BMX Old School @ BMX Non Stop! Torker

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1978 Torker

Parts List: Shimano DX lever. Maxi cranks. Bullseye hubs. Araya 7C rims. Blue & gold painted spokes. Comp III tires, blue. 6 bolt Torker stem. V-bars. Dia Comp side pull brake. Kool Stop, gold, fluted aluminum, brake pads. Click for wheel close up.
	*This Torker is loaded with "Old School"* components.**

The cranks on this Torker were some of the first aluminum cranks to appear on a BMXer so the technology was still new. I remember trying to do a two pedal start with these and with all the flex it wasn't easy! Other problems with the early aluminum cranks were...

If you had a crash which landed your bike on it's side the crank would usually be bent and hitting the chain stays.
If you let the crank-arm bolt get loose on these, the hole in the crank would round out on one ride!

It wasn't uncommon to see a bike with two different color or brand of crank arms on it. Since we all damaged our cranks one way or another, we would always save the good arms and hope to find someone with the other arm to make a set or just wait until we would bend up our new set and hope it was the opposite side as before. BOY! them were the days, hehe.

The old Shimano DX lever is nice, not as big and bulky as todays DX line, a true two finger lever.
Original Kool Stop brake pads on this puppy! It's hard to see them in the above photo but the pad is adheared to a anodized, circular, aluminum disc that is sloted for cooling just in case you decided to try a bit of downhill, not really though... I guess the slots were just for looks and to hold mud.

* NOTE: "Back In The Day" everyone referred to parts made out of aluminum as Alloy.
example; I got a new set of Alloy cranks and now my bike is all Alloyed out!

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--Last modified on Sun June 7, 1998