LeRun Taiwan Knockoff

Rick from the US sent me an email this week.

Attached is a picture of a skate bike I found at a flea market. The label says “Roller Bike” and it has a Made-in-Taiwan sticker on it. Have you heard anything about this brand?
Rick

I forwarded the pix to Jon N from the UK. Jon is our LeRun expert.

Hi guys, that is an amazing skatebike! Definitely echoes the Lerun design although yours looks to have the fitting to use regular skateboard trucks with standard hole spacing whereas Lerun models were designed for smaller trucks normally found on penny boards.
The other difference being the rear wheel dropouts, yours look to be larger, which is interesting and I’ve not seen that before. I’d imagine it’s a Lerun clone but it’s super cool!
The bottom bracket is one of the cottered cranks as opposed to the later one piece cranks so I would say mid/late 80’s or early 90’s.
Jon
Rick – You will want to replace the rubber pieces in the truck.

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