SE Racing 1989 PK Ripper Bike White / Blue
One of the most iconic frames of the 1980's, the PK Ripper the signature model of pro racer Perry Kramer, was ahead of time of time being made from aluminium for light weight and stiffness, which of course became the material almost all race frames were made from by the 90's.
35 years old this year, with this 1989 model, SE addressed the seat tube cracking issues that plagued the earlier looptail frames by resorting to the more common 7/8" seatpost size and created a custom extruded seat tube with built-in allen bolts to beef up this area and eliminiating entirely any chance of cracking. This era of frame is now becoming as scare as the earlier ones, as there were fewer sold after the early/mid 80's boom. The frame has been powder coated gloss white by our friends at Kings Industry and finished with a set of accurate DelCal produced stickers.
Matched to the frame are the Landing Gear forks that came to us with the frame, of course instantly recognisable with their oversized legs and bologna-cut dropouts.
This bike assembled in-house by head mechanic, Adam and this rides like a new bike.
On the steering front we went with a period-scorrect YST looseball heasdet in chrome, the SunTour style Power stem that we sell, modern Tall Order Ramp bars with a 9" rise, made from light weight multi-butted cro-mo. these have a small diameter crossbar so look perfect on an old school bike and the 9" rise make it rideable. The bars are finished off with classic USA-made A'ME Tri grips in baby blue.
For braking we went with a full Dia-Compe brake set-up, with MX890 calipers (personally we prefer these over the re-issue MX1000's), Tech-IV levers and BRS cables. Kool Stop brake pads in white were fitted to help reduce wheel marks.
In the drivetrain department, it was a no-brainer to run Redline Flight Cranks, these are the latest model with the twin-pinch design and in the standard 175mm length. A sealed bearing bottom bracket makes things spin nice and smooth. A Mirage 110 BCD cromo-mo spider, SunTour style 44T chainring and chrome ID chainring bolts are matched to chrome Cult 410 chain. You get the power to ground with the Haro Fusion pedals, based on the original Shimano DX's.
For seating, we chose the Flyte Tech seat, a perfect replica of the original Elina model and period-correct for the bike, moreso than a Kashimax. The seat sits on high-quality 14"-long Japanese-made Nitto Straight 7/8" cromo seatpost.
Fianally, for wheels have a pair of iconic Skyway Tuff Wheels with sealed bearings, fitted with a chrome 16T chrome freewheel and Kenda K50 Comp-III style gumwall tyres, 1.75" front & rear.
PLEASE NOTE: All our old school bikes are built for collectors and cruising around on/ride outs, they are not designed for track or freestyle use. Haro's Lineage series and the GT Heritage Pro Performer bikes are the ones to go for if you plan on doing some serious BMXing. If you have any questions about this, please ask.
