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1980 Quicksilver Team
#1 2009-07-25 1:11pm
1980 Quicksilver Team
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#2 2009-07-25 5:22pm
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Re: 1980 Quicksilver Team
Bump for the Quicky
Well done on the resto kcw, especially since it was a tip find. The chrome looks very clean. has it had a bath or been rechromed ?
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#4 2009-07-26 4:31pm
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Very good find. Saving a classic from being landfill is always a good thing. This 'Quikkie' looks fast just standing there!
Into riding & collecting BMX before old school was old school...
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#5 2010-02-21 10:07am
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AWESOME job finding that one my friend, and VERY nice resto job there!!
i love to hear stories like that
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#6 2011-11-23 1:26am
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Re: 1980 Quicksilver Team
For our non Aussie members, here's a little more info.
The Quicksilver 'Team' was Competition Development's first factory race model & was the production version of the four [approx] hand made frames for the factory team riders. This is why the writing under the Quicksilver name on the sticker says "Factory Replica Frame"
These production frames first saw the light of day in December 1979
It has been estimated that somewhere between 120 & 150 were made
Six examples have been documented as current day survivors, of which this [serial 50] is one.
One more example needs to be verified before being conclusively inclided in the survivor list
They seem never to have been advertised in magazines or sales brochures.
This is the model that the factory sponsored riders across the country gained their fame.
It's also the model that brought Quicksilver to national prominence.
To be saved from an unjust fate at the last moment is extremely fortunate as it will now bask in the historic glory that it so richly deserves.
I'll keep building bikes till I die, & maybe a couple of days after that. Quicksilver
It's Aussie for "BMX"
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#8 2013-01-30 11:02pm
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Love it when bikes get yanked back out of the grave, just went through the same thing myself.
Amazing build and story - top stuff.
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#9 2015-01-07 2:04pm
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That is a very cool looking bike. Takes it's style queue's from a Mongoose, but somehow cooler looking to me.
Sweet machine.
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#10 2015-05-23 5:03pm
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Very cool bike,reminds me of the professor riding a team quicksilver at a Sydney track 82/83 he was also on a tv commercial doing a rock walk.
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#11 2015-11-10 5:04pm
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Did it get raced in the end? Lovely bike
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#12 2016-03-15 6:40am
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Re: 1980 Quicksilver Team
Don't know if it was raced but a few more have been found bringing the total to about 11 & so far the highest serial is close to 100, so we may have to eventually revise the production estimate downward.
For me these are the Holy Grail of Quickie models & I have spent considerable effort [& money] finding & securing the two that I now have.
Yaaaaay Team!
I'll keep building bikes till I die, & maybe a couple of days after that. Quicksilver
It's Aussie for "BMX"
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#13 2016-06-17 4:24pm
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