• I know what you should do with it! Sell it to me!

    Looking for some advice with my current project. It's a David Lloyd lo pro made from 531c that I picked up not long ago and I think I've got the components sorted in my head and the colour, but having trouble with a couple of details.

    Here is the bike not long after I got it:

    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4897887048_9541c1851d_b.jpg

    I've added the Zipp and since gotten a rear WI eccentric Eno hub laced to a silver Open Pro for the rear. Every other component bar maybe the headset and BB (chainline depending) will go. The original paint is a pearlescent white which is quite nice, but someone has painted over it in flat white, leaving 'windows' in the paint for the stickers. The stickers are horrible and the paint needs to go. I'm thinking of a dark yellow, similar to that Merckx colour you see, but maybe in pearl. I have a set of the old style fluted Dura Ace cranks coming. It'll have silver bull horns, stem, seatpost, pedals, cailpers, hubs and cranks. Black bar tape, saddle (looking for a cheap Arione), tyres, aero levers and cables.

    I'm thinking of pushing the boat out and sending it to Argos for paint and getting the forks chromed and the rear triangle up to the point where the rims end.

    I'm not 100% on the chrome for the rear triangle though and I'm really struggling on what to do with frame decals. I don't like the ones on there and am not keen on any of the David Lloyd ones I've found Googling, but I think it would look better to have something, rather than a bare frame. Should I just pick a font I like and have David Lloyd text printed up? I like the idea of a very dark grey panel for the down and seat tubes with the name in yellow, but am not sure how I go about getting stickers made up and whether they could cut out the lettering or leave it clear. I assume trying to colour match lettering on a sticker to pearl paint will look gash. I like the Robin Mather style panel/lettering. Any suggestions on designs/ways to handle it/typeface or whether it would be best to leave it plain?

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