Recent content by jhoreth

Got the frame back from paint, looks good though not as dark or as metallic-y as I was hoping.

It's been blasted and is in the paint shop as we speak. A few blemishes but hopefully the dark grey metallic will hide most of them.

Here are a few more (poor quality - damn iphone) pictures. The down tube at the head tube does not appear to be ovalized. The dropouts are shimano. Perhaps this bike was tig welded due to the fact that it was (perhaps) built for Brent Martin as Paul stated? That it was destined to be abused...

OK here are some more pictures .. I will leave it to you folks to make a determination. Next step, bead blast, then to the paint shop. Jeff

Hi, sorry, no new pictures as I haven't been able to track down the frame since it is somewhere between the chemical cleaners and the NDT shop. As soon as I find it I will get some pictures. I just saw your other post about your romax and I have a feeling you are correct in that there will be...

Ok I'll try to get better pictures but when I first uploaded these ones I got an error indicating that the files were too big. I had to make them smaller in order to upload. I say it's an '88 because it's serial 381 and PB confirmed it. I didn't see a . but that does not mean it's not there...

Thanks. Indeed I'm looking for a black first gen Amp (I think - the one without the coil over as I recall) for the old expresso, what are you looking for?

Thanks .. Yeah, turns out it's a romax. Guess I got lucky. PB thinks it was originally Imron dark grey metallic. Any help finding the paint code would be appreciated.

I recently got my old Expresso back together and thought you folks might be interested in seeing it. Long story with this bike, I bought it new and rode it all over BC for years till it got stolen from my garage. I happened to see the f__ker riding it on Quadra Street here in Victoria, locked...