Diamondback BMX

[Vintagebikelover24]

This is not new but I thought I'd post something BMX.
A while back my friend dropped a box full of bike parts off. He tells me to "make it ridable". I had free-range when it came to paint scheme and parts. He knew he wanted yellow in there somewhere. The scheme is yellow, white, and matte black! So I got to work.

After I stripped, painted, and preped everything for paint I shot the frame with 5 coats of yellow.

I'm sorry I don't have many pictures inbetween but you can get what I did.
After I got all the paint on I did some personalizations for him. Now I'm not the best and drawing or writing but it was a try.
PABCO is the name of our bicycle "business"

This part is to the stem and was all black so I painted the outline of the DB to make it pop.

This is the original seat and it had this logo that I liked so I put it on the bike

Needed some contrasting color

He requested his name or initials on it so why not the handlebars.

The after clearing over everything here's how it ended up

Went from a box of parts to a nice bike

This was about the fifth bike I've redone myself including paint. I think it came out well and he loves it! I even got complimented by his father.
Here he is enjoying it

Sorry about his pants falling down in this picture but here he is following me in!

 

[iven]

Re: '87 Diamondback BMX

thats no 87' db buddy... thats more like a 2007.. 87 would be probably a looptail or just starting to get into the split stays with the 4 rear tubes instead of the looptail..
i had an 83 db and it was a looptail..
the fatt downtube on that db is a dead give away that its a mid school frame.. maybe a 97 at oldest but i think thats a 2007'
i saw the same bike infront of a pawn shop once, it was kinda funny though they had it tagged as an 'PK Ripper' :lol:

oh well, it looks nice anyways man

here was an 02' mongoose i rebuilt once..
i ended up saleing it to one of my friends while back..

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Re: '87 Diamondback BMX

thats no 87' db buddy... thats more like a 2007.. 87 would be probably a looptail or just starting to get into the split stays with the 4 rear tubes instead of the looptail..
i had an 83 db and it was a looptail..
the fatt downtube on that db is a dead give away that its a mid school frame.. maybe a 97 at oldest but i think thats a 2007'
i saw the same bike infront of a pawn shop once, it was kinda funny though they had it tagged as an 'PK Ripper' :lol:

oh well, it looks nice anyways man

here was an 02' mongoose i rebuilt once..
i ended up saleing it to one of my friends while back..

I didn't bother to search it. I'm just going by what my friend told me. So I really have no clue.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

Re: '87 Diamondback BMX

And that's a nice bright mongoose. What kind of rear tire do you have on there? Looks just like one I go dirt riding with.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

I like that picture riding by the school (that is a school, isnt' it?). My son and his friends ride around their school quite a bit.

Yep it is. It's the local elementary school, Has a few good spots.

 

[mmcdaniel69]

Nice to see them in action! You can check out my 1982 Diamondback, search for RRBMX in builds. It's an example of a looptail frame.

 

[Vintagebikelover24]

looks like fun !!!! yeah baby :!:

You know it! 8) it's always fun when you go out riding with friends!