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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:36 pm 
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Hi all,

Finally its back from paint, even the paints retro Twopack oil based paint. I have a customer who works with classic cars and has a licence to use cellulose paint. The wait was well worth it as the finish is a deep shine and being oil based should stand up to the element well. I striped and polished the sub frame and swinging arm 2 months ago and ive been waiting on the frame to come back from paint.

The theme is black and polished with a hint of lightness and modern.

The air shocks are the lightness and modern, i'm afraid theres more modern to follow. And yes the Ibeam is on upside down, waiting on a Syncros Ahead and its only there to keep the build moving.


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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 9:23 pm 
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nice, shame about the lawn.... weed and feed + a goat will do the trick.


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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 12:17 am 
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Very, very cool!


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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 5:25 pm 
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If you knew me you would have known I had a goat, and not have brought the subject up :x . His name was Buck and he kept the lawn in FANTASTIC condition. Then one night the foxes took him. God i loved that GOAT :( . :


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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2011 3:31 pm 
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Look what arrived today in the post from Mr Gil Montague, the Decals.
Must thank him for making up the older style head tube badge its perfect and a colour change on the mainframe badge, also thanks to Alex for the photos of head tube badge for Gil to work from.
Will get them fitted the weekend and post up pictures.


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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 7:54 am 
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Looking good and looks like Gil has been busy with San An decals of late lol...


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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 4:27 pm 
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Head tube and main frame decals on, changed the grey on cycle to red as I have the same on the polished R series and prefer it.
Undecided on putting the sanandreas badge on the swinging arm, leaving it off for now as looking to making a AFTER SHOCK decal for it.

Struggling to get a 130/140 Syncros Ahead :cry: , have the bars, brakes, shifter and cable ready to go. Anyone help.


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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:38 am 
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grass is looking better and the bike looks great... whats next?


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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 4:31 am 
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Nice!!


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PostPosted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:34 pm 
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Very nice, I'd of be torn there, it looks an amazing polish job and I wouldn't of wanted to paint over it. On the other hand it would then look a bit plain so...

Can I ask what you polished it with? :D


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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:23 pm 
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Magsy wrote:
Very nice, I'd of be torn there, it looks an amazing polish job and I wouldn't of wanted to paint over it. On the other hand it would then look a bit plain so...

Can I ask what you polished it with? :D


Thanks M/C Shawn

And Magsy don’t worry I haven’t panted over my polished R- series, I have 2 San Andreas, a 95 tubular and a 98 pressed seat unit versions. Will post up the polished one when I make a couple of alterations to it.

The polish IM afraid I cant help you with a product name as I was given a 2.5 litre tube of cutting past and 1 litre of finishing liquid from a customer I had.
The cutting pasts is a slightly runnier version of Autosolve past, other's on Retro Bike use Autosolve and get great results, the finishing liquid makes it gleam without a cut.

Sorry i cant help with product name Magsy.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:40 pm 
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Cranks are ready, need to sours a bottom bracket, I’m edging towards red :idea: we’ll see.


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 12:31 pm 
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Have a bit of a dilemma, hollow tech XT or middleburn RS3.
Was going for lightweight build using new and old, found some ok RS3 cranks for my new 2001 DHS .They had a few marks on them so I have now polished them up, now they are polished they can go on Junior keeping the black and polished theme.
The XT hollow tech, I am thinking red anodize and on the DHS.
So middleburn RS3 on Junior
Hollow tech XT on the DHS, YES or NO "Help" .


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looking good :D :D i'm needing to see mr gil about some decals for my sannie 8)


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[quote="nutcase-retro"]If you knew me you would have known I had a goat, and not have brought the subject up :x . His name was Buck and he kept the lawn in FANTASTIC condition. Then one night the foxes took him. God i loved that GOAT :( . :[/quote

a fox took a goat?,sounds more like a tiger to me :D


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