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it is.. although i believe the stitching on the drops should be on the side

Some good old DIY painting forks today.

Starting with a carbon Time fork. These are the first steps of making a matching ahead fork for my Trek 2300 pro frame http://i.imgur.com/wn7O0LK.jpg. End result wil be fluo yellow with black splatter.

Gonna mask the silver bits to end up with silver coloured Time logos.

that would certainly make more sense.

I've been doing some "painting" myself recently. This is my daily bike... I decided to sand it about 18 months ago, but I broke my collarbone the next day and never bothered finishing it. Still can't be arsed to finish sanding it, but I did take everything apart, spray it with glitter varnish, then clearcoat it a few times. Looks a bit daft, but I do enjoy having a bike that I can do this kind of thing to:

I also cleaned and regreased everything (well almost), bought stainless steel cages, fancy new mudguards, brake blocks, cables, chain, cassette, chainrings and new bar tape so it feels spanking now!

I have been re-building Goltec hubs on Mavic Open Pro rims today.

And drinking Champagne, obvs - it is Christmas after all.

@WimVDD - if you ever fancy selling the Gios give me a heads up please!

@ghostface - haha, I take that as a compliment! ;-)

Normally this one is a "keeper" but that's something I'm only sure after having ridden it in a in a decent way (being: uphill is this is said to be a "mountain bike" because of it's short stays and short top tube)

incoming

Wowie! It bet it rides like peanutbutter but very nice!

Do you like danger?

thanks, have you much experience riding alans then?
I have an alan roadie which is nice to ride, this mtb will get a campag gruppo, which in my experience
also makes for a nice ride

they don't appear too bad built up, here's a carbonio version with record or

Finished a balance bike for a mates kid, started with a 2nd hand islabike, stripped powder coated and decals.

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having some color fun

Recovered my old flite which was not to difficult.

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Nice! Is there a tutorial somewhere? I have a flite that needs recovering.. ;)

Looks quite good job! My first was also flite. :)
But amount of glue is crazy! I bet it took ages for all that to set. It will be nightmare if you ever decide to recover it again.

Looks like a fun bike!

minion's gios ftw!

Stripped flite saddles a for hard asses...

Like sureuzzly

Well done recover job.

Jups! They are lovely but ride a bit like peanutbutter as I said (we call those "peperkoek" bikes..) Never rode a MTB though. But then again, they look beautiful

not experienced the peperkoek feel myself

the adventure frame was a bit of luck
located in Italy, was on the bay, gave a best offer of nearly a 3rd off b.i.n price, and
i was accepted
originally, gruppo was going on this

but after burning the stuck post out

the paint went around the region , so needs a spray and new decals, the adventure is about
the same cost, so plumbed for that

very very good. pm ratbike thread in a few months

all sorted for the mrs for christmas. ideally wanna swap out that rear black wheel for something silver too... (its a planet x wheel if anyone is interested?)