I will post pictures of this bike. But until then, can someone please give me the year of this bike. It's an all black frame and fork w/ gold rims and cranks.
suntour vx cranks. The serial # is RL03836. Any help would help. I am going to rebuild it . I just want to get it right.

Isn't that march 83?

Maybe not, I think Redlines might be bit*h to figure out. Anybody?

there was a thread about the RL etc being a year code but cant find it, my '84 RL20 is RD03972
if that helps any

PK

Dave I already posted and asked the questions for ya. Dont you remember the thread? Let me see if I can still find the post.

vx cranks-may be an older mx2

Yea I remember you putting this question on vintage. But you never got an answer. Do you still have the pics of it? If so ,please post them for me.

Pics for Retro Dave

Can someone please tell me the year and the model of this find. I want to bring her back to her glory days. I've got the nos rims here. I just have to send the frame and forks to the powder coater, and the bars out to get re chromed. Please help.

Dang what a find!!!

Judging by the Redline "Brute" stem, I would guess it's an MX-II or MX-III - around '83.

Does anyone have a picture of the decals that were period for this bike or have a picture of the originals?

That's OLD SCHOOL! Neat!!!

kind of looks like an mx2 or mx3 to me as well, look at 83 in the serial number there as well, i think it's an mx3 with those cranks, maybe an mx2 had one piece? somebody has a photo scan from ad in bmxa.

Just got off the phone with redline. It's a mxll. They are sending me the decals for it . That means I've got to get this thing to the powder coaters. Any suggestions?

White or Red were nice colors. I have a white frame with original decals and it really looks sweet. Nice find and great salvageable bike....

the problem is this. its origanly black. would i get bashed on this site if i coated it white w/red stickers.?

is there a proper color code for the older redlines?

It's your build, do what you want with it. In the end, it only matters if your happy.

[ May 05, 2006, 03:54 PM: Message edited by: leeyo ]

black, white,red, blue, yellow, nobody would really care, as long as it's your bike and it looks good to you, that's all that really matters. it's a mx2 or mx3 anyway, those were cool bikes but not really something to spend a ton of money on restoring and really worrying about correctness. cool bike, price was certainly good, can't go wrong rescuing one from a junk pile now and then! i wish i had the ad scanned from bmxa, shows them in correct collors, i think red and blue anyway...

yes RED or WHITE

What about gold? lol. Just joking , GONNA GO WITH THE WHITE. Just gotta get too c-four coatings.

Sure looks like the "bones" of the thing are telling us that it's an '81 or '82 MX-II ... the suntour components and brute stem are definitely the right era.

That's a cool bike.

Mine, back then, (first BMX race bike that I owned) was powdered blue with gold stuff on it. But, white will sure look right when you get the sticks on it. The full sets are available at BMXSTOP.com and there's a link to the

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Cool rescue ... can't wait to see your bike come back to life.

Kevin O'

Thanks Kevin, thats who I got the decals from. Also , you said that yours was blue BITD ?. Was it a light blue or a dark blue? The reason I ask is this. There is light blue paint under the black on the forks. Whats throwing me off is that the black on the forks is not rattle can.

metallic blue and metallic red.

You are right . It's metallic blue on the stear tube. So at some point in this bikes life the forks were changed. Thank God they replaced it with the right forks. I have changed my mind. It is going to be metallic blue w/gold rims and gold cranks. Now I just need to get the bars rechromed. Anyone have a suggestion? How about restoring the stem?. I'm not going to go wild, but. This will be a very nice build.

The Redline MX-III owned by John Ferris in the '81 - '82 gallery is the right color blue ... it's a fairly dark blue powder coat.

Kevin O'

What city dump did you find that at? Great score!

Kevin O' c4 said that they got me covered on the color. I told them that it had to match to the tee.

G-Flash, it was the alachua county/ gainesville dump. Whent there to get some free mulch, left there with a truck load of mulch and a free sweet redline. I am building the rims as we speak. Gold araya's with suzu gold sealed hubs. I just spent $2800.00 on a anodizing set up. Yea I going to do my own stuff.

Wow! Let me know when your ready to open up shop! I'll throw some work your way! Go Gators!

Gonna havetoo practice a little bit before I trust myself to do someoneelses stuff