Cannondale SuperSix Evo kids bike

Paint the spacer!

almost finished, but definitely good enough to ride. Just need to lose 5mm of steerer and have a fiddle with the FD, otherwise it's perf 👌🏻

7.06kg including pedals and cages. Good enough for me.

It is SO NICE to ride. The wheel tyre tube combo is the fuckest uppest.

Shit photo, but you get the idea.

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Looks the business

gunna take some pink nail polish to the shifters and rear derailleur when I get a minute, because i'm fancy 💅🏻

you haven't painted the spacer

Looks amazing!

That is fucking epic mate.

Done.

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Just realised the colour combination make it a little hard to get a good shot, for a home job, it look pretty great.

Especially the decal which is mildly visible.

Yup, you're right on both counts. It's very, very vibrant in real life, but hard to get a photograph of (at least on my iphone).

The decals were gloss, until I varnished the frame. Should have fitted them last in hindsight, but I ain't vexed.

pls anodise the hollowgrams pink. pls.

first step is to paint the SRAM Red bits Pink. Then I might anodise the hollowgram dust caps...

I've got some pink ones if you want swaps for black

wow

looks awesome

Haven't heard of the term quitting while you're ahead huh?

Pink Fizik fluro tape and Fluro Pink fizik arione/antares, too much?

Hah just the bolts, not the arms, yo.

Deffo gunna bang some fluro bartape next spring. Carbon Romin is staying because it is perf fit and super comfy

Repainting my carbon frame - any advice on the sanding of the frame before hand/ between sprays etc?

it's boring as fuck.

start medium, then go finer, then very fine. It takes time, but do it in sections and pay attention to the joins and angles. If you've got a dremel or similar, I'd do the difficult bits with that. Don't worry about sanding away all the original paint; as long as you've got rid of the clear coat, roughed up the texture enough for the paint to hold and got everything smooth / consistant. Carbon is much tougher than people make out.

My advice would be a couple of layers of Zinsser or similar as a primer. This'll protect the frame, level out and incongruities in your sanding and give the paint something to cling too. After that, go fucking mad. The more coats the better, and lightly sand between layers if you can be arsed.

Don't forget a clear coat (everything will flake off immediately otherwise) or a varnish.

FWIW, my supersix paintjob is a bit grubby but generally fine after a winter of riding. Only problem I've had is the mudguards rubbing, but that's just a quick touch up.

Really want to sand the silver bits off my AR1. They are a bit naff, and the bare Textreme looks so bling.

This seems very much like an outdoor job though. If its plesent enough to be working outside. I want to be riding it.

Plus I'm lazy.

The chance of you sanding it off and having the texture match the weave underneath is close to zero I would think. Maybe mask it off and paint it gloss black? Subtle stealth vibes?

I had kind of pictured a relaxed 40 minutes in the garden this weekend and it would be beautiful.. alas.

Think I'm going to go with this stuff: http://spray.bike/ which has had a very good write up, and apparently needs minimal prepping (will probably do sanding first though) as it's meant to behave like a powder coat.

Will def. clear coat after - any you recommend?