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From: North Queensferry Scotland and London (and France)
Bikes: Custom (Colin Laing) 531c fast tourer/audax, 1964 Flying Scot Continental, 1995 Cinelli Supercorsa, Holdsworth Mistral single speed, Dahon Speed 6 (folder), Micmo Sirocco and a few more
Originally Posted by
Lieto
I see, thanks for the information!
I am not afraid of spending a lot of time on assembling but basically if i don't have the tools there are not much options. I am also new in town so i don't have any friends with the tools here either.
Probably will need to wait with the project since its going towards the price of a new bike. Basically i expected the painting to be around 70-80GBP but dis/reassembling being 100-120 was a surprise.
I recall when i was going to do the same with the car i just ended up putting a film on it which ended up quite cheap. Probably not going to work with the bike, hehe.
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Ok, so those guys from the shop got back to me and said that since its a folding bike the work will cost more so its going to be 100GBP for painting and 150GBP for assembling part. All in all around 400USD.
I wonder if the high cost of disassembly relates to the hinge. I've taken lots of bikes apart and either painted them myself (with good results) or had them powder or spray painted (with better results).
The only awkward bits are the bottom bracket and the headset, but even they aren't difficult.
However, I'd think twice about trying to dissassemble the hinge part of my Dahon.
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1985 Sandy Gilchrist-Colin Laing built 531c Audax/fast tourer.
1964 Flying Scot Continental (531)
1995 Cinelli Supercorsa (Columbus SLX)
1980s Holdsworth Mistral fixed (531)
2005 Dahon Speed 6 (folder)
(YES I LIKE STEEL)
2008 Viking Saratoga tandem
2008 Micmo Sirocco Hybrid (aluminium!)
2012 BTwin Rockrider 8.1