The Hundredth Idiot
Dirt Disciple
These seem to be flavour of the month on retrobike so I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring too.
I picked mine up on eBay a few years ago with the intention of making it into a rideable pub bike, and learning more about bike maintenance.
It had been sat in someone's shed for a number of years so was filthy and had very little remaining of the decals. However, it had a lot of original kit on it, including good condition Araya RM-17 rims, cantilever brakes and Deore derailleurs.
The bars aren't original (I've since picked up Marin ones from eBay, albeit in green) and the forks also aren't original (as they are Marin but are in non-Zolatone grey rather than fluoro orange).
I stripped it, cleaned it and put it back together with a new chain, new cassette, new Shimano (UN55, I think) bottom bracket and some new shifters as the original Rapid Fires weren't working. Annoyingly, I broke the matching Zefal grey/orange bottle cage just the other week by putting it on my car bike rack.
I've just fitted a new headset (NOS OEM Deore which I got from eBay in the US) as the old one was indexed so a bit unsettling at times.
And now I'm getting the itch to get it resprayed and smartened up a bit. I've got some decals from gil_m so am ready to go.
I'm not that bothered about making it a perfect restoration - but I want it to look smarter than it does at the moment.
I'll post pictures at the weekend when I get chance to take some. Once I've finished my other pub bike (an old, nondescript racer which will soon be a single speed beater), I'll be taking the Pine Mountain to bits, ready to start on the respray.
I'm not planning on doing the respray myself - I don't have the space, skills, time to do it. So my first question is who should I get to do the respray?
If I go for powdercoating, Finishright in Horsham seems to be relatively local to me in Haywards Heath - what colour codes and so on would I need to give them as information (dark grey zolatone frame with fluoro orange, fork, stem and bars)?
Otherwise, I tried to send a PM to a forum member (Foulplay) who had his 1990 Pine Mountain sprayed by a friend who worked hard to recreate the zolatone effect. If that friend is willing to take on a project (for payment, of course) and is reasonably local to me then that could be a good option. (For some reason, the PM is sat in my outbox rather than having been sent - can't quite figure out how to send it.)
Any other suggestions for a good way of getting this resprayed, bearing in mind I'm not aiming for a perfect, period perfect restoration?
Cheers
I picked mine up on eBay a few years ago with the intention of making it into a rideable pub bike, and learning more about bike maintenance.
It had been sat in someone's shed for a number of years so was filthy and had very little remaining of the decals. However, it had a lot of original kit on it, including good condition Araya RM-17 rims, cantilever brakes and Deore derailleurs.
The bars aren't original (I've since picked up Marin ones from eBay, albeit in green) and the forks also aren't original (as they are Marin but are in non-Zolatone grey rather than fluoro orange).
I stripped it, cleaned it and put it back together with a new chain, new cassette, new Shimano (UN55, I think) bottom bracket and some new shifters as the original Rapid Fires weren't working. Annoyingly, I broke the matching Zefal grey/orange bottle cage just the other week by putting it on my car bike rack.
I've just fitted a new headset (NOS OEM Deore which I got from eBay in the US) as the old one was indexed so a bit unsettling at times.
And now I'm getting the itch to get it resprayed and smartened up a bit. I've got some decals from gil_m so am ready to go.
I'm not that bothered about making it a perfect restoration - but I want it to look smarter than it does at the moment.
I'll post pictures at the weekend when I get chance to take some. Once I've finished my other pub bike (an old, nondescript racer which will soon be a single speed beater), I'll be taking the Pine Mountain to bits, ready to start on the respray.
I'm not planning on doing the respray myself - I don't have the space, skills, time to do it. So my first question is who should I get to do the respray?
If I go for powdercoating, Finishright in Horsham seems to be relatively local to me in Haywards Heath - what colour codes and so on would I need to give them as information (dark grey zolatone frame with fluoro orange, fork, stem and bars)?
Otherwise, I tried to send a PM to a forum member (Foulplay) who had his 1990 Pine Mountain sprayed by a friend who worked hard to recreate the zolatone effect. If that friend is willing to take on a project (for payment, of course) and is reasonably local to me then that could be a good option. (For some reason, the PM is sat in my outbox rather than having been sent - can't quite figure out how to send it.)
Any other suggestions for a good way of getting this resprayed, bearing in mind I'm not aiming for a perfect, period perfect restoration?
Cheers