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So I bought this frame a while ago with the intention of trying to do my own Gianni Motta-inspired neo-retro paint job on the fluted tubes (the frame is supposed to have been custom built by Gianni Motta...) . The thick green paint was even uglier in real life than the advert, but when I started to pick around the edges, I found a lot of layers underneath suggesting the green was not the original colour. When a bit of what was underneath was exposed, it looked unusual, so I tried to strip off the green and keep as much of it as possible. It is a sort of marbled gold finish, with a purple kind-of flip colour in it. Unfortunately it is practically impossible to do justice to it in a phone photograph. Most of the damage was already done, just a few of the smaller spots are due to me, and I guess they just sanded the decals off the original and painted it in the colours of their club/team (arbo kinderg is an Austrian club with minimal web presence and generally green stuff).
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