jason1788
Dirt Disciple
I bought this bike in 2018 and did a clean and touch up, replacing some of the decals and have used it happily since (all of 1000km in 7 years!). I was never happy with my work though as the top tube decals were wrong and the paint match was terrible. see post
Fast forward to today and I've airbrushed out the paint repairs that I did previously, re-created the top tube decals, and done my own artworks for the Oria ML34 decals. So now, 90% of the decals are replaced but much of the paintwork and the faded stripes are original. I don't like replacing tubing decals but one of the fork tubing decals is original.
Additionally I managed to weigh the bare frame and it's 1919g (for a 57cm) which I'm pleased with. One thing I noticed that I hadn't read anywhere is that the ML34 steerer tube has 6 internal flutes similar to SLX tubing. Who knew?
Anyway, here it is. It's not a wall queen, and by maintaining some of the originality the paint matching was never going to be perfect.
Fast forward to today and I've airbrushed out the paint repairs that I did previously, re-created the top tube decals, and done my own artworks for the Oria ML34 decals. So now, 90% of the decals are replaced but much of the paintwork and the faded stripes are original. I don't like replacing tubing decals but one of the fork tubing decals is original.
Additionally I managed to weigh the bare frame and it's 1919g (for a 57cm) which I'm pleased with. One thing I noticed that I hadn't read anywhere is that the ML34 steerer tube has 6 internal flutes similar to SLX tubing. Who knew?
Anyway, here it is. It's not a wall queen, and by maintaining some of the originality the paint matching was never going to be perfect.
