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Chip \'oyler
Joined: 03 Nov 2008
Posts: 676
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 Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 6:30 pm |
| giant mancp wrote: | | Bit plain being just white though, you should now get it custom painted. |
Yes good idea. Perhaps a very busy red and white theme?
'The idiots are winning' |
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cheehee
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
Posts: 278
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 6:58 pm |
| frinkmakesyouthink wrote: | Looks really good! I love repainting bikes and stuff, it's good to see someone with enough confidence to repaint a new expensive bike too!
I agree about the fussy aggressive stickers all over bikes these days. Motorbikes suffer from the same problem. I know a racing bike is fast, it weighs less than my left testicle. I don't need a dozen stickers telling me how fast it is. Just make the frame a nice shape and paint it a nice colour, and finish it off with a couple of details/contrasts.
Bianchi and Cube make good looking bikes, but most others look like the kind of thing an eight-year-old boy would draw. |
Aahh a man after my own heart. 
@ Chip Voyler if you don't like it, you don't like it. No need to go on about it......... 
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DesWeller
Joined: 05 May 2008
Posts: 279
Location: Frocester Hill
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Posted Wed Nov 4, 2009 8:45 pm |
| cheehee wrote: | | @ DesWeller What's wrong with wire cages? |
I don't think they look as good, they have higher contact pressures where they meet the bottle and in any case I find them harder to use on the move, but maybe I'm just cack handed!
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Gav2000
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Posts: 294
Location: Northampton
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:33 am |
I agree that a bike without all of the 'Pimp My Ride' graphics is better.
Here's my 'None More Black' bike.
I put this together last autumn. although it's not pimped it was harder to buy parts without logos all over them than I expected and probably took longer as a result. It's a great bike though.
Gav.
Gav2000
Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
You'll hear about him ever'where you go. |
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brownleather
Joined: 03 Nov 2009
Posts: 107
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:41 am |
Gav, what frame is that? It's not a Hasa is it?
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Gav2000
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Posts: 294
Location: Northampton
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:52 am |
| brownleather wrote: | | Gav, what frame is that? It's not a Hasa is it? |
It's a Pedal Force frame and all carbon forks, I can't recall the model but I have 'RS' in my mind. It came without logos and with a satin finish (almost like a lack of finish).
Gav.
Gav2000
Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' cross the sky,
Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow,
Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly.
You'll hear about him ever'where you go. |
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cheehee
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
Posts: 278
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:57 am |
Looks great Gav, real stealthy like. 
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Mothyman
Joined: 25 May 2009
Posts: 491
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:21 pm |
its simple, its individual...and its yours.......well done matey
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ChillyGetsTrilly
Joined: 01 Jul 2009
Posts: 59
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:46 pm |
great job, bike looks way better now
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Russell160
Joined: 16 Sep 2008
Posts: 24
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:35 pm |
Looks great, I like the plain approach. But by the way, you needn't have bothered with the Nitromors and wire brush. Most powdercoaters will sandblast it clean for peanuts money, £20 or so. Save yourself the job from hell.
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frinkmakesyouthink
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Posts: 124
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Posted Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:56 pm |
^ quite a few places will strip and powdercoat an ally or steel frame for less than £50 too.
Armourtex in Hackney are well recommended by loads of people
http://www.armourtexltd.co.uk/cycles.html
The best thing about powdercoat is that it's bloody tough. The tubes will dent before the paint chips!
Unfortunately their 'metallic' colours look pants - they're just a sparkle lacquer over flat paint - it looks all sparkly like a little girl's pencilcase. For flat colours they're brilliant though.
What you can do, though, is respray (or get someone to respray) your bike in your favourite metallic colour youself, and then get a powdercoat clearcoat put on top - all the toughness of clearcoat but with excellent quality metallic/pearlescent/candy paint underneath.
This is how I'm going to do all of my custom bikes from now on (so that I can finally justify painting my girlfriend's daily in Candy Apple Red with cream/silver laced mudguards knowing that it'll last more than one year before I have to repaint it!).
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Slow Downcp
Joined: 12 Jul 2004
Posts: 2486
Location: Walsall
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Pross
Joined: 10 Sep 2009
Posts: 669
Location: South Wales
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Posted Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:40 pm |
| k2rider wrote: | im going to be in the minority here but i preffer the original  |
Me too but owner's choice. Can't talk as I had mine repainted in metallic purple 15 years ago (still the same now!). I can understand why someone would want their bike more individual though, it's the thing a miss most with bikes now that there's not much scope for customising your bike.
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cheehee
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
Posts: 278
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Posted Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:39 pm |
| Russell160 wrote: | | Looks great, I like the plain approach. But by the way, you needn't have bothered with the Nitromors and wire brush. Most powdercoaters will sandblast it clean for peanuts money, £20 or so. Save yourself the job from hell. |
Thanks Russell. It didn't take long to strip it, as Softlad mentioned the wire brush wasn't needed. The Nitromors worked really well and I more or less just wiped the paint off the frame.
I had to do a little bit of wet and dry'ing, but I really enjoyed doing it. Sad eh? 
Cheehee
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