mrkawasaki
Retrobike Rider
Opening a topic on the refurbishment of a newly acquired, one-owner Pioneer. I already have one from 2007 that I painted and messed around with, but couldn't get it to actually fit me. I resolved to buy a larger one but didn't reckon on it taking ten years! It seems proven, to me at least, that the Pioneer rarely came along in larger sizes.
Plans are to have a modern paint job with a retro flavour. I can't think of many standard Pioneer paint jobs that I like, exceptions being LGFs and a green/limon one I saw on RB, but can't find this evening - so I'm starting with this modern Longitude scheme as my palette. I will flout traditionalist practise by having both a crest and the rather clumsy modern type graphics - jury is out on the apostrophe.
As this version was originally specced as a tourer with the more rugged Cromer OR (* read: heavier *), extra bottle bosses and Jim Blackburn racks front and rear, I intend it to be more than capable of a little hipster bikepacking come the summer months. I'm probably going with a painted set of bull moose bars and those racks, might even add a pair of painted gorilla-style cages on the fork blades.
First stop the strip and powder coat.
Plans are to have a modern paint job with a retro flavour. I can't think of many standard Pioneer paint jobs that I like, exceptions being LGFs and a green/limon one I saw on RB, but can't find this evening - so I'm starting with this modern Longitude scheme as my palette. I will flout traditionalist practise by having both a crest and the rather clumsy modern type graphics - jury is out on the apostrophe.
As this version was originally specced as a tourer with the more rugged Cromer OR (* read: heavier *), extra bottle bosses and Jim Blackburn racks front and rear, I intend it to be more than capable of a little hipster bikepacking come the summer months. I'm probably going with a painted set of bull moose bars and those racks, might even add a pair of painted gorilla-style cages on the fork blades.
First stop the strip and powder coat.