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NICE MAN!

First, I am very sad to see this happen to such a rare 91!  I personally love the hot lava performers, and I'm shocked that you stripped the paint and decals off that bike!  Why would you use a regular trimoly performer frame to build a PFT?  Completely different bike.  You brought a tear to my eye when I saw the picture of it stripped....another one bites the dust.

Dude, that Hutch head tube pen holder on the work bench is sooo dope!

BTW X, while you're chopping things up, why not put a 1 1/8 steerer tube on those forks?

Alrighty then, quite the mix of opinions here.  I wasn't expecting some of those responses to tell you the truth.    I didn't see anyone rain on rividudes parade for building this awesome 1990 Performer into this...   http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=100324

Really though, I don't care much because it's just a bike and restoring them, well frankly...it get's boring.  I'm a fabricator at heart and I love creativity.  I love taking something that's really not all that much to look at and making into something completely different.  Doing something nobody else has tried yet.  It will be fun!!!  I'm stoked!!! 

I went to pick up the 89 Team decals today after work and they screwed them up.  The printing was perfect but the clear and white were done backwards!    They're doing them over.   I'll post pics when they're done. 

Last edited by xtremevert (2008-12-18 9:26pm)

It's not as bad as the guy that peeled the decals off of the Widowmaker... LOL!

Nice start on a cool project! I'm sure it will turn out nice! Lose that coaster brake tab while you are at it...

I'm sure a few people probably peed their pants when this guy hacked a 32 Ford... but the end-product sure is nice!

Faust Wurstkotzenhauser wrote:

It's not as bad as the guy that peeled the decals off of the Widowmaker... LOL!

Nice start on a cool project! I'm sure it will turn out nice! Lose that coaster brake tab while you are at it...

That's funny you say that because I've been eyeing that sucker up for a week!  I think it's gotta go too! 

bmxerpete wrote:

I love the idea, and like Donnie said to each his own. I agree with Faust, lose the coaster tab...and did you give any thought to welding the 990 mounts on the seatstays instead of the chainstays? That way you could run a new school small gear setup and a London mod...

Hmm, never thought of that.  Interesting.  My S3 has that set-up.  I'll have to look into that too.  Kinda leaning towards the chainstays though.  I've already got a 37/13 gearing set up for it with flip flop GT Mohawk hubs in mind.

Oh, I came up with a great idea for the GT Power Series crank dilema too.  At my shop we used to use bondo for applying all of our gate spears for a cleaner finish (before press fit spears came out). Sometimes when we get the odd small dent in one of our steel or aluminum extrusion lengths we use bondo to fill in the dent and we sand it down and then it gets powdered over and you can't tell it was even there to begin with.  So I'm going to get some PowerBites and fill in the logo with high strength bondo and powder over them and apply decals in the correct place on the crank arm so you won't be able to see the Primo logo was there at all.  Should look stellar!!!

bmxerpete wrote:

That is cool to know...I've always wondered if bondo would hold up when they bake it and no one has ever been able to answer that for me. Cool...

Those will be the perfect cranks for it no doubt. Can't wait to see this bike done.

Yup, high strength auto body filler/bondo works awesome.  Never had a problem with it.  Sticks to aluminum like mad too.  Sometimes we have an accident where the top of a spear get's broken off and we need to pop off the base of the spear from the picket and we seriously have to bang it off with a punch and hammer.  Bonds like crazy.

WOW this is going to be a cool project.  Cant wait to see it step by step.  Can i get a step by step on how you made that Hutch Pen holder.  Ill probably need blue prints too:lol:

I think the original color is cool too.  I'd have kept it, but it isn't my bike.  I like the stock bikes and the modified bikes.  There's room for both.