You could teach a class on how to do and paint conversions. lately there has been a string of...incidents.

What brake calipers are those gold ones? They have a super long reach, considering those are 700's on 27" fork and the brake pads are at top of the slots. Plus they look awesome.

Haha, $5 Diacompe bmx knockoffs. :D I wasn't sure about them, but once I had them adjusted, they work great. The gold finish doesn't match anything else too well, but I think they tie everything in fairly nicely.

Here's a full body shot...it's kinda blurry though. :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...r/DSC_0033.jpg

It looks like it matches the chain and chainring great, and the headset and headbadge ok. Looks great though.

Yeah...it's kind of a mishmash. The headbadge is actually the brass that was under the chrome and scratched paint. The headset was actually painted with the gold paintpen I used for the accents on the frame.

i think it's a damn good looking bike. leave it as it is. if you wanna try something else, build a new one.

I really like this bike. I wouldnt change the color scheme. I've never seen oury's look so classy.

thanks for putting a nice bike in here.
they seem so few and far between.

there is you can only post the same bike 35 time in a year and you are over by 63 times;)

its in the forum rules read them

Unfortunately very true. It's pretty impossible to make anything above 58cm look as beautiful as a well done 52cm frame. And anything above 60 just looks god awful.

We can add bike frames to airline seats and wrestling on the list of benefits of being short.

Not that it matters, but I think any frame smaller than 56 and bigger than 62 looks silly as hell.

I used to think my 60cm Paddy Wagon looked goofy, but I got over it. Now I kind of think I like the look of bigger frames -- as long as the rider is suited to it. That 67 reminds me of the Bill Walton bike:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3...alton01hi7.jpg

So you are saying all my frames look silly ?

Here's a silly little bike that came into the shop the other day... I considered having my legs surgically shortened.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/jester1.jpg

my new sunday bike. top tube protector = Eltejp by Clas Ohlson.
http://sns.se/img/zimg/bob_jackson_DSC_0255.jpg
old bike= http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/ numero 5,864

Can I ask how exactly you have stripped and painted it? Looks good for a DIY-project :)

I'm sure we've gone over this...but please remind me what crankset that is on the Casati above?

And cierrecart...excellent work! Yeah, don't change a thing. I'd have liked low profile rims, but that is constructive criticism, not a negative gripe. Maybe you already had those around? Overall a beauty. As someone said, leave it alone. If you want to change things, put that creative energy (and money) into something new. Just ride that as it is!

I usually hate gold accents on bikes, but you did a really nice job. I think it's a really attractive bike. I would ride it in a heartbeat, though here in Wisconsin people would just think I'm a rabid football fan because of the green and gold. I wouldn't care. It's a good looking machine.

any frame smaller than a 57 is rediculous looking. tall is good, we get hotter chicks. 59/60 is pretty much perfect.

my vogue ride. 27" steel rims w/ no functional excuses:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/...7b70f023f7.jpg

Thanks guys. The colors just kind of came to me as I was going through the process. I never really had a plan for it when I started stripping it down.


AS for what I did, it was just your standard strip and paint:

Removed everything
Scrubbed everything with scotchbrite, soap, and water
Removed decals with heatgun and razorblade
Removed any surface rust with wire brush
Sanded entire frame with 800 grit sandpaper
Masked off anything I didn't want painted
Found something to hang it from
Several coats primer
Several coats color
Several coats clear (I used about a can of each step)
Let dry for a few days.


Thats about it.

it seems to me as if your brake lever is severely bent? is that on purpose?

ok but the IRO is relatively new though.

btw your math is wrong, I've posted the IRO 34 times. Still got one more left:D

That's the way some of them were designed back in the 80'x bmx days. I actually grab the inner section because the outside bend isn't too comfortable.

That's at least partly because you rotated the lever to an angle that's not very functional. If you had gigantic saddle-bar drop, it would make a bit more sense, but you've got almost none.