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Aug 2018 a distracted driver hit me going 35 km/h. Fork was pretty useless now, all the rest seemed to survive. New fork and headset and it was ready to go. LBS put in a fork that wasn't really matching the entire bike and after all those years the paint wasn't really ok anymore. Soooo, I saw a weight weenies thread of someone taking a razor to his bike and spraypainting it himself. As I'm a cheap bastard, I didn't want to invest in painting it professionally so I thought I'd give it a go.
Ordered some spray.bike, took some razor blades to the carbon aaaand the bike was 'as new'. Especially with me not riding it and still ordering a new handlebar, saddle, ...Didn't take a lot of pictures and wouldn't recommend the process to anyone. I'm also not the most patient of people so could have done the painting better.
The bike still didn't see a lot of riding as I bought a gravelie hype bike for commuting (fatter tyres + disc brakes).
Into lockdown and I really wanted the bike to be tubeless and also wasn't to keen on going back to 25mm. So I gave it a go and converted the old zonda's to ghetto tubeless. Skinwall as I'm always a few years late to the party. still 25mm as frame or fork doesn't clear 28mm but hey. The frankenbike is back on the road and putting a smile on my face.
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mtsdw's old pastic bike
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Well, this is the bike that really started my liking for cycling. Bought it in 2016 from my father-in-law, who I think was the fourth owner already. The only thing that's left from then is the frame, rear derailleur and shifters. It's also the bike I started working on myself, only took it to the bike shop when they had to cut of the crankset as it seemed to have melted together with the bottom bracket.
It's the bike I have ridden for my longest ride, it also took me to the top of the Ventoux (still pretty proud of that as I used to be the fat kid), and I (ab)used it for one year of commuting (poor bike).
It won't be anything special compared to most bikes here but I don't think I'll ever get rid of it.