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O forget the forks the yare sold and tange Tx-1200 from the UK have been fitted..Gee I need handle bars as well..I have a new 80's pair of blue alloys to trade for chrome or gold...

I really like the overseas bikes. Been getting an itch to find one.

hmmm decal is one we had to give away at BMX races as a promotional sticker.

Frames is SC early 81/ish and an early american one piece BB.(With new gussets.) Something we resisted as quality cro-mo one piece cranks were hard to get consistency in quality. We had in testing so called good brands ending up as 6.05 instead of opposed at 6.00 o'clock in jumps on our test track. We also introduced Cro-mo Tange forks about then and conventional stems. Also spoked wheels Araya/Sunshine.

Nice condition   Frank (PPP)

effjay wrote:

Copies of Motomags not likely Pantha wheels were the first in the world with freewheel, there was another heavier US mag with bendix back pedal brake just before ours plain spoked.

All the other alloy wheels then followed Pantha's example with variation of spoke patterns. None had the quality sealed bearings which were also a first.

We had enquiries from around ...the world even doing a sample for Suzuki. We just didn't have the production capacity.
Frank PPP

You may be onto something thier...I remember PANTHA Wheels from late 70's but never saw a motomag untill early 80's..
these wheels are sealed bearing but the old skateboard type with metal sides not plastic or rubber.But today these wheels have the good bearing and custom made axles to suit..
I have anther pair of these wheels and a pair of LESTER mag wheels....
TRUE the pantha wheels are freewheel and the lester is a coaster.

SUZUKI Made bloomin nice BMX's I had a Pro-Sight for a while..Carnt beat that Japanese Cr-Mo Ping of frame flex in a half pipe..

Was this one of the Suzuki's? I've often wondered if it was Pantha built - the looptail, Kleena grips, Snakebelly's and Alloy Mags looked like it was a PPP product...

WOW! Wait till Brit and Jermaine see this thread!

aotearoastyle wrote:

the original mags made "for" not "by" pantha by another company were the first sealed bearing mags in the world and came out in these colours "bright red , black , yellow , gold and blue" , handle bars came out in either the "box" or the "vee" kinda like thee ones redline nz took on not to long after pantha's bikes were on the market , i have one of the araya 20x13/6 w/o japan* super skinny rims that originaly came out on some of the pantha's

They were made by the same group as all design /specs were a co-operation likea car manufacturer.

Dixon Engineering were part of the team as they were already making car mags.  The first wheels we made were painted and  wet sprayed in gold. Later models we powder coated in colours as  listed plus Silver and Black.We made axles and axle nuts modelled on campagnolo track wheel nuts. Yes they were a world first utilising  quality Rss sealed single row bearings.

We attempted to anodise the wheels but the alloy composition would not allow an acceptable finish. Handle bars were Box and same colours as wheels. The oval tubed forks were a first as well. The rims for spoked wheels were originally Araya 20x1.75 anodised and skinny rims were 20 x 1.13/8. W e also did some special builds with Araya20 " tubular rims and tubular tyreson a light weight Tange cro- mo tube set.

i got my info from the magazine advertisement when pathna first got released , they have a copy of it on bitd