Author Topic: how much for a cromo burner (Read 1112 times)

funkylad34 · « **on:** July 03, 2008, 03:59 PM »

Just picked up a burner, cromo decals for £150.00 how would i no if its a proper cromo burner, any help would be good.

rodslovechild · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2008, 05:10 PM »

go to www.burnerworld.co.uk or www.raleighburner.com

they will be able to help you out

othomas2 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2008, 08:24 PM »

There were 2 types of cromo's... mk I and a mk II cromo

Here's the two from Julian Taffs collection...

Tange made... & as far I'm aware the same as a Kuwahara Nova. Should have tange and s/n stamped underneath the bottom bracket.

Koizumi made... should have a baseball symbol and s/n on the rear dropouts

If your cromo has R cutouts in the dropouts (i.e. standard mk II burner frame) then it's a cromo replica. Not an official release... but still mocked up in one of the Raleigh brochures... which can be viewed here... http://www.thrill.to/RaleighBurner/

Someone may have put the cromo decals on a standard chrome frame with this in mind... there were a supply of cheap NOS (US?) cromo decals available on ebay in the last few years so they could have come from there... slight differences from the UK version apparently.... & because there was a supply of these decals... and an option to get a nice chrome frame from removing the coating from superchromed frames... there have been a few built in recent times using the brochure cromo mockup as reference.

I think both decals have now been reproduced by bmxman http://www.bmxman.com/products.htm

Any chance of a pic.... ? would make things much easier...