Originally Posted by
majmt
Very nice work! It looks like one of those bikes that you can just tell will be a nice rider. Thanks for starting the tubular conversation as well - I had similar questions re tape etc. I have no art or aesthetics background but I like the frame color a lot but to my untrained eye, the blue rims might need some help to tie into the rest of the bike (in addition to the Campy decal on the down tube.) Perhaps some bar plugs or blue (instead of black) paint inside the longer drillings on the shift and brake levers.
Thank you - and I hope you are correct! I really do not know what to expect, because I'm completely unfamiliar with the bike to begin with, and trying tubulars for the first time in 20 years is being thrown into the mix at the same time
Thinking along the same lines as you, I decided to add one small blue flourish to the bike itself to echo the blue rims: I refinished the Portacatena button with a clear blue acrylic paint which should look good in sunlight. If we ever get any more of that around here I'll take it outside and get a photo.
Because the blue is transitional - I have a second set, a dark grey pair of Mavic SSCs on Campy small flange hubs - I will leave the black infill alone. The SSCs were this bike's wheelset for a long, long time; the blue set is basically getting me back in the game for the time being.
DD