Well for a while now I've been hankering after another Burner as I loved mine when I was a kid. Then I noticed that Raleigh had re-released them, including a budget model. Roll on a few months, to December the 25th specifically, and my wife asks me about the seats in the Coraddo that's sitting outside my neighbour's shed. "Well, they're electric Recaros, and I want them!" was the reply. The "show me" was kinda unexpected, but I did anyway. So we walk round and she asks what that box in the boot is. A few hours later, here is me:
^^^Chuffed.
Too much of it is just curse word quality though, so I replace the cheap V brakes with ones that came off her GT when I upgraded it to discs. The levers are integrated jobs, though. No matter, seven of my finest Scottish pounds went to some bloke from eBay, and these arrived about a week later:
Look good, and much better than the rubbish levers that were on before. A curse word to set up with the gyro top cable though, had to cut down the cable outer as well as the little cable splitter thing to get it to fit!
But what about the 'retro urban' tag? Well, I peeled off all the stickers as, frankly, they were rubbish. I thought about NOS or repro stickers but didn't think they'd really work with a satin black frame. So I made up a stencil from a burner logo sketched freehand:
Played with spray patterns on the side of our old dishwasher which I'm turning into a cold smoker for meat:
And got to spraying!
Stupidly, I never thought too hard about the fact that I'd be spraying onto a curved surface so I've lost some clarity. I might sand some of it out, or I might just leave it!
Future plans include changing the handlebar grips as they seem to be made out of some horrible hard plastic which really hurts your hands, some V8 copies as befitting the budget ethic and hopefully some snakebellies if I can find some cheaply enough!
^^^Chuffed.
Too much of it is just curse word quality though, so I replace the cheap V brakes with ones that came off her GT when I upgraded it to discs. The levers are integrated jobs, though. No matter, seven of my finest Scottish pounds went to some bloke from eBay, and these arrived about a week later:
Look good, and much better than the rubbish levers that were on before. A curse word to set up with the gyro top cable though, had to cut down the cable outer as well as the little cable splitter thing to get it to fit!
But what about the 'retro urban' tag? Well, I peeled off all the stickers as, frankly, they were rubbish. I thought about NOS or repro stickers but didn't think they'd really work with a satin black frame. So I made up a stencil from a burner logo sketched freehand:
Played with spray patterns on the side of our old dishwasher which I'm turning into a cold smoker for meat:
And got to spraying!
Stupidly, I never thought too hard about the fact that I'd be spraying onto a curved surface so I've lost some clarity. I might sand some of it out, or I might just leave it!
Future plans include changing the handlebar grips as they seem to be made out of some horrible hard plastic which really hurts your hands, some V8 copies as befitting the budget ethic and hopefully some snakebellies if I can find some cheaply enough!
