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I was about to dive in singing Mark at Impressive Finish's praises, but reading the link it looks like he doesn't do the smoked superchrome finish any more I'd give him a bell in case as his work was great - he did both my Pro-Class Geese http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,104773.0.htmlThe Mini Pro-Class was done by crazy Neil Arcus (N2Cus) but he doesn't do BMX resto anymore (cue the stories about the silver van of death, the 4am club, dying Tuffs in his white plastic bath, polishing to within an inch of it's life and his tasty missus in the bikini shots in his house - I miss Neil )
Yup, black superchrome is correct. The company I found had a perfect match for it.Are the grips that came with it in good condition?Not too sure what year yours is (the one I did was a MkII anyway so different to yours), but here's a spec list from 1984 which might help. You can find others online if you have a hunt. Reproduction padsets and decals are all available. [ Attachment: You are not allowed to view attachments ] I do like the MkI Burners I must admit. I am sure a fair few on here started out with Burners BITD.I still have my original MkII SuperTUFF Burner, and my first resto was a MkI Ultra Burner. I'll try to dig out some pics
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The hardest thing to find was NOS original grips - took me bloody ages!
Those grips are spot on for you Night Burner resto getting them in that good of a quality is pretty hard these days...I restored a MK2 Night Burner a few years back know (its long since been sold know) and I had the whole frame,forks and bars rechromed before the superchrome was laid down...The super chrome was done by Mark Roles (Impressiv finishes) but last i heard he doesn't do the Nightburners anymore because basically his supplier cannot get the correct stuff anymore (saying that that was a few years back he maybe able to get it know I don't no ?)All parts were restored by either rechrome,re-annodise and repaint the only NOS part on this bike were the pedals
The best pad sets you can get for your Night Burner would be off a guy called Steve Dobson (Esemdesign) I think that Steve come on here under the forum name 'Firebird' Here's Steve's link for the padsets,http://www.esemdesign.co.uk/The best quality Raleigh Burner decals you can buy are from Jonny Abbot (Bmxman).His decals are spot on and far superior to many decal sets that are on Ebay...Here's Jonny's link for decal sets,http://www.bmxman.com/Russ...
You need some night photos... Who is the person in your avatar?
Great job buddy! It turned out really well Next project??!
Top Job.looks great . You might want to shorten the Brake cable though before you Decapitate a small Child