Painting my Pinarello
09-29-08, 11:32 AM
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Painting my Pinarello
I've got a mid-80's Pinarello Treviso at the paint shop; waiting on a color decision. Since it's an Italian bike and I love color, it'll have to be done in style.
One option is this "scale" pattern, done in whatever colors I pick.
yes?
no?
Tacos?
One option is this "scale" pattern, done in whatever colors I pick.
yes?
no?
Tacos?
09-29-08, 11:34 AM
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Just remember that you have to go out in public with whatever you pick and you remember what happened to the kid that showed up to school dressed in the zoot suit.....
09-29-08, 11:46 AM
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sure the paint job is meticulous (and ugly), but why is there grass growing out of the BB shell?
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I've never seen a naked Pinarello frame before. I thought it would be a little more sexy.
09-29-08, 11:53 AM
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And whatever you do, please don't show that paint-job to the folks at Colnago. They don't need any further encouragement to make some of the ugliest looking bikes on the planet...
09-29-08, 12:06 PM
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Sorry, but no white. I already have a white bike. dvs, your Pinarello looks very nice but I want color. Bright, LOUD color.
This is my current road bike:
This is my current road bike:
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Only if you have matching kit, including shoe covers.
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Well then, go for broke.... What have you got to lose? If that is what you want, why get anybody else's opinion?
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I was hoping someone might offer some suggestions as well as comment on the scale pattern. Only one so far, and it was for white. This pattern is not necessarily something I want, only something the painter sent as a suggestion for me to think about.
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09-29-08, 12:16 PM
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I was hoping someone might offer some suggestions as well as comment on the scale pattern. Only one so far, and it was for white. This pattern is not necessarily something I want, only something the painter sent as a suggestion for me to think about.
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The pattern looks more like an artichoke than scales.
*edit* When I paint for people who don't really know what they want, My first suggestion is to go outside or flip through a magazine and show me the first color combo(on anything) that catches your eye. That's teh best place to start.
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09-29-08, 12:36 PM
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Thanks, Chucklehead. Right now I see the beautiful blue sky. Perhaps a metallic sky blue or like you say, metallic lime green like the vines growing in the backyard. Of course, I'll have to look at twenty different swatches of metallic sky blue to get the right one. Maybe like the light blue on this bike from NAHB but with a metallic accent:
Soma's Delancey in metallic garnet looks very nice; much nicer in person than on the screen. It's a bit dark, though. Best appreciated up close. Like a local rider's purple Colnago. Twenty feet away, it's a nondescript dark color.
Btw, I've got another bike being shipped off to be repainted and repaired.
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Projected After:
Instead of the matte charcoal at the bottom, I want a gloss black to match the glossy red.
Soma's Delancey in metallic garnet looks very nice; much nicer in person than on the screen. It's a bit dark, though. Best appreciated up close. Like a local rider's purple Colnago. Twenty feet away, it's a nondescript dark color.
Btw, I've got another bike being shipped off to be repainted and repaired.
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Instead of the matte charcoal at the bottom, I want a gloss black to match the glossy red.
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I was hoping someone might offer some suggestions as well as comment on the scale pattern. Only one so far, and it was for white. This pattern is not necessarily something I want, only something the painter sent as a suggestion for me to think about.
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09-29-08, 12:57 PM
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I've painted a Pinarello frame. I went with a metalic orange/red.
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...6122&highlight=
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...6122&highlight=
09-29-08, 04:12 PM
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I've painted a Pinarello frame. I went with a metalic orange/red.
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...6122&highlight=
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...6122&highlight=
This pic will hurt your eyes:
09-29-08, 04:28 PM
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One possibility (that you've already started down, it looks like) would be to use something with a loud color scheme that is totally unrelated to bikes as a theme. I saw in a local shop here an IF bike custom painted with the same pattern as Eddie Van Halen's guitar in "1984" -- red with black and white stripes. It looked extremely cool and was really unique. If you've got a custom painter that's willing to be adventurous, then that might be fun...
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That is absolutely freaking UGLY!!! Not only that, but it's about the simplist airbrush pattern anyone could devise.
No creativity in that at all. I'd find another paint artist to start with and RUN AWAY from that medusa.
I did SWMBO's Nishiki once a decade or so ago in a 3-color (red, black & charcoal) plaid pattern over off white. It needs redone now or I'd snap a pic and show it off.
No creativity in that at all. I'd find another paint artist to start with and RUN AWAY from that medusa.
I did SWMBO's Nishiki once a decade or so ago in a 3-color (red, black & charcoal) plaid pattern over off white. It needs redone now or I'd snap a pic and show it off.
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Bbattle...you are an obvious man of taste. Can you tell us about your white bike? I have been thinking about a vintage steelie like that with Northern Road or Albatross bars with Campy 10s..maybe barend shifters. Your white bike is beautiful. Which bike do you prefer...the white steelie upright or your roadbike which I see you have set up pretty upright?