats and brake levers, cutting number plates, making those two toned Oakleys, spray painting Tuff Wheels, putting BW stickers on stop signs, cutting Max pants into shorts, etc. But that's the very reason we now get excited over these rare things and, in my opinion, why this site even exists.

I think that using original parts is great AND sad at the same time. It's indeed a dilema.

Shawn, I cringed with you, but no need to leave. Jon, I wanna see pics of your freshly OG'd Direct Link!

So Jon what's the crime someone stole a foot off your Height???? LOL Just Kidding Bro I say orginal finish deserves orginal decals. I have 10 sets of orginal decal for SE's and the only one's I will use them on is orginal Finish but that's just me. But why put repops on that?

Shawn, The Re-pop arguments have gone on a long time here.

Making them for yourself and your bike. Fine.

Making money off of someone else's brand, abandonded or not, not so cool in most collecotr's opinions.

Diluting originals with items that can be fraudulently sold as originals. Big fights, and not good feelings from most on that one either.

You may have good intentions with the repro stickers. Others will scam, and re-sell them as originals.

It is Pandora's box.


Try making re-production stamps of rare stamps that nobody can afford, and introducing them into the stamp collecting market.

That's all the deeper I care to go in this one.

My only comment Shawn, was that I figured this was about to explode into a very nasty thread about selling re-pops for profit, and diluting original items with fakes, etc.... Now it will. lol

wahhhhh!

far be it for someone to take what is theirs and do with it as they please.












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