Grove Hardcore with matching Hammerhead and shock

[racer x]

Shame that paint finish is going :cry: what a paint job if im honest thats the best one i've seen out of them bikes

 

[mfh126]

Shame that paint finish is going :cry: what a paint job if im honest thats the best on iv seen out of them bikes

mkozaczek posted in the wrong thread. He didn't win the Grove with the sweet paintjob, he got this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1990s-G ... 415dd27a5b. (I was confused, too)

 

[mkozaczek]

Actually no, I did win the frameset only one for $870...

 

[mfh126]

Actually no, I did win the frameset only one for $870...

And again I'm confused. I thought you won the bike with the burnt seat tube and that's why you're getting it repainted? Now you're saying you won the $870 frameset with the sweet paint? Did you win both?

 

[mkozaczek]

I won the bike with the sweet paint and did not bid on the one with the burnt seat tube.

As for the repaint here are my thoughts. A hard core should have at least a matching hard core fork and ideally a hot head bar/stem. This one does not, it only has the hammerhead bar/stem. So, I'd have to put on the hard core fork and hot heat and get them painted to match which would be tough.

Furthermore, I've always wanted a hard core and I have a very specific color scheme in mind and Bill himself is doing the repaint, so I feel it's a valid way to go about it. After all a Grove Paintjob today is the same as a Grove paint job in 1991, and it would get original decals...

The other hard core (the $500) one is not a real hard core, in the sense a late 95 Adroit is not a real 95 Adroit, the top tube is all wrong. So, in my opinion it's not worth the trouble.

 

[racer x]

Cool but them colour coded suspension forks look so sweet together

Good look with your change of colour, hope we can all see the finish look, im sure i've seen this bike in a very old mag or show with purple cooks with that same very trick paint job :roll:

 

[mkozaczek]

Yeah, the matching suspension forks look good, but I want to ride this bike and I absolutely don't want a MAG-20...

 

[hentho]

I won the bike with the sweet paint and did not bid on the one with the burnt seat tube.

As for the repaint here are my thoughts. A hard core should have at least a matching hard core fork and ideally a hot head bar/stem. This one does not, it only has the hammerhead bar/stem. So, I'd have to put on the hard core fork and hot heat and get them painted to match which would be tough.

Furthermore, I've always wanted a hard core and I have a very specific color scheme in mind and Bill himself is doing the repaint, so I feel it's a valid way to go about it. After all a Grove Paintjob today is the same as a Grove paint job in 1991, and it would get original decals...

The other hard core (the $500) one is not a real hard core, in the sense a late 95 Adroit is not a real 95 Adroit, the top tube is all wrong. So, in my opinion it's not worth the trouble.

Hi,

is it correct, that you want to repaint the frame either?

You said the other hard core is not a real hard core - I think a repainted frame is really not the same as a frame with an original paintjob (even if it was painted by Bill). The colour is in good shape and some kind of "history".

I bid on the frame myself and it makes me a bid sad, that one really nice grove innovations frame with a rare painting will be repainted.

 

[mkozaczek]

I think it comes down to what you want to have and ride.

I think a hard core without the rigid fork but in original color is not as great as a hard core with a rigid fork painted in a color I want by the original painter himself using original decals...

 

[Stylus]

I bid on the frame myself and it makes me a bid sad, that one really nice grove innovations frame with a rare painting will be repainted.

you should have bid more then, no?