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    New Zealand. Pacific Rim RatRod Build/er

    Cam, July they are bringing in entry certification, same as if you dropp a V8 into a Bambina. So - if you have a spare hundy or three you can go in now and get a bunch of plates for your future projects, or you could do what I'm thinking and paint any of my future bikes the same colour, and...
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    New Zealand. Pacific Rim RatRod Build/er

    Ha! Small world seems to be the order of the day... I'm in Hamilton. Sold a bike to a guy on TradeMe today, who I'd met five or six years back in another town. He must've said three times what a small world it was. I didn't argue either. Mind you I thought this thread title might attract...
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    Spoked Wheels?

    I know this is quite an old thread now, but I've been reading up the last couple of weeks and had an idea the other day that you should easil get away with 14mm axle 20" BMX rims - 3 cross 48 spoke pattern, competition gauge spokes - you could probably even get away with a (Standard) 36 spoke...
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    New Zealand. Pacific Rim RatRod Build/er

    Oh yeah, and I'm going to school on this kind of thing in a big way... http://thegokart.wordpress.com/ bugatti gokarts blog and posts - thanks mate.
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    New Zealand. Pacific Rim RatRod Build/er

    Hi, Just quickly : I picked up one of those chinese cargo trikes a few months back - I rode it 65km the day I bought it. I've used it for work a couple of times, mostly these days I just look at it figuring out what it's really meant to be... The other day it hit me - a rat rod pickup...
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