I did another 27km circuit on it yesterday to ride it to my local paint shop (to match the colour to paint the bull-moose bars I have in primer currently). It turns out its closest match was "Hyundai ember grey pearl" - so I have 250ml of that and a touch up pot for any chips on the frame and fork in future.
On the way I went via our local BMX park and tried it around there on some moguls. For anyone that acutally bought one of these bikes back in 1983 it must have felt an amazing ride back then, because its still pretty good at everthing today. There are not many in the UK though as they were pretty expensive back then with only a couple of bike shops in London importing them (and ofcourse we had our own equally good MTBs in the Overbury's Pioneer, Highpath/Cleland, and the likes of Dave Yates and Chas Roberts making very good steel British MTBs out of Reynolds and Columbus tube sets to a similar standard).
I must admit I am still a fan of Tom Ritchey's range, ancient & modern.
On the way I went via our local BMX park and tried it around there on some moguls. For anyone that acutally bought one of these bikes back in 1983 it must have felt an amazing ride back then, because its still pretty good at everthing today. There are not many in the UK though as they were pretty expensive back then with only a couple of bike shops in London importing them (and ofcourse we had our own equally good MTBs in the Overbury's Pioneer, Highpath/Cleland, and the likes of Dave Yates and Chas Roberts making very good steel British MTBs out of Reynolds and Columbus tube sets to a similar standard).
I must admit I am still a fan of Tom Ritchey's range, ancient & modern.
Thanks to everyone for the compliments above, and this weekend I am sure I will out for a ride to (off)road test this bike on its new(old) bars 
