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Picked this up as a survivor from a guy i met while riding one day. 1987 Mongoose decade all there but the mags. My goal for this project was to keep it as original as possible. I had the frame,fork,bars and seatpost powder coated super high gloss white, cleaned up the chrome on the original sugino one piece crank,spider and chainring. The pedals were shot, so i got a set of NOS MKS grafite2000's off ebay, they even came in the original box. theyre damn close to identical to what came on it. Put a brand new set of sealed skyways on it, shimano freewheel, cheng shin tires(they suck, they seem like theyre not even round, buldgy and roll like crap!) the stem was in ok shape but the cap was beat, replaced that with a NOS spin tech top cap, i cleaned up and painited and greased up the spin tech rotor. i just need to find cables that will work. seems to be difficult to find any. the 990s are polished but not installed yet.now has porkchop tech 77's original dominator seat, cleaned up nice. decals from ultrahive. enough talk, heres the pics. thanks for looking!
Night i brought it home

Back from powder

Sorry for all the blurry pics, camera sucks pretty bad. let me know what you think so far!! thanks!

addiemonster · 2012-05-25 2:19pm

I'm in love!!! Excellent Decade! Love the white theme you have going.

Midschool_Obsession · 2012-05-25 2:21pm

Thanks!!

mike16a · 2012-05-25 2:49pm

The pics do not do midschool obsessions decade justice!!!!!!I have been getting updates on its progress from the day we got the lead on that score at the track a few months ago... the bike is awesome

zombie_jesus · 2012-05-25 2:50pm

looks real good.

bones977 · 2012-05-25 5:26pm

Great build!!! Looks awesome.
I had to redo my brakes on my chrome one as well. I just bought 3 front break kits and 3 feet of white tubing and used that. Not correct but it works great and looks good too.

Kurt_Rad · 2012-05-25 5:29pm

Awesome. Make sure you put that reflector back on...for authenticity...

slatzman · 2012-05-25 6:35pm

Looks nice. Where did you get the decals?

alainmagana · 2012-05-25 6:39pm

mike16a · 2012-05-25 7:35pm

He got the decals from ultrahive

Venom · 2012-05-27 6:29pm

bones977 wrote:
Great build!!! Looks awesome.
I had to redo my brakes on my chrome one as well. I just bought 3 front break kits and 3 feet of white tubing and used that. Not correct but it works great and looks good too.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/ … 106ff0.jpg

The cables you need are sold here at Rini Ent cable a, I have them and work but cables look bad so Im replacing them. http://rinienterprises.com/categorydeta … 671C3B1492

Midschool_Obsession · 2012-05-29 12:27pm

Thanks for the cables info guys. ill look into it! anyone else have issues with tires not seating right now skyways? i cant for the life of me get these tires to roll smooth!

bones977 · 2012-05-29 1:45pm

Midschool_Obsession wrote:
Thanks for the cables info guys. ill look into it! anyone else have issues with tires not seating right now skyways? i cant for the life of me get these tires to roll smooth!

Nope but I did with a set of gt mags. Are you using 1.25 size tires? If so go with a wider tire and they should be fine.

Midschool_Obsession · 2012-05-29 5:31pm

20x1.75 cheng shins i was thinking about running a fatter tire on it and seeing what happens

Venom · 2012-05-31 6:36pm

The other site Rini is down not sure what happened but I ordered those cables from Porkchop BMX http://www.porkchopbmx.com/Brake-Inner- … MBC120.htm

Midschool_Obsession · 2012-05-31 6:49pm

does the road bike end pull thru the rotor or is it perfect? the walmart ones pull right thru. i was going to run regular cables, but they look kind of ugly.

Venom · 2012-05-31 9:41pm

Midschool_Obsession wrote:
does the road bike end pull thru the rotor or is it perfect? the walmart ones pull right thru. i was going to run regular cables, but they look kind of ugly.

Ill try them out once I get them and get back to you.

sim.decade · 2012-06-28 4:11pm

hi there can any one help im in need of decals for decade mongoose plssssssssssss help

bones977 · 2012-06-28 5:32pm

sim.decade wrote:
hi there can any one help im in need of decals for decade mongoose plssssssssssss help

Ultrahive has them.

jbrown1168 · 2012-06-29 10:06am

Awesome ride.

Venom · 2012-07-03 12:10pm

Took me a bit but the Porkchop ones fit. The shaft on the botton is a littler shorter but the top wide head is the same size. I ended up keeping the original inner cable as there was nothing wrong with them just needed a bit of lube plus new white housing. I will keep them as spares.

Midschool_Obsession · 2012-07-05 6:07pm

i ended up just getting 3 odyssey slic cables with white housings and used those. it came out alright, but that thing is a royal pain to get adjusted! i have no spring tension on the brakes it seems, they dont pull back enough, it feels like mush when i pull the lever, all my cables are not hung up on anything or kinked. maybe its just a spintech characteristic i guess?

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