The repaint thing is an interesting mental exercise depending on the bike. A friend of mine is pretty adamant about how the life of a bike frame is finite and if you can extend that life by repainting it then it's a no brainer. Where it gets a little complicated for me is when I consider repainting something that is somehow historically more interesting with its original paint. Case in point, I recently acquired a bstone MB-1 in very good shape, all original. Objectively speaking I know it's just a nice early 90s lugged steel bike mass produced blah blah blah. But it does have some cache and I came back to bicycling in those days of bridgestone. It's perfectly fine to ride now but I've considered stripping down and giving it a nice powdercoat in a subdued color to protect the frame. It's a conundrum...but a nice conundrum to have.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Peter Morgano <[email protected]>wrote: > I still have my early 90s Trek with neon yellow paint and black spatters, > its in the basement of my parents house. Paint is still offensively loud in > the sun after all these years, haha. > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, jinxed <[email protected]> wrote: > >> HA! I wonder if any have ever been resprayed in full early 90's >> craziness?! Although I must admit to being fond of several of those >> schemes. Obviously Klein had the big stick on the fades, but the Colnago >> Decor themes were awesome, and one of my all time favorites was the >> original Salsa "jelly bean" frames. My boss has a pretty cool vintage MTB >> Diamondback Ascent EX (with a Browning shifter!!) that has a neat white to >> smoke fade topped off with sort of a black splatter/spider web over the the >> whole thing. I'll see if I can grab a picture. >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:03:52 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote: >>> >>> Most Rivs get repainted by a known Riv-painter, and hue close to Grant's >>> guidelines for what a Rivendell should look like. I don't think that type >>> of respray devalues them, especially if it's a Joe Bell job. Now if you see >>> a neon pink/orange/red fade, all bets are off ;) >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Addison http://reno-rambler.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
