Can anyone identify these bar cues?

Chili Palmer

Chili Palmer

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As the title says, can anyone identify these bar cues? This is the best pic I have at the time.

I'm hoping someone can recognize the logo. They look familiar but my google-fu is failing me, thanks in advance.

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Shooter08 said:
Pic of the script might help? which one isn’t like the other?
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Cuebuddy said:
The pic is small and my eyes are weak.
Valley supremes?
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As mentioned, this is the only pic I have right now.

Backstory, I sold my early 90's custom 8' Gandy about a year ago but I regert it (No Regerts, if you don't get it, look it up). Also, I plan on moving within the next year and I really want a table at home to bang some balls on but I don't want to spend any money and I found a free, albeit crappy, 8' table and it comes with these cues. Now, add the fact I own Cuesmith Deluxe and like old cues I can cut up and have fun with, so even if I have to burn this table when I move I will (hopefully) gain four good house cues to mess with during the meantime and I'd be happy with. Either way, on both fronts, I get to have a little fun with friends and family on the table. I don't need a Diamond, I just need something to bang some balls on. Again, it's free and it's crappy, I have zero issue with whatever happens to it in the end, it meets my current needs.

I do think these are Valley's but I don't want to ask them and I'm more than willing to take the crappy table just to bang balls, the house cues are just a bonus.

Thanks all for your input.
 
Shooter08 said:
My dad bought a house table, crap but looks nice. I gave him 4 Valhalla sneakies when I was a dealer. Still best cues at his house
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As long it's old wood I'm good, foreign or domestic. I play with 30+ year old cue and my backups are 20-40 years old. Although I wouldn't mind owning a CF shaft for the experience, I have no desire to buy a new cue, just not my thing.

Crappy table for reference (it is at least a slate top):

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Chili Palmer said:
As long it's old wood I'm good, foreign or domestic. I play with 30+ year old cue and my backups are 20-40 years old. Although I wouldn't mind owning a CF shaft for the experience, I have no desire to buy a new cue, just not my thing.

Crappy table for reference (it is at least a slate top):

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Apology, crappy table meaning it is furniture for viewing pleasure. I don’t get the carbon fiber thing personally, I rode bikes back in the day, still steal for me.
 
Shooter08 said:
Apology, crappy table meaning it is furniture for viewing pleasure. I don’t get the carbon fiber thing personally, I rode bikes back in the day, still steal for me.
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No worries, by crappy table I mean quality/playability, looks are a different thing. My old table was a piece of furniture. Custom built maple 8' Gandy (pic below) that cosmetically fit my house to a T, it was a center piece but matched the decor of my house (minimalist) so well it wasn't the elephant in the room (maybe a little ;)), but played well enough to be able to practice on that I could adjust to 7' or 9' tables easily. The table I'm looking at is 1) Ugly 2) Unkown manufacturer and thus 3) Unknown quality/playabiltiy. I can either change or deal with it's deficiencies for a year.

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RE: bikes back in the day - I grew up on Torker II's, Mongoose, and Redline bikes and I now have an old 90's (I think) Specialized mountain bike I will be rebuilding before I move, I get it.

Old wood or no wood ;)
 
Chili Palmer said:
No worries, by crappy table I mean quality/playability, looks are a different thing. My old table was a piece of furniture. Custom built maple 8' Gandy (pic below) that cosmetically fit my house to a T, it was a center piece but matched the decor of my house (minimalist) so well it wasn't the elephant in the room (maybe a little ;)), but played well enough to be able to practice on that I could adjust to 7' or 9' tables easily. The table I'm looking at is 1) Ugly 2) Unkown manufacturer and thus 3) Unknown quality/playabiltiy. I can either change or deal with it's deficiencies for a year.

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RE: bikes back in the day - I grew up on Torker II's, Mongoose, and Redline bikes and I now have an old 90's (I think) Specialized mountain bike I will be rebuilding before I move, I get it.

Old wood or no wood ;)
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My neighbor had a white PK Ripper as a kid when I was probably 7-8. I have a Specialized M2 comp? And a 1992-93 Bianchi Virata road bike.
 
Dreamed about the PK until I got a diamondback that was chrome, it was junk compared to the PK
 
Shooter08 said:
My neighbor had a white PK Ripper as a kid when I was probably 7-8. I have a Specialized M2 comp? And a 1992-93 Bianchi Virata road bike.
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My first real bike was a Torker II, , my brother got a Mongoose that year for Christmas. About a year later I traded the Torker II for a Roger Decoster. A couple of years after that,, and after a few years of abuse of both bikes, we swapped, I had moved onto roller skating by that time. He completely rebuilt the Roger Decoster with the best possible parts, it was stolen within a few months of being finished. Not sure what I did with the Mongoose, probably traded it for something.
 
Chili Palmer said:
My first real bike was a Torker II, , my brother got a Mongoose that year for Christmas. About a year later I traded the Torker II for a Roger Decoster. A couple of years after that,, and after a few years of abuse of both bikes, we swapped, I had moved onto roller skating by that time. He completely rebuilt the Roger Decoster with the best possible parts, it was stolen within a few months of being finished. Not sure what I did with the Mongoose, probably traded it for something.
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I never heard of Torker, definitely know mongoose. Never roller skated but got a pair of freestyle blades when I was 21, that was stupid. Sold them a few years ago on eBay and made out pretty good though.
 
Shooter08 said:
I never heard of Torker, definitely know mongoose. Never roller skated but got a pair of freestyle blades when I was 21, that was stupid. Sold them a few years ago on eBay and made out pretty good though.
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I don't know much about Torker's history other than they were popular in the late 70's/early 80's (I was born in 70), all I know is I wanted one so I saved up and I got one. Roger Decoster (I believe) used to work for Mongoose but wanted to make his own bikes so he did and Mongoose fired him shortly after. If you remember the quintessential Mongoose circle in that little support plate by the head tube well, Roger Decoster used a nearly identical oval, pretty sure Mongoose didn't approve. At the time Mongoose was at the early stages of mass production, Roger fine tuned them.

Side bar: In roughly 2016-2018 my boss at the time showed up at the office with his recent e-bay purchase - an authentic white Roger Decoster. LOL.

Side bar 2: I roller skated multiple times a week for years when I was younger so I'm confident on 8 wheels. Ironically, I went this last weekend and long story short - I bit it pretty hard and I'm lucky to have all my teeth, no broken nose, and no stitches in my forehead. LOL, it's been nearly 40 years since I bit it that hard on skates. Once I realized I had all my teeth and my nose wasn't broken I went to the bathroom, rinsed my mouth, grabbed a paper towel and went back at it. My son thought I lost my teeth and asked if I needed to go the hospital. If it's on video it would be an internet fail video.
 
Chili Palmer said:
I don't know much about Torker's history other than they were popular in the late 70's/early 80's (I was born in 70), all I know is I wanted one so I saved up and I got one. Roger Decoster (I believe) used to work for Mongoose but wanted to make his own bikes so he did and Mongoose fired him shortly after. If you remember the quintessential Mongoose circle in that little support plate by the head tube well, Roger Decoster used a nearly identical oval, pretty sure Mongoose didn't approve. At the time Mongoose was at the early stages of mass production, Roger fine tuned them.

Side bar: In roughly 2016-2018 my boss at the time showed up at the office with his recent e-bay purchase - an authentic white Roger Decoster. LOL.

Side bar 2: I roller skated multiple times a week for years when I was younger so I'm confident on 8 wheels. Ironically, I went this last weekend and long story short - I bit it pretty hard and I'm lucky to have all my teeth, no broken nose, and no stitches in my forehead. LOL, it's been nearly 40 years since I bit it that hard on skates. Once I realized I had all my teeth and my nose wasn't broken I went to the bathroom, rinsed my mouth, grabbed a paper towel and went back at it. My son thought I lost my teeth and asked if I needed to go the hospital. If it's on video it would be an internet fail video.
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Weren’t they called a mongoose neck? I wa really young but that PK Ripper was my dream before I liked boobs! The hardware was all in the neck and you could flick it like a pro.
 
Shooter08 said:
Weren’t they called a mongoose neck? I wa really young but that PK Ripper was my dream before I liked boobs! The hardware was all in the neck and you could flick it like a pro.
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Could've been, all I cared about was name and looks. I remember PK Rippers from magazines but in my neck of the woods it was Redline and Mongoose for the most part.
 
Shit, southern Cali, it was a PL Ripper and card board to break dance on, obviously the hardware too. Those were the days
 
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