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1991 Dirt Bros.

Finally

I lived in San Diego for about a year from 1990-1991 and rode Mission Trails just about every single day. Pete Augustin, Brad Blanchard, Ronnie Farmer and Kaarlos Wik were always there and occasionally Eddie Roman would show up all rocking the Dirt Bros framesets. On my 18th birthday in 1991 the KOD was held at Mission Trails and During warm-ups i wound up bending my bars, Matt Hoffman was there for the competition and was cool enough to give me a set of patriot bars, also there was Vic Murphy and when i asked him about getting a DBI kit he told me they had all either been sold or given away. I recently got back in touch with Vic and he hooked me up with the frame graphics and from there it was just a matter of time before i built one of my own
PARTS LIST:
* Skyway T/A XL frame ( original decal art provided by Vic Murphy)
* Redline Taper fork
* Hoffman Patriot bars (given to me by Hoffman himself)
* TNT stem (my favorite stem from bitd)
* MX seat
* Indy Industries seatpost
* Tuf Neck clamp
* Redline Flite Cranks
* Tuf Neck power disc and chainring
* Peregrine Sealed 48's
* Ukai HP 48's
* Tioga Comp III 20X2.25

chromey · 2009-03-11 8:51am

Awesome Awesome Awesome!
A real tribute to the 2nd life of these bikes.

The campy hubs actually look awesome on there too.

Those are the Bully Bars , right?

Incredible build.

stillinthegame · 2009-03-11 9:34am

the bars are Hoffman Patriot bars... Matt Hoffman, the man himself gave them to me at the 2hip King Of Dirt contest at mission trails in 1991

chromey · 2009-03-11 9:38am

stillinthegame wrote:
the bars are Hoffman Patriot bars... Matt Hoffman, the man himself gave them to me at the 2hip King Of Dirt contest at mission trails in 1991

Ah yes.. you told me that. (I actually thought patriot bars looked a little differen. ) I was wrong...
I Love them!

haro, indiana · 2009-03-11 12:25pm

I love it!! Always dug the dirt bros...

gtbmx44 · 2009-03-11 12:32pm

what exactly is a dirt bros? i thought the ta's where 83+ not 91....

please shed some light on this beast

cirebo · 2009-03-11 12:41pm

gtbmx44 wrote:
what exactly is a dirt bros? i thought the ta's where 83+ not 91....

please shed some light on this beast

is the missing 84 = resold as dirtbros?

gypsypunk · 2009-03-11 12:52pm

Wow! That is an extremely nice Dirt Brothers build. Great work! Looking forward to seeing the parts list.

stillinthegame · 2009-03-11 12:54pm

The DIRT BROTHERS was a company that Vic Murphy started in 1990 based out of San Diego, Ca. They bought the remaining inventory of SKYWAY T/A's and put REDLINE taper forks on them, put their own decals on and sold it as the DIRT BROS frameset.

Last edited by stillinthegame (2009-03-12 6:11am)

stillinthegame · 2009-03-12 11:51am

updated with a brief history and parts list

trktwo · 2009-03-12 12:56pm

you got some sik bikes sitg. nice

stillinthegame · 2009-03-13 12:58pm

updated pics with the peregrine super pros

Last edited by stillinthegame (2009-03-13 12:58pm)

bsmith · 2009-03-13 1:07pm

Damn Jay, thats a sweet ride. Classic looking I thought there was a tie in to the Dirt Bros and Skyway just by the looks of it, didn't know the actual history behind it. Great job, what happened to the campy's?

himjill · 2009-03-14 7:56am

Simple yet quite possibly my favorite on the whole site. Awesome job!

stillinthegame · 2009-03-23 8:28am

The campys were actually my OG wheels from 20 years ago when i had a GHP (that i am hoping to rebuild) the DBI crew mainly rode peregrine wheels and sometimes used a skyway mag in the front.

84master · 2009-03-23 4:09pm

KILLER!! One of my fave bikes on this site. Vic didn't buy all of the leftover TAs, I bought 6? (still have 3 84XLs) and my buddy bought a few too (since sold). There were some left after us. This was 1992.

stillinthegame · 2009-04-21 12:20pm

me and skunks DBI bump

CythoN · 2009-05-05 3:22pm

Love it! nice one

84master · 2009-05-06 5:21am

I can't stop looking at this bike!!!!

luke weiser · 2009-09-03 3:40pm

Was one of the bro's trying that crazy bike flip back in the day? I vaguely remember something like that.

Honda4bmxSnM · 2009-09-03 3:46pm

Looks like Flag's bike from circa '95...

...Anyone remember Flag from Scum Clothing vids like 1201 and Lights Out?

He was crazy street riding back then. 180's off of HUGE gaps rolling out fakie.

DavidHolden · 2009-10-29 3:41pm

what a true rider like myself.get tired of all the poesers.keep rockin bro.

stillinthegame · 2009-10-30 6:13am

luke weiser wrote:
Was one of the bro's trying that crazy bike flip back in the day? I vaguely remember something like that.

That was Brad Blanchard. I never heard if he landed it or not but it almost defies description. He would flip the bike lengthwise and try and catch it mid air and jump back on. Brad was always one of my favourite riders to watch, you never knew what he would do