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04-12-20, 08:39 AM
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But not for tapered headtubes, only straight 1 1/8”
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04-12-20, 09:31 AM
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Blank canvas for airbrush time.
Add some chrome applique material and perhaps a play on something like the old Schwinn Black Phantom. Use the Specialized name but follow with the Schwinn script font and colors.
Keep it all modern components but backdate the finish of them.... meaning high polished. Drop bar and stem would be highly polished aluminum. Brown tone saddle. High polished rims, white tires.
Stage 2 would be fabricating the Black Phantom tank. Acquire a section of a crashed carbon tube frame, use very thin aluminum skin for the tank, highly polished- of course. Don't graft it or modify the bike frame itself but rather use hook and loop / Velcro industrial hidden under the top and head tube. It wouldn't weigh anything but make it sized to hold a rain shell jacket, keys, tire kit, etc..
Add some chrome applique material and perhaps a play on something like the old Schwinn Black Phantom. Use the Specialized name but follow with the Schwinn script font and colors.
Keep it all modern components but backdate the finish of them.... meaning high polished. Drop bar and stem would be highly polished aluminum. Brown tone saddle. High polished rims, white tires.
Stage 2 would be fabricating the Black Phantom tank. Acquire a section of a crashed carbon tube frame, use very thin aluminum skin for the tank, highly polished- of course. Don't graft it or modify the bike frame itself but rather use hook and loop / Velcro industrial hidden under the top and head tube. It wouldn't weigh anything but make it sized to hold a rain shell jacket, keys, tire kit, etc..
04-12-20, 09:53 AM
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The paint scheme was definitely one of the main drivers of this fiasco.
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04-12-20, 10:03 AM
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I'm all in for you to clear coat it in the high gloss. Just don't ever ride in the the sun.
04-12-20, 01:13 PM
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Switched to black seat and tires, silver cage
Also tried black wheels but the silver is better
Also tried black wheels but the silver is better
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04-12-20, 02:23 PM
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I do hope you did this in a full hazmat suit, or at the least goggles, filter and gloves. Those fibres can be just as bad as asbestos when you sand them. :X
04-12-20, 03:12 PM
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Don't know the Spesh process, but when I was investigating small, custom CF builders (and there weren't too many back then) i believe they all had an epoxy layer over the final carbon wrap, which was often the decoratively beautiful, geometrically & visually perfect carbon we see on unpainted (clear or nude) frames. Painted frames being safest, that's what i chose with clearcoat on BB And chainstays.
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