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Old 12-17-13 | 11:55 AM
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Design my Bike, win internet-karma!

So, I've owned this bike for a while;
https://i.imgur.com/bBCq8tt.jpg
Quite full of regrets, those colors are quite bad, but the quality is pretty good, or at least good enough for me.
Note; I've upgraded my chains to a WHITE version and removed the front brakes.

I will get myself a bullhorn to steer with, don't know what color yet but I'm thinking of black with white Bartape.
Anyway, in about 2 days I'm going to re-spray pretty much all of the bike.
Currently, I'm thinking of Matte-Black on the frame, but I have no clue what i'd change my crankset (did I say that right?) color / wheel set to.

So to the point, I'm asking y'all to design my bike! I will post pictures once I'm done spraying it, but I thought it'd be a cool idea to let you guys decide the colors, especially after lurking on this forum for so long.

You can win internet-karma by helping me out. If I like the design, I'll spray it on there!

These are the colors I could use:
https://i.imgur.com/XLfUzpb.jpg


Thanks in advance, and/or have fun with it

edit: just read my previous 2 threads
full of regrets

laughed at those comments though

Edit 2: I might also change my frame for some cheap 2nd hand frame / bike on marktplaats (dutch ebay)

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Old 12-17-13 | 01:51 PM
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I would not spray paint any of the components.
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Old 12-17-13 | 02:03 PM
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Old 12-17-13 | 02:11 PM
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You should spray paint it all white so people think you stole a ghost bike.

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Old 12-17-13 | 02:23 PM
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I would not spray paint any of the components.
I aint rich, can't buy others
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Old 12-17-13 | 02:56 PM
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I aint rich, can't buy others
so ride what you have. I don't think repainting cranks and rims is going to work out well
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Old 12-17-13 | 03:09 PM
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Leave the frame white, paint the fork white and get a chain that's not painted ANY color, then...

Replace the following with polished / silver (that is, metal colored, not spray painted) parts:
Seatpost and collar
cranks and chainring
stem and bars
brake lever

Next, brown saddle and matching grips.


Finally, wheels with polished/silver box section rims, spokes, and hubs.


Unless you're trying to make your bike even more garish with the spray paint...
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Old 12-17-13 | 04:17 PM
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Old 12-17-13 | 04:22 PM
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Old 12-17-13 | 04:36 PM
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Sums up how I feel about my bike
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Old 12-17-13 | 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by JeremyLC
Leave the frame white, paint the fork white and get a chain that's not painted ANY color, then...

Replace the following with polished / silver (that is, metal colored, not spray painted) parts:
Seatpost and collar
cranks and chainring
stem and bars
brake lever

Next, brown saddle and matching grips.


Finally, wheels with polished/silver box section rims, spokes, and hubs.


Unless you're trying to make your bike even more garish with the spray paint...
H'mm, interesting, yet I do not have any money, my brother owned one of these bikes too and spraypainted it, turned out pretty well so there's that.
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Old 12-17-13 | 04:44 PM
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Old 12-17-13 | 05:09 PM
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Put the front brake back on.

And who 'helped' you design it the last time, Wanda?
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Old 12-17-13 | 09:06 PM
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Old 12-17-13 | 09:15 PM
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What a waste of quality paint.
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Old 12-18-13 | 07:30 AM
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Put the front brake back on.

And who 'helped' you design it the last time, Wanda?
Was Wanda from In Living Color? I remember the character just not the show
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Old 12-18-13 | 11:17 AM
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No.
+1 without even reading the original post.
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Old 12-18-13 | 11:26 AM
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If you're not a troll, and you are indeed tired of riding the clown bike, please, seriously, just disassemble the bike PROPERLY and paint anything that is an odd color - black. You'll end up with a black and white bike, done. No more 13 year old "Fixay"
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Old 12-19-13 | 12:12 AM
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Old 02-18-14 | 04:04 PM
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Help with spraying a bike

I'm looking for a detailed guide on how to spraypaint your bike a different color.
Yes, I know it'll probably look horrendous, but I wanna give it a try.

I tried using the search function but I'm terrible with that thing.
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Old 02-18-14 | 04:33 PM
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Old 02-18-14 | 04:44 PM
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Wait... did your last attempt at a DIY rattle can paint job turn out less than you'd imagined? This isn't the first time you've commented your intent to paint your own bike using spray paint.

Also, cross-posting is kinda frowned on here, so that duplicate thread you put in General Cycling 4 minutes after creating this one in SS/FG is going away.
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Old 02-19-14 | 08:50 AM
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Wait... did your last attempt at a DIY rattle can paint job turn out less than you'd imagined? This isn't the first time you've commented your intent to paint your own bike using spray paint.

Also, cross-posting is kinda frowned on here, so that duplicate thread you put in General Cycling 4 minutes after creating this one in SS/FG is going away.
I hadn't gotten to it yet. Bad weather and busy schedule. Also hadnt come up with a proper idea yet. Bunch of friends wanted to join in on the idea and paint their own, but we're procastrinating too much.
Sorry for the xpost, I didnt really know where to post..
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Old 02-19-14 | 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
Guess I mistook two things.
That a bike oriented forum had some more detailed information on this subject, and that this community would be somewhat friendly and not be acting like dicks posting links to lmgtfy. **** me for thinking it'd be a better idea to ask some guys with experience and expertise one on one than just going with a guide on google or some over commercialized site like wikihow. My bad completely!
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