Show Your C&V RED BIKES!!
06-28-20, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by jbchybridrider
Cool thanks for telling me that. Primer or basecoat makes a big difference. I mixed a rich red primer under a red top coat on one bike and it looks neon out in the sun.
https://youtu.be/ONQxAKBRmms
https://youtu.be/ONQxAKBRmms
I have a best friend who is an expert painter so I know better but let it get away from me.
I originally wanted Soul Crystal red but it is a huge PITA, $$$$, 5 stage? and so Ford Ruby red was next, still $$$$$ so they found this and I do like it but it is far darker than I wanted.
By the time I got sorted, they had ordered and started it so I was stuck, not the way I had imagined it would go, as I told them, so be it.
I gets compliments from all who see it so there's that.
You might reach out to Paul Ketelaar in Queensland, he builds and paints frames, does fantastic work and has great insight, he also fought with the Soul Crystal so he may be able to add to the discussion.
He was here in PDX with it after a lot of work for a show when he came to Visit Andy at Strawberry a couple of years ago.
06-28-20, 05:36 PM
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79' Somec Special - currently getting stripped but will be red again eventually.
06-28-20, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jbchybridrider
That's a nice colour, has a bit of class about it. Hope you don't mind me writing that down for a possible job in the future.
Here's the build? thread if you like, lots more pics.
The old and the new, the ying and the yang, the good, bad and the ugly, you decide.
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06-28-20, 06:16 PM
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1989 Specialized Allez 58 cm, currently about 1/2 way through a rebuild
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06-28-20, 07:07 PM
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07-13-20, 10:35 PM
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I think I can add a few to this:
Touring around the San Gabriel River
1987-ish ADR SLX Bottecchia
My Schwinn Prologue doing taxi duty 3 years ago. My son now rides his own bike.
Schwinn Peloton with a couple of upgrades
My 2019 Eroica bike now replaced with the Bottecchia. I will be setting this one up with larger tires, probably 700x28 and better gearing for hills for the Nova part of Eroica and STI shifters.
I actually have another red bike, but it probably isn't too C&V. I looked at my garage and I have way to many red bikes. It's not that I really LOVE red bikes, these just happen to by at the right time and price and happen to be red. I need to get other colored bikes . . .
Touring around the San Gabriel River
1987-ish ADR SLX Bottecchia
My Schwinn Prologue doing taxi duty 3 years ago. My son now rides his own bike.
Schwinn Peloton with a couple of upgrades
My 2019 Eroica bike now replaced with the Bottecchia. I will be setting this one up with larger tires, probably 700x28 and better gearing for hills for the Nova part of Eroica and STI shifters.
I actually have another red bike, but it probably isn't too C&V. I looked at my garage and I have way to many red bikes. It's not that I really LOVE red bikes, these just happen to by at the right time and price and happen to be red. I need to get other colored bikes . . .
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07-14-20, 02:56 PM
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Raleigh in team colors:
A Sprinter, actually one of my lightest bikes at 10kg:
A Boeijen's Sport Campione. It doesn't get more generic than this. Yet it's such a charming bike:
Raleigh in team colors:
A Sprinter, actually one of my lightest bikes at 10kg:
A Boeijen's Sport Campione. It doesn't get more generic than this. Yet it's such a charming bike:
08-03-20, 12:37 PM
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Picked up this late 80s Terry Prism at a local Goodwill for like $37 yesterday--a fun red; gonna build it up as a gravel/touring rig for my daughter
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08-03-20, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by fvernon
Picked up this late 80s Terry Prism at a local Goodwill for like $37 yesterday--a fun red; gonna build it up as a gravel/touring rig for my daughter
Wow quite a score, any idea if the smaller front wheel will be challenging on gravel? 
08-03-20, 06:11 PM
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08-03-20, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by merziac
Wow quite a score, any idea if the smaller front wheel will be challenging on gravel? 
08-03-20, 06:40 PM
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08-03-20, 08:04 PM
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There's something sexy about red bikes.... loving this thread
08-03-20, 09:39 PM
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08-04-20, 05:49 AM
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Alright! Another chance to post pics of my latest and most red, Ferrari red, bike. Thanks to all the former owners for passing it on!
P1030592, on Flickr
P1030591, on Flickr
late 80's De Rosa Professional , on Flickr
P1030592, on FlickrP1030591, on Flickrlate 80's De Rosa Professional , on Flickr
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08-07-20, 01:14 PM
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Might have posted this before, but I don't think as a fendered build. Did this for Peter Weigle's French Fender Day last year, but took the fenders back off after getting back home. Fits true 28s with fenders, 32s without. No pix since the fenders came off but I don't think I changed much other than the tires. Crankarms maybe?
It's an '83ish DiNucci, built just before Mark went to Specialized. It's been reworked over the years, this current setup resprayed by Brian Baylis in a Masi color he created called California Burgundy. It was one of the last frames he painted before passing.
My other vintage red bikes are gone...
It's an '83ish DiNucci, built just before Mark went to Specialized. It's been reworked over the years, this current setup resprayed by Brian Baylis in a Masi color he created called California Burgundy. It was one of the last frames he painted before passing.
My other vintage red bikes are gone...
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08-07-20, 01:24 PM
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Heres a couple that i have..
1990 Diamond Back Expert TG
1988 GT Karakoram
1990 Diamond Back Expert TG
1988 GT Karakoram
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here's a shot of one of my red bikes, with a fairly low perspective.... I was just playing around with the camera to see if I could get anything interesting.
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08-08-20, 07:48 PM
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1978 Schwinn Volare. Catalog lists the color as Scarlet, and the tubing as Reynolds 532. Fancy.
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