No Quarter - the new guys in town

We've recently taken stock of some beautiful candy colours!

not our photo

this is candy apple in action..

oow i want them all.... when ru going to tell me I won your comp!?

Damn, you post something like that after you've resprayed my frame.

Nice colours

Can you candy over raw steel and throw in a metric fuck tonne of sparkle or pearl? I want a Dame Edna/ Freddie Murcury love child of a paint job.

@mands

The 19th is coming slow....

and sprinkle some rainbows.

when were you going to announce the winner?

Winner has been selected and their frame will be arriving soon. A post will go up soon showing our usual 'before' and then 'after' shots once it's done.

I'm planning on doing some sort of giveaway every 1/2 months, the winner will be privately messaged. The reason for this will all become clear once our new website is up. It was supposed to be done a week before the giveaway finished but isn't ready.

The result from the last giveaway and this competition will be on there, along with any future giveaway.

James

What will you be painting next - the suspense is killing us.

Here's part of it...

It's in for matte and gloss finish and some really, really nice pin-striping.

the winner will be privately messaged.

Checks messages.
No message.
Guys, there's been a mistake. I didn't get your message.

:(

so it's no longer random, but selected by you?

We've been super busy over the last few months!

Here's what we're up to..

Swallow frame in for paint-work, still requiring sign-writing (all by hand!) and lacquering. Nowhere near finished but I wanted to show what frames look like in the 'during' process.

This will be a fully built bike as Bespoke Bristol this month.

Finished!

Cervelo frame stripped of original paint and refinished in a beautiful metallic silver and matte black.

That looks really very good indeed

@spotter thank-you for the kind words!

Here's what's next...

Client is wanting a colour change and improvement on paint-work quality. We're going to be using our super gloss lacquer for this..

James

How about the Merckx frame?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12936842/

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/401108579614?clk_rvr_id=1017911879307&rmvSB=true

Hi all,

just wanted to introduce something I’ve been working on for a while.

But before all of that, a bit of a background story!
Every since I was a child I have helped my father clean cars. My father restores vintage racing cars (Le man, British GT, American muscle) and some of these cars are worth in excess of £3m. As you can imagine you treat them a lot differently once they’ve had a 2 year restoration! No quick hose-down and a bucket of water thrown over the car.

The art of detailing is to enhance and maintain the condition of whatever you are cleaning while safely removing any contaminants that will damage your prized possession. Tar, tree sap, salt, oil and general muck that will overtime eat into your paint-work and components.

I’ve been detailing my bikes for as long as I can remember. With my father cleaning his car and me not old enough to drive (or ride without stabilisers…) I was cleaning my bike. I have tried and tested many, many products on my bike from brushes to waxes, finding what I like and disliked.

I found the current bike cleaning market a little dull and surprisingly even some of the high-end bicycle companies recommend washing your bike with regular detergent you’d find in your kitchen (salt, warm water and your bike is not a good mix). It doesn’t take long for the paintwork and parts on your bike to go ‘dull’. Small swirl marks on your paint-work, grit in your components etc.

Over the last year I’ve been working with an automotive care manufacturer. I told them how I wanted the shampoo to foam, smell, and eat through grime and generally how I’d like it to clean a bicycle. With a lot of toing and foring, we came up with a solution that cleaned a bike exactly how I wanted it to.

The shampoo is a real pleasure to use. It foams up amazingly well meaning it soaks and helps remove the general muck from your bike. It just requires a simple agitation from a brush for the heavy stuff. It won’t eat into your bearings or remove heavier oil from your drive chain. The bottle is very small but it’s highly concentrated. Dilution ratio is 1900:1 so 2 caps is perfect for a detailing bucket (20 litre). Bucket pictured is 13l, a single capful was enough.

The wax is fantastic, it’s a 60g tub but this will last you years, even if you’re waxing your bike once a month. It’s a Carnauba wax that has been hand mixed here in the UK. It beads amazingly when wet, creates a stunning shine to your paint-work and protects your bike from road salt (even in the summer!) acid rain, mud, oil and airborne contaminants. It’ll also fill in existing scratches and slightly reduce the chances of paint chips. Future bike cleaning will also be extraordinarily easy once you’ve waxed your bike. The shampoo will not remove the wax.

We are still working on the packaging but what’s inside the bottle is the finished product.

I would really like to offer these products individually or as a whole kit to the forum.

I will be including special instructions to get the most out of the products, also receiving feedback would be fantastic.

If you’d like to purchase these products, here is the forum pricing:

. Shampoo - £12
. Wax - £16

Full kit - £30
. Shampoo
. Wax
. Detailing cloth (in No Quarter Purple)
. Foam wax applicator
. Detailing brush

Please feel free to PM me if you’d like to order individual products or the whole kit.

Many thanks,

James

p.s, here's my winter bike being cleaned...

Really?

Dude. No one on this forum is going to buy a thing from you given how you've been shown to behave. You're untrustworthy. Go away.

But..... That's a seperate business... SEPERATE!!!

Did you just do that?

Hi,

I hold my hands up to say I have made a mistake with a few items I have sold. I have since taken measures to make sure it won't happen again. All parties involved have been contacted and offered a reimbursement that they will hopefully be happy with, I've also apologised to them.

Bicycle paint-work, bike building, detailing and spending time on this forum is something I really enjoy and have a passion for. I've been a member of this forum since 2011/12 and know a lot of you personally.

If there's anything more I can do please let me know, open to constructive criticism.

James

p.s the bottle on the last page is amazing, that's some quick photoshopping!