were do you get them slider trikes??
seen a vid on YOUTUBE and fell in love with them.


http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMBE4bhm1o

sadly only second hand, if one pops up somewhere or custom made. the huffy slider was only made in 2006 for kmart!!! and there sold out!! but you can get a 16'' version from a few places, but you need to mod em heaps.

i just made mine useing parts from an old huffy green machine and a bmx, then welded up a frame.. let us know if ya need specs and stuff..

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DAmn there is a 12yo at my local park doing backflip's and tail wip's. And ther is an 11yo jumping probably the bigest race jump in victoria at "Knox BMX track" with is 7 or 8 meters I think?

When i was younger, i had motorbikes and BMX's and i've been lucky to own a REDLINE 540 and a KUWAHARA(i think thats how its spelt?).

The redline was the best BMX i've ever riden and it coped heaps of punishment from me! my parents bought me the redline because they were worried of serious injury associated with riding motorbikes, so they rather me ride my pushie, They thought it was safer but little did they know about the jumps me and my mates built and were going off! LOL!

But you get that!

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was that on the first strait?


my cuz is 17 doing fronty's and 360 whips.. the only trick i have over him is bunnyhop whips buggerd if i could do them now!!!

Fellas that to me just sounds like hard work!

I do have a poor neglected diamondback, with a longer frame (24 inches?) for lanky bastards like myself. Will try and find a pic.

hell yeah top subject choice dodgeman ..
hey revhead finigans in brunswick thats pretty old school .(im from fawkner)....
so who hers still got there stackhat ..
my brother still has his mini mongoose and his HUTCH.......
I had a few redline rl30a series bmx and a pk ripper .
and a couple of torker 2 freestyles.......
now im 35 years old and i have a haro group 1 frame with mongoose rims tioga front sproket ,pitbull centre pull brakes,redline goose neck and snm knee saver bars ........
oh yeah bear trap pedals ........
cheers geoff........

these are the only beasts you'll see me rollin round my nabourhood on.
my eagles scooter
my metal bike co BMX bike
& my CA datto ute in the making
Clicky

wow didnt realize so many datto fans were or are into bmx. I have a S&M .38 special and a fit aitkin 3.5. No sputnic though

WOW, I didn't expect this much response. Looks like there are more than just a few big kids out there.
Keep the pictures & stories coming.

Since the first post I have had a meeting with one of the three frame welders at Competition Developments who were the manufacturers of Quicksilver.
Each frame number was followed by a single letter that was the initial of the first name of the frame welder & all three of mine were built by 'D' for Darrell.

After carefully examining my 'Team Helium' frame he has declared it to be one of the three hand made pre-production frames that he made & were used
for R&D, testing, brochure pictures, & promotion.
The rear tubes were hand bent on the bench & various parts were tack welded during assembly due to the lack of a jig while production frames had
tubes bent in proper fixtures & were welded up in jigs.

One of the three was raced in open competition by Mark, another of the frame welders & he was the 'factory test rider' it seems.
I have his numbers & will catch up with him soon.

I will now have the chrome plate removed by the original electroplaters & Darrell has offered to repair the chain rub damage & other minor dings.
It will then be re-chromed, again by the original shop which is still run by the same people.

The pre production frames used red stickers from a previous model while the production frames had the blue ones that were designed for this model &
a new set of red ones is on its way.

This frame was discovered tied to the wall of a Sydney bike shop by one of our forum members who promptly rang me to tell me of it on a Saturday morning.
The following Monday morning I was in there negotiating a deal not fully realising what it was that I was buying.
Thanks Ben, I owe you for this. It is destined to be a carpet queen now.

Anybody got a Tange TRX fork that is available?




































One of the three [red stickers plus valves in tubes] under test in competition.
Judging by the colours it has been assembled from whatever was laying around the workshop.
EDIT That's Mark Bradley in the air. He was involved in design, manufacture, & testing. Any frame numbers with the suffix 'M' were made by him.