Here is some empirical learnings: When Rick at D&D (RBW official/recommended painter, who apparently also painted my custom for Steve Rex) re-painted my Homer and my Hunqapillar, he told me that paint needed a long period of time to "cure" or whatever the correct term is, and until that process was complete, it was very prone to chipping easily. He sort of recommended I leave my bikes hanging for at least a month before riding them to allow this to happen.
With many of the Waterford bikes that are custom made for a specific order, the time between the painting being applied and the customer getting the fully assembled bike and riding it may still be too short (speculation here) and so in its early days, the bike may be more prone to chipping the paint than when it's older. This, of course, excludes large hits, prolonged rubbing, falls against sharp objects, etc., that will chip/scratch the paint no matter what. I also feel your paint, but now that your bike has its first real scratch/chip, it may be ages before you get another one... such is paint karma! Of course, some of us go bezerk no matter when it happens, and calling it beausage is just a "pretend" name to feel OK with it. Others don't really care. It must be in the genes, because it turns out that my son is just like me with his stuff in this regard. Best, René On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrick, I saw that setup when I first started looking at Fiats. I'm not > convinced that little plastic spoiler is a good base for a rack clamp (the > one on my convertible top *definitely* isn't). > > Yes, back in the olden times people would modify 500/600s with Abarth > parts. My 500 Abarth is a twice-the-size homage to them :) > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
