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Old 06-28-20, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by jbchybridrider
Cool thanks for telling me that. Primer or basecoat makes a big difference. I mixed a rich red primer under a red top coat on one bike and it looks neon out in the sun.

https://youtu.be/ONQxAKBRmms
Well the paint for me was a huge gut check that I should have nailed down much earlier in the process, especially having had plenty of time, until the end.

I have a best friend who is an expert painter so I know better but let it get away from me.

I originally wanted Soul Crystal red but it is a huge PITA, $$$$, 5 stage? and so Ford Ruby red was next, still $$$$$ so they found this and I do like it but it is far darker than I wanted.

By the time I got sorted, they had ordered and started it so I was stuck, not the way I had imagined it would go, as I told them, so be it.

I gets compliments from all who see it so there's that.

You might reach out to Paul Ketelaar in Queensland, he builds and paints frames, does fantastic work and has great insight, he also fought with the Soul Crystal so he may be able to add to the discussion.

He was here in PDX with it after a lot of work for a show when he came to Visit Andy at Strawberry a couple of years ago.
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Old 06-28-20, 05:36 PM
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Old 06-28-20, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jbchybridrider
That's a nice colour, has a bit of class about it. Hope you don't mind me writing that down for a possible job in the future.
Forgot to say Thanx.

Here's the build? thread if you like, lots more pics.

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-decide-2.html
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Old 06-28-20, 07:48 PM
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Old 06-28-20, 08:18 PM
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I think I can add a few to this:


Touring around the San Gabriel River

1987-ish ADR SLX Bottecchia

My Schwinn Prologue doing taxi duty 3 years ago. My son now rides his own bike.

Schwinn Peloton with a couple of upgrades

My 2019 Eroica bike now replaced with the Bottecchia. I will be setting this one up with larger tires, probably 700x28 and better gearing for hills for the Nova part of Eroica and STI shifters.

I actually have another red bike, but it probably isn't too C&V. I looked at my garage and I have way to many red bikes. It's not that I really LOVE red bikes, these just happen to by at the right time and price and happen to be red. I need to get other colored bikes . . .
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Old 07-14-20, 02:56 PM
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Old 08-03-20, 12:37 PM
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Picked up this late 80s Terry Prism at a local Goodwill for like $37 yesterday--a fun red; gonna build it up as a gravel/touring rig for my daughter

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Old 08-03-20, 03:57 PM
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Old 08-03-20, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by fvernon
Picked up this late 80s Terry Prism at a local Goodwill for like $37 yesterday--a fun red; gonna build it up as a gravel/touring rig for my daughter

Wow quite a score, any idea if the smaller front wheel will be challenging on gravel?
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Old 08-03-20, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by merziac
Wow quite a score, any idea if the smaller front wheel will be challenging on gravel?
Thanks! We'll see about the front tire--I'm going to drop both wheels a size (520 to 507 up front; 700c to 650b in the back) to make more rubber room--I should be able to at least fit a 24x1.5 or 24x1.6 up front with the slightly-smaller wheel. Hopefully that will help (I've met one other Terry owner on Instagram who did something similar & it looks like it worked out really well for her as an all-road rider). But I'm hanging onto the original wheelset & brakes in case it doesn't work out.
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There's something sexy about red bikes.... loving this thread
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Alright! Another chance to post pics of my latest and most red, Ferrari red, bike. Thanks to all the former owners for passing it on!
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Might have posted this before, but I don't think as a fendered build. Did this for Peter Weigle's French Fender Day last year, but took the fenders back off after getting back home. Fits true 28s with fenders, 32s without. No pix since the fenders came off but I don't think I changed much other than the tires. Crankarms maybe?

It's an '83ish DiNucci, built just before Mark went to Specialized. It's been reworked over the years, this current setup resprayed by Brian Baylis in a Masi color he created called California Burgundy. It was one of the last frames he painted before passing.

My other vintage red bikes are gone...

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Heres a couple that i have..


1990 Diamond Back Expert TG

1988 GT Karakoram
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here's a shot of one of my red bikes, with a fairly low perspective.... I was just playing around with the camera to see if I could get anything interesting.



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1978 Schwinn Volare. Catalog lists the color as Scarlet, and the tubing as Reynolds 532. Fancy.
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