1 picture of the most beautiful paint/powdercoat job you've ever seen or had.
12-26-22, 10:52 AM
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I don't have a picture of it- but my first "vintage" Trek was a 1984 420. I assume it was Imron- but the paint looked so deep. I remember looking at it thinking I could almost put my finger into it. My 85 620 is similar- but not as dramatic.
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12-27-22, 09:06 AM
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I'm looking for finish ideas for a potential project. It is still a ways off, but I'm interested in finding a really beautiful color that is going to pop. Could be paint or powdercoat, 1 tone or multi, factory or custom job. Sky's the limit. What is 'that one' incredible finish on a frame you've never been able to forget? I'm including the one on here I haven't been able to forget, except that I think I'm wanting a different color.
done by 'The Powdercoat Man' in Maple Grove, MN
Thanks in advance!
I'm looking for finish ideas for a potential project. It is still a ways off, but I'm interested in finding a really beautiful color that is going to pop. Could be paint or powdercoat, 1 tone or multi, factory or custom job. Sky's the limit. What is 'that one' incredible finish on a frame you've never been able to forget? I'm including the one on here I haven't been able to forget, except that I think I'm wanting a different color.
done by 'The Powdercoat Man' in Maple Grove, MN
Thanks in advance!
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12-27-22, 11:28 AM
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What can I say? I'm a sucker for basic blue. Ed Litton did the painting. The fork was already chrome.
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mackgoo I'm not sure what's going on here but I like it. Is that a rack for organizing your lawn N garden tools?
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12-28-22, 05:44 PM
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AdventureManCO I just got this one back from my painter here in the Denver area yesterday .... he does a fantastic job. To me, there is not much better than a well executed candy apple type color (this is his interpretation of Schwinn Flamboyant Red).....
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AdventureManCO I just got this one back from my painter here in the Denver area yesterday .... he does a fantastic job. To me, there is not much better than a well executed candy apple type color (this is his interpretation of Schwinn Flamboyant Red).....
12-29-22, 10:11 PM
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I see your Strawberry and raise you with mine.
1974 Strawberry “hill climb and time trial” bike, refinished as a restomod with powdercoat in original “Dalmatian Blue”.
The geometry is extremely tight. It’s like a track bike with a derailleur.
1974 Strawberry “hill climb and time trial” bike, refinished as a restomod with powdercoat in original “Dalmatian Blue”.
The geometry is extremely tight. It’s like a track bike with a derailleur.
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12-29-22, 11:04 PM
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I see your Strawberry and raise you with mine.
1974 Strawberry “hill climb and time trial” bike, refinished as a restomod with powdercoat in original “Dalmatian Blue”.
The geometry is extremely tight. It’s like a track bike with a derailleur.
1974 Strawberry “hill climb and time trial” bike, refinished as a restomod with powdercoat in original “Dalmatian Blue”.
The geometry is extremely tight. It’s like a track bike with a derailleur.
Well I'm glad you got yourself a Strawberry and there's no one more happy about that than me, but a reboot however cool with a ding and CF fork is a bit different than a 2019 full custom dream build.
Oh and it also rides like a dream, as you would expect.
Sorry but I don't see a raise on the table.
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12-30-22, 02:07 PM
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However, I think my Fragola trumps yours, ding and all. You see, this is C&V, and there are specific house rules. A Strawberry with history, panache, and patina beats one without.
1. Mine was built in ‘74, just the 3rd year of operations, not a modern continuation. Original owner bought it at the Portland shop and rode it home to SF.
2. Mine was built by two legends of American frame building, not just one. Andy Newlands did the machine work and Mark DiNucci brazed it up. Mark since left to design the Allez, Stumpjumper, and Specialized’s ‘80s lineup. (Per authentication email from Andy).
3. I have the original fork but I don’t trust it… Newlands filed the lug shoulders away to paper thin. At one place on the shoulder, he filed right through the lug. I think that adds a few points to the story.
4. Mine comes with stories from the original owner. It was raced, wrecked, raced some more, turned into a SF messenger bike, raced again, and finally put away for two decades before being revived under my watch. That top tube ding is a witness to the bike’s history.
Both are beautiful bikes. Yours would certainly beat mine on any other forum but C&V. I submit that mine is at least an equal. Enjoy yours and I wish you many miles and tailwinds.
Brazing and lugs were filed smooth… Here it even went right through the lug.
Custom dropouts made of thin plate steel, then drilliumed. Vertical dropouts were pretty advanced for 1974.
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12-30-22, 04:03 PM
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Yours is a beautiful Strawberry and I’m sure it is a fabulous ride. Congratulations and I wish you many miles on it.
However, I think my Fragola trumps yours, ding and all. You see, this is C&V, and there are specific house rules. A Strawberry with history, panache, and patina beats one without.
1. Mine was built in ‘74, just the 3rd year of operations, not a modern continuation. Original owner bought it at the Portland shop and rode it home to SF.
2. Mine was built by two legends of American frame building, not just one. Andy Newlands did the machine work and Mark DiNucci brazed it up. Mark since left to design the Allez, Stumpjumper, and Specialized’s ‘80s lineup. (Per authentication email from Andy).
3. I have the original fork but I don’t trust it… Newlands filed the lug shoulders away to paper thin. At one place on the shoulder, he filed right through the lug. I think that adds a few points to the story.
4. Mine comes with stories from the original owner. It was raced, wrecked, raced some more, turned into a SF messenger bike, raced again, and finally put away for two decades before being revived under my watch. That top tube ding is a witness to the bike’s history.
Both are beautiful bikes. Yours would certainly beat mine on any other forum but C&V. I submit that mine is at least an equal. Enjoy yours and I wish you many miles and tailwinds.
Brazing and lugs were filed smooth… Here it even went right through the lug.
Custom dropouts made of thin plate steel, then drilliumed. Vertical dropouts were pretty advanced for 1974.
However, I think my Fragola trumps yours, ding and all. You see, this is C&V, and there are specific house rules. A Strawberry with history, panache, and patina beats one without.
1. Mine was built in ‘74, just the 3rd year of operations, not a modern continuation. Original owner bought it at the Portland shop and rode it home to SF.
2. Mine was built by two legends of American frame building, not just one. Andy Newlands did the machine work and Mark DiNucci brazed it up. Mark since left to design the Allez, Stumpjumper, and Specialized’s ‘80s lineup. (Per authentication email from Andy).
3. I have the original fork but I don’t trust it… Newlands filed the lug shoulders away to paper thin. At one place on the shoulder, he filed right through the lug. I think that adds a few points to the story.
4. Mine comes with stories from the original owner. It was raced, wrecked, raced some more, turned into a SF messenger bike, raced again, and finally put away for two decades before being revived under my watch. That top tube ding is a witness to the bike’s history.
Both are beautiful bikes. Yours would certainly beat mine on any other forum but C&V. I submit that mine is at least an equal. Enjoy yours and I wish you many miles and tailwinds.
Brazing and lugs were filed smooth… Here it even went right through the lug.
Custom dropouts made of thin plate steel, then drilliumed. Vertical dropouts were pretty advanced for 1974.
Well maybe so, not sure how your restomod trumps mine, all steel, fully lugged with Andy's gorgeous crowns front and rear, quill stem and plenty of C+V accoutrement's including chrome steel SP and Brooks clamp to go with the chrome rail B-17.
It was extremely well received here when I built it, not one single detractor.
The "rules" you cite are guidelines at best, we all mostly understand they can be skewed however we decide at any given time.
I know and agree with all your Strawberry lore as I cite it often as well as what I know of Merz and Gordon when he was near here, and hung out as well.
I have 3 other Strawberry's with 2 that are from early on that Mark did and also an earlier bike built by Micheal Bornstien from Ames Iowa when he worked for Andy here.
And while no stories from the road, both of the DiNucci built ones have had a long hard ride, one repaired at least 2 or 3 times, was bent when I got it and straightened, the other may not have been ridden a million miles but came to me from New Orleans where it has had a rough time stewing it its own juices for quite awhile.
The 3rd Strawberry is after Mark left, 1 of the Innocenti's and way too small, might be your size.
None of these are presentable or proper for this thread atmo.
Anyway, not disagreeing with any of your thoughts aside from the "trump", with 5 Merz's, 4/5 Strawberry's, 4 Allez's, 5 Stumpy's and a Gordon from when he was in Eugene, I have the PDX framebuilding epicenter with the Big S connection well in hand.
12-30-22, 05:18 PM
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Tx, of course fully agree and honestly like yours just as much as well.
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Anyway, not disagreeing with any of your thoughts aside from the "trump", with 5 Merz's, 4/5 Strawberry's, 4 Allez's, 5 Stumpy's and a Gordon from when he was in Eugene, I have the PDX framebuilding epicenter with the Big S connection well in hand.
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Anyway, not disagreeing with any of your thoughts aside from the "trump", with 5 Merz's, 4/5 Strawberry's, 4 Allez's, 5 Stumpy's and a Gordon from when he was in Eugene, I have the PDX framebuilding epicenter with the Big S connection well in hand.
Rather than a curated collection, I have a mishmash of bikes that suit my fancy. I am geographically agnostic when sourcing the origin of my bikes. Please check out my most recent project, a ‘94 Marinoni EL-OS refinished in powder coat and new graphics, set up with gears for the 5,300 foot hill climb behind it.
I hope this is a fun sideline to an otherwise enjoyable thread. I suggest we declare a draw and go back to admiring some epic paint jobs, presented in just a single picture.
Best wishes, and here’s to many more miles in 2023!
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12-30-22, 05:36 PM
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You have an enviable stable of PDX-sourced bikes. I am geographically agnostic when sourcing the origin of my bikes. As a gesture of goodwill, please take a look at my most recent project, a ‘94 Marinoni EL-OS refinished in powder coat and new graphics, set up with gears for the 5,300 foot hill climb behind it.
I hope this is a fun sideline to an otherwise enjoyable thread. I suggest we declare a draw and go back to admiring some epic paint jobs, presented in just a single picture.
Best wishes, and here’s to many more miles in 2023!
I hope this is a fun sideline to an otherwise enjoyable thread. I suggest we declare a draw and go back to admiring some epic paint jobs, presented in just a single picture.
Best wishes, and here’s to many more miles in 2023!
I'm as big a fan of the PDX triad as there is I think.
That being said I have plenty of other various and sundry wide ranging bikes as well, too many by some accounts.
Another fantastic example AND another excellent paint source as well, also a huge Marinoni fan, have a couple of these languishing too.
12-31-22, 07:53 PM
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AdventureManCO I just got this one back from my painter here in the Denver area yesterday .... he does a fantastic job. To me, there is not much better than a well executed candy apple type color (this is his interpretation of Schwinn Flamboyant Red).....
Hmmm...
It really begs the important question...would I be stoopid not to?
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I might have shown this before, but it's my custom built Veloce that I had built for me in around 1986 by John Stinsman in Allentown, PA. Paint job fades from Dark Rose Metallic at the top to Light Rose Metallic at the bottom'
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The lug lining was done my Groody Bros. Any other lines on the frame are decals.
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