BABYLEGS

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BabyLegs

BabyLegs

“Who do you think you are anyway… Fred Astaire?” – OZONE (1984)

BIO

BabyLegs ain’t one for much talking but his moves speak volumes :O)

This bike was inspired by the iconic movie Breakin’

One of my favourite scenes form the movie is when Turbo (played by Michael Chambers) puts on a dance class for some kids. The stand out student was Baby Legs (aka Coco, Lil Coco or Coco Rodriguez). This kid is a straight killer when it cane to poppin n’ lockin.

As you can see I stripped the BMX frame, forks and handlebars of all paint, then gave it the full rust treatment :O)
Added some new boots in the form of gum walled Lucky Stone tyres, sitting on some black Sky Ways. The only other notable edition was the Specialized Fuse saddle with colour matching custom valve caps. These were upholstered in tan suede leather.

Logos are located at the bottom part of the seat tube and on the right side fork (exposed raw steel logo).

FRAME

Mid skool

RIMS

Skyway 20″

SADDLE

Specialized Fuse

GEARS

Single

TYRES

Lucky Stone 20×2.125

PEDALS

Black

FRONT SPROCKET

43t

REAR SPROCKET

18t

GRIPS

Black

SEAT POST

Black

VALVE CAP

Custom

LOGO

Raw steel

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WESTCHESTER LADY

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WESTCHESTER LADY

WESTCHESTER LADY

BIO

Welcome to Westchester Lady.

Westchester Lady is a beautifully rusted 2001 GT performer. The concept for this build was heavily influenced by the 1976 jazz funk classic Westchester Lady by Bob James (not officially associated or affiliated, just a huge fan of the artist and song).

Given the songs title and origins, I felt it was only right to pay tribute and make her beautiful. The colour scheme was always to be rust and white. The introduction of chrome parts where a later addition.

Apart from the rusted frame, the most striking feature of this build are the white Tony Hawk mag’s, with matching white (gum wall) Haro tyres.

The other cool feature on this build would be the denim custom saddle, which was reupholstered from a pair of white vintage 501 Levi jeans with red tab showing ;0)

FRAME

GT Performer (mid skool)

RIMS

Tony Hawk Mags

SADDLE

Vintage Levi’s 501

GEARS

Single

TYRES

Haro HPF Skinwall 20×2.2

VALVE CAPS

White Dice Snake Eyes

FRONT SPROCKET

43t GT

REAR SPROCKET

16t Main Drive

CHAIN

DiamondBack Pro Halflink

PEDALS

Wellgo Platform Pedals

GRIPS

Cult Vans Waffle Flangeless

HEAD BADGE

Premium white

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CHARMISSE 2.0

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CHARMISSE 2.0

CHARMISSE 2.0

“UMMM… I’m obsessed with Charmisse” – STEWIE GRIFFIN (2013)

BIO

Charmisse 2.0 has the same silver chain and limited edition pedals/grips as the old Charmisse. She also has the same rusted handlebars, seat rails, cranks, wheels, pegs and gyro with costume multi coloured cable spliters.

The saddle is covered in peach flux leather, with real leather as the Auset Athletic logo #wonkystitching

View Charmisse’s original back story and profile here.

FRAME

GT Performer (mid skool)

RIMS

20″ steel

SADDLE

Peach and black leather

GEARS

Single

TYRES

Lucky Stone 20×2.125

SEAT POST

Chrome layback

FRONT SPROCKET

44t distressed chrome

REAR SPROCKET

16t DICTA chrome

CHAIN

Taya-410h silver

PEDALS

Odyssey Aloha Twisted Pedals

GRIPS

Colony Much Room - Technicolour

HEAD BADGE

Custom mesh logo with splatter

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CHARMISSE

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CHARMISSE

CHARMISSE

“I haven’t gone two weeks without sex since i was in a coma for six weeks” – CHARMISSE (2013)

BIO

I had big plans for this one. The ol’skool frame was close but not what I’d expected, so I changed the design approach and bought some gum coloured tyres. Alas these tyres were not the gum colour I was expecting (but still looked cool) so it was back to the drawing board. On my third and final attempt, I used Family Guy’s character Charmisse to inspire the bikes concept and design (a working girl that’s trying to do the best with what she has, despite the disappointments she has experienced).

Charmisse is a de-rusted chrome frame with rusted handlebars, seat rails, cranks, wheels, pegs and gyro with a costume multi coloured cable splitters. Charmisse was also given a brand new silver chain and a pair of cool limited edition pedals and grips. A peach flux leather mini skirt was appropriately bought to cover the saddle. Real leather was used as the Auset Athletic logo using the trademark wonky stitching to seam it all together :p

Even though Charmisse is a low end prostitute. I think she just needs someone to cut her a brake and take her out the game. I’ve tested her for 3 miles since completion and I think she rides great ;0)

FRAME

Mid skool (ol’skool look alike) / 20″

RIMS

20″ steel

SADDLE

Peach and black leather

GEARS

Single

TYRES

Lucky Stone 20×2.125

SEAT POST

Chrome layback

FRONT SPROCKET

44t distressed chrome

REAR SPROCKET

16t DICTA chrome

CHAIN

Taya-410h silver

PEDALS

Odyssey Aloha Twisted Pedals

GRIPS

Colony Much Room - Technicolour

HEAD BADGE

Custom mesh logo with splatter

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BALLZY

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BALLZY

BALLZY

“AWW NAWW! Big Slim Dogg, eighty pound balls, dick six inch long” – EMINEM (2000)

BIO

Ballzy was rescued from an employee of the famous Greenwich Fire Station. This build was inspired by my favourite Eminem record and more importantly lyric :O)

Surface rust was partly developed by using the leftovers of a can of beer to make Beer Can Chicken, resulting in a well covered rusty frame that’s rich in colour with a tint of redness.

Not too many mods on this build, just the painting of the chainring, stem and bolts. All in all very happy with the black on rust (with purple accents). Would love to see this rust bucket hit a half pipe one day, I imagine it would look awesome #tailwhip

FRAME

BMX Freestyle / 20.8″

RIMS

Alienation 36H

SADDLE

Black leather

GEARS

Single

TYRES FRONT

Odyssey Dirt Path 20×2.2

TYRES REAR

Odyssey Path 20×2.1

PEDALS

Primo Stricker purple

SPROCKET

25t front / 9t rear

BRAKE HOUSING

Purple

GRIPS

Haro Stitch Grips

FORK

1 1/8″ Full Crmo

CRANKS

Haro 175mm

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SHIFTE

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SHIFTE

SHIFTE

“I got struck by lightning and the thunder. Wilder than the shit from the tundra” – ONYX (1992)

BIO

Inspired by the 90’s hip hop hit Shiftee by Onyx. The songs bass line was the key influence to this build along with is owner at Shapez Athletic :O)

Shifte was stripped of all original decals and was given new legs and shoe in the form of some old skool style Skyways and phat Dehart tyres, and amongst many other parts he was also given some essential gold accessories and a black layback seatpost which was powdercoated by Maldon Shot Blasting & Powder Coating in Maldon, Essex.

FRAME

BMX Freestyle / 21″

RIMS

Skyway Tuff Wheels Cassette 9t black

SADDLE

Odyssey Mike Aitken Railed

GEARS

Single

TYRES FRONT

Cult Dehart Tyre Gum/Black 20×2.35″

TYRES REAR

Cult Dehart Slick Gum/Black 20×2.2″

SEATPOST

Matt black layback

SPROCKET

25t front / 9t rear

CHAIN

Clark Gold Half Link

GRIPS

Cult Vans Waffle Flangeless Grips

VALVE CAP

Custom decals

DECALS

Custom decals

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