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As Many may know I Saved a 1987 GT From Being Crushed at the scrap yard on Friday.. http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=474597 I started messing with it this evening,and I Cleaned the Handel bar pad that was on the bike. I Will post more pictures over the next few days of the progress of the bike.. The First few pictures are before pictures. The rest are after pictures...

6s135 · 2012-12-09 5:07pm

Looks good so far

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 7:40am

I Cleaned up the DK stem some this morning... The first picture is before. The rest are after pictures..

Burning River · 2012-12-10 7:43am

I had that very same DK stem on my Xeronine XL , looks good so far .

poppa wheelie · 2012-12-10 7:43am

Nice.

tim1218 · 2012-12-10 8:01am

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 9:18am

I cleaned up the bars,and grips. They both cleaned up pretty decent,but the bars appear to have some cracks at the ends of the top bar. I Can't tell 100% if the cracks are through the metal or just the paint. The bars are not bent in any way which is a great thing. I just hope the cracks are only through the paint,and not the metal...

flatland1974 · 2012-12-10 9:25am

Great job...that DK stem looks NICE.I thought the grips were black and white!

ANTDOG · 2012-12-10 9:38am

If you plan on riding it do not use the bars, It looks like they are rusting from the inside out. I had a set of 401 flights and my drive arm looked the same. Once I took it off I found out that it was rusted from the indside

BMX KYLE · 2012-12-10 9:40am

Sweet looking good...

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 9:59am

ANTDOG wrote:
If you plan on riding it do not use the bars, It looks like they are rusting from the inside out. I had a set of 401 flights and my drive arm looked the same. Once I took it off I found out that it was rusted from the indside

I looked at the bars very good,and closely with a flashlight,and a magnifying glass. It Looks like the cracks may go all the way through,But when I look down the holes at the end of the bars where the grips go there is not a single drop of rust..

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 10:01am

Here are some Pictures of the White KMC Chain after clean up..

Burning River · 2012-12-10 10:08am

That's good to hear about the bars . I found an older set of Performer bars for my new GT and had to coat the inside of them with a Rust Inhibitor .

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 11:52am

Here are some before,and after pictures of the cranks... Before After

thewhitelarrybird · 2012-12-10 12:18pm

looks like that bars are toast
i would still clean them up and throw them on the bike for show

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83GTLongPro · 2012-12-10 12:31pm

flatland1974 wrote:
I thought the grips were black and white!

Exactly what I thought, too.

mongoosefreak · 2012-12-10 1:18pm

thewhitelarrybird wrote:
looks like that bars are toast
i would still clean them up and throw them on the bike for show

I Am pretty sure the bars would be a easy fix for the frame Doc.. Here Are Some pictures of the rest of the bike so far. I have not even began to clean the frame,fork,or wheels,and the frame and forks look Awesome. Once cleaned and polished they will look Amazing...

Last edited by mongoosefreak (2012-12-10 1:19pm)

marksx5 · 2012-12-10 2:52pm

Wow that is turning out awesome!!

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