'89 Muirwoods.....morphing into a Palisades?

Gil-m did mine so he will have them on file, although from this picture my placement of decals looks a bit off, the decals were perfect however

I would be interested in how you get on with recreating the flouro paint, i had mine powdercoated, and initally it was perfect, but the poweder has crazed and i have surface rust coming through in parts so it needs redoing.

I dont really trust trying to recreate flouro in powder coat now :cry:

Charlieboy28":n7tqa7h6 said:

Gil-m did mine so he will have them on file, although from this picture my placement of decals looks a bit off, the decals were perfect however

I would be interested in how you get on with recreating the flouro paint, i had mine powdercoated, and initally it was perfect, but the poweder has crazed and i have surface rust coming through in parts so it needs redoing.

I dont really trust trying to recreate flouro in powder coat now :cry:

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Love this....

Shame to hear about the powdercoat - if there's rust coming through that sounds like bad prep surely...? Maybe the cause for the powdercoating crazing too (not that I know anything about powdercoating!)

Any ideas what the paint code is for the colour? I need to find a match and I'm not too sure how to go about it. Presumably you can get paint analysed and matched (there are a couple of good un-faded sections underneath stickers that I can use as a sample)?

After a bit of trawling for a good paint match for the Muirwoods I've come across Lotus Krypton Green........looks close enough I reckon, and I can get a "repair" kit of 400ml Aerosol + clear lacquer which means I can have a crack at painting it myself! Woo........

What do we think - a good enough match?? (I've used charlieboy28's bike as a comparison)

Mate i think it'd be more burn your eyes off glow in the dark flouro yellow like the 91 Palisades and 92 Muirwoods? Some times photos don't capture the right shade. When i bought my 91 the photo on ebay made it look custard yellow but when i went to pick it i could see it streets away lol.

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For the older ones out there, cannot see this bike without thinking of

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Every time i see this pic i think of Cadbury's Fruit & Nut bars bizarrely...









Taxi :roll:

PopsTrippin":1lker7l6 said:

Mate i think it'd be more burn your eyes off glow in the dark flouro yellow like the 91 Palisades and 92 Muirwoods? Some times photos don't capture the right shade. When i bought my 91 the photo on ebay made it look custard yellow but when i went to pick it i could see it streets away lol.

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It's def. got a hint of green to it (Marin call it Lime yellow) - I've peeled off a bikeshop sticker from the frame revealing the unfaded paint so I've got a good source to get it matched.

I've taken the stem into a few paint shops to compare against the aerosol fluro yellows that are available and it just doesn't match.....

Spent some of the Easter weekend indulging in a bit of bike resto....got the headset cleaned up and resprayed and prepped, primed and sprayed the forks and stem.

As for colour match - I had a mooch down to Halfords and took a punt on their fluro yellow. The colour on the lid looked similar to the unfaded sections on the frame.

It's a close match....it's less "green" than the original (which sounds strange when talking about yellow paint!) but it's good enough, and cheap enough for this project and it means I can spray it myself.

I was a little nervous about Halfords fluro paint as I've seen it mentioned that it doesn't cover particularly well. This is true - but if you lay down a good coating of matt white primer before the fluoro the results are really good. It dries matt too tho' so a few coats of lacquer are needed to give a nice deep shine.

Been collecting some bits too as they pop up on the forum. It's gonna be a very budget-conscious build this........

Obviously the stem isn't that long.......just isn't inserted into the forks fully.

Looking great, nice and bright!

Not sure about the direction of the Muirwoods now.....it may be morphing into a Palisades......after Ant's bare frame came up for sale.

Last year a guy we had in on work experience pointed me in the direction of a Marin Alcatraz - a modern jump bike but painted in the '90's style neon and '90s graphics. I love the way this bike looks so when the Palisades frame came up for sale it seemed to be the perfect frame to go with the neon yellow forks/stem that I had already re-sprayed from the Muirwoods. The blue is a little darker but I think it still "clashes" nicely with the yellow.

If I can get hold of some neon yellow vinyl I'll probably recreated the logos on the bike to match the forks too.....

The frame turned up yesterday so I spent last night throwing it all together using the bits I've collected for the Muirwoods (I'd rather have a bike built up than a load of bits lying around in a box....)