It's like you predicted my pictures. Haha. Sorry, I screwed up the image and redid it after you posted that. But yeah, it's raw.

Yeah, it's rolled up, just to the right of the handlebars.

Clearly I am blind

I would just spray some clearcoat on it that you can pick up from Autozone, and have it put together. Rock it like that for a while!

If I was more mechanically savvy, I would have done just that. The fact that I have to have it assembled by someone else turned me off from that idea though. I dropped it off today to get powdercoated. I'll post pics when I get it back.

so what color did you choose?

Just out of curiosity, how much did they quote you at for the powder coating? I am trying to hunt someone down around here who can do that

gonna be a surprise! haha.

Ess, I will be paying $75, but only because I'm having it gone over a second time with a satin clear finish. Without the extra clear coat he would have charged me $60.

After you get the frane powdercoated you should take it to a shop and get the headtube and bottom bracket shell refaced, and take some rough sandpaper to inside the seat tube.

He's going to be masking all that off.

Edit: The post that was here is no longer relevant.

Damn! I would pay that, except cant find anyone around here who does that kinda thing And dont really wanna spray paint a whole frame by myself, seems like it might chip easily.

Just got back from the powdercoating shop for my third consultation, after deciding on a color became somewhat of a fiasco.

Through my research for the correct shade of cream, I researched basically the entire RAL color spectrum, and looked up bikes powdercoated in many many different colors. While doing so, I ended up coming across one with which I fell deeply in love. It isn't any of the colors I mentioned previously in this thread. Watch out for that curve ball.

I'll post pics when I get it back.

It's finally done. A friend of mine helped me assemble it today. Well, more like he assembled it while I annoyed him. Anyway, my camera sucks, and it's a hard color to capture, so I took a few pics with different camera settings, and closeup of the top tube.















The color is "gray blue" or RAL-7031. I got the inspiration for the color from the pic below, which is a better representation of the actual color. However, I got an 80% matte clear coat on mine, and it made the blue less vibrant, so it's basically a duller version of this color:



I WOULD be out riding it right now instead of posting pictures of it, but the stupid pump I bought didn't have the presta adapter that it clearly stated was included, and it being 9:45pm here sort of prevents me from doing anything about that right now, which explains the flat tires.

Pump with your mouth.

Either you have really fluffy carpet or your tires are flat...

Victor! READ!

Oh...

I just look at pictures most of the time, that's why lolcats are so great/

Looks great! Now go ride!