Hi
I've had a looptail PK Ripper for many years and have decided to do it up... Hmmm, just saying that's boring, I'll spin a yarn.
My little brother actually had this bike in the 90's as just a BMX bike to ride. It came from a local shop who had painted over the original paint and lacquered in some "On A Mission" stickers (did I say it was the 90's?). Anyway he got bored of it and it got traded for something else. In about 2000 I was digging about in a container down at this bike shop looking for some MTB bits and I found the poor SE sat in the back covered in tat, so I bought it for bugger all. I think I knew then that it was a good bike but not much more.
I rode it on tracks we built here and there and took it to a few local ones but had another BMX for jumps and an MTB so stripped this one down to restore it.
Well, please don't hang me, virtually or not, but I stripped the original paint off... Now it was already under another several layers and it had been savagely roughed up to key the new paint in and was not really savable but even so I do feel suitably ashamed.
Around this time a lot of things happened and the SE could no longer be a priority. I wussed out of proper BMX riding and got obsessed with fiddling with inconsequential rebound adjusters, gear indexing and breaking expensive components, AKA mountain biking. My circumstances meant that I didn't have the facilities to spray paint and so the SE remained forgotten for a long time, until the other week actually. I've dug it out and with my new found intolerance for anything that either doesn't work and/or serve a purpose I know that I have to finish what I started over 15 years ago. Fifteen years, Jesus!
I have the frame, Landing Gear forks (I'm sure they were frame colour), alloy bars, bright green Tuff 2s. It came with a Haro Group 1 stem and some bent and rusty one piece cranks that had had the drive pin welded at some point. I think there's a Sugino 1 peice in it now. I can't for the life of me remember what the chainring was but I do have a Skyway Turbodisc(?) with an obscene amount of teeth kicking about which could well have been it.
Now, the bike was white and the decals were bright green. I did take photos at the time but they've disappeared. I have been looking for decal/sticker sets but I haven't seen any in the bright, almost neon, green I remember. Am I way off here, or was that a colour scheme?
Can anyone tell me the best place to get the correct decals please? Del does Landing Gear but I can't see any SE stuff. I don't know when or how they changed over the years and certainly don't want to put the wrong ones on it.
Many Thanks
