This project started out with a trip to the Attic at the Bike Exchange. There’s all manner of bike parts, wheels, frames, and Misc. stuff up there and always something new to see as we continue to get donations from all over.

What caught my eye was an orange frame that was built for a single speed set up. Called a Kilo TT, it has track geometry and is light weight for a steel frame, not like a lot of the cheap fixies we have lying around that are gas pipe. It also has eyelets at the dropouts and can be fitted with a rack. Apparently lots of folks use them as fixies / single speeds and they can supposedly be built up under 20 lbs. I was looking for a fixie frame that I could do a custom paint job on and this was perfect.

I decided to save the decals so needed to use orange as a base for the new paint scheme.The first step was re priming the shiny areas. Since I was going to spray a white base coat I primed everything including the original paint leaving the original orange on the head tube and around the decals. Next I sprayed a coat of white which will brighten all the colors to come.

Next came the colors seen here, Rusoleum orange and Behr yellow. At this point it looks like candy corn. Next will be the fun part, squirting Joy dish wash soap all around then Painting everything black. Stay tuned.