1977 Torker MX 
#1 2009-10-29 4:22pm
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1977 Torker MX
1977 Torker MX
My childhood bike.
I’m finally finished with my Torker! I got this in ’80 from Kar City Big Wheels in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Nothing has been refinished. It originally had a Mesinger seat with cheapo clamp and post. It also had Tange 1200s initially.
Around ’82 or so, I switched from the Motomags to some Araya wheels, along with the seat and forks pictured.
Aside from new grips (with the same rubber bar end mod I did back then), stickers, tires, and seating, all of the parts are the ones I bought with it, give or take a couple of years.
The number plate is a true, old ABA general issue, but I wanted a really 70’s looking jobby, so I made the number and stickers.
Big props to Tim the Frame Doctor for removing the longest seatpost ever made! He said it was almost down to the BB shell!
Torker MX frame
'82 (roughly) Torker fork
Redline microline V bars
non-stamped Tuf Neck
Grab-On grips w/ rubber road bike ends
Motomag II's w/ Bendix coaster brake.
Cheng Shin tires
Ashtabula crank w/ Three Arrows ring
Union Rat Trap pedals
Kashimax MX seat
Fluted post
Addicks seat clamp
ABA issued plate w/ custom number and stickers
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#2 2009-10-29 4:25pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
WOW... A Torker with MotoMags!!!
Perfect!!!! 
Wanted: one TIOGA COMP III tire Natural-Gum color (1.75) /// Olive GREEN BULLY frame /// Nickel Patterson frame
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#3 2009-10-29 5:09pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
Love these old torrkers very sweet.PEACE(MYONE).
Everybody sing GOOOOO YANKEES !!! MAH!! COULD WE GET SOME MEATLOAF ??????????
Your gonna wear the shirt of the band your going to see??? DONT BE THAT GUY!!!!!!
R.I.P. Autmn Pasquale 12yrs. old you will not be forgotten. Murderd over BMX parts. UNFORGIVABLE.
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#4 2009-10-30 11:18am
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
1977 WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#5 2009-12-18 5:22pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
sickest torker ever made
out with the new in with the old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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R.I.P Autumn Pasquale. May she rest in Peace!
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#6 2010-01-08 6:57pm
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thats a perfect era correct build
love it
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#7 2010-02-11 9:38am
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
Very, very well done.
Are you sure those are mild-steel V-bars? Since you bough them BITD, you'd know, I guess. But they sure look like Redline Microline bars. At least from what I can see in those photos.
I hope to get an MX one day. Pretty much the last Torker I want to add to my collection.
Bikes owned 1978-1989: '78 Schwinn Scrambler 36/36, '78 Redline Proline, '77 Redline MX-II, '79 Thruster, '79 Torker, '77 Roger DeCoster, '80 JMC, '80 Fuji Feather, '81 Boss (STOLEN!), '82 Hutch Pro, '82 Patterson, '83 GT Pro, '83 Profile Champ Pro
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#8 2010-02-11 9:44am
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#9 2010-02-11 11:34am
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
Thanks everybody! Planet, I was always under the assumption that they were Redline bars, but they aren't stamped at all. I did have a little sticker up on the curve, but can't remember if it was a Redline one or Rough Rider. I was indeed lucky enough to have hung onto mine for all these years.
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#10 2010-02-11 1:05pm
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Early Redlines weren't stamped. I have three (two Proline and one Microline) that aren't stamped. Only one still has the sticker on it. I picked them up NOS a few weeks ago. Same shade of blue. I also had a set of Prolines BITD that I bought in 1978 that weren't stamped. A set I ran later in 1980 were the first I ever saw that were stamped.
Both my painted ones have two lines of knurling (It's not the normal kind of cross-hatched knurling.) where a double-clamp stem would touch the bars. I'm pretty sure my Microlines are unknurled, but they also are unstamped. They seem to be transitional--early chrome plated, but unstamped and unknurled.
Here are one of my current Prolines:
And this is me and my cousin, both sporting red, Redline Proline V-Bars in 1978.
Bikes owned 1978-1989: '78 Schwinn Scrambler 36/36, '78 Redline Proline, '77 Redline MX-II, '79 Thruster, '79 Torker, '77 Roger DeCoster, '80 JMC, '80 Fuji Feather, '81 Boss (STOLEN!), '82 Hutch Pro, '82 Patterson, '83 GT Pro, '83 Profile Champ Pro
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#11 2010-02-11 2:50pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
Very nice! I always thought they were the real deal anyway. I'm editing accordingly!
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#12 2011-07-24 4:52pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
I had one of these frames in red-cracked at the seatube.
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#13 2011-08-01 1:18pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
WTB: * Oakley F1 grips black/yellow * all KKT FMX/LMX Pedals * Skyway Tuff Graphite pedals/cages * nos red Oakley 2 right side only * nos red Oakley 1 left side only * nos chrome KKT FMX left side pedal 9/16
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#14 2012-10-25 11:47pm
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Re: 1977 Torker MX
Motomags on a Torker. Two words; BAD. ASS.
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