Better still: Ride your bike, and let the paint get chipped up, dinged, and scuffed.
20 years down the road, your bike will look even better than it does today. I'm on *Year 11* with my Saluki, and it's just *starting* to get good. -John On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:20:00 AM UTC-7, Adama wrote: > > Does this ever happen to you? You get a silly notion. Doesn't matter how > big or how small: you're poaching an egg one morning and decide it's time > to switch out the cockpit...chuck the drops, now I'd like to try that > Albastache. Sure, no big deal. Most of us like to tweak things here or > there. > > Or: alternately, starring into that same swirling eddy of egg white as it > congeals...I'm ready for a mixte...time to scrap the roadie project...I'm > all about the step-through now. > > It happened to me. I'm perfectly happy with my Sam > <https://flic.kr/p/bnm1mT>. > > I've been happy with it for years. Now I've got this silly notion that I > can't shake. It crept in a year or two ago when I saw some pictures from > folks on this list: Powder coat over raw metal, oh how interesting. > > Fast forward several years of breakfast later. I just can't shake it. I > forget about it now and then, and then something reminds me of that > Bombadil, Hunqapillar, and Protovelo... > > So please, discourage me. How silly it would be to take this beautiful > Sam and strip it to bare metal. We all know that a clear powder coat over > raw steel may or may not have much longevity. Depends. Let's just forget > that for a moment... > > Please, indulge me: let's just say this Sam got stripped of paint. I'd > only want this done if I knew that the frame had not been evenly blasted > prior to painting. The even blasting makes it look it uniform--not > bad--but not what I'm going for. I'd be going for that fiery, uneven look. > > My question is: is there any way to know whether my frame had been evenly > blasted prior to painting? Is this making sense? > > Thanks, > Adama > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
