Black on Black; Cafe Racer.

So this has lived in my loft for a good while, gathering lots of dust; while I've had other bikes to ride. Time for some hard love and a revamp, as I love this bike, it got me into real riding.

This frame is insanely good. So this bike will simply be for cafe racing. Smashing between one espresso stop to the next!

Thought I'd have a CP for it, as stripping the paint is pretty long. I have no parts for it yet, but we'll see what finds it's way into the house.

This thread will mature like a Vintage port, slowly stored away for best end results!

Leave it exactly as in the pic! Looks awesome. Speed stripped paint.

How are you stripping this down Skinny? Looks awesome as is!

I used a dremmel super cautiously to take some paint off then wet and dry in increasing grades.

Looks pretty neato as it is I think, Will having the cf raw dammage it at all?

looking forward to this ..

bets on for parts... got to be 6800 (too cheap and decent to pick anything else) and then maybe... chinese carbon wheels? Could keep it under a grand if you were careful and trawled here/eBay for contact points and finishing kit.

di2. 6870. Just have to wait and be patient looking for parts. Wheels will be wide.

@ Zenith. I've looked at a lot of WW threads and can't see any issue with raw carbon. I might get some gel laquer if I don't like the raw finish.

Nice bits for crushing club rides! Chuck a cannondale crank and some spider rings on there and you'd have a back-up race ride.

Ooft.

I guess one of the few crashes ive had on this did some damage in the past as this happened for no reason.
I can't see how sanding off the paint with high number wet paper could cause that!

Das ist ja schade.