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Newly aquired Jackal started off with a beautiful Lollypop Transluscent red and now I am am forced to redo the entire project.Got my Jackal in trade for an old dirt bike. Was psyched to get a jackal. I have been looking for one but I am cheap and didnt want to spend the kind of cash necessary to buy a new one. The bike started off a flat black or dark grey. Very ugly and no personality. I decided to go with a color so bright it will hurt your eyes if you look at it in the sunlight. Since I do my own powdercoating it wasn't a big deal to order up some powder and go to town. The bike came out great, the color was so bright it washed out my light sensor on my sony digital camera. Needless to say, when a "mechanic" friend of mine was assembling the bike, he managed to chip the living hell out of my frame in places tools shouldn't even be!! Upset and frustrated since my neighbors made a comment about the color looking similar to a cadillac brand bike, I am stripping the Jackal down again and going to try a variation of a new red.