The first thing I did after I got the frame out was to think about what to do with the paint. The existing paint was pretty rough in spots, and to be honest, the pink and blue over white didn't really suit me. I contemplated painting the frame myself. I'd never painted a bicycle before but I had painted some car parts that turned out really nice. Cutting and buffing was actually kind of fun, especially when it was all done and I could look at how well they turned out. While in LA I'm staying with a friend, so I don't have all my stuff, and it's not my house so I decided, instead, just to send it out to be powder coated. My friend, Sherry, has a nice print in her house that has some really interesting shades of goldy-yellow that I thought would make an interesting paint scheme - powder coat the base and then paint the lugs a complementing shade of yellow.

Here's a pic of frame after it came back from powder coat. I like the way the yellow turned out.



Well, this picture was actually taken a little later...but it's almost what it looked like when it was back from powder.