Yeah it was just rattle-can spray paint. The wheels are 24x2.125, ,BTW. The customer who bought it owns a body shop, and would've ben glad to have the bike unpainted, as he has a spray booth.

I wanted to test the frame, to make sure it would withstand actual use. What would be the point of a $6,000.00 paint job, if the frame were to fail? Fortunately , there are internal lashings of fiber, embedded in resin, inside the monocoque shell, to bond the head tube and Bottom Bracket shell. And also internal gussets .

You know, you may have a point, the average person/customer is only worried about external appearances. But the guy I sold this bike to owns a collision shop, and I let him tap on the 'glass with a hammer, so he was satisfied that the structure was *Sound*.

I want to build a few more Fiberglass Bicycles, just for practice, before I build a Carbon bike. Carbon , being 70 times more expensive than 'glass, would be expensive to make mistakes with.

But then, remember the term "Composite". We could make a bike with a blend of Glass AND Carbon, and it would be called a "Composite". Anyway, this bike is a "Mule", in that it is part Velomobile and part cargo/utility Bike. There is no other.

I have also dredged up this story, which I missed:

http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/why-...practical.html

But yeah, the Type 9 is a bastard of a bike. Unfortunately, I now live in a apartment, where I can't tackle a project like this . But the god news is, I quit smoking, and now I save ten dollars a day, and I could theoretically put that money towards a new bike.