Let your bike be the tool
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From: NC/SC border
Bikes: '66 Raleigh Carlton, '70 Ron Cooper, '95 Bianchi CD'I, "Bottecchia" Zonal Frame with Xenon gruppo, "Bottecchia"Carbon Frame with Record Gruppo, Columbia Twosome, Terry Classic, Bianchi SX, Gravity SS/FG, Titanium "Motobecane" with Ultegra DI2
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
However, in the late 60s "acrylli-chrome" was very popular in England, and parts of the US. It was a transparent colored transparent paint applied over chrome plating. It produced beautiful metalic gem colored finishes that looked like copper, gold, emerald, ruby and saphire.
My 1967 Raleigh Carlton with "Flame" paint
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