My 1996 Ventana Marble Peak FS - Seeing Red

[Mr Chicken]

that is very nice

 

[JoanB]

personally i would respray the sids in a matching colour to the frame...

I thought about doing that, but the Ventana paint job on that frame is rather unique. It is a semi-transparent paint where you can see some of the aluminum in the background, almost looks like it's anodized. It plays tricks on your eyes. I have not seen that kind of paint on another frame. I think it would be somewhat hard to match a paint job.

I don't know if it's the same paint job, but my Ventana Pantera (2/2000) has a high quality red painting, it looks like anodized but, instead of red anodizeds, red doesn't become pink ;-)

 

[MiniNinjaRob]

personally i would respray the sids in a matching colour to the frame...

I thought about doing that, but the Ventana paint job on that frame is rather unique. It is a semi-transparent paint where you can see some of the aluminum in the background, almost looks like it's anodized. It plays tricks on your eyes. I have not seen that kind of paint on another frame. I think it would be somewhat hard to match a paint job.

Sounds like coloured lacquer (is it called candy-coat?) - red pigment in lacquer and give it loads of coats and it ends up slightly see-though. Santa-Cruz used it a fair bit on their bikes but I haven't seen one for a while. Fantastic look for any alu frame.

Reapainting SID's in gloss black would be better if you couldn't match the frame.

 

[Elev12k]

There excisted the 'cromovalato' chromed bikes with translucent colour paint.

One of my Koga frames has an aluminium frame with similar paint.