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On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Cheers |
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On 2019-11-04 16:03, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Hmm, how does mud do that? Some sort of chemical reaction? Every time I cleaned it off somewhere to work on a certain area (didn't want crud to fall into the BB threads et cetera) the paint underneath it looked pristine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:49:09 UTC-5, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-11-04 16:03, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Hmm, how does mud do that? Some sort of chemical reaction? Every time I cleaned it off somewhere to work on a certain area (didn't want crud to fall into the BB threads et cetera) the paint underneath it looked pristine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Mud is a grinding compound since it's composed of ultrafine grits. Sheesh! Cheers |
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:44:27 -0800 (PST), Sir Ridesalot
wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. And, if I remember correctly it did break, many times :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:56:33 UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:44:27 -0800 (PST), Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. And, if I remember correctly it did break, many times :-) -- cheers, John B. I remember a guy waiting a bike shop for the shop to open. I asked him what was wrong with his bike. He said it wouldn't change gears. I asked him where his changers were. he pointed at his bike and said there. "There" was just massive clumps of crap and no derailleur in sight. I told him he should clean all that crap off. He asked my why. Some people are just clueless. Cheers |
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On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:56:33 UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:44:27 -0800 (PST), Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. And, if I remember correctly it did break, many times :-) -- cheers, John B. When I was younger I road with a friend a lot. we sometimes rode through very deep mud almost to the axles. I would never have dreamed leaving that mud on the bike. When we'd get to a dry spot we'd scrape off the vast majority of mud. Funny thing is we never had much trouble with something breaking. That was because stuff didn't break due to being neglected by leaving mud built up on it. Cheers |
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On 2019-11-04 16:53, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:49:09 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 16:03, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Hmm, how does mud do that? Some sort of chemical reaction? Every time I cleaned it off somewhere to work on a certain area (didn't want crud to fall into the BB threads et cetera) the paint underneath it looked pristine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Mud is a grinding compound since it's composed of ultrafine grits. Sheesh! Well, how exactly is _caked_ on mud going to grind? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:04:39 UTC-5, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-11-04 16:53, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:49:09 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 16:03, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Hmm, how does mud do that? Some sort of chemical reaction? Every time I cleaned it off somewhere to work on a certain area (didn't want crud to fall into the BB threads et cetera) the paint underneath it looked pristine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Mud is a grinding compound since it's composed of ultrafine grits. Sheesh! Well, how exactly is _caked_ on mud going to grind? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Joerg are you for real? Caked on mud will have bits loosen with vibration when the bicycle is in use and those bits can migrate to the moving parts where those bits then cause grinding. It's no wonder you have so much trouble with your stuff breaking. Cheers |
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Joerg wrote:
On 2019-11-04 16:53, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:49:09 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 16:03, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49:13 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-11-04 15:44, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote: On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote: My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it again. In any case it will be my spare rider. Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the "Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner. These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was there. It would cook to a metallic yellow. After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed. I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy. Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there. My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly reduces the chance of them being stolen. The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial Stout or something similar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ But vastly improves the chances of something breaking. Mud does not increase the chance of breakage. Beer doesn't either, provided one enjoys it within reason. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Dried mud greatly increases wear rates of components and that leads to premature failure aka breakage. Hmm, how does mud do that? Some sort of chemical reaction? Every time I cleaned it off somewhere to work on a certain area (didn't want crud to fall into the BB threads et cetera) the paint underneath it looked pristine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Mud is a grinding compound since it's composed of ultrafine grits. Sheesh! Well, how exactly is _caked_ on mud going to grind? I guess that depends on what it’s caked on to. You do seem to complain more than most about how bike equipment doesn’t hold up. Maybe there’s a link. Your bikes, your choice though. |
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