All business. All party. Love it.
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Coming apart for paint. You know its a fun paint job if you’ve gotta go to the farm store and the graffiti shop to get materials.
If anyone’s curious, that’s my personal favorite satin black. Its one of the few black paints that’s just black pigment, no red, no green, black. It’s got the perfect satin sheen and it’s dries stupid hard. I like theTAG colors also, ultra flat, super durable and, in my most pompous voice they’re Italian
Lets get stupid.
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Welp. That’s annoying. Not a single one of those 3 blitz black cans would spray. 2 wouldn’t spray at all with any cap, 1 sprayed really poorly, dripped everywhere then stopped working.
So, this is my new favorite satin black because it was in stock and actually sprayed. Be water, my friends.
Long time fans of the show will know I’m a sucker for shiny stuff and usually base/clear and metal flake my junk.
For this, I wanted something that was a little less of an investment, time and money wise. Something that I don’t have to worry about getting scratched and chipped and covered in mud and rocks, something that’ll just chuck in the van and go and when it gets beat, and it will, I can just add to it with rattle cans.
And bingo was his name-o.
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It’s a beast. I love it. Rattle can paint is the best paint. Some splatter and splash always gets positive comments.
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Holy. Shit. Around the neighborhood impressions are quite positive. Fits nicely, bringing the reach back another 20 was a good idea. Changes direction quickly, feels sharp. I’ve never been able to manual a big bike, I can already manual this one a couple bike lengths. Caught myself laughing out loud a couple times, pretty sure that’s a good sign. I think, as the kids say, it fucks. I’m excited to take it and try it on some dirt.
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that thing looks fun as heck
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Hey, watch the language. Kids might read this 
So, this has got to be some kind of record…turns out, I don’t love the paint. Its too much with all the shouty components and it all just kinda blended together and I didn’t like it. Anyhoo…
Now it’s metalic silver. Look, I’ve got problems and I’ve heard that admitting that is the first step on the road to healing or something.
It should go better with everything, the rocker and ass end are just satin black again and you should be able to see just how silly everything is a lot better this way.
Also, I can turn this thing from a complete bike to a pile of parts and a bare frame in about 30 minutes, also some kind of record. Probably.
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yeah, well, to heck with the kids
silver looks rad on it. i applaud your drive to even put paint on your things. i know you’re a painter so i get it but i’m whatever the opposite of a painter is and typically strip my bikes raw because i don’t like the paint that came on them and just leave them raw.
i haven’t built a bike from a pile of tubes yet, but when i do it probably won’t get paint. i’m just so bad at paint and i’d rather let it weather than have a bad paint job i don’t like
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Agreed!
I hope it’ll look cool, its just such a weird-ass looking frame and the butt end is all asymmetrical and funny looking, the rocker links are almost a foot tall and look like throwing knives from the flea market and theres this weird empty spot under the bottom bracket that’s cool looking and none of that is obvious when it was all black and camel-flauged. I wanted to put a few stickers and the thought of anything more on that paint job made me wanna puke, so it had to go. Hope this doesn’t suck.
I love the no paint look too, and tell myself I’m gonna let every single one of my frames surface rust and then just keep it oiled. Then I end up painting them. Usually twice. I usually wait longer between paint jobs, this one wasn’t even fully cured. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me.
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I think it looks much better this way! Always wanted to paint a carbon bike in a metallic silver, and then use some scotch Brite to give it a brushed look…
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I don’t know how i feel about it, not sure i like it but i have zero better ideas so 
nah that’s sick. have you taken it out yet?
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I agree with the paint redo. The graffiti look was a bit childish IMO, but I’m not the artist in the family and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Andy
Just gotta go out of the way to throw an insult in there, huh? Thanks for that. Could have just said it wasn’t your thing. Man, i fucking hate the internet.
Sorry if you feel that my opinion is an insult to you. I see my remark as fitting the thread’s recent turn of the repaint. I have done much the same, repainted a frame of mine, because I didn’t like the first job. Coincidentally my two current paint jobs I’m working on are silver (with black), inspired by the Raleigh Pros of the early 1970s. I share my stuff over in another forum every so often. Andy
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I get it. Game recognize game. I love to go out of my way to insult people. Just the other day at the grocery store there was an old lady struggling to reach something on a high self, I didn’t even need to go down that isle, but I did, just so i could call her fat on my way by. It makes me feel good. So I appreciate the extra effort you put in to being a prick for no reason.
I see your remarks as typical boomer bullshit, where you think you can say whatever you want as long as you hide behind “its just my opinion” or “no offense” and I’m so fucking tired of it. But hey, thats just my opinion.
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New bike looks good!
When do we get a video of you riding it?
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Again, my comment about the bikes initial paint scheme was about it, not you or your skills. If you go back to my 4/19 reply I pretty much defended your method of figuring the challenges your design had. It is sad that you feel that my age reduces the value of my opinion. That’s ok because one benefit of aging is to know what is important and what isn’t. Enjoy your ride. Andy
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