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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: funkylad34 on July 03, 2008, 03:59 PM
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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. :daumenhoch:
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go to www.burnerworld.co.uk or www.raleighburner.com
they will be able to help you out :daumenhoch:
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There were 2 types of cromo's... mk I and a mk II cromo
Here's the two from Julian Taffs collection...
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y107/juliantaff/09.jpg)
Tange made... & as far I'm aware the same as a Kuwahara Nova. Should have tange and s/n stamped underneath the bottom bracket.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/y107/juliantaff/13.jpg)
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... ;)
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as far I'm aware the same as a Kuwahara Nova
except the Nova was not full cromo and the cromo burner...was!
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See ... Raleigh rules !!!... :2funny: