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Bmx Brookes:
--- Quote from: Avro on June 30, 2019, 10:47 PM ---I am building a black framed bike at the moment and I feel your pain with the white decals.
You will never be happy. Did Delcals know you were putting them over a dark colour, let alone a dark/light stripe? Maybe get them redone printed white over white, although I suspect Decals would have already done this. Get cues from the originals, were there decals over stripes back then? I have not checked but I do not think the stripes on the forks were in paint originally but were part of the decal? Pretty sure the stripes were decal also over a base?
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The original E.T was decals but this is custom of a nine produced bike, Del did the decals I dobut he as well as I would have foreseen this, I’ll live with it for now, build it up for MK and maybe tweak a few bits afterwards, some builds are done and some builds end some are constantly evolving, I think this might be one of the evolving kind!
Bmx Brookes:
This build has had a niggle or two and had been pissing me right off, the decals shown the stripe details through and I just know that would have niggled away at me so I got onto Del and he knocked up another set and boom “me likely, no stripey!”
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Looks a lot better now as a solid white lettering.
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My bike was never going to be 100% mint and perfect but what I can try to get perfect or buy as mint as I can I will :daumenhoch:
P J Tunni:
Little things matter, those stickers look way better with the solid white! :daumenhoch:
In2bmx:
Loving this Martin :4_17_5:
Bmx Brookes:
Thanks guys!
I had the wheels reanodised too, I decided to use UKAI speedlines with suntour HF hubs, I wanted box rims but struggled finding them in gold or good condition, Steve’s UKAI’s came up at a good price so I ran with a similar spec to the E.T and began stripping and polishing them for some gold anno!
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