Just a note on colour. I'm afraid I'm not with the "leave the colour, it's great" gang. I've had a couple of fairly standard steel frames that I've converted to single speed and I've got to say there's nothing better than a crisp coat of beautifully applied paint - that saying, there's nothing worse than a badly applied coat of paint like I did on my first one! After that experience I had it done professionally by Armourtex in Hackney, about £80 for a brilliant powder coat job.......
Just a note on colour. I'm afraid I'm not with the "leave the colour, it's great" gang. I've had a couple of fairly standard steel frames that I've converted to single speed and I've got to say there's nothing better than a crisp coat of beautifully applied paint - that saying, there's nothing worse than a badly applied coat of paint like I did on my first one! After that experience I had it done professionally by Armourtex in Hackney, about £80 for a brilliant powder coat job.......