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Chris B
I am very fortunate to have both a wonderful powder guy and chromer within 20 minutes of my house. Both of which are very affordable IMO. Here's what I just picked up on my way home from work today. It took a few days shy of 2 months, but only cost me $600. Although the photos are not the best, this is Show Chrome at it's finest. It's well worth the wait and stunning to say the least. I wish I would of taken "BEFORE" shots of this stuff. The Hutch Hubs, Tuf Necks, Hutch Stem, Profile Spiders, Profile Cranks, GT Pro Bars, Torker Cruiser Bars and most of the seat posts were all in very, very bad shape. Just goes to show you can restore just about any part if you can find a good shop to do it. I buy trashed stuff every day and enjoy bringing it back to life. CB
Pictured below: 2 sets of 24X1.75 Araya 7X rims, 2 sets of 20X1.75 Ukai Rims, 1 set of 20X1.75 Araya 7X rims, 1 set of JMC Fab/Cruiser Bars, 1 set of early Torker Cruiser Bars, 2 sets of GT Pro Bars, Early (Race Inc. Made) SE Pro Bars, JMC DY Bars, JMC DY Fork, RL 401's, Profiles, Profile Spiders, 2 Sugino 44t Rings, 2 44t Pro Neck Rings, 1 Straight and 2 Laid Back GT Posts, 2 Straight and 1 Laid Back Hutch Post, 1 set of 152mm Super Maxy Cranks, 4 Kool Stop Disks, 2 Tuf Necks, 1 Hutch Stem, 4 Hutch 2n1 Headset Locks, 2 sets of early Hutch 3 Piece Aluminum Hubs, 2 MX1000 Calipers and lastly 3 Dia-Compe Tech 3 Levers.



jj
I just fell out of my chair!!!
PEP
This is the straw that broke the camels back....

all my stuff is for sale...

UN BELIEVEABLE
Chris P
NICE
bmxcurator
....lord, would you guys stop posting pics of sick stuff? I have to go clean out my pants AGAIN. Great job, and great deal for $600
twintoptuber
You got all that done for 6 bills???

Funny thing is, it almost looks too good for what was available back in the day. Very nice.
vettefan
you better not let this guys shop name out, or you will be waiting 6 months for your next batch !! ( but seriously- send it to me for giving you the warning !!! ) nice nice stuff ! not to mention the price- i am sick with envy !
Rooonga
BLING!!
Randy
!the stems are sick!

Did they have to dissasemble the levers to chrome them?
Alan McCorkle
Lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way I say! Just when you think the bar can't be raised another notch and Chris drops this bomb! You and I share the same illness; can I recommend professional help?
Chris B
Thanks for the replies. No Randy they chromed them in one piece plus the strap. They turn out awesome. I have had them do around 10 levers to date. The stems are killer. I paid less than $25 for each of those Tuf Necks and they were beat. BTW my chromer said that he actually should of charged me $900 for all that stuff, but the quote was for $600 so he stuck with to it. He said those rims require so much labor that they will be $100 per set from now on...
REDZ
Once again Chris...
AndyDiamond
Holy ****!

Man - you could be the Jay-Z of BMX - Bling bling!

I have a Tuf neck (Tiger head) that is anodised silver.
If I got it chromed like you have how do you ensure the logo or the threads don't get 'chromed over'?

-Andy
Greg Folk
Boy Alan Mc, we thought your hookup was good. (o:

Wow!!

Very nice Chris.
graeme
wow
graeme
Alan McCorkle
Yo G-

The bar hath been raised so let the games begin!
cornfed
OOOOOOHHHH!!!!

DY bars, DY fork, Hmmmm.... It looks like Chris is building a JMC... maybe a DY frame too? How many of those parts are going on the JMC you're building?

I still want to see you JMC cruiser!!
Kevin O'
Holy cow, Chris ... that stuff is just dripping perfection.

Ummmm ...

Who was the guy that might do the bottom bracket work on that Traker frame?

(doing simple math equations in my head)

lol.

Wow again ... beautiful.

Kevin O'
raybeard
Nice job Chris! The hubs look BEAUTIFUL! Too bad you didn't bid enough money to win the ambrosias on ebay earlier today. You would have gotten the hoops and the hardware for a set of those hubs. LOL!

Are the spiders chrome plated or polished? Did profile ever chrome those spiders? What spider came with the Profile looking Hutch cranks? Was that spider chromed?
Chris B
John
I may have a JMC or 2 or 3 up my sleeve. It's going to be a busy winter that's all I can say!
Ray
I think the early Profile Made Hutch Cranks did come with a chrome Profile Spider from the photos I have seen. However, they didn't come chrome straight from Profile for their own cranks. They only came in silver, black, gold, red and blue according to their ads in Plus and BMXA. I couldn't resist chroming them though. They really look nice with a anodized chainring.
CB
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