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04-12-20, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by niliraga
this is fantastic. ..... why are there no threadless->threaded adapters available yet - i sense a market opportunity for someone!
But not for tapered headtubes, only straight 1 1/8”
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04-12-20, 09:31 AM
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Blank canvas for airbrush time.
Add some chrome applique material and perhaps a play on something like the old Schwinn Black Phantom. Use the Specialized name but follow with the Schwinn script font and colors.
Keep it all modern components but backdate the finish of them.... meaning high polished. Drop bar and stem would be highly polished aluminum. Brown tone saddle. High polished rims, white tires.
Stage 2 would be fabricating the Black Phantom tank. Acquire a section of a crashed carbon tube frame, use very thin aluminum skin for the tank, highly polished- of course. Don't graft it or modify the bike frame itself but rather use hook and loop / Velcro industrial hidden under the top and head tube. It wouldn't weigh anything but make it sized to hold a rain shell jacket, keys, tire kit, etc..
Add some chrome applique material and perhaps a play on something like the old Schwinn Black Phantom. Use the Specialized name but follow with the Schwinn script font and colors.
Keep it all modern components but backdate the finish of them.... meaning high polished. Drop bar and stem would be highly polished aluminum. Brown tone saddle. High polished rims, white tires.
Stage 2 would be fabricating the Black Phantom tank. Acquire a section of a crashed carbon tube frame, use very thin aluminum skin for the tank, highly polished- of course. Don't graft it or modify the bike frame itself but rather use hook and loop / Velcro industrial hidden under the top and head tube. It wouldn't weigh anything but make it sized to hold a rain shell jacket, keys, tire kit, etc..
04-12-20, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by branko_76
Looks much better raw. That original paint job deserved to be swept off of the floor.
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I'm all in for you to clear coat it in the high gloss. Just don't ever ride in the the sun.
04-12-20, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by wildwood
not if done properly.
But ‘nude’ frames degrade with uv exposure.
There are marine type protectants to use, like waxing your steel. Short of paint or clear coat.
Nice project. Needs classic bend on the bars, imho.
But ‘nude’ frames degrade with uv exposure.
There are marine type protectants to use, like waxing your steel. Short of paint or clear coat.
Nice project. Needs classic bend on the bars, imho.
04-12-20, 02:23 PM
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I do hope you did this in a full hazmat suit, or at the least goggles, filter and gloves. Those fibres can be just as bad as asbestos when you sand them. :X
04-12-20, 03:12 PM
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Don't know the Spesh process, but when I was investigating small, custom CF builders (and there weren't too many back then) i believe they all had an epoxy layer over the final carbon wrap, which was often the decoratively beautiful, geometrically & visually perfect carbon we see on unpainted (clear or nude) frames. Painted frames being safest, that's what i chose with clearcoat on BB And chainstays.
