well, winter is here ... time to roll the bike into the basement and play around with the tools. first up, getting rid of those blazing white rims.


the tear down


the primer

up tomorrow: The First Coat  :mrgreen:

you working in your living room? cool, er warm I guess.

what color?

Your living room looks like mine, except I only have three bicycles in mine and three in the spare bedroom.  Ain't it funny how they tend to multiply?  

Man, I wish I had space to work like that.  I can't even get a shoebox worth of room in my garage.  Mom stores too much stuff.  "Gee, one of these days I'll have a garage sale and sell that 15 year old exercise bike.  Someone should buy it!" or, "We need those boxes just in case we need to pack up a computer." or, "Nobody has taken this bookcase for their apartment, but we should keep it just in case."
Grad school stipend sucks.

Quote from: pantabloyou working in your living room? cool, er warm I guess.

what color?

lol... no way the wife's going for that
naw, that's my basement -- just wheeled the gs thru the sliding glass doors before the snow hit.

i'm going home at lunch to do the first coat of Graphite Grey.

Quote from: JLKasperYour living room looks like mine, except I only have three bicycles in mine and three in the spare bedroom. Ain't it funny how they tend to multiply?

definitely. the mountain bike begat my wife's mtn bike which begat her road bike which begat my cyclocross bike which begat my singlespeed. we're talking biblical proportions here

I like my white rims they remind me of a BMX bike I had when I was a kid its you know retro

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How'd you get those invisible rims? That's amazing! I want a pair!

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Sure, tape them so we can see that they're actually there...

they came with this invisible jet i bought off some lady

:lol:

Dude is that a bottle a of yuengling lager on the bench? If so  

hooooleee crap! how did you figure that one out with only a bit of the neck label showing???  

from now on, you shall be known as: Beerlock Holmes!  :mrgreen:

Quote from: rideLIKEjehuhooooleee crap! how did you figure that one out with only a bit of the neck label showing???  

Beer eye for the straight guy!  

just after the clearcoat



and back on the bike.  i love 'em!!! much, much better than the white!  

that looks really good. the black wheels go well with the dark blue. Any special paint used there or your standard Krylon spray?

Now that your "winter project" is done what will you do with your time...<*cough*, polished rim edges, *cough*>

Those wheels look great! You totally updated the look of that bike. Xcellnt
job!

Woo! Alkaline Trio rocks! Love their new one.  

Sorry, just thought i'd throw that in there. Bet you get that all the time eh rideLIKEjehu?  

Quote from: WAPWoo! Alkaline Trio rocks! Love their new one.  

Sorry, just thought i'd throw that in there. Bet you get that all the time eh rideLIKEjehu?  

people recognize the avatar a lot more than i thought they would, yeah. but it's good to find another punkrawk fan out there  

Were you planning on polishing the rims?  A cool alternative is reflective rim tape.  It's available in colors (yes, blue) and tricks out a set of dark wheels.  They show a before and after version of a Seca II and the difference is remarkable.  But polished rims is cool too; it's just more work.  

Quote from: pantablothat looks really good. the black wheels go well with the dark blue. Any special paint used there or your standard Krylon spray?

thanks, it's just 2 coats of dupli-color's Graphite Grey and 2 clearcoats.

Quote from: pantabloNow that your "winter project" is done what will you do with your time...<*cough*, polished rim edges, *cough*>

i think i'm done monkeying with the wheels for a bit. i really don't have enough miles on it to know what performance mods i want to do. maybe in the spring i'll drop some progressive springs in and think about ordering some of srinath's bars  :dunno:

Quote from: JLKasperAin't it funny how they tend to multiply?  

Yep.

nice collection pablo ... is that TWO fixies i see??  glutton for punishment, eh? :mrgreen: