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yeah thats not what i have paid.

Use the 100 to buy a bunch of tools, spend a day undoing things then you have a skill for life.

he has done 7/8 frames

Let’s see some pics!

I have no clue how to assemble a bike, it require a ton of tools and knowledge.

Does Clever Mike strip down and assemble the bike?

I'm sure they would if you paid them. It looks like a full strip down and reassemble is £145, then the cost of the paint on top. Send them an email.

But I agree with @Biggles567 spend the money on some tools and do it yourself. If you're interested in bikes enough to want to get one painted, it's a skill worth having.

I have no clue how to assemble a bike, it require a ton of tools and knowledge.

You can do it, i believe in you. Youtube has all the info you need, a lifetime of paying other people to do your mechanich-ing is a lot of money that could be spent on more bikes!

theres a few in this thread

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/335956/?offset=150

And another 3 that i havent yet got round to posting but will

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Nice! I love the repurposing of that pink fork, goes well.

What is the RAL for the purple/lilac on the first frame? It looks awesome!

100£ to strip down the bike send it to Steve and assemble it back once it is painted

That sounds like good value to me- the cost for a strip down, postage and rebuild

Sorry for the late reply its, ral4007. I actually really hate the colour haha on that bike. Ima get it re done at some point as i have some modifications to make on that frame anyway

No worries.

Steve now also provides a strip and rebuild service.

I'd like to learn how to do it myself and slowly have been buying a few tools. It is a far bigger investment than the 120£ he charges. A decent torque wrench alone, that can go up to 60nm, can cost that amount, for example the Park tool TW 6.2!

As for the paint job, does anyone know why painting a carbon fork is so expensive?

If you have the basic tools and some cable cutters you should be able to strip it down to just the f&f, bb, crankset and headset fairly easily and then get Steve/lbs to do the rest. That saved me a few quid when I had my steel Condor done.

As for the paint job, does anyone know why painting a carbon fork is so expensive?

Possibly because Steel or Aluminium frames can be media blasted to remove all of the existing paint and rust etc but carbon forks need sanding and prepping by hand which takes a lot more work
As well as the fact you can't powdercoat carbon so it'll be colour matched wet paint (if you were having the frame powder coated)

So finally I got my Dolan frame painted by Steve and he did a wonderful job, took him only a week! I can't recommend him highly enough.

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Got my Vagabond back this week, Steve has painted it and added eyelets. Did an excellent job, would really recommend, it a very crisp finish.

Does he strip the original paint off too?

media blasted, you can see some of the sand on the BB that fell out as I carried it outside.

Ideal, thanks.

The quality of that powder coat is superb. Good colour as well.

Yeah, Steve really knows his stuff, he is well worth the money. I'm very pleased with the colour its RAL 5008 matte, interestingly Steve said that matte will always give you a more crips clean finnish. Apparently for gloss they do a matte cloat in the colour and then do a gloss clear coat on top.

Ahh! Like you say its the matt that makes it look so crisp. I have a frame that needs doing so will get in touch with him.

For anyone wondering about cost:

Aurum is very good value given the quality

Blimey, thats very reasonable!

looks for things to powder coat