That thing is a classic piece of the blammo/mirra evolution. What does that baby weigh in at?

Last edited by FU (2010-06-20 7:49pm)

MENTAL!!!!!
Good to see you located one of these babes!

My touch though would be the Mirra Pro Bars,hehe
I'm still missing the forks for my S351 and i'm planning on a BIG come back of my 1998 broken Blammo

Take care.
Costas.

JayTee1986 wrote:

I would have to take another look at it but a can remember opening the box and removing the taiwan sticker.

Learn your things better, before trying to prove someone wrong

Obviously Kmpap can't be wrong here....neither do my eyes.
Haro DID made the best haros of ALL time may i say, by the late 90's & early 00's

Haro offered as an option the USA-Made Mirra & Backtrail frames, which were only sold as single frames! Retail of these frames were pretty much half the price of a complete Mirra Pro
So, pretty rare bike here!

Duke.

Hey ya Duke - good to hear from you, buddy.    Hope all is well in your sunny part of the world (it's freezing here in NYC)!

Actually, the '03 did come in an overseas made frame (as well as a rather expensive and well-spec'd complete) in both tan (or "Putty" as they called it) and Lite Gray.  But there was also a select run of USA-made '03 frames, only.  This is one of those, and I just barely laid my hands on one.  The '03 models kind of came a went, really.  Dave rode one at the '03 L.A. X-Games if memory serves, but that's about all the exposure this particular model seemed to get that year (that I saw).

In my opinion, the '03s were the last of the Great Haros - beginning in '04 they no longer manufactured USA-made frames at all (at least to my knowledge) and the spec on the completes sort of dropped a notch, quality-wise.  The '04s were fun completes, and I even own and rip around on a modified SG Black version (pic) but the game had changed at Haro for whatever reason, and the bikes were never quite the same....

Last edited by kmpap (2010-12-10 7:51pm)

"Dude" you said the following

JayTee1986 wrote:

Highly doubt USA made.

and i responded accordingly

Doesn't sound nice if i say to you "Highly doubt you know your things right", do i?
No offence.

kmpap wrote:

Hey ya Duke - good to hear from you, buddy.    Hope all is well in your sunny part of the world (it's freezing here in NYC)!

Actually, the '03 did come in an overseas made frame (as well as a rather expensive and well-spec'd complete) in both tan (or "Putty" as they called it) and Lite Gray.  But there was also a select run of USA-made '03 frames, only.  This is one of those, and I just barely laid my hands on one.  The '03 models kind of came a went, really.  Dave rode one at the '03 L.A. X-Games if memory serves, but that's about all the exposure this particular model seemed to get that year (that I saw).

In my opinion, the '03s were the last of the Great Haros - beginning in '04 they no longer manufactured USA-made frames at all (at least to my knowledge) and the spec on the completes sort of dropped a notch, quality-wise.  The '04s were fun completes, and I even own and rip around on a modified SG Black version (pic) but the game had changed at Haro for whatever reason, and the bikes were never quite the same....

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee10 … ra2004.jpg

Hey Kevin! All is well, hope the same for you.
I had sent you a pm in the past.

Unfortunately, yesterday night was snowing here   Weather has gone mad for the last years...2 days from now,and probably i'll be able to get out wearing just a t-shirt (!).

I agree with Kmpap, there were always running a sale of Taiwanese made frames along with the USA-Made ones (1999-2003).   I still remember the local bike shop having for sale a Taiwan made 2002 Backtrail Pro frame in the parts area which didn't come off a complete bike.
And these 2003 Mirras were sold in both available colors for the overseas version.
2003 was the last year for the low run USA-made ones, according to what the local importer had told me a few years back as i was interested getting my hands on a USA Mirra frame.
They also stopped manufacturing Haro "Made In U.S.A." parts (sprockets & stems) on the 2004 onwards completes. Premium Products was their new company for such parts.

2004 frames had a nice integrated headset by the way. A mid BB would make them even nicer!
I heard that in 2006 they offered again some USA-Made Y2K6 Mirra frames (Terrible One Barcode lookalikes) , but never saw one.

Just for the facts, I have a 2002 Ride BMX catalog and the USA-Made S351 Mirra Pro frame retails $335 at DansComp.
For the Backtrail frame i paid nearly $500 back in 2000. Assuming that they charged me the dealer's costs, it should retail about $350-400.

Duke

Got me one of my very own. But still lovin ur build. Look at it allot. One of my favs bro.

This bike is perfect i love it.

Last edited by wannaraceme (2017-03-03 12:17am)

Sorry to say guys, but I have done some looking into these frames.  The 03 Mirra Pro frame only was offered in 2 flavors that differed from the complete bike frame:
1. USA made with SN starting H on dropout
2. Taiwan made with SN starting CIC on BB

I happen to have a 2003 Haro DEALER BOOK and here are a couple pics that clearly show the Tai model numbers, listed in price sheet, next to pic of the frame with details showing the Taiwan frame only option did indeed also come with the 990s on seatstays and metal headtube badge, etc. like the USA made frames are said to:

Details on frame option:

Pricing sheet, note the part numbers:

I have confirmed with John at Haro that the frames with the SN on BB starting CIC is Taiwan factory number.  ALSO, I got confirmation from Kip at MasterBlasterPlanet that Subrosa Trillicus frame with SN starting CIC is stamped by the factory in Taiwan.  I have a Trillicus and it is known these were made in Taiwan and my serial number starts CIC216... just like the Haro frames it starts out CIC put there by factory.  Subrosa confirmed the factory puts that there with no influence from Subrosa.

My conclusion is that both Haro and Subrosa used the same Taiwan factory for these frames.  The Mirra Pro frames with 990s on seattube that have BB SN starting with CIC are Taiwan frames.

Sorry guys, I know this probably bums some of you out but figured you would still want to know for sure like I did.

Last edited by fairlyodddad (2018-01-03 4:21pm)

Duke 01 wrote:

Very good Info on this.

So, there was actually 2x aftermarket frames for 2003 year?
And there were both USA and Taiwan made ones?

Yep. Interesting they had a few versions like that. The complete frame makes 3 different frame versions!